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U.S. Impact Investing Alliance Launches to Scale the Practice of Impact Investing
The Alliance was founded last year by representatives from philanthropy, business and finance to champion the potential of impact investing by increasing awareness of impact investing in the U.S., fostering deployment of and demand for impact capital across asset classes globally, and by partnering with policymakers and other stakeholders to build the impact investing ecosystem.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
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- North America
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MIT in search of Africa’s most innovative entrepreneurs
According to the MIT Legatum Centre, the Open Mic Africa program seeks to find and showcase Africa's top innovators while developing a dialogue among local entrepreneurs, investors and MIT.
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- Entrepreneurship
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Social Enterprise’s Achilles Heel: How the Information Deficit Limits Scale and Impact in India
While academic writing around social entrepreneurship has risen exponentially in the West, the same has not been true for Africa, Latin America and India – where there's also a general lack of information concerning diverse business models, innovative approaches and lessons learned, according to Devanshi Vaid. That's why India Development Review was created.
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- Education, Entrepreneurship
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Bridging the Chasm Within Southeast Asia’s Social Enterprise Ecosystem
While impact investing continues to grow in popularity globally, there is a shortage of social enterprises in Asia ready to take on the amount of capital and return assumptions needed to balance impact with the market-rate returns desired by many impact investors. Fixing the problem will require blurring the boundaries between commonly defined funding spaces – a key topic at the upcoming AVPN Conference.
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- Investing
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OpenInvest Asks Investors to Put Their Money Where Their Values Are
OpenInvest is grown 85 percent since its soft launch last September, so Tech.Co used their seed round announcement as an opportunity to have a chat with OpenInvest CEO and cofounder Conor Murray about just how OpenInvest’s unique approach to socially responsible investing works.
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- Investing, Technology
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- North America
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