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Making Impact Easier: How impact investing can put capital providers and seekers on the road to more investible deals
A growing number of financial institutions are embracing impact investing, but much work remains to be done to build a robust market. Impact Economy’s new report explores how major financial advisors and institutions could align their investments, build viable pipelines of investible deals, and make impact both commercially viable and socially transformative.
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- Impact Assessment
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New private equity fund targets microfinance institutions for women
It’s been a while in the making, but this week Women’s World Banking finally closed its first private equity fund to invest in microfinance enterprises that support women.
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- Impact Assessment
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Facilitating New Markets: Philanthropies are uniquely suited to fostering market-based solutions to poverty
Monitor Deloitte’s recently released Beyond the Pioneer report includes a call for organizations to step up as “industry facilitators” to help overcome key challenges to scaling market-based solutions to social problems. Based on its experience in India, the Michael & Susan Dell Foundation describes several ways philanthropies can play that role.
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- Impact Assessment
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Corporate ‘Prizes’ Driving Innovation
As the global trend for corporate prize winning competitions to drive innovation increases, a new US report offers guidance for the public sector, Not for Profits and philanthropic foundations on cultivating the winning opportunities.
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- Impact Assessment
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- Asia Pacific
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- philanthropy
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TriLinc Global Impact Fund Makes Impact Investment in Argentina
TriLinc Global Impact Fund approves a new $5.0 million revolving trade finance facility to an Argentine beef company, bringing total financing commitments as of June 30, 2014 to $28.7 million for business expansion and socioeconomic development in Latin America
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- Impact Assessment
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- Latin America
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Orissa-based Milk Mantra raises $13M in Series C led by Fidelity Growth Partners
The transaction also had a secondary component where 25 angel investors and an old fund under Aavishkaar have exited.
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- Health Care, Impact Assessment
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The apparent M-Pesa monopoly may be set to crumble
Competition to the M-Pesa is heating up in Kenya, the world’s most advanced mobile payments market.
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- Impact Assessment
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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A New Pursuit For Social Entrepreneurship: Profits
John Schoch, CEO of Profile Products — a $70 million company that manufactures and distributes products for soil and water management in 90 countries — decided four years ago to direct his company’s expertise to a global crisis: clean water.
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