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Univ. of Utah gets $13 mln for impact investing center
University of Utah's school ofbusiness has received $13 million from technology entrepreneur James Lee Sorenson to establish a center to advance investment to organizations that demonstrate a benefit to society, the university announced on Tuesday. The new James Lee Sorenson Center for Global Impact Investing will focus on the very early stages of investments made into companies, organizations, and funds with the intention of generating measurable social and environmental impact alongside a financial return.
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Mozambique : Is impact investment the answer for agribusiness?
Foreign investments in Mozambique face an incredibly challenging business environment. Impact investors are filling in the capital gap that exists in developing countries such as Mozambique by providing early and mid stage growth capital to companies with a good track record, often without need for collateral and at risk adjusted rates compared to those available on the local market.
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New fund from global impact investors
Global impact investors Rockefeller Foundation and Omidyar Network have joined hands with Dasra, a strategic philanthropy foundation, to launch the Impact Investing Forum in India.The forum on Saturday announced the launch of the India Impact Economy Innovations Fund to catalyse collective action and market development in India, a statement said.
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Social Impact Investing Will Be the New Venture Capital
During the past century, governments and charitable organizations have mounted massive efforts to address social problems such as poverty, lack of education, and disease. Governments around the world are straining to fund their commitments to solve these problems and are limited by old ways of doing things. Social entrepreneurs are stultified by traditional forms of financing. Donations and grants don't allow them to innovate and grow. They have virtually no access to capital markets and little flexibility to experiment at various stages of growth. The biggest obstacle to scale for the social sector is this lack of effective funding models.
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BoP Health Care Gets a $10 Million Boost: What Duke’s new SEAD program could mean for you
Few universities are as active in BoP health care and social entrepreneurship as Duke. Now, thanks to a $10 million award from USAID, the university is poised to dramatically expand its impact in both fields. Duke will use the funds to launch the Social Entrepreneurship Accelerator at Duke (SEAD), a development lab that will identify and support solutions to global health challenges in low- and middle-income countries.
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Impact Investors Ready to Open the Spigot : J.P. Morgan, GIIN study projects $9 Billion Committed for Impact Investing 2013
J.P. Morgan and the GIIN today released Perspectives on Progress, which takes the collective temperature of the impact investing community – and the mercury is rising. The 99 investors who replied said they plan to commit a total of USD $9 billion toward impact investments in 2013. That’s $1 billion more than these organizations said they invested in 2012.
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Weekly Roundup – Lucky 2013? : The new year brings hope for seed funds
For the impact investing community, it sure looks like 2013 has started with a bang. But 2012 certainly didn’t end with a whimper either. The bang was heard on Thursday with an announcement from Unitus Seed Fund (USF), which raised investments of more than $8 million for early stage BoP startups.
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A Record-Breaking Year for Mobilizing Private Capital for Development
USAID’s Development Credit Authority (DCA) worked with 45 financial institutions in 23 countries in 2012 to unlock up to $525 million in private capital for underserved entrepreneurs in developing countries. The financing, made available through 34 partial credit guarantees, is the most USAID has mobilized in a single year.
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