A Fish 2.0 workshop in Fiji last month to explore ways to develop the South Pacific’s fishing industry was interrupted by a staggering object lesson: the devastation of Vanuatu by Super Cyclone Pam. For workshop participants, who also came from Tuvalu, Kiribati, Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands, the crushing impact of Pam underlined […]
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UPDATED: Next Generation of Impact Finance Talent Converges on London
ARTICLE UPDATED ON 4/20/15 A proposal to address California’s historic drought and wildfire risk took first place in the fifth annual Morgan Stanley Sustainable Investing Challenge. A team of business students from Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley won the competition’s $10,000 prize with its plan to fund strategic forest thinning in Northern California that distributes the […]
ImpactBase Snapshot: Funds Have Raised Less than Half Their Targets
Our friends over at ImpactBase have published the first analysis of the more than 300 impact funds in the database. Their conclusion: most impact investing funds remain young and hungry. The analysis, released by the Global Impact Investing Network, which operates ImpactBase, found that a whopping 70 percent have been launched since 2009. Only 13 percent were founded before 2006. Among […]
Sankalp Q&A: Unitus Seeks to Launch Seed Funds Around the World
Most of the thousands of investors and entrepreneurs descending on New Delhi this week for the Sankalp Global Summit are looking to beat out their competitors. Dave Richards and Will Poole, managing directors of Unitus Seed Fund, are looking to create more competition for themselves, by seeding additional funds like their own. Fresh off their success […]
Equilibrium Capital: Building Real Assets for Sustainable Returns
“Creativity is not the finding of a thing,” as the 19th-century New England poet James Russell Lowell noted, “but the making something out of it after it is found.” Dave Chen, CEO of Equilibrium Capital, has built a $1 billion asset management platform out of the finding that environmentally and socially beneficial practices can drive […]
What Kind of Financing Do African Social Enterprises Need?
The Bertha Centre for Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the University of Capetown in South Africa is conducting a survey on the funding needs of social enterprises in Africa. Social enterprises in Africa can participate in the survey to generate a clearer picture of their financing needs. The results will be used to promote African social enterprises, […]
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