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400 Million Reasons for Impact Investing in China : A first-of-its-kind study dispels misperceptions and reveals potential
"Creating the Chinese Dream," which to our knowledge, is the first English-language report on impact investing in China. What makes this report unique is that it serves as a practitioner’s guide to impact investing in China’s green SMEs.
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- Environment, Social Enterprise
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Charitable foundations look towards impact investing
Pierre Omidyar wanted to take the fortune he earned from his company, eBay, and become a philanthropist. So he started a traditional foundation for giving out grants. He called it the Omidyar Family Foundation.
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- Impact Assessment
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The Best of 2012: Lessons from SOCAP : It’s Time to Get Serious
We need to start getting serious about the cultural and economic forces that are holding back impact investors, if our collective intent is focused on scale and impact. We need to start finding winners, and we need to start looking in places we wouldn’t expect them to hide.
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- Impact Assessment
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Pilot financial index for social investment unveiled
Could an asset class for social impact investment be a step closer to becoming a reality?
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Egypt: Impact Investing Is Key to Inclusive Development in Egypt
Demographic pressures and years of under investment in meeting social needs suggest that Egypt will not be able to provide jobs, housing and basic services without adopting a wide strategy for inclusive development. Impact investing should be encouraged as one of the strategy's pillars.
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- North Africa & Near East
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Calvert Foundation’s Theory of Change
Impact investing is undoubtedly an idea whose time has come. As budgets of philanthropies and governments have shrunk, investment capital has come to be recognized as a tool that can address some of the world’s most pressing problems. An independent 501(c)3 nonprofit, Calvert Foundation has been a quiet but constant presence in the impact investing sector for the past 16 years, helping to lay the groundwork for this field and creating opportunities for others to explore and grow.
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- Investing
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Cultivating Small Business and the Environment: Building on the work of New Ventures
Over the coming year, the Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs will work with several partners (including Village Capital, Emory University, I-DEV and Halloran Philanthropies) to expand on what New Ventures and many others have begun—and ultimately accelerate the accelerators. To do this, we are looking at pipelines, operations, and evaluation.
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- Investing
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Impact Career Series : Why Community Development Financial Institutions are a good place to start
Millennials are playing an important role in the growth of the impact investing industry, and increasingly more 20- and 30-year olds are looking for careers in the field. However, many young professionals looking to start their careers or transition into the impact investing field are discouraged by the limited number of opportunities. Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFIs), which have a long history of investing in hard to reach, are a good place to start.
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