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Impact investing key to unlocking Kenya’s growth potential
Starting a business, conventionally, is largely driven by the need to make profits, and the higher the margins the better for the proprietor. Downcast often occurs when companies report slump in profit, as this is considered not good enough to create investor confidence and attract more shareholders.
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- Impact Assessment
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7 Businesses Win African Impact Innovation Fund
7 businesses have been announced as the winners of the Africa Impact Economy Innovations Fund (IEIF), an endowment supported by the Rockefeller Foundation and the Tony Elumelu Foundation to provide grant capital for entrepreneurs with projects that create jobs.
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- Impact Assessment
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- impact investing
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Impact Investments Seek to Solve Social or Environmental Challenges while Generating Financial Profit
Elevar Equity, an impact investor, is looking to raise its third fund with a target corpus of $75 million by end-2014.
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- Uncategorized
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- South Asia
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Paying for Results: Can Banks and Investors Finance Social Success?
Non-profits for everything from homelessness to pre-school have gone to investors to impose capitalist discipline on programs
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- Impact Assessment
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Insuring Impact: A Q&A with the co-founder of HUGInsure, the world’s first social impact insurance
Few new products or concepts can be described as "the first of their kind." But Dalberg and Hollard Insurance recently launched what they believe to be the world’s first social impact insurance entity, HUGinsure. It applies rating methodologies and risk management principles to social impact funding, helping facilitate loans to projects that impact the poor.
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- Impact Assessment
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Announcing a New Investment: Miliki Afya
Acumen is pleased to announce a $600,000 equity investment in Miliki Afya Ltd., a company that aims to create a chain of clinics that offer high quality, low cost, outpatient care and diagnostics in low income, densely populated areas in Kenya.
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- Health Care
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- impact investing, scale
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Report ‘de-risks’ impact investment to open sector up to mainstream
A new report has set out how to de-risk impact investment, which could make the sector more appealing to a wider range of investors. The strategy has been described as a “win-win” because of the financial and social returns it offers.
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- Impact Assessment
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Banking on Impact: Building the business case for social and environmental due diligence in lending
Conducting social and environmental due diligence can be a challenge, but Root Capital has found that its financial costs are surprisingly low, and its financial benefits surprisingly large. It has published scorecards and methodology that other financial institutions can use to partially avoid the fixed costs of developing their own due diligence tools.
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- Agriculture, Environment, Impact Assessment
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- impact investing, lending
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