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Impact Investing in the Base: A chat with Vox Capital’s Daniel Izzo
Daniel Izzo is the pioneering co-founder of Brazil’s first impact investing fund, Vox Capital, which focuses exclusively on BoP-serving businesses. Vox has invested in 12 companies, six with equity stakes and six with convertible debt investments, in Brazil. Tara Sabre Collier talks with him about the ins and outs of reaching the BoP demographic.
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- Impact Assessment, Social Enterprise
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British student founds social enterprise for electronic waste management in Nigeria
A student from the University of Northampton has made it his mission to tackle the growing problem of electrical waste in Nigeria by launching his own social enterprise.
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- Education, Environment
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- social enterprise, waste
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Putting Microbusiness on the Map: U.S. students survey local businesses to compete for social enterprise seed funding
In the U.S., 3.7 million people remain long-term unemployed. Without job opportunities, many Americans are becoming entrepreneurial out of necessity - but they often lack capital. That’s why Lend for America is working with local students in the Philadelphia area to provide microfinance for social entrepreneurship.
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- Finance, Impact Assessment, Social Enterprise
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How Mobile Tech is Changing Africa’s Landscape to Create Opportunities for Women
For years analysts have said that “Africa is Rising,” but now it’s really happening. With an expanding population and steady economic growth, social enterprise in Africa is today seeing real returns on investment. This “double-bottom line” success — financial plus humanitarian gains — is drawing new attention to Africa to not only advance, but also yield change.
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- Technology
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Beyond the Pioneer: Getting Inclusive Industries to Scale
Beyond the Pioneer enumerates the barriers to scale that hinder, not just the firm, but the entire ecosystem, including the value chain, public goods, and the regulatory and policy environments.
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- Impact Assessment
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Is the Future Role of Social Enterprise to Foster Compassionate Capitalism?
Our expert panel discuss the role of social enterprise in society, and the values of social business.
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- Impact Assessment
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Social Business in India: Some investors wade in, but most testing waters
Investors meet with frugal innovation, entrepreneurs leave the sector discouraged.
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- Health Care
- Region
- South Asia
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Corporate Social Responsibility: Should It Be A Law?
India is the first country to have corporate social responsibility (CSR ) legislation, mandating that companies give 2 percent of their net profits to charitable causes.
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- Impact Assessment