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Making the Case for Impact Sourcing
Last week, B Corporation, a network of socially responsible "for-benefit" businesses, announced its plans to scale internationally at the Clinton Global Initiative. Many of these businesses are supported by impact investors, a group of double- and triple-bottom-line funders that received little attention until the Rockefeller Foundation launched a major impact investing initiative in 2008.
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- Impact Assessment
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- impact investing
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Social Enterprise – ImpactAssets50 provides view of growing impact investing landscape
SAN FRANCISCO (TrustLaw) - A database of fund managers who invest for maximum social, environmental and financial impact shows that assets under management grew 15 percent compared to last year to $10.2 billion.
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- Education, Impact Assessment
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- impact investing, research
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Why is it So Difficult to Align Strategy for Social Impact?: Columbia Business School’s 2012 Social Enterprise Conference is Tackling the Question
Columbia Business School’s 2012 Social Enterprise Conference is asking how we can re-frame a rather narrow definition of strategy, and build collaboration within and across sectors to tackle major social and environmental issues.
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- Health Care, Impact Assessment
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After the MFI Collapse, Uniting Financial Inclusion Data in India
To build off previous efforts to unite financial inclusion datasets, MIX, with funding from Citi Foundation, is building an interactive mapping platform to house and present a range of financial inclusion data on India, down to the district level.
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- Impact Assessment
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- microfinance
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FEATURED EVENT Join the Webinar: Engaging Your Network for Systematic Impact
"What can our organization do to sustain a practice of innovation?" That question is at the heart of an upcoming webinar hosted by The Rockefeller Foundation, Context Partners and us here at NextBillion at 1 p.m. EDT, (Tuesday) Oct. 2. Join us for this free, interactive event!
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- Education, Impact Assessment
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The IRIS Registry: Bringing Metrics to Life for the Impact Sector
The IRIS registry is a platform created by the Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN), a not-for-profit organization, which since its founding in 2009 has been dedicated to increasing the scale and effectiveness of impact investing. The Registry functions as a directory that provides transparency into the IRIS metrics regularly in use by various organizations; it also allows users to browse organization profiles by the sector focus, impact goals, and target regions of the listing organization.
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- Impact Assessment
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- impact investing
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Why Financial Institutions Should Close the Gender Data Gap : In 2011, Women’s World Banking launched the Gender Performance Initiative to address this gap
How can we leverage the data revolution, to improve financial services for the poor, and ultimately the lives of the women (and men) who receive them, if we don’t have the capability to collect “good” data? In 2011, WWB launched our Gender Performance Initiative to develop gender-based indicators for measuring how well we are serving women.
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- Impact Assessment
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- microfinance
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Calling All Social Entrepreneurs
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in cooperation with the United Nations Foundation, Mashable, UNDP, 92Y and Ericsson are hosting the Social Good Summit in New York City this weekend. Even if you can’t go to New York, you can participate.
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- Impact Assessment
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