Day: 4 November 2020

Launch of pioneering investment platform enables anyone to join impact-investing movement

Stuart Mitchell

A pioneering investment website, The Big Exchange, has launched with a mission to make everyone’s money count for more. Co-founded by The Big Issue and a coalition of industry partners, The Big Exchange is a simple, online marketplace offering everyone easy access to 36 funds that create positive social and environmental impact run by 11 top fund managers. According to a 2020 YouGov poll, 54% of people hoped they will make some changes in their own lives and for the country due to the Covid-19 crisis. The Big Exchange provides…

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Little Free Library Promotes Equity and Inclusion by Bringing Diverse Books to Communities Around the World

Stuart Mitchell

The Little Free Library® (LFL) nonprofit organization, in partnership with Colle McVoy, has launched Read in Color™ a timely initiative bringing diverse books to LFL book-sharing boxes around the world. Kicking off in Minneapolis, Minn., the origin of social unrest this summer, Read in Color will distribute books that provide perspectives on racism and social justice, celebrate BIPOC and LGBTQ voices, and incorporate experiences from all identities for all readers. “Little Free Library believes everyone should be able to see themselves in the pages of a book,” said LFL Executive…

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IFC Promotes Sustainable Development in Latin America and the Caribbean with Record Lending in Last Year

Stuart Mitchell

IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, committed a record $7.1 billion to support private sector development in Latin America and the Caribbean in fiscal year 2020, enabling investments to foster sustainable growth across the region, create jobs and fight the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. Out of the $7.1 billion invested in the fiscal year ending June 2020, the long-term financing in the region included a record $4 billion mobilized from other investors. IFC’s work with public-private partnerships contributed almost $1.2billion to this mobilization. Despite the challenges of…

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MicroLoan Foundation launches EmpowerHer campaign to help 50,000 female entrepreneurs

Stuart Mitchell

MicroLoan Foundation has launched its latest campaign, EmpowerHer, today in a bid to help 50,000 female entrepreneurs in Africa. The initiative comes as the poverty gap for vulnerable women and girls continues to grow, something that the Covid-19 pandemic has made worse because of its disproportionate impact on this demographic.   UN Women, for instance, has warned that the pandemic will push 47 million more women and girls below the poverty line, reversing decades of progress to eradicate extreme poverty.   In 2019, 80% of the women who joined MicroLoan…

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Walk Free and Leo Burnett Australia unite to draw attention to the shocking reality that: 1 in every 130 women and girls globally are living in modern slavery

Stuart Mitchell

Leo Burnett Australia and Walk Free, in partnership with the United Nations Every Woman Every Child movement, has launched a campaign to support the publication of its new report, which reveals that one in every 130 women and girls around the world is currently trapped in modern slavery. The campaign films premiered at the United Nations Spokesperson’s Noon Briefing on Friday, October 9th, with the larger campaign going live on October 11th, coinciding with the UN’s International Day of the Girl Child. Walk Free’s groundbreaking report, Stacked Odds, reveals that…

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