The following are links to organizations and materials of interest in the area of ODCEM’s concerns. ODCEM has no affiliation with these organizations, and has no control or editorial capacity with respect to the listed organizations, their web sites or the referenced materials. The list is given for informational purposes without representation or warranty:
Organizations
I. The Acumen Fund (a registered 501(c)(3) organization)
Acumen is a global force of entrepreneurs, investors, philanthropists, and social innovators working together to break the cycle of poverty by investing in social enterprises, emerging leaders and breakthrough ideas.
The Acumen Fund
40 Worth Street
No. 303
New York, NY 10013, USA
Tel.: +1 (212) 566-8821
Fax: +1 (212) 566-8817
Web: https://acumen.org/
II. Aavishkaar Venture Fund (an India-based fund)
Aavishkaar aims to harness the entrepreneurial spirit at the bottom of the pyramid to create inclusive economic development. The fund seeks to empower disadvantaged and rural communities through infusion of commercial activities. Typically entrepreneurs who operate at the lower end of the economic spectrum are overlooked by financiers as they are categorized as being too small and risky; the fund invests in these entrepreneurs.
Aavishkaar Group
Mumbai Address:
2nd Floor, Naman Center, C-31, G Block, Bandra Kurla Complex
Bandra East, Mumbai, Maharashtra 400051
Delhi Address:
FS 05 & FS 06, Collative, Global Foyer WhiteHouse, NBCC Plaza Pushp Vihar,
Saket, New Delhi
Nairobi Address:
4th Floor, The Riverfront, along Prof. David Wasawo Drive off Riverside Drive,
Nairobi, Kenya
General Tel.: +91 22 61248900
General Fax: +91 22 61248930
Web: http://www.aavishkaar.in/
III. The Global Private Capital Association (GPCA)
The Global Private Capital Association, which was founded as the Emerging Markets Private Equity Association (EMPEA) in 2004, is a non-profit, independent membership organization representing private capital investors who manage more than USD2t in assets across Asia, Latin America, Africa, Central & Eastern Europe and the Middle East.
Their mission is to connect and influence key market participants, promoting the sectors, strategies and deals that will drive investment returns and meet societal needs. A cornerstone of GPCA’s work is generating proprietary data, intelligence and deal cases to drive transparency and showcase innovation from across global markets.
589 8th Ave 19th floor
New York, NY 10018
Phone: +1 202 333 8171
Web: https://www.globalprivatecapital.org/
IV. Global Impact Investing Network (a registered 501(c)(3) organization)
The GIIN builds critical infrastructure and supports activities, education and research that help accelerate the development of a coherent impact investing industry. Alongside members and partners, the GIIN contributes to a shift in the broader financial systems in which investors deploy capital both for financial gains and positive impact for all people and the planet.
Global Impact Investing Network
One Battery Park Plaza, Battery Pl,
New York, NY 10004
info@thegiin.org
Tel: +1.646.837.7430
Web: http://www.thegiin.org/
V. International Capital Market Association (ICMA), Zurich
The International Capital Market Association (ICMA) represents a broad range of capital market interests including global investment banks and smaller regional banks, as well as asset managers, exchanges, central banks, law firms and other professional advisers. ICMA has a focus on the international debt market.
International Capital Market Association (ICMA)
Dreikönigstrasse 8
CH-8002 Zurich
Switzerland
Tel.: +41 44 363 4222
Fax: +41 44 363 7772
Web: http://www.icmagroup.org/
VI. International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology
The International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology provides a scientific and educational environment of the highest standard and conducts innovative research in life sciences for the benefit of developing countries. It strengthens the research capability of its Members through training and funding programmes and advisory services and represents a comprehensive approach to promoting biotechnology internationally.
The Centre is dedicated to advanced research and training in molecular biology and biotechnology and holds out the prospect of advancing knowledge and applying the latest techniques in the fields of:
- biomedicine
- crop improvement
- environmental protection/remediation
- biopharmaceuticals and biopesticide production
The Centre has Components in Trieste, Italy, New Delhi, India and Cape Town, South Africa. ICGEB is part of the United Nations System.
