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Friday Roundup 7-8-11: The Wisdom of the Crowds (Funding)
We’ve been talking about the promise and, as some see it, the perils of Impact Investing this week and continuing through the month, on our newly launched Big Idea Page. Whether technically "impact" investing or not, the week saw several major deals break for socially inclined enterprises.
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- Social Enterprise
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8 Lessons for Creating an Impact Investing Fund
The beginning of this year saw the official launch of Adobe Capital and the formal start of the process of obtaining investors. After several months of submitting our proposal to the United States, Europe, and Latin America, we can now share some of the lessons from our process. We hope our journey will help other funds interested in the segment.
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- Social Enterprise
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Striking a Balance: GIIN Leader On Impact Investment’s Role, Critics and Future
Not every investment is an impact investment; not every enterprise can (or should) be funded by impact investors. In our interview, Amit Bouri, Director of Strategy and Development at the Global Impact Investing Network, defines impact investing, discusses its role in the sector, responds to recent criticism of the field and charts a path forward.
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- Impact Assessment, Social Enterprise
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Agora’s Impact Investor Conference: Accelerating the Central American Deal Flow
Agora Partnerships is taking investment-readiness preparation to a new level. In July, they will host the first Impact Investor Conference in Granada, featuring nine early stage enterprises that went through a competitive selection process to reach the Agora Accelerator Program.
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- Social Enterprise
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Social Entrepreneurs, Co-Designers of the Investment Blueprint
Social entrepreneurs need to be more proactive in deal negotiation, offering new insights that can help potential investors better understand the particular features of a social enterprise. In short, social entrepreneurs should position themselves as "co-designers" of the investment. That’s the story of Gustavo Gennuso and Equitas Ventures
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- Uncategorized
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- impact investing
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Tough Love for Impact Investors – the Europe Session at SOCAP
Social investors are on the hunt for "investable" social enterprises to fill their "deal pipeline." But do all these enterprises want (and need) investment? In the SOCAP/Europe session on "How to Fill the Deal Pipeline in Europe: Changing our Models to Fit the Continent," staff from Ashoka and the Schwab Foundation searched for answers
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- Social Enterprise, Uncategorized
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Moving Impact Investing from Niche to Mainstream, While Protecting the Mission
Is impact investing a tool to keep good-doers busy or a tool to transform the world? The Economist’s Matthew Bishop put this question to a panel of impact investing professionals at SOCAP/Europe. Unsurprisingly, the panel’s unanimous answer was: Impact investing is here to change the world, but first there are key decisions to settle.
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- Impact Assessment
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- impact investing, scale
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What Does It Take to Build a Market? (An India Session @ SOCAP Europe)
How big can impact investing become? When looking for an answer (and hoping to find an encouraging one), it?s best examine a big country - like India. That’s precisely what did McKinsey and Omidyar Network did. The two organizations presented a BoP market study at SOCAP/Europe revealing a bullish outlook despite latent demand.
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- Health Care, Impact Assessment
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