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Taking Control of the Value for Money Narrative: How Innovative Metrics Are Making Impact Part of the Financial Equation
The nonprofit VisionSpring—which provides affordable, high-quality eyeglasses to base of the pyramid customers—realized it needed a metric that could balance cost and impact, while keeping its target customers at the center of decision-making. Analysts at CASE and SoJo discuss the value of the “programmatic value for money metric” VisionSpring implemented, and explore how this type of metric can help organizations consider trade-offs between cost and impact.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing, Social Enterprise
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Press Release: The Rockefeller Foundation Commits USD1 Billion To Catalyze a Green Recovery From Pandemic
Driving public-private investment, transformative solutions, and a more inclusive, sustainable future. Launching next chapter for the 107-year old philanthropic institution.
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- Coronavirus, Energy, Health Care
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Press Release: Global Agriculture and Food Security Program Donors Announce $300 Million To End Hunger and Malnutrition
Today during the launch of the Global Agriculture and Food Security Program (GAFSP) Replenishment Period 2020-25, hosted by the German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), donors increased their contributions to achieve Sustainable Development Goal 2 (SDG2) – a world with zero hunger.
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- Agriculture, Coronavirus, Investing
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Vietnamese Farmers To Get Help From Bayer in Fight Against Saltwater-Drought, COVID-19
Around 80,000 smallholder farmers whose livelihoods and welfare have been severely impacted by COVID-19 will benefit from a global initiative by Bayer titled ‘Better Farms, Better Lives.’
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- Agriculture, Coronavirus, Environment, Investing
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- South Asia
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Pandemic Makes Tackling Global Woes More Critical Than Ever – Bill Gates
The coronavirus pandemic has wiped out progress on lofty goals such as ending world poverty and hunger in the next decade, but the economic damage of COVID-19 shows how badly such global development is needed, philanthropist Bill Gates said.
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- Coronavirus, Finance, Health Care
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Press Release: IKEA Social Entrepreneurship and Acumen Academy To Award $50,000 To Social Entrepreneurs in East Africa
Jony Meshesha of Green Face Trading in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia and Kevine Kagirimpundu of UZURI K&Y in Kigali, Rwanda will each receive $25,000 after participating in the Acumen and IKEA Social Entrepreneurship East Africa Accelerator.
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- Investing
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Bill Gates: These Are the 2 Questions I Use To Tackle Every Big Problem From Microsoft To COVID-19
If you want to tackle problems the same way as Bill Gates, you need to start with two simple questions: “Who has dealt with this problem well? And what can we learn from them?”
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- Coronavirus, Health Care
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- philanthropy, SDGs
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A Guide To Angel Investing During COVID-19: Eight Tips for Investors in East Africa
In East Africa, the COVID-19 crisis is causing far-reaching consequences for small and medium-sized enterprises. And according to analysts at Intellecap and Viktoria Ventures, much of the burden of ensuring these businesses' short-term survival lies with angel investors. They share some practical considerations that can help these investors navigate the many challenges of the pandemic.
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- Coronavirus, Investing
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