ICGEB Headquarters
Science Park
Padriciano 99
34149 Trieste, ITALY
Tel: +39-040-37571
Fax: +39-040-226555
Email: icgeb@icgeb.org
Web: https://www.icgeb.org/
VII. The Shepherd Program for the Interdisciplinary Study of Poverty and Human Capability
The Shepherd Program integrates academic study and learning through service and reflection; it endeavors to inform students about poverty and what can be done to foster human capabilities for communities and individuals who have been left behind in domestic and international development; and in keeping with its university mission to cultivate a readiness to sacrifice on behalf of others, the Shepherd Program seeks to offer opportunities for students to acquire skills and qualities of character that dispose them to serve communities and disadvantaged individuals.
Mattingly House
Washington and Lee University
Lexington, Virginia 24450
Tel.: 540.458.8784
Web: http://www.wlu.edu/shepherd-program
VIII. Impact Investment Exchange Asia (IIX)
IIX attempts to provide Social Enterprises in Asia with greater access to capital, allowing them to more rapidly expand the impact of their activities. IIX seeks to address the various stages of capital raising that a Social Enterprise may encounter throughout its lifecycle. IIX operates the Impact Incubator and Impact Partners platforms to help Social Enterprises access impact investment capital in private transactions. IIX also launched Impact Exchange, the world’s first social stock exchange in a joint initiative between the Stock Exchange of Mauritius Exchange – to allow larger Social Enterprises to access the public capital markets while offering socially-minded Impact Investors the opportunity to efficiently and effectively direct their capital into liquid investments that align with their values.
Impact Investment Exchange Asia (IIX)
Impact Investment Exchange (Asia) Pte Ltd
1 King George’s Avenue
#05-00, Singapore 208557
Tel: (65) 6221 7051
Fax: (65) 6291 1561
Email:
Web: https://iixglobal.com/
IX. Society for Effectual Action
(Batten Institute at the Darden Graduate School of Business, University of Virginia)
The Society for Effectual Action (SEA) is a group of academic researchers, instructors, and entrepreneurs gathered for a single purpose: to fundamentally change the way entrepreneurship is taught and learned around the world. SEA is housed within the Batten Institute at the Darden Graduate School of Business, University of Virginia.
Co-founded by Professor Saras Sarasvathy and Darden alumni Chip Ransler and Ian Ayers, with support from the Batten Institute, SEA enables researchers and instructors to disseminate and discuss contributed papers, articles, teaching materials and techniques. Serving as a central hub for effectuation research, SEA invites the community to extend the principles presented in Sarasvathy's book, Effectuation: Elements of Entrepreneurial Expertise (2008), to new areas and practical applications.
Web: http://www.effectuation.org/
X. Tostan, Inc.
Tostan attempts to empower African communities to bring about sustainable development and positive social transformation based on respect for human rights. We believe that through this mission we can ensure every person—woman, man, girl, and boy—is able to live a life of dignity.
Headquarters
5, Cité Aelmas
Ouest Foire VDN, en face CICES
B.P. 29371, Dakar-Yoff, Senegal
Tel: +221 33 820 5589
Web: http://www.tostan.org/
DC Office
2121 Decatur Pl NW
Washington, DC 20008
Tel: +1 202 818 8851
Web: http://www.tostan.org/
XI. Transparency International
Transparency International is an entity seeking to combat corruption in government, business, civil society and the daily lives of people.
Transparency International Secretariat
Alt-Moabit 96
10559 Berlin
Germany
General contact:
Tel: +49-30 3438 200
Fax: +49 30 3470 3912
Email: ti@transparency.org
Web: http://www.transparency.org
XII. The World Bank Group
The World Bank Group
1818 H Street, NW
Washington, DC 20433 USA
Tel: (202) 473-1000
Fax: (202) 477-6391
Web: http://www.worldbank.org/
XII. The World Bank/Business Ready Project (B-READY)
Business Ready (B-READY) is the World Bank’s new flagship report benchmarking the business environment and investment climate in most economies worldwide. The report assesses the regulatory framework and public services directed at firms, and the efficiency with which regulatory framework and public services are combined in practice.
