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December 3, 2012
Calvert Foundation’s investment options
This post offers insight into investment options associated with Calvert Foundation. The particular investment talked of here, are unsecured notes with protections built in. Read more here.
December 3, 2012
Ingenious launches social impact investment fund to invest in African solar market
Ingenious Investments, owned by the UK based investment advisory group Ingenious has created a social impact fund which will directly be investing money into firms, businesses, and enterprises which have a significant stake in scaling off-grid energy alternatives like solar lanterns and home systems in Africa. Read more here.
December 3, 2012
Accion’s Frontier Investments Group and Saama Capital invest US$4 million in Shubham Housing
Accion’s Frontier Investments and Saama Capital, an India focused investment firm will be investing a sum of US$4 million into an India based mortgage company which lends to low income families in India. Shubham Housing’s lending to the poorer in urban India is expected to receive a boost with the […]
December 3, 2012
India: Lok Capital rethinks its investment strategy
Lok Capital, a social impact fund in India is unique in the way that its founder, Rajiv B Lall, along with Lok Foundation, is constantly working on a more efficient and effective way to fund social enterprises while also making money. Read more here.
December 3, 2012
Bamboo Finance acquires Accion Investment Fund in a transaction worth US$105 million
Bamboo Finance, a global fund specializing in sectors of microfinance and social entrepreneurship funding recently acquired a ‘controlling interest’ in Accion Investments in Microfinance, a private, for-profit equity fund that has funded microfinance institutions since 2003. Read more here.
December 3, 2012
India: Patni brothers invest in GCI
The sons of the co-founder of Patni Computer Systems in India have recently bought a majority stake in GCI or Grameen Capital India, buying it from former investors IFMR Trust. GCI is a non profit social investment bank that has so far mobilised INR 7 billion of capital to microfinance […]
December 3, 2012
How the vocational training institute BagoSphere started
This is a Q&A session with Zhihan Lee, the founder of BagoSphere, and online platform that caters to the vocational training needs of youth, especially those in rural areas. This post digs into his experience in raising capital for the piloting of his social enterprise. Read more here.
December 3, 2012
Three things governments should do for social entrepreneurship
There has always been an arm’s length between social enterprises and the government’s response – both in terms of policy and budget. This post details three things that the government should do to encourage the developmentally oriented social enterprises in their respective countries. Read more here.
December 3, 2012
How can impact investing help environmental entrepreneurship grow
This post is a Q&A with Jed Emerson, an international leader in the sector of strategic philanthropy and impact investing. This post puts special attention on impact investment from the point of view of environmental concerns. Read more here.
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