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Social Innovation Summit 2013: What's Next?
What happens when 800 social innovators get together to share ideas? I recently attended the 2013 Social Innovation Summit, a two-day conference held in New York at JPMorgan and the General Assembly of the United Nations. This biannual conference launched in 2010 by Landmark Ventures, a New York-based strategic and financial advisory firm, the summit brings together venture capitalists, social entrepreneurs, Fortune 500 executives, government officials and heads of foundations discuss and share innovative solutions to some of today's most challenging social issues, including education, global healthcare, veterans, women and girls, envir...
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The Hottest Trend in Microfinance: Village Savings and Loan Associations
"Village Savings and Loan Associations (VSLAs), based in the community, are complementary to MFIs, tending to serve the...
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SEC Settlements: Justice Served or Hush Money?
"[T]he S.E.C., of all agencies, has a duty, inherent in its statutory mission, to see that the truth emerges." -- Judge...
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Top 10 Scandals, Arrests, Lawsuits and Settlements that Rocked the Financial World in 2011
"Madness is badness of spirit, when one seeks profit from all sources." -- Aristotle For those who like juicy scandals...
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Cheryl Heller: An Exclusive Justmeans Q&A
Cheryl Heller is the chair of a new MFA program launching in the fall of 2012 at the School of Visual Arts in New York...
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SEED Awards 2011: The UN Honors Social and Environmental Entrepreneurship in Developing Nations
"The SEED Award winners are true examples of what a greener economy can look like." -- Julia Marton-Lefevre, Director G...
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The Green Envelope Please: The 2012 FT/IFC Sustainable Finance Awards
"These awards recognize the key role that sustainable finance can play in creating jobs, fighting climate change, and i...
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The 112th House of Representatives Is the Most Anti-Environment House in American History
"The big thing we are working on now is the global warming hoax. It's all voodoo, nonsense, hokum, a hoax." -- Rep. Mi...
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Partners in Clime: Public Sector Support for Private Equity and Venture Capital Climate Solutions in Emerging Markets
"Leaders of emerging economies must ensure that they are able to attract high-quality, sustainable investment." -- Tony...
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Slow Down, Planet-Eaters: UN Proposes Decoupling Economic Growth from Resource Consumption
"People believe environmental 'bads' are the price we must pay for economic 'goods.' However, we cannot, and need n...
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The Paris Appeal: A Call for Microfinance Reform
"You need different regulation for microfinance; sometimes that's hard to get." -- Lars Thunell, Executive Vice Presid...
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The STOCK Act: Making Congress Play Fair
"The American people need to know that their elected leaders play by the exact same rules that they play by. They also...
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Where Have All the Trees Gone? Trying to Save the World's Forests Through Sustainable Finance
"We won't succeed in tackling climate change unless we deal with deforestation." -- Caroline Spelman, UK environment s...
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Horizon 2020: 80 Billion Euros to Boost European Competitiveness
"We need a new vision for European research and innovation in a dramatically changed economic environment." -- Maire Ge...
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The Heat Is On: Green Climate Fund in Danger in Durban
"Governments must find ways -- now -- to mobilize resources up to the $100 billion per annum pledged." -- U.N. Secretar...
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Cash-Lite: Mobile Money Expands in Nigeria
Who needs a bank when you have a mobile phone? Last week, following regulatory approval from the Central Bank of Niger...
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The Urbanization of the World: Invest in Sustainable Cities or Perish
By 2050, the human population will reach 9.3 billion. Seventy percent will be urban dwellers. Time to invest in sustain...
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Capitalist Myopia: For a Sustainable Economy, We Can't Miss the Forest for the Trees
"I am glad there is no God. If there were, I cannot imagine that we rampant, myopic, and insatiably self-centered creat...
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Saving Species, Saving Us: Biodiversity Investments Are Critical to Global Green Economy
A new study warns of ecosystem collapse in the coming years. Investing in biodiversity must be made a priority "We can...
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Have Fracking Lies Been Told? Elected Officials Seek Answers from Gas Companies and S.E.C.
"Shale gas companies may be engaging in questionable accounting tactics and may be taking advantage of loopholes in S.E...
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Fickle Like the Wind: The Boom-and-Bust Cycle of the Renewable Energy Tax Credit
The Production Tax Credit may not be America's best policy tool for incentivizing clean energy development, but it's...
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