With data that are comparable across economies and over time, B-READY provides actionable evidence to promote reforms for a stronger private sector.
The first B-READY report will be launched on September 25, 2024.
Email: rru@worldbank.org
Web: https://www.worldbank.org/en/businessready
XIV. The World Federation of Exchanges
The WFE is a central reference point for the securities industry, and for exchanges themselves. The WFE is the association of 54 regulated exchanges around the world. The WFE offers member guidance in their business strategies, and in the improvement and harmonization of their management practices.
World Federation of Exchanges
125 Old Broad Street
London EC2N 1AR
United Kingdom
Tel: +44 (0) 20 7151 4150
Web: www.world-exchanges.org
Materials
I. Accelerating Impact: Achievements, Challenges and What’s Next in Building the Impact Investing Industry, E.T. Jackson and Associates Ltd. (July 2012); prepared for the Rockefeller Foundation
http://www.rockefellerfoundation.org//uploads/images/fda23ba9-ab7e-4c83-9218-24fdd79289cc.pdf
II. Beyond the Business Plan: 10 Principles for New Venture Explorers, by S. Bridge, C. Hegarty (Palgrave Macmillan, October 11, 2013)
III. Effectual Entrepreneurship, by Stuart Read, Saras Sarasvathy, Nick Dew, Robert Wiltbank, and Anne-Valérie Ohlsson (Routledge, December 23, 2010)
IV. Effectuation: Elements of Entrepreneurial Expertise, by Saras D. Sarasvathy (New Horizons in Entrepreneurship Series; Edward Elgar Publishing, May 31, 2009)
V. The Entrepreneurial Method: A New Paradigm in Entrepreneurship Education, by Thomas N. Duening and Gregory N. Stock, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs (NCIIA, 17th Annual Conference, Washington, DC, 2013)
/uploads/3/5/9/0/35904994/1478396-v1-the_entrepreneurial_method_a_new_paradigm_in_entrepreneurship_education_duening_and_stock_nciia_2013.pdf
VI. Entrepreneurship as a science of the artificial, by Saras D Sarasvathy; Journal of Economic Psychology (Volume 24, Issue 2, April 2003, Pages 203–220)
VII. Everyone Should Learn the Entrepreneurial Method, By Saras Sarasvathy; Harvard Business Review: March 15, 2012
VIII. Impact Investing: Transforming How We Make Money While Making a Difference, by Levine & Emerson (Jossey-Bass, 2011)
IX. Impact Investments: An emerging asset class; JP Morgan, Global Research (November 2010)
X. Investing for Impact: How Social Entrepreneurship is Redefining the Meaning of Return
Credit Suisse Research Investment (January 2012)
https://infocus.credit-suisse.com/data/_product_documents/_shop/336096/investing_for_impact.pdf
XI. Investing for Social and Environmental Impact; Monitor Institute (January 2009)
thegiin.org/search?search=impact+investing
www.mycnote.com/blog/what-is-impact-investing/
XII. SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP FOR THE 21st CENTURY: Innovation across the Nonprofit, Private and Public Sectors, by Georgia Levenson Keohane (McGraw-Hill, 2013)
XIII. Stock Market Development and Economic Growth; Salvatore Capasso; United Nations World Institute for Development Economics Research (Research paper No. 2006/102)
http://www.wider.unu.edu/publications/working-papers/research-papers/2006/en_GB/rp2006-102/_files/78091810785265805/default/rp2006-102.pdf
XIV. THE TYRANNY OF EXPERTS: Economists, Dictators, and the Forgotten Rights of the Poor, by William Easterly (Basic Books, 2013)
XV. United States Internal Revenue Service Materials on Charitable Organizations;
Web site: http://www.irs.gov/Charities-&-Non-Profits?navmenu=menu1
XV. Luanshya District Integrated Development Plan 2023-2033; www.luanshyacouncil.gov.zm/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/LUANSHYA-DISTRICT-INTEGRATED-DEVELOPMENT-PLAN-2023-2033.pdf
Organizations
I. The Acumen Fund (a registered 501(c)(3) organization)
Acumen is a global force of entrepreneurs, investors, philanthropists, and social innovators working together to break the cycle of poverty by investing in social enterprises, emerging leaders and breakthrough ideas.
