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The strategic philanthropy foundation, Dasra, has announced an $800,000 grant to six organisations aimed at building an ecosystem for impact investing in India. The idea is to help individuals and...

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László Andor, European Commissioner for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion stated that the key roles of social investment are to help modernise national welfare systems and to help overcome Europe's...

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Venture philanthropy (VP) and social investment (SI) organisations are becoming more sophisticated in their use of financial instruments to generate social impact, according to EVPA’s second annual survey released on...

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European parliament voted overwhelmingly in favour of a bill enabling the creation of a new label identifying social entrepreneurship investment funds (EuSEF) this month, as well as introducing Europe-wide regulation...

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“Social entrepreneurs are stultified by traditional forms of financing,” Sir Ronald Cohen and William A. Sahlman write in a Harvard Business Review blog last month: “The biggest obstacle to scale...

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The Wood Family Trust (WFT) invested £7.5m in two Rwandan tea factories alongside Lord David Sainsbury’s Gatsby Foundation in December last year, its 2012 Annual Report revealed last month.

The...

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The UK’s social investment market could be worth £1bn by 2016, according to a Big Society Capital report released in September, while research from the Big Lottery Fund says investment...

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Two new charitable investments by the Private Equity Foundation (PEF) have taken the venture philanthropy fund’s total investment in Germany to €400,000 (£365,000).

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More than $750m (£517m) will be pumped into small- and medium-sized businesses in the developing world, to reduce poverty by a new group of foundations and for-profit social venture funds, it...

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As the recession begins to bite deeper into the public consciousness, and government, economists and business debate ways to tackle the economic crisis, Philanthropy UK highlights an emerging, promising financial...

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