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(With Video): From SOCAP Europe – Why Giving Is Not Going Away
At last month’s SOCAP: Designing the Future in Malmö, Sweden, the role philanthropy should take in fostering a strong impact investing sector was one of the key focal points. Adding to the buzz was new report published by Monitor in collaboration with Acumen Fund, titled From Blueprint to Scale: The Case for Philanthropy in Impact Investing, the subject of a lively discussion from the forum.
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Disruptive Sanitation: Can 3-Wheeled Carts and Better Septic Tanks Add Value to the Supply Chain AND Clean Up Jakarta?
A Mercy Corps project titled PUSH (Program of Urban Sanitation and Hygiene Promotion) undertook a market analysis of Jakarta’s sanitation industry. Funded by the Suez Environment Foundation, the project found a massive untapped market of potential customers in urban Indonesia. Around 94 million Indonesians live without access to sanitation services and 22 million people—more than two and a half times the population of New York City.
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