The Acumen Fund
40 Worth Street
No. 303
New York, NY 10013, USA
Tel.: +1 (212) 566-8821
Fax: +1 (212) 566-8817
Web: https://acumen.org/
II. Aavishkaar Venture Fund (an India-based fund)
Aavishkaar aims to harness the entrepreneurial spirit at the bottom of the pyramid to create inclusive economic development. The fund seeks to empower disadvantaged and rural communities through infusion of commercial activities. Typically entrepreneurs who operate at the lower end of the economic spectrum are overlooked by financiers as they are categorized as being too small and risky; the fund invests in these entrepreneurs.
Aavishkaar Group
Mumbai Address:
2nd Floor, Naman Center, C-31, G Block, Bandra Kurla Complex
Bandra East, Mumbai, Maharashtra 400051
Delhi Address:
FS 05 & FS 06, Collative, Global Foyer WhiteHouse, NBCC Plaza Pushp Vihar,
Saket, New Delhi
Nairobi Address:
4th Floor, The Riverfront, along Prof. David Wasawo Drive off Riverside Drive,
Nairobi, Kenya
General Tel.: +91 22 61248900
General Fax: +91 22 61248930
Web: http://www.aavishkaar.in/
III. The Global Private Capital Association (GPCA)
The Global Private Capital Association, which was founded as the Emerging Markets Private Equity Association (EMPEA) in 2004, is a non-profit, independent membership organization representing private capital investors who manage more than USD2t in assets across Asia, Latin America, Africa, Central & Eastern Europe and the Middle East.
Their mission is to connect and influence key market participants, promoting the sectors, strategies and deals that will drive investment returns and meet societal needs. A cornerstone of GPCA’s work is generating proprietary data, intelligence and deal cases to drive transparency and showcase innovation from across global markets.
589 8th Ave 19th floor
New York, NY 10018
Phone: +1 202 333 8171
Web: https://www.globalprivatecapital.org/
IV. Global Impact Investing Network (a registered 501(c)(3) organization)
The GIIN builds critical infrastructure and supports activities, education and research that help accelerate the development of a coherent impact investing industry. Alongside members and partners, the GIIN contributes to a shift in the broader financial systems in which investors deploy capital both for financial gains and positive impact for all people and the planet.
Global Impact Investing Network
One Battery Park Plaza, Battery Pl,
New York, NY 10004
info@thegiin.org
Tel: +1.646.837.7430
Web: http://www.thegiin.org/
V. International Capital Market Association (ICMA), Zurich
The International Capital Market Association (ICMA) represents a broad range of capital market interests including global investment banks and smaller regional banks, as well as asset managers, exchanges, central banks, law firms and other professional advisers. ICMA has a focus on the international debt market.
International Capital Market Association (ICMA)
Dreikönigstrasse 8
CH-8002 Zurich
Switzerland
Tel.: +41 44 363 4222
Fax: +41 44 363 7772
Web: http://www.icmagroup.org/
VI. International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology
The International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology provides a scientific and educational environment of the highest standard and conducts innovative research in life sciences for the benefit of developing countries. It strengthens the research capability of its Members through training and funding programmes and advisory services and represents a comprehensive approach to promoting biotechnology internationally.
The Centre is dedicated to advanced research and training in molecular biology and biotechnology and holds out the prospect of advancing knowledge and applying the latest techniques in the fields of:
- biomedicine
- crop improvement
- environmental protection/remediation
- biopharmaceuticals and biopesticide production
The Centre has Components in Trieste, Italy, New Delhi, India and Cape Town, South Africa. ICGEB is part of the United Nations System.
ICGEB Headquarters
Science Park
Padriciano 99
34149 Trieste, ITALY
Tel: +39-040-37571
Fax: +39-040-226555
Email: icgeb@icgeb.org
Web: https://www.icgeb.org/
VII. The Shepherd Program for the Interdisciplinary Study of Poverty and Human Capability
The Shepherd Program integrates academic study and learning through service and reflection; it endeavors to inform students about poverty and what can be done to foster human capabilities for