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Investing in Social Enterprise: Lessons from the 2012 Sankalp Summit
Imagine you have devoted the last three years of your life to coming up with a new innovative enterprise to meet the needs of the poor. You came up with the idea, worked tirelessly to prove the concept and put together the best team that you could find. Now imagine that you have 3 minutes to pitch years’ of work to a panel of impact investors who could help you take your business to the next level. This is exactly what a group of four budding social enterprises had to do at the Fourth Annual Sankalp Impact Investing Summit
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FEATURED EVENT: SOCAP: Designing the Future – Amplifying the Impact
May 8-10, we will gather in the Scandinavian city of Malmö, Sweden for SOCAP: Designing the Future. We welcome you to join us and are happy to offer NextBillion readers a special 30 percent off with registration code NextBillion30.
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- Education
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Investors Can Rid the World of Slums
Approximately 180,000 people are added to the urban grid each day, according to the United Nations. That means, according to other estimates, that nearly 100,000 housing units are needed — every day, all around the world.
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Tools of the Trade: Building a Robust Deal Pipeline of Impact Companies in Emerging Economies (Part 1)
Investors in the impact investing space say they want to see more high quality deals and more companies with a successful investment track records that are quantifiably measuring impact. Apparently, billions of dollars of investment capital could be poised and ready if these three issues can be addressed
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- Education, Environment, Impact Assessment
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Daniel Izzo on Brazil’s First Impact Investing Venture Capital Firm
Recently, the Opportunities for the Majority (OMJ) Initiative of the Inter-American Development Bank hosted Daniel Izzo, co-founder and partner of Vox Capital, Brazil’s first impact investing venture capital firm, which focuses on high potential businesses that serve the Brazilian low income population through products and services with the potential to improve their lives.
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Cisco Invests in Rural Venture Capital Firm
Cisco today announced an investment in Aavishkaar, a venture fund founded to promote development in rural and semi-urban India.
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- Investing
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- South Asia
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ANDE at 3: Reflecting on the SGB Mission
One of the biggest challenges the sector still faces is connecting entrepreneurs with the right type of capital at the right time. As ANDE evolves we have come to find that the missing middle itself has a missing part—because even in our network of members, very few are able to provide financing at the critical $25,000 - $200,000 range.
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- Investing
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Impact Investing: How One Foundation Empowers Social Entrepreneurs
Name: Echoing Green | Big Idea: Echoing Green offers grants to social entrepreneurs and changemakers — it’s referred to as “impact investing.” | Why It’s Working: By investing in people rather than ideas or business plans, Echoing Green has empowered more than 500 innovative individuals to turn their visions into a reality, ameliorating social ills in the process.
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