Social entrepreneurship pioneer Ashoka launched the Financing Agency for Social Entrepreneurship GmbH (FASE) to make growth of social enterprises financially viable in Germany. Now FASE has successfully closed its first deal, financing the efforts of German social entrepreneur and Ashoka Fellow Attila von Unruh (pictured).
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Like in many regions around the world, poverty is the scourge that’s destroying disadvantaged communities in the Overstrand region of the Western Cape – South Africa. One of Maximpact’s latest deals introduces their innovative Agri-business and Agro-processing solution for a social enterprise with commercial business activities, whose surplus profits will fund and grow the existing social purpose programmes.
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Since its launch in 2012, Maximpact Deals has had role in developing a number of deals and fostering many productive partnerships. As the platform grows and evolves, it’s becoming clear that there are many benefits to our open collaboration model. In this blog we summarize some of our recent successes.
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Risk is a necessary factor in most kinds of investing. Yet impact investing faces special challenges when it comes to managing risk—and this unique risk profile calls for special handling when it comes to putting together impact investing opportunities. This article explores new research on risk and gives seven top tips for de-risking financial products.
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There’s evidence that more investors are demanding opportunities to put their capital behind impact, green and sustainable businesses than ever before. In this article, impact professionals En Lee and Sam Lindsay lay out seven simple steps for maximizing the impact potential of any portfolio.
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This month’s spotlight deals shine a light on the forestry sector. At the moment there are over thirty forestry deals listed on the Maximpact Eco platform and many of these are seeing a high degree of interest from impact investors.
+Read MoreAs we start using our new holiday gifts this year, it is too easy to ignore the miraculous supply networks that allow us to enjoy the products of human labor and ingenuity around the world. Sustainability is increasingly viewed as a strategy for enduring in a world of scarce resources and unlimited needs; but we seem to be locked in an endless cycle of merely reacting to deep-seated economic and social problems.
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This has been an amazing year for impact investing. Here we round up some of the top reasons why the sector has the right to feel cheerful about 2013—and look forward optimistically to 2014.
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With the Winter Holidays close at hand, thoughts of gift buying are at the forefront of most people’s minds. This month instead of focusing on the financial side of making an impact, we decided to look at how sustainability can be incorporated into your giving.
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Women’s financial empowerment has been a hot topic in recent months. There’s a definite (deserved) buzz around gender-lens investing and its potential to make more of impact capital. Yet, while the gender lens approach is an exciting step forward for women’s financial empowerment, it isn’t the whole story.
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UnitedSucces: When exploring the words“impact” and “empowerment” it is easy to overlook the true depth of meaning behind the potential for the words when you combine them! Exploring how women throughout the world can be positively affected so that they feel the true benefit of impactful empowerment it is important to explore why women don’t succeed or don’t proceed as fast as expected.
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Jed Emerson on the groundbreaking new report Impact Investing 2.0 and what it means for the leadership of successful impact investing funds.
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Today, sustainability is moving to center stage and professional women are leading what amounts to a global green shift. Maximpact was on hand for the 4th Annual Women In Green Forum in Los Angeles to chart the change.
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Biomimicry, a design discipline that seeks sustainable solutions by emulating nature’s time-tested patterns and strategies, is an emerging field that is increasingly catching interest from impact investors and social businesses. We discuss three new biomimicry impact deals currently seeking investment on Maximpact platform.
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