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04-28-10
GoodCompany Ventures Announces Selections for 2010 Social Impact Incubator
GoodCompany Ventures is pleased to announce the first two companies, one local and one from the U.K., selected to participate in the 2010 Social Impact Incubator.
The Social Impact Incubator selects entrepreneurs with innovative ideas for socia...
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04-27-10
Impact Investing Partnership with USAID, Rockefeller Foundation, Deloitte, and Prudential Financial to Support Entrepreneurs in the Developing World
In conjunction with the Presidential Summit on Entrepreneurship today, a consortium of government, private sector, and non-profit players have partnered to support the Global Impact Investing Rating System ("GIIRS"), a new ...
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04-20-10
Trillium Asset Management Adds Another CARS(TM)-Rated CDFI, Coastal Enterprises Inc., to List of Offered Community Investments
Trillium Asset Management Corporation (Trillium) recently added Coastal Enterprises Inc. (CEI), a CARS™-rated Community Development Finance Institution (CDFI), based in Wiscasset, ME, to its list of Community Investment organizations that are available for client investment....
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04-13-10
GMAC Financial Services Offers Consumers Financial Education
/PRNewswire/ -- Company reaches milestone educating 200,000 consumers in person nationwide and drawing more than 1 million visits to Web tutorials
-- Tips offered via Twitter during financial literacy month
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04-08-10
GoodCompany Ventures: Call for Applications
This Social Impact Incubator is recruiting entrepreneurs who are developing scalable, commercially sustainable innovations for unmet social needs.
Our goal is to provide social entrepreneurs with the resources to implem...
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03-29-10
LeapFrog Poised to Invest $112 Million in Insurance and Microfinance Companies, After Historic Commitments by IFC, KfW, Flagstone and Soros
LeapFrog Investments, the world's first microinsurance fund, announced today that it has surged past its $100 million target capitalization, months ahead of schedule. The fund invests in high-growth, high-impact insurance and financial services companies in countries includi...
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03-24-10
Leading Investors Announce Commitments to Palestinian Technology Venture Fund
At a gathering hosted by the U.S.-Palestinian Partnership at the Harvard Club of New York last week, key leaders from New York's investment community assembled to learn about a new venture capital fund seeking to transform the Palestinian West Bank’s burgeoning technology se...
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03-09-10
Erb Institute Tackles Social Dimensions of Market Investments
(MARKET WIRE) - Although global markets continue to reel from the failure of complex financing instruments gone awry, the use of innovative financial strategies to create social and environmental benefits is gathering steam. Recognizing the importance of this emerging trend,...
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03-08-10
First Investment of Dwight Hall at Yale SRI Fund
The Dwight Hall Socially Responsible Investment Fund has launched the first undergraduate-run socially responsible endowment investment in the country.
Developed by members of Dwight Hall's student-run socially responsible investment (SRI) commi...
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03-04-10
Investors File a Record 95 Climate Change Resolutions: a 40% Increase Over 2009 Proxy Season
Leading U.S. investors today announced that they have filed a record 95 climate change shareholder resolutions with 82 U.S. and Canadian companies that face far-reaching business challenges from climate change. The 40 percent increase in resolutions filed over last year is a...
