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Why social impact investing is going mainstream
Social impact investing is taking off, says Pax World CEO Joseph Keefe, not simply because investors care about diversity and sustainability, but because companies focusing on those issues deliver strong long-term results.
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- Impact Assessment
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- impact investing
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What’s The Future For Impact Investing?
The biggest challenge--and opportunity--is to get the 99% involved in investing for social good.
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- Impact Assessment
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- impact investing
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An Impact Investor’s Guide to Creating Social Impact
There's a lot of excitement about impact investing these days. The industry's main goal, to make money while making a difference, is very enticing. However, with the lack of information on successful impact investments, it's hard to know if impact investments are truly making an impact.
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- Impact Assessment
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- impact investing
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Cambodia’s Orphan Business
People & Power goes undercover to reveal how 'voluntourism' could be fuelling the exploitation of Cambodian children.
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- Health Care, Impact Assessment
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- South Asia
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Here’s How To Give Back AND Make Money
Meet the newest investing buzzword on the block.
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- Impact Assessment
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- impact investing
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A Few Simple Tricks Make Starting A Business Overseas Cheap And Easy
Zoe Cohen produces her Zoko Bags from Kenya. Here's how she got her start as a destination entrepreneur.
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- Impact Assessment
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PRESS RELEASE: Western Union Expands Collaboration with MTN Group; Launches Mobile Money Transfer Service in the Ivory Coast
Consumers Who Subscribe to MTN Mobile Money Can Now Receive a Western Union Money Transfer Transaction on Their Mobile Phones
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- Impact Assessment, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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How far off are drones in the delivery of rural care?
A Silicon Valley startup called Matternet is pioneering a pilot program that uses drones to connect rural care providers with major hospitals in Bhutan.
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- Health Care, Impact Assessment
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- South Asia
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