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Thread Int’l launches own products with Kickstarter Campaign
One of Mi3/ORFL’s Investee companies, Thread International, is launching its own line of products. It is starting with a “A Better Packpack” and is introducing it via a kickstarter campaign which opened last week. The campaign is already busting through … Continue reading
An Mi3 Summer Field Trip to Kensington and South Philly
This summer, Professor Mudd and 5 Mi3 students on campus for the summer ventured out on another Mi3 journey to keep up with our local impact investing landscape, this time both to Kensington and to South Philadelphia! We visited three … Continue reading
What’s in a name: A Hobson’s Choice for Impact Funds?
In Brest and Born’s excellent article (SSIR 2013) on what constitutes impact they focus a lot of attention on “additionality.” One question in particular caught my attention. Would the investment be made if the impact investor did not participate? Impact … Continue reading
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A Philly Field Trip to Kensington, Shift Capital and New Kensington CDC
Which is better for redeveloping a neighborhood that is suffering from increased crime, drugs, unemployment, disinvestment, etc., a for profit real estate developer or a community centered NGO? Can a for-profit real estate developer help in a way that preserves … Continue reading
Bonnie Moellenbrock Challenges IC to “Carry Its Critical Work Forward” as she steps away
Bonnie Moellenbrock has led Investors’ Circle, the national impact angel investing network, for the last six years. She along with IC Philly President John Moore, supported Mi3 as a full IC member enabling me to bring Haverford students in as participants in Mi3/ORFL’s … Continue reading
HMFC Helps Fund Loan to Local NGO Working With Returnees
HMFC, the student run Haverford MicroFinance Consulting, has been working for the past two years with Kiva Zip, an online crowdfunding platform for zero interest loans to small businesses. Last year, in its role as a Kiva Zip trustee, HMFC endorsed Aisha … Continue reading
Haverford MI3’s latest investment, MPowerd, featured by Clinton Global Initiative
The Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) just featured a project with MPowerd in its highlights of 2015. MPowerd is Haverford MI3’s most recent Impact Investment in our partnership with ORFL. It is a maker of an inflatable solar LED lamp called … Continue reading
Impact Update from Wash Cycle Laundry
In Spring of 2014, Haverford MI3, in partnership with Overseas Resources Foundation, LTD, invested in Wash Cycle Laundry (WCL) is a start up delivery laundry service. It was an “out of season” investment that was analyzed by a group of students … Continue reading
If Angel Investing and Microfinance Had a Baby
Last week I attended a great event called the SOURCE Forum, a joint venture by the Hitachi Foundation, Village Capital and Investors Circle. SOURCE stands for Solutions from OUR Countries Entrepreneurs. The concept of SOURCE is to provide more opportunities … Continue reading
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NYT David Brooks on Impact Investing
David Brooks, NYT columnist, discusses the growing interest and continuing challenges of impact investing here.