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To Grow Impact Investing, Focus on Multilingual Leadership
September 15, 2014, will be remembered for the release of a seminal report on impact investing, care of an international taskforce backed by eight country advisory boards and four topical working groups.
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- Impact Assessment
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Impact Data Goes Lean: Simple measurement tool lets company know if it’s meeting its social mission
Acumen and Grameen helped Ziqitza, an ambulance company in India, use a simple survey tool to determine if it was meeting its social mission. The project lends credence to the idea that impact measurement can be shifted from a burden to a benefit.
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- Education, Health Care, Impact Assessment
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PRESS RELEASE: Social value networks join up to create ‘international force for change’
Two of the most established and respected social impact organisations are joining forces to create the largest international social value network in the world.
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- Impact Assessment
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- impact investing
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Morgan Stanley Adds ‘Impact’ Portfolios in Brokerage
Morgan Stanley (MS), which has set a goal of attracting $10 billion of client assets to sustainable investing products over the next few years, is adding two such portfolios for its wealth-management customers.
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- Impact Assessment
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- impact investing
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The Eternal Struggle of Microfinance: The Microcredit Summit raised questions about the sector’s future – but does anyone have an answer?
As last week’s Microcredit Summit wrapped up in Mexico, the topics of over-indebtedness and high interest rates reared their ugly heads. The final day served up a riveting debate that pitted a representative of a Mexican microfinance network against one of the sector’s most vocal critics. The questions raised were crucial to the future of microfinance - but the answers remain elusive.
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- Impact Assessment
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PRESS RELEASE: Aindra Systems Gets Backing by Villgro, the Social Enterprise Incubator
Aindra Systems, an early-stage startup, has secured backing by Villgro, the Social Enterprise Incubator focused on funding startups having a social impact.
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- Impact Assessment
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SOCAP14 Takeaways: Scaling Impact: Standardization, collaboration and funding for long-term impact
Housing and sanitation: Perhaps no two sectors have greater potential for substantial impact on the many complex problems facing humanity – if their solutions are scaled. And just how to do that, and to know you’re doing it through metrics tools, was an ongoing theme at SOCAP14.
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- Impact Assessment
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Ideas to Practice, Pilots to Strategy: World Economic Forum report shares best practices and lessons learned from impact investing innovators
Impact investing is a rapidly growing sector that’s generating a lot of knowledge, yet this expertise is spread among dozens if not hundreds of practitioners and academics. Last week, the World Economic Forum released the second edition in its series “Ideas to Practice, Pilots to Strategy” with the goal of democratizing and disseminating this expertise.
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- Impact Assessment, Social Enterprise
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