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When Nonprofits Have A Financial Emergency, There’s Now A Fund To Bail Them Out
Nonprofits and social enterprises generally lack extra funds to help out if things go wrong. Unlike traditional businesses, it’s hard to develop a rainy-day fund when donors (or investors) expect most of your money to toward changing lives.
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Opinion: Everyone a Changemaker
Bill Drayton invented the term “social entrepreneur” and founded Ashoka, the organization that supports 3,500 of them in 93 countries. He’s a legend in the nonprofit world, so I went to him this week to see if he could offer some clarity and hope in discouraging times. He did not disappoint.
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Key Strategies for ‘Social Startup Success’: A Q&A with Spark Co-founder Kathleen Kelly Janus
The nonprofit funding wall is real, says Kathleen Kelly Janus, leaving two-thirds of U.S. nonprofits at $500,000 and below in revenue. In “Social Startup Success: How the Best Nonprofits Launch, Scale Up and Make a Difference,” she explores how some social ventures are able to break through and scale, and shares lessons that are relevant to both nonprofit and for-profit enterprises. NextBillion editor Sonya Vann DeLoach discusses the book’s message with the author in this thought-provoking Q&A.
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This Social Entrepreneur is Creating Employment in Underserved Areas
Started in 2014, the non-profit body focuses on youth and women from ages 18-25 in the most rural parts of the world. The initiative builds conscious enterprises and undertakes income enhancement initiatives for indigenous and underprivileged communities by engaging urban leaders and start-ups.
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Press release: Acumen America Makes Its First Financial Inclusion Investment Under New Partnership With Metlife Foundation
Acumen, the nonprofit global venture fund, today announced its first financial inclusion investment under its Acumen America portfolio. Launched in 2016, Acumen America invests in social enterprises addressing the problems of poverty in the United States with a focus on the sectors of health care, workforce development and financial inclusion.
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‘Social Alpha’: Nonprofits Dive Into ETFs
As CEO of Impact Shares, the first nonprofit ETF issuer, Powell wants to modernize the way charities—and donors—think about using money to make a difference.
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Supplemental Safety Net: An Innovative Model Paves the Way for Inclusive Insurance in China
Hundreds of millions of people in China still remain outside the formal financial system, and insurance is one of their biggest unmet needs. Yet the country's insurance industry tends to focus on more affluent customers, and its public safety net isn't adequate for lower-income people's needs. YiBao, an insurance research, development and marketing consultancy, takes an innovative (and award-winning) approach to making the commercial insurance market work for the country’s low- and moderate-income households.
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New Impact Investing Fund Will Support Nonprofits And Better Health Outcomes
AIM Healthy loans and lines of credit can, for example, help a recuperative-care nonprofit to add beds that provide a bridge between the hospital and permanent housing – combatting homelessness as well as hospital and jail readmissions, or a food-as-medicine nonprofit to partner with a health plan to lower costs and improve outcomes for patients with chronic diseases.
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- North America