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Press Release: Acceso, Formerly CGEP, Announces Its Transition Into a New, Independent Entity to Advance Its Work of Lifting Small Producers out of Poverty Through Market-Driven Social Enterprise
Acceso’s current focus remains building, managing, and scaling agribusinesses in Latin America and the Caribbean to sustainably lift farmers and fishers out of poverty, and identifying opportunities for future replication.
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- Press Release
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- Agriculture
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Philanthropy is Shortchanging Climate Change: Here Are Three Ways It Can Boost Its Impact
Climate change is a hot topic in global development, but unfortunately, philanthropy hasn’t followed suit. Despite some notable gifts, climate lags behind other issues when it comes to charitable giving — less than 2% of philanthropic dollars went to climate-related issues in 2015. Nicole Systrom at Sutro Energy Group discusses the reasons for this inertia, and how philanthropists and foundations can turn things around.
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- Environment, Technology
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Press Release: Imaginable Futures, New Global Philanthropic Investment Firm Focused on Learning, Spins Off from Omidyar Network
Imaginable Futures will utilize the hybrid funding structure pioneered by Omidyar Network that is part philanthropic foundation and part impact investor. This structure allows Imaginable Futures the financial flexibility to support for-profit entrepreneurs harnessing the power of markets, as well as social and public-sector changemakers innovating to produce scalable change.
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- Investing
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Catalyst Fund Secures $15M Commitment from UK Aid, JP Morgan
With the additional investment, Catalyst Fund will support the development, growth and reach of 30 new fintech solutions to boost financial inclusion for an additional 1 million underserved people in Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, India and Mexico, it said in a statement.
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- Finance
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Learning is an Afterthought at Most Donor-Funded Programs: Here’s How to Make it a Priority
Despite the millions of dollars funders spend on it each year, learning remains a low priority within donor-funded programs. Why? According to Anne Maftei at the Mastercard Foundation Rural & Agricultural Finance Learning Lab, it's because these programs are built for implementation rather than knowledge creation. But while this is understandable, it's not ideal – Maftei explores ways funders can make learning less onerous and more useful for their partner organizations.
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- Impact Assessment
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Tiedemann Advisors to Offer an Impact-Investing Cash Solution
“Cash has traditionally been held at large financial institutions, which don’t necessarily have socially responsible lending criteria that align to core values of our clients ,” says Brad Harrison, managing director at Tiedemann.
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- Investing
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What will Mark Suzman bring to new role as CEO of Gates Foundation?
In an email to staff, Desmond-Hellmann explained that she and Bill and Melinda Gates have spent recent months discussing the best person to replace her to lead the world’s largest private foundation. They selected 12-year foundation veteran Suzman, president of global policy and advocacy and CSO at the foundation, who will assume the role on Feb.1, 2020.
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Foundations and Family Offices Create a Fund to Support Impact Investing
The founding donors also include Ian Simmons and Liesel Pritzer Simmons’ family office, Blue Haven Initiative, and a corporate member, the Visa Foundation.
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- Investing
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