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June 12, 2019 – Foreign Investments, Funding/Financing, Resources

Impact Links: Canada Bans Single-Use Plastic; Britain Launches Impact Investing Institute; Omidyar’s Education Investments; Temasek’s New Impact Fund

What do boards need to know about sustainability ratings? Silda Wall Spitzer and John Mandyck discuss in the Harvard Business Review. Growing its education investments, Omidyar Network expanded its educational agenda to include investments in both early childhood and adult education programs. Canada announced a plan to ban single-use plastics by 2021 and introduce standards ...›

May 2, 2019 – Foreign Investments, Funding/Financing

MoFo Impact Hosts “Canadians Take on Social Impact Investing”

On May 15, MoFo Impact will host a session of “Canadians Doing Good” at MoFo Palo Alto. The session, organized by nonprofit Digital Moose Lounge, will gather Canadian and Canada-friendly experts in the growing impact investment sector to discuss current trends and challenges, and share tips and insights from the field. MoFo Impact partner and ...›

August 23, 2016 – Foreign Investments

Impact Investing in Emerging Markets

Emerging markets remain ripe for impact investing – it is an increasingly important way to support small and growing businesses in emerging markets, thereby stimulating long-term economic growth, creating jobs and spurring social impact. Although emerging markets are highly volatile and slowing or negative GDP growth remains a concern, the 2016 Global Limited Partners Survey ...›

August 9, 2016 – Foreign Investments, Funding/Financing

Clean Tech Investment Post-Paris: Which Way Is the Wind Blowing?

As world leaders left Paris in December, many surely felt a sense of satisfaction at what they had just accomplished: a universal, legally binding agreement setting out ambitious goals to tackle climate change on which the world could agree. They would return to their respective countries, hailing the achievement as momentous and praising their states’ ...›