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Ampion East Africa Venture Bus Tour Kicks Off
Africa is full of dreams and dreamers; dreamers who have great visions; visions that are the backbones of opportunities. The dreamers need a continent that can offer better technological solutions, better education, better service delivery, better healthcare and better and efficient platforms for doing business.
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- Health Care, Impact Assessment, Investing
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Impact Investing Goes to School: What researchers have learned about the sector – and how much they still don’t know
Cathy Clark, the founder and director of the i3 initiative, has been working at the crossroads of academic research and impact investing for over two decades. We caught up with her at last week's SOCAP15 conference to discuss where the field is heading, how it's being impacted by the academic world, and how much researchers still don't understand.
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- Education, Impact Assessment, Social Enterprise
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BlackRock Launches Global Impact Equity Fund
BlackRock has launched a global impact equity fund aiming to invest in 'measurable social and environmental outcomes' at a time when such criteria are becoming increasingly important to investors.
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- Environment, Impact Assessment
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- impact investing
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SOCAP Recap: OPTIMISM … With a Dash of Skepticism:
With warplanes thundering overhead (seriously), the crowd at Thursday's SOCAP sessions conducted a stimulating and wide-ranging discussion of the many facets of social business and investing. But among the usual positivity was a distinct note of impatience. Our editors discuss what they saw and heard at yesterday's proceedings.
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- Health Care, Impact Assessment, Social Enterprise
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NexThought Monday – Applying Wall Street Ideas to NGOs in Rural India: A closer look at the first education impact bond
Business and financial buzzwords that have long dominated boardrooms and global conference calls - like “make vs. buy” or “risk and return” – are entering the landscape of NGOs. The latest manifestation of this is a new type of bond for development programs that leverages investor and risk dynamics typically found in business deals. The very first of these “development impact bonds” in education launched in rural India last year.
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- Impact Assessment
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F.B. Heron Foundation President Clara Miller is Stepping Down: Watch our 2015 Video Interview
In June, the F.B. Heron Foundation announced that it was moving 100 percent of its assets into impact investments, aiming to complete the process by the end of 2017. On September 30, the foundation's president Clara Miller joined NextBillion for a live Google Hangout. We discussed Heron’s bold move – and the lessons it has learned from its efforts to align its capital with its mission. You can view the replay in this post.
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- Impact Assessment
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Zurich Pledges to Focus 10% of Investments on Delivering ‘Positive Impact’
Insurance group Zurich has revealed plans to plough around $100m into companies and projects that have a positive environmental or social impact.
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- Environment, Impact Assessment
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- Europe & Eurasia
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- impact investing
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Who cares about socially responsible retirement plans?
Study results and a new tool to screen mutual funds for fossil fuels.
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- Impact Assessment
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- impact investing
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