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Press release: OPIC Loan to Kiva Supports Almost 100,000 Microloans to Developing Country Borrowers
The Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) announced Thursday at the Social Capital Markets conference that its financing to Kiva Microfunds has supported 98,137 microloans to 207,227 small business borrowers, across 30 countries.
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Champions of Impact Investing
When the definition is broadened to include public funds seeking to invest in companies with the best environmental, social, and governance, or ESG, practices, the level of assets swells to nearly $9 trillion, according to the latest figures from The Forum for Sustainable and Responsible Investment.
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Viewpoint: Why Foundations Should Step Up Their Game In Impact Investing
“It’s not enough to build a business that is doing good in the world,” says Laurie Lane-Zucker, founder and CEO of Impact Entrepreneur. “We also need to create a business paradigm that reflects the same triple-bottom-line brain chemistry.”
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Oxfam appoints Sriskandarajah as chief executive
Oxfam GB has appointed Dhananjayan Sriskandarajah as its new chief executive, taking over from Mark Goldring “around the end of 2018”. Sriskandarajah is currently secretary general and chief executive of CIVICUS, the Johannesburg-based global alliance of civil society organisations and activists with members in more than 180 countries.
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- Agriculture, Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Win a car when you donate? Social enterprise online platform to ‘incentivise giving’
With a few clicks of the mouse, individuals can now make a donation online, and by doing so, earn a chance at winning a brand new Mercedes-Benz CLA 180 Coupe, or other cash prizes.
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- Asia Pacific
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- philanthropy
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A 21st Century Approach to Social Progress: Cross-Sector Partnerships as a Possible Solution
For years the public, private and nonprofit sectors have worked separately to address key global challenges. But now, those challenges have outgrown this piecemeal approach, say the authors of the new book “Social Value Investing: A Management Framework for Effective Partnerships." In this Q&A with NextBillion, authors Howard W. Buffett and William B. Eimicke explore why cross-sector partnerships are the best way to create lasting social impact – and how to make those partnerships work.
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JP Morgan, Gates, Dell give $9.5 million for India’s Financial Inclusion Lab
American philanthropic investors are now coming in to further push India’s digitisation drive and financial inclusion.
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MicroVest Sees Microfinance Shifting to Small Business
“What happens when the woman borrower who started with a $200 loan has built her business and has 10 employees and now needs $5,000 in capital to buy equipment and machinery?” asks Ron Cordes, the former co-founder and executive co-chairman of AssetMark, who has invested in MicroVest through his family foundation since 2007.
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