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A Spotlight on 10 Top Impact Investors Driving Social Change

NXUnite

While these investments involve several moving parts, impact investing is essentially leveraging capital to create positive change, earn revenue, and drive innovation across the social good sector. They do so by supporting and accelerating the development of innovative, ambitious SMEs leading the ecological transition. Yes, it does!

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Thanks For Playing: We Are STILL Doing It That Way

Thanks For Playing

For those of you who arent familiar with it, a group of "Five Independent Thinkers" (whose names you probably recognize) got together in 2007 to address the pressing need for change in associations. Labels: associations , David Gammel , innovation , Jamie Notter , Jeff De Cagna , Mickie Rops. Happy Birthday, America! Newer Post.

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Knowledge Application Gap Still Exists in Some Emerging Markets.

GlowGlobally

Where in the World are the Innovators? This “engineering gap” is a source of pride in India and consternation in America, which fears the cutting and pasting of high-tech jobs from West to East. But if the brothers exemplify the engineering gap, the firm they started together in 2007, Aspiring Minds, is busy debunking it.

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Association Subculture: NO Neutrality on Net Neutrality

Association Subculture

Corporate America wants to control not only access speed to the internet, but how fast things can move on the internet. Verizon was caught challenging NARAL back in 2007 from sending text messages to their members regarding womens reproductive health issues and although they reversed themselves, the damage was done. innovation. (6).

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#GivingTuesday: Why I Am Participating in the National Day of Giving on November 27, 2012

Beth Kanter

Encouraging nonprofits to embrace this mode of fundraising was the point of the Case Foundation’s America’s Giving Challenge , one of the first giving contests launched back in 2007 where I was a first place winner raising funds for Cambodian children.