Compost Prosperity: A new deal on the Maximpact platform offers opportunities for farm communities in rural Mali.
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The big corporations, governments and NGOs will continue to be active in agriculture, but there are still opportunities for impact investors.
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Maximpact.com has been in operation almost exactly one year. And what a year it’s been for impact investing and for us. Tom Holland gives an update.
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Mike McCreless,Root Capital’s director of strategy and impact, talks to Maximpact about the importance of agriculture, Root Capital’s impressive track record and what’s coming for agricultural impact investing in the future.
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Agriculture: With a global food crisis on the horizon, NGOs, development agencies and multinationals are all rushing to find ways to increase production.Yet impact investors still have a vital role to play in ensuring our future food security.
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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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At Maximpact we believe that more funding options are needed to increase deal flow and foster sector growth. Our registered members can choose among 19 different funding possibilities.
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The impact landscape is changing fast and progressive impact intermediaries are changing with it. In a recent article by Willy Foote for Forbes, Foote spoke to Antony Bugg-Levine, head of the Nonprofit Finance Fund (NFF) about some of the current challenges facing impact investing intermediaries. Read our summary and opinion on this evolution in impact intermediaries.
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At Maximpact we examined the opportunities available to aspiring professionals looking for a career at the intersection of sustainability and finance. Our list includes top business schools whose programs scater to the field of sustainability and impact investing.
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New collaborative models in social impact delivery are springing up all around us, sometimes in surprising places. At Maximpact, when we see them, we like to celebrate them. One encouraging example is the story of ColaLife.
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Impact measurement practice is moving on —thank goodness. This article charts the highlights of ANDE’s 2013 Impact Measurement Conference, showing what effective impact metrics look like today.
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Recommended books on Maximpact’s Newsstand
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Playa Viva ticks all the boxes for a great holiday destination: a luxurious boutique hotel in an idyllic tropical location with wonderful food and a pristine beach. It’s so good Elle magazine chose it as one of the world’s top Conscious Getaways for 2013.
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Greenpop is a social enterprise that combats deforestation by organizing community-based tree planting projects, green action events, educational workshops, social media campaigns and green voluntourism. Based on the idea that sustainability can be fun and empowering for communities, Greenpop started in September 2010 and has since planted over 17,000 trees in over 200 beneficiary schools, crèches, old-age homes and community centers as well as deforested areas in Southern Africa. This map shows the extent of their work.
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