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After the MFI Collapse, Uniting Financial Inclusion Data in India
To build off previous efforts to unite financial inclusion datasets, MIX, with funding from Citi Foundation, is building an interactive mapping platform to house and present a range of financial inclusion data on India, down to the district level.
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- Impact Assessment
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- metrics, microcredit, microfinance
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The IRIS Registry: Bringing Metrics to Life for the Impact Sector
The IRIS registry is a platform created by the Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN), a not-for-profit organization, which since its founding in 2009 has been dedicated to increasing the scale and effectiveness of impact investing. The Registry functions as a directory that provides transparency into the IRIS metrics regularly in use by various organizations; it also allows users to browse organization profiles by the sector focus, impact goals, and target regions of the listing organization.
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- Entrepreneurship, Impact Assessment
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DemystData Announces Series A Investment to Help Financial Institutions Grow Through Deeper Customer Data
Strategic investment from Accion and Arbor Partners Asia strengthens DemystData's position in the $12 billion big data marketplace.
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- Entrepreneurship, Impact Assessment, Technology
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- metrics, technology
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Focusing on a Virtuous Circle Around Business Strategy and Impact Assessment
As a first-timer at the Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs (ANDE) Metrics Conference in Washington D.C. last month, I was surprised to see a packed room on the first morning of the conference. After all, this was a conference about a very niche topic – the techniques used to measure social and environmental impact within the embryonic industry of impact investing. Impact investing is a broad term that describes profit-seeking investments that also generate positive social and/or environmental impact.
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- Entrepreneurship, Impact Assessment
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Mindful Metrics: Gaining Momentum With Social Enterprise Funders, Public and/or Private
Regardless of constituency – from donors to social enterprises to government development agencies – the momentum behind the metrics field is accelerating. Private funders are increasingly requiring investment enterprises to collect metrics – some are even specifying how the metrics are collected. Investors and donors are also soliciting new research on impact to inform what is and isn’t working in development. This research continues to push the envelope with new methods to collect metrics.
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- Entrepreneurship, Impact Assessment, Investing
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- ANDE, impact investing, measurement, metrics
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NexThought Monday: Mindful Metrics – A Conversation With GBF’s Metrics Officer
This guest post from the Grassroots Business Fund is part of a short series on approaches to metrics, leading to the upcoming Metrics Conference from the Ground Up Conference later this month hosted by the Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs. Allison Basile joined the Grassroots Business Fund (GBF) in 2009 and serves as its metrics officer, a role in which she oversees the organization’s metrics and environmental and social management
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
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- ANDE, Impact Assessment, measurement, metrics
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Insight into the Impact Investment Market: An Interview with Amit Bouri
J.P. Morgan and the Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN) recently released “Insight into the Impact Investment Market,” a report incorporating data from over 2,200 private transactions and the perspectives of 52 impact investors on returns, risk and impact measurement practices. GIIN’s Amit Bouri details the progress and obstacles identified in the report.
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- Entrepreneurship, Impact Assessment
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Impact Measurement Mastery: 5 Lessons Learned Working With Colombian Entrepreneurs
New Ventures, which supports environmentally-focused SMEs in six emerging markets, recently hosted its first impact measurement workshop for social entrepreneurs in Bogota, Colombia. Entrepreneurs learned to measure and report impact, and New Ventures improved how to frame the value of impact measurement. Check out the five lessons of the workshop.
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- Entrepreneurship, Impact Assessment
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