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Do ‘S’ and ‘G’ Really Drive Returns? Investors Lack Confidence in Criteria
While there is growing public awareness around climate change, resource scarcity, social injustice and global population growth, investors have become increasingly focused on only one of the three key criteria attached to socially responsible investing.
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- Environment, Investing
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Who Owns Poverty?: A Q&A with Fundación Paraguaya Founder and CEO Martin Burt
Why do so many anti-poverty efforts fail? And what should we do differently? In his new book, "Who Owns Poverty," Fundación Paraguaya founder and CEO Martin Burt explores those questions from the viewpoint of the real experts: poor families themselves. He presents some key insights from the book in this Q&A – and the book is available to NextBillion readers at a discount (or as a free e-book)!
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- Entrepreneurship, Finance
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TPG Lowers Fundraising Goal at Impact Fund After College Scandal
The initial hard cap for the second Rise Fund was $3.5 billion, according to filings, but was lowered in December to $3 billion, Bloomberg reported earlier this year.
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- Investing
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Designing for Social Good, Not ‘Feel Good’
Designing products for multinational corporations and their affluent target markets is very different from designing products for low-income, rural consumers. Jordan Westerberg, industrial designer with social venture development firm Factor[e], has worked in both of these worlds. He discusses a recent project that redesigned a solar conduction dryer for Indian farmers, and cautions against being drawn to simplistic, feel-good products when designing for social impact.
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- Agriculture, Technology
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Next-Generation African Leaders Announced As Winners Of The Resolution Social Venture Challenge
Winning projects address a wide range of challenges Scholars have observed first-hand in their communities, including financial literacy among rural women, access to nutritious foods in orphanages, and safe and affordable biomedical devices to reduce the impact of preventable diseases.
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- Entrepreneurship
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Do Well by Doing Good With This Fund That Supports Freedom and Human Rights
“Eventually the idea came to me: I want to invest in free countries,” she said. “It’s freedom that allows the emerging markets of yesterday to become the developed markets of today.”
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- Investing
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Patagonia, Ben & Jerry’s and 30 Other Companies Tell the Business Roundtable CEOs to Put up or Shut Up
The Business Roundtable’s decision was huge news considering it proffered upending the decades-old capitalist goal of maximizing profits at any cost to a more holistic goal of looking out for the well-being of everything the company’s actions affects. However, the Business Roundtable’s decision to change the definition of the “purpose of a corporation” isn’t legally binding, which means right now it’s just really good PR.
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The Business Roundtable Announcement: How We Can Ensure It’s Part of a Paradigm Shift – and Not Just Window Dressing
Last week members of the Business Roundtable, an organization comprised of CEOs of some of the world’s largest corporations, signed a statement "modernizing its principles on the role of a corporation." They declared that the purpose of a corporation is to create value for employees, suppliers, customers and communities – not just shareholders. At face value, it's a game-changing announcement. Impact investing pioneer Margot Brandenburg explores how to hold these companies accountable to it.
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- Entrepreneurship, Investing
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