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Impact investment gaining ground in India

In India, impact investment sector growth has been steady over the past 5 years. According to a recent research by the Planning Commission, the total in amount of all social and impact investment funds have crossed the INR 12 billion mark. Read more here.

October 1, 2012

US: Getting the ultra-welathy on the impact investment team

The wealth group of the ultra-wealthy class has a net worth of at least US$25 million (not including primary residence). Ultra wealthy investors under the age of 55 have more familiarity with impact investment (39 per cent of all such individuals in this wealth class) and about the same percentage […]

October 1, 2012

UK: Nearly half of voluntary organizations do not believe in social investment

According to a new research by the Big Lottery Fund (conducted by ClearlySo and New Philanthropy Capital), almost half of surveyed voluntary organizations (totalling 1,255 voluntary, community and social enterprise sector organisations) were found to be not interested in social investment finance as they believed charitable money is better spent […]

October 1, 2012

Accelerating Impact: Achievements, Challenges and What’s Next in Building the Impact Investing Industry

This report commissioned by the Rockefeller Foundation is a part of a third-party evaluation of Rockefeller Foundation’s impact initiatives, and is also a repository of most recent and comprehensive global scans of impact investment industry. The research is based on insights from more than 100 impact investing leaders from 11 […]

October 1, 2012

Sharing Risks and Returns: Social Impact Investment to Scale Up Effective Programmes

This report by the Finance Project discusses the risks associated with investment in social projects, the ease or difficulty in securing such funding, and generating and measuring tangible social results. Read it here.

October 1, 2012

India: Housing units built and handed over

In Chandigarh, Punjab, some 600 flats were handed over to the poor recently. These flats were constructed by the Chandigarh Housing Board. Read more here. In Uttar Pradesh, another 1000 houses will be constructed under the Central Government’s IAY or Indira Awas Yojana. Read more here.

October 1, 2012

India: Rental Act to be amended to better the urban housing conditions

Exacerbating housing conditions for the poor in the urban parts of India has mobilised the Government of India to look at alternative ways of combating this challenge. Now, it has also planned to start a nationwide support campaign to urge municipalities to build rental homes, mainly for the EWS (Economically […]

October 1, 2012

Iraq: Housing units built for the poor

Administrators in the Wasit Province of Iraq signed a contract with Al-Radhwan State Company to make as many as 24,000 housing units for the region’s poor, widows and orphans. Read more here.

October 1, 2012

Grameen Koota interested in foraying into housing microfinance

Grameen Financial Services (Grameen Koota) is formulating a business plan to cater to the underserved sector of housing microfinance in India, especially that in the rural parts of the country. The company is said to be researching the commercial viability of establishing a standalone company solely for this purpose, and […]