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Ford Foundation, ACA convene push for impact investing in Nigeria
Impact investing models have been deployed in developing and emerging economies to solve problems in various sectors, such as sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, and microfinance. It has also been used to address such issues as affordable and accessible housing, healthcare, and education.
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- Investing
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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U.S. Impact Investing Alliance Launches to Scale the Practice of Impact Investing
The Alliance was founded last year by representatives from philanthropy, business and finance to champion the potential of impact investing by increasing awareness of impact investing in the U.S., fostering deployment of and demand for impact capital across asset classes globally, and by partnering with policymakers and other stakeholders to build the impact investing ecosystem.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
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- North America
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- ESG, impact investing, philanthropy
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Betterment Announces Socially Responsible Investing Portfolio
The Betterment investing team, which includes PhDs, CFP® professionals and CFAs, analyzed all low-cost funds oriented toward environmental, social, and governmental (ESG) criteria, searching for products that could replace components of Betterment's portfolio strategy without sacrificing the parts of Betterment's advice that protect investors' returns the most: global diversification, tax optimization, and control of cost
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- Investing
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Identifying the most promising ventures, the Village Capital way
Rather than getting entrepreneurs to make a pitch before it for funding and then going through an elaborate due diligence process, Village Capital finds these entrepreneurs and trains them before investing in their ventures. It runs an accelerator programme for 10-12 entrepreneurs and uses a peer-selection method to decide the ventures it will invest seed capital in.
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- Investing
- Region
- South Asia
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Alibaba executive chairman creates $10M African youth entrepreneur fund
Alibaba Group Executive Chairman Jack Ma launched a $10 million African Young Entrepreneurs Fund at the YouthConnekt Africa Summit. The fund is expected to be operational this year.
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- Investing
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Social Impact Incentives: A New Solution for Blended Finance
In just six years, social enterprise Clínicas del Azúcar has grown into the largest private provider of specialized diabetes care in Mexico, but faces an almost constant challenge to balance its financial and social performance. That's where social impact incentives (SIINC) come into play. A new solution for blended finance, SIINCs align profitability with social impact by paying social enterprises directly for proven social outcomes.
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- Energy, Health Care, Investing, Social Enterprise, Technology
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Entrepreneurs Are the Same Person All Over the World. And That’s a Good Thing.
Steven R. Koltai, an entrepreneur and international development expert, believes the U.S. and other powerful nations should give to seed funds and invest in accelerators for foreign startups because "entrepreneurs are the same person all over the world." They aren't interested in socio-political and religious grievances that lead to violence and war, he says, but are a "bridge" class of people, capable of linking nations and cultures.
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- Investing
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Advisory board on impact investing to drive SDGs
More than 550 people from 43 countries met in Chicago to discuss how to deploy sufficient private capital to fund the Sustainable Development Goals over the next 13 years. It was a ringing response to recent cries for nationalistic policies regarding the insufficiency of planetary resources.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
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