Announcing NextBillion's Most Influential Articles of 2025: Vote for Your Favorites by Jan. 4 It's time for NextBillion’s Most Influential Articles of the Year contest: Read these 12 key articles from 2025, and vote for your favorites.

Announcing NextBillion’s Most Influential Articles of 2025: Vote for Your Favorites by Jan. 4

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#solar #ImpactInvesting #GlobalDevelopment #SocialImpact #SocialEnterprise #EnergyAccess #renewables #entrepreneurs #ImpactInvestors #SocialEntrepreneurship #SolarPower

Backing First-Time SME Finance Vehicles in Emerging Markets: 10 Years of Data Reveals Successful Pathways — And the Role of Catalytic Capital New research shows how first-time SME investors can move from concept to first investments — and how catalytic capital can support them.

Backing First-Time SME Finance Vehicles in Emerging Markets: 10 Years of Data Reveals Successful Pathways — And the Role of Catalytic Capital

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#ImpactInvesting #EmergingMarkets #Africa #investing #ImpactInvestors #CatalyticCapital

Calvert Impact’s market-shaping strategy for the future of impact Impact investing needs to move from doing deals to making markets; from building funds to building market shaping institutions, says Jenn Pryce of Calvert Impact.

Calvert Impact CEO Jennifer Pryce '00 calls on #impactinvestors to shift from just doing deals to shaping markets by creating durable institutions that steer flexible capital, tools, and partnerships toward underserved communities: impactalpha.com/calvert-impa...

To Truly Innovate, WASH Funders Need to Get Their Hands Dirty: Key Learnings from Five Years of Pioneering Impact-Linked Finance in Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Analysts explore the need for more hands-on WASH funding approaches, and share lessons from one such approach: Impact-Linked Finance.

To Truly Innovate, WASH Funders Need to Get Their Hands Dirty: Key Learnings from Five Years of Pioneering Impact-Linked Finance in Water, Sanitation and Hygiene

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#WASH #water #sanitation #hygiene #ImpactInvesting #impinv #ImpactInvestors #SDG6 #GlobalDevelopment

Refugee Entrepreneurship: A Case Study for Impact Investors Important Causes in 2025

🔎 Explore how #impactinvestors are proving that the world's 43M #refugees (~10M in camps) are indeed investable

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Hi Bluesky 👋 We're Adasina, your bridge between financial markets and social justice. Follow if you:

Want to become a #SocialJusticeInvestor 📈

Are passionate about racial, gender, economic, and climate justice ✊

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Lessons from a Decade of Investing in a Frontier Market: What Impact Investors Can Learn from Nepal’s First International Private Equity Fund The CEO of Nepal's first international private equity and impact fund shares lessons for other impact investors entering frontier markets.

Lessons from a Decade of Investing in a Frontier Market: What Impact Investors Can Learn from Nepal’s First International Private Equity Fund:

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#ClimateChange #RenewableEnergy #ImpactInvesting #ImpactInvestors #Nepal #PrivateEquity #SMEs #regulations #EmergingMarkets

This is an excellent starter pack from the lovely people at @pioneerspost.bsky.social

#SocialEnterprise
#ImpactInvestors
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The GIIN West Coast Impact Forum and Investor Training 2025

Date: April 15 - 16

Location: #SanFrancisco

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#Americas #ImpactInvesting #ImpactInvestors #InvestorTraining #business #EmergingMarkets

Impact investors are expanding access to financial services in underbanked regions - Equities.com In an increasingly interconnected world, financial inclusion remains a critical issue, especially in underbanked regions where traditional banking services

#Investors - Microfinance institutions are transforming finance in areas lacking traditional banking. #ImpactInvestors are fueling change, driving both financial returns and societal impact. It’s about lives changed and communities uplifted. #equities #banking
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Subsidy and Synergy: How Philanthropy Can Complement Impact Investing More Effectively An impact investor argues that the pursuit of market-rate returns — at the expense of philanthropic subsidy — is holding the sector back.

Subsidy and Synergy: How #Philanthropy Can Complement #ImpactInvesting More Effectively

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#ImpactInvestors #microfinance #OffGridEnergy #EmergingMarkets #energy #SDG7 #Africa #Asia #funding #BlendedFinance #SocialImpact #GlobalDev #business #scale

Taste and connect! #Foodentrepreneurs and #impactinvestors convene to share and exchange stories and learnings. Inspirations for delicious gifts. Slow Money Holiday Mixer and Food Marketplace!

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Highlights of FOOD FUNDED 2024 on October 15: #foodentrepreneurs and #impactinvestors convene for a day of educational workshops and live investment presentations to catalyze the funding flow in our #FoodSystem.
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