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August 2, 2012
Social capital fuels education loan market in developing world
Vittana, the leading non-profit for education microloans in developing countries, and MicroCredit Enterprises, a non-profit organization that leverages private capital for microloans, announced today a US$500,000 partnership to provide greater access to education for youth in the Philippines. Read more here.
August 2, 2012
UK: National housing charity to launch £30 million social investment bond
Golden Lane Housing has been awarded £349,000 from the Big Lottery Fund, to develop an innovative new social investment bond which will raise up to £30 million to invest in permanent homes for people with a learning disability. The bond will offer a commercially viable property investment with a direct […]
July 31, 2012
Bamboo Finance invests US$3.6 million in Bille
Bamboo Finance, a leading impact investment firm with a pioneering history of funding growth stage business models that drive economic viability in low-income markets, has recently invested US$3.6 million in Bille, a Special Purpose Enterprise (SPE) created by Crinale, a Brazilian housing developer, for building and selling 1,200 houses in […]
July 31, 2012
Oikocredit USA profiles Trillium’s Community Impact Investing Portfolio
Oikocredit USA, the US arm of Oikocredit, a global financial institution that leverages credit availability to the poor recently ran a profile of Trillium’s Community Impact Investing portfolio. According to Trillium Asset Management, ‘all Trillium has ever done’ is environmental, social and governance investing. Read more here. Read […]
July 31, 2012
The Intellecap Impact Investment Network (I3N)
The Intellecap Impact Investment Network (I3N) is India’s first angel network focused on investing in early stage impact enterprises. It looks for sustainable and scalable businesses in the sectors of healthcare, education, clean energy, financial inclusion and agri/rural/livelihood businesses for up to US$ 1 million. Read more here.
July 31, 2012
Rockefeller Foundation’s Justina Lai discusses mission investing in India
Mission Investors Exchange member the Rockefeller Foundation’s Justina Lai discussed the foundation’s impact investing efforts in India in an interview with Forbes India’s Sujata Srnivasan. Valuing shared value through private partnerships and recognizing philanthropic and public spending are insufficient to address the magnitude of social and environmental challenges, Lai discusses the need toleverage corporate […]
July 31, 2012
Socially Responsible Investing
This post talks about the intricacies of socially responsible investing, details which often elude both investors and their advisors. It talks about the processes of Screening and Community Investing. Read more here.
July 31, 2012
Clearing the impact measurement hurdle
Investors want to know that they and the funds they invest in quantify social and environmental benefit, because doing so gives them a way to ‘mainstream’ impact investing by making it alike to traditional investment analysing. But, getting your arms around social or environmental impact is difficult. Read more here.
July 31, 2012
Impact Investing and the Importance of Monitoring and Evaluation
There is only one guiding principle to ensure social enterprises work – for a social enterprise that serves the Base of the Pyramid (BoP), the benefit of the poor is essential for the business to survive. Thus, if a business provides a socially needed good or service that the very […]
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Reimagining Sports in CSR: From Tokenism to a Vehicle for Multiplying Impact
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Interactive SHG Map of India: 7.5 million Women Self Help Groups are spread across 27 States and 6 UTs in India
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