2017 Digitalization Impact Investing 
3BL Media
JANUARY 16, 2024
Our conviction in Africa’s vast potential is part of what fuels the climate investment strategy of the Cisco Foundation. Among our vision, we see the transition to clean energy not just as a necessity, but as a catalyst for inclusive growth and digital innovation. per day, as defined by the World Bank.
James Militzer
DECEMBER 21, 2022
Most of these pieces explore businesses, technologies and investment approaches that have demonstrated their positive impact — but that are falling short in maximizing it. Can Access to Smartphones Bridge the Digital Divide in Sub-Saharan Africa? Savings-Led Digital Finance: The Dawn of a New Era? CAPTCHA. Δ
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Stanford Social Innovation
OCTOBER 5, 2023
But if you are not willing to concede any returns from your “impact” investments, your options are limited. We interviewed more than two dozen professionals with expertise in asset management, impact investment, asset allocation, and measurement. Issuance of green bonds has more than tripled from 2017 to 2021.
Stanford Social Innovation
APRIL 5, 2022
This was the challenge we faced at TechSoup in 2017 when we hoped to raise $11.5 million nonprofits in the 236 countries and territories where we worked, but to scale our services to reach them—in a hyper-local and fragmented sector—we realized we needed to transform our own systems, digital tools, and programs.
James Militzer
JULY 20, 2022
The evaluator, IDinsight , measured impact with a randomized controlled trial (RCT), Instiglio acted as the project manager and process evaluator, and the Global Development Incubator , as the trustee of the outcome fund, oversaw the contracting and financial management. The DIB and its program implementation launched in November 2017.
Stanford Social Innovation
NOVEMBER 7, 2022
“In emerging fields, you begin to see the development of standards as a good signal that something’s happening there,” Adam Russell, an anthropologist working for the Department of Defense, told Wired in a 2017 article. The truth is, it’s very difficult to process and use the information.
Chris Hall
APRIL 22, 2022
And where returns are demonstrable, McMahon concedes that these are typically single digit, but he argues the dual objectives of making an impact alongside delivering performance give sustainable investment some added appeal. The funds] offer a mid to high single digit internal rate of return.
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