Social Investment Exchange to launch in Kenya

1 March 2010
Alliance magazine

There is a clear need for an institutional structure to lead, coordinate and expand the development of Kenya’s social investment sector. With this in mind, Allavida, funded by the Rockefeller Foundation, has embarked on the establishment of the Kenya Social Investment Exchange (KSIX), the first social investment exchange in East Africa, to be launched later this year. KSIX aims to promote the growth of social investment in three important ways. Click here to read ...


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PHINEO provides information for social investors in Germany

1 March 2010
Alliance magazine

The Bertelsmann Stiftung, in cooperation with a number of other interested entities, has launched PHINEO to provide guidance for German social investors on how best to invest their money. Based on the UK’s New Philanthropy Capital model, PHINEO was registered as a charitable, listed company under German law in December 2009; it will become operational on 1 April this year. Click here to read ...


Is this Oxfam?
Malcolm Fleming

Is this Oxfam?

Malcolm Fleming
1 December 2009
Alliance magazine

When you think of Oxfam, you probably think of aid and grants. There is certainly a place for that in humanitarian and campaigning contexts, but does ‘free money’ provide the right incentives when applied to economic development and sustainable livelihoods? Alliance invited Oxfam’s Malcolm Fleming to talk about the charity’s Enterprise Development Programme and how it blends commercial and social approaches to deliver sustainable change. Click here to read ...


Investors’ Perspectives - Taking risks
Maureen Stapleton

Investors’ Perspectives - Taking risks

Maureen Stapleton
1 December 2009
Alliance magazine

Is taking a risk with an impact investment different from taking a risk with a traditional investment? At Bank underground station, in the heart of London’s financial district, there are several billboards advertising a variety of investments to travellers. All of them have the same caveat at the bottom: Please note the value of an investment can go up as well as down, and the value of the investment is not guaranteed. Click here to read ...


Lisbon launches social stock exchange

1 December 2009
Alliance magazine

The Portuguese Social Stock Exchange, a European first, was launched on      2 November in Lisbon by the Gulbenkian Foundation, EDP Foundation and Euronext Lisbon. Modelled on the original social stock exchange initiative launched in Brazil by Bovespa, the São Paulo Stock Exchange, it is designed to boost NGO-supported social and environmental projects. Click here to read ...


Investors’ Perspectives - Making sustainable investing work
Maureen Stapleton

Investors’ Perspectives - Making sustainable investing work

Maureen Stapleton
1 September 2009
Alliance magazine

Social investing. Ethical investments. Sustainable and responsible investing (SRI). These are a variety of terms in the current financial landscape that all mean similar things: investors who are looking for more meaningful investments. But is it a concept that actually works? Sustainable Investing: The art of long-term performance, a book edited by Cary Krosinsky and Nick Robins, tries to find out. Click here to read ...


More financial ingenuity, not less
Reuben Abraham

More financial ingenuity, not less

Reuben Abraham
1 September 2009
Alliance magazine

With free markets in retreat, economic development risks losing one of its foremost drivers. People forget that economic growth in India and China alone, fostered by open markets, has lifted hundreds of millions out of absolute poverty over the past 15 years. A crisis is a terrible thing to waste, so this is a good time for capitalism's greatest beneficiaries to bring its sheen back. Philanthropy can play a pivotal role in catalysing markets and market-based solutions that promote inclusive economic growth in developing countries. Click here to read ...


Interview - Sonal Shah
Sonal Shah

Interview - Sonal Shah

1 September 2009
Alliance magazine

Sonal Shah, head of the new White House Office of Social Innovation and Civic Participation, discusses with Matthew Bishop the opportunity to dramatically improve the impact of the best non-profit ideas, the intermediate role for grantmaking institutions offered by the new Social Innovation Fund, and how she hopes to foster a better ‘division of labour’ between government and foundation funding. Click here to read ...


BRAC to ‘jump-start’ development in war-torn West Africa

29 July 2009
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Microfinance pioneer BRAC is to lead a two-year pilot programme to help rebuild war-torn communities in West Africa. Sponsored by the Soros Economic Development Fund (www.sedfny.org), the Open Society Initiative for West Africa (www.osiwa.org), the Omidyar Network (www.omidyar.com) and Humanity United  (www.humanityunited.org), the $15 million initiative will provide microfinance, health and agricultural support in Liberia and Sierra Leone in order to help families and prevent renewed conflict. Click here to read ...


IADB and restructured AVINA launch web-based regional donor index

1 July 2009
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The Inter-American Development Bank (IADB) and Fundacion AVINA have launched the Latin American Donor Index. Available on the internet, the Index will help donors and NGOs identify likely partners and supporters and currently offers free access to profiles of 547 donors active in Latin America and the Caribbean, including private donors, foundations, development agencies and corporate giving programmes in the region, the US and Europe. Click here to read ...


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