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SOCAP turns 10
SOCAP participants reflect that while sustainable and responsible investing has come a long way, paths forward remain long. Many acknowledge that the issues are systemic in origin and that creation of more solutions are needed to seed more change.
The Pragmatic Dutch
Eleven outstanding Dutch social entrepreneurs were in San Francisco Bay Area in mid-October during SOCAP, offering partnership and learning takeaways from their social entrepreneurship successes in the Netherlands.
SXSW Winner CNote Launches
SWSW pitch accelerator winner CNote launches their impact savings product that promises 2.5% APY while investing 100% into Community Development Financial Institutions or CDFIs.
Combine Rules and Rituals to Effect Change, Asserts Rockefeller VP
To achieve systems change, attention must be paid not just to formal procedures or activity, but also to culture, and in particular, to a culture that is results-based and focuses on accountability, says Zia Khan of the Rockefeller Foundation.
Off-Grid Energy Toolkit to Identify Solutions
MIT D-Lab's Energy Assessment Toolkit is one example tool that aspiring solution developers can utilize to assess the energy needs of remote rural areas like Pakistan's. The tool has been piloted in West Africa, India and Latin America.
TPG ‘s Rise Fund Invests $50M in Indian Dairy Dodla
Dodla Dairy in India has raised $50 million in private equity to help fund its business supplying milk sourced sustainably from the thousands of smallholder farmers in the country. The $2B Growth Fund's Rise Fund facilitated the deal, its first in AgTech.
Former President Obama Urges Courage
In a speech on May 7th Sunday evening, Barack Obama urged courage in times of "tripe, ignorance, and demagoguery." The occasion was the former U.S. President's acceptance of the John F. Kennedy Centennial "Profiles in Courage" award.
Making Food More Accessible through Impact Investing
"I think impact investing presents a new tool in the toolkit for solutions that can scale," says AgTech and food system venture capitalist Jason Ingle of Closed Loop Capital and Greener Partners, a non-profit.
Impact Investing Deal Report – May 3, 2017
Sustainable feedstock maker Calysta, AltSchool and Bonsai AI were among this past week's notable investing deals. Calysta received $40 million in Series D for its innovative food technology that promises to eliminate the need for two increasingly scarce resources in our planet – water and agricultural land – for production of fish feed for the aquaculture industry.
New Tiny Homes for Homeless in Seattle
Tiny homes are being seen as one solution to the homeless problem in cities like Seattle, Portland and Denver. In Seattle, the initiative is being led by The Low Income Housing Institute (LIHI), a nonprofit affordable housing developer in the U.S. Northwest. The tiny home site, called Othello Village, now serves 300 homeless people.
