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The Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation launched the Daraja Impact Fund in 2023 with 10 million Swiss Franc ($12.5 million) to provide flexible, impact-linked financing to Tanzania’s small ...

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One of impact measurement’s most persistent problems is comparability. Thousands of organizations track social, environmental and economic outcomes using different frameworks and different languages.

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The Washington-based foundation invested $1.3 million in San Francisco-based Galvanize’s decarbonization-focused public equities fund. Galvanize Global Equities focused on publicly traded companies in ...

Investing in SMEs in frontier markets is one of the most important ways to drive sustainable economic growth. Yet it remains among the most challenging approaches for Development Finance Institutions, ...

It’s been a record year for issuances of municipal bonds, a low-cost source of capital for community infrastructure. Some state and local governments are taking additional steps to ensure the proceeds ...

A handful of employee ownership funds are raising larger pools of capital to compete with private equity and strategic buyers for the millions of US businesses that retiring baby boomers are poised to ...

Fintech startup Esusu works with landlords to ensure that rent payments are reported to financial institutions. Nearly 50 million Americans lack a credit history, cutting them off from economic ...

🗣Active engagement. Many large institutional investors have long understood that the breadth of their portfolios means they effectively own the entire economy and thus own responsibility for ...