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The Impact: Early-Stage Impact Investing: A Primer for Families
Early-stage impact investments can be a powerful tool for scaling businesses that are designed to make money and have measurable social impact.
Forbes: Spotlight on Impact Investing: In Hollywood, Big Issues Can Mean Big Business
In announcing the award for Best Documentary Short during the 88th Annual Academy Awards, comedian Louis CK uncorked the line of the night: “This Oscar is going home in a Honda Civic.”
Knowledge@Wharton: How Impact Investing Can Change the World
WSII’s report, “Great Expectations: Mission Preservation and Financial Performance in Impact Investing,” aimed to debunk the expectation that impact investors must always sacrifice financial returns when seeking social returns.
Knowledge@Wharton: Social Entrepreneurship: What's the Best Way to Make a Difference?
Social entrepreneurship is on the rise. Sixty percent of all social enterprises today were founded only within the past eight years, according to Harvard Business Review.
The ImPact: Liesel Pritzker Simmons
Where I was spending my time and what I was particularly passionate about had nothing to do with how my wealth was invested.
Chronicle of Philanthropy: 40 Under 40: Young Leaders Who Are Solving the Problems of Today — and Tomorrow
Philanthropy has long suffered the reputation, rightly or wrongly, that it is a stuffy, formal field of conservative approaches. No more.
CBS News. 60 Minutes: The Future of Money
A “mobile money” revolution has swept Kenya, where people can send and receive money on their cell phones. It’s improved commerce and brought basic necessities to poorer areas.
PR Newswire: Elevar Equity Closes Third Venture Fund Focused on High-Impact Businesses
Blue Haven took part in investing in the EE III, Elevar Equity’s third venture capital fund. Through this fund our goal is to make a collective impact with other investors on several key areas including education, housing and healthcare, and providing financial services to low-income communities in India and Latin America.
Business Daily Africa: Firm to Complete Sh1.6m Homes for Low-End Buyers in March
Low-income group focused developer Karibu Homes says it expects to complete phase one of its mixed development next month.
Green Money Journal: An Open Letter to the Financial Services Industry from a Concerned Millennial
Quite a bit of the pure sociological data suggests that the 80 million of us born between 1980 and 2000 are narcissistic, lazy, and optimistic to the point of being delusional – it’s enough to make me want to delete that selfie!
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