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October 1, 2012
What happens when Rockefeller Foundation pulls out?
This post points out that a number of initiatives that matter on an international impact scale, including a number of research from Insight at Pacific Community Ventures, GIIN, JP Morgan, and more were funded by the Rockefeller Foundation. While it infused a lot of money in what it calls incubation […]
October 1, 2012
UK: Three reforms that will ignite the social investment market
This post by the CAF (Charities Aid Foundation) enlists from the list of ten reforms published in the report by the solicitors Bates Wells and Braithwaite, the top three which the CAF believes are the most important for the growth of social investment in the UK. Read more here.
October 1, 2012
Impact investment can help the environmentalists
According to research by AAA (Alternate Asset Analysis), another application of impact investment in this world is to help environmentalists protect valuable land with how environmental diversity value from being destroyed. A recent post by Nature Conservancy’s Mark Tercek in The Huffington Post, mentioned in a previous issue of our […]
October 1, 2012
Impact investing round up
This publication by the Global Partnerships gives a brief round-up for social impact investing in the recent days, and a compilation of their own activities in this field. Read more here.
October 1, 2012
UK: Most demand for social investment comes from service providers to public sector
The recent research by the Boston Consulting Group, called the The First Billion, suggests that it is the state which is most willing to pay for social investment, and that about sixty per cent of the demand for social investment comes from organizations that provide services to the public sector. […]
October 1, 2012
Gaps in impact investment capital curve
This post by the SSIR (Stanford Social Innovation Review) reviews the three key players active in the impact investment scenario – innovators, scalers, and infrastructure players. It is the scalers who are usually the recipients with the access to the kind of capital they want, and not the early stage […]
October 1, 2012
Investment Readiness in the UK
This report, supported by the Big Lottery Fund and conducted by ClearlySo and New Philanthropy Capital gauges the ‘investment-readiness’ of firms that have social objectives and need investment to scale their operations. Read the report here.
October 1, 2012
A brief handbook on social investment
This handbook by the City of London Corporation explains how to successfully build an impact investment marketplace to facilitate the growth of social ventures and enterprises. Read it here.
September 21, 2012
Israeli government to help teach green tech to Indian farmers
A world class agricultural research institute on farming training is to be set up in the Indian state of Gujarat due to a collaboration with the Government of Israel. Read more here.
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