By ImpactAssets This Issue Brief offers an overview of how one such investor evolved from a traditional, finance-only focus to an investment approach called impact investing. It is important to…
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Click here for more.Giving Compass’ Take: • Attempts to address sustainability in business have often failed because suppliers, who best know the work on the ground, have not been properly engaged. Stanford Social Innovation Review…
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Click here for more.Giving Compass’ Take: • Food Tank interviews La Finca Interacviva founder and agricultural expert Dr. Rafael Latorre about how the drug trade impacts the indigenous people of Colombia, and the variables legal…
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Click here for more.Giving Compass’ Take: • Lila Higgins is the senior manager of community science at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County and co-founder of bioblitz- which is an initiative…
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Click here for more.Giving Compass’ Take: • Harvest Public Media reports on undocumented immigrant parents who don’t sign their children up for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program out of deportation fears. • SNAP can…
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Click here for more.Giving Compass’ Take: • Developing nations are grappling with their future relationship with GMOs. While several countries have increased food yields and farmer’s incomes, environmental and health risks quell excitement for…
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Click here for more.Giving Compass’ Take: • Olney Friends School near Barnesville, Ohio has always integrated farming into their curriculum in order to grow well-rounded students. • How can other schools learn from this…
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Click here for more.Giving Compass’ Take: • HSBC is no longer investing in fossil-fuel based projects, following the lead set by ING, BNP Paribas, and BlackRock Investments. • How can this trend in divestment continue to grow?…
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Click here for more.Giving Compass’ Take: • Tennessee has a new strategy to ramp up its focus on STEM education, and has already recognized 15 schools that have successfully completed the review process…
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Click here for more.Giving Compass’ Take: • Pact is an international development organization that is launching a global initiative called Energy for Prosperity in the hopes of making sustainable electricity accessible to all global…
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Click here for more.Giving Compass’ Take: • The Disease Control Priorities project is now in its third edition and covers sanitation services that are working effectively, ones that are not, and what is cost-effective for…
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Click here for more.Impact investing first entered our lexicon in 2007 and more than a decade later, the practice is at a crossroads. Demand is growing. For many people, “money is a way…