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PLUS: Croatia’s first social impact fund, $100m financing partnership for emerging market ventures, new ‘repayable grants’ for Scottish environmental businesses, Canada’s MaRS Catalyst Fund rebrands and expands, and more.
An A-list actor commits to social enterprise, a foundation diverts a twelfth of its wealth into impact investing and Churchill sends social entrepreneurs travelling worldwide to seek out social impact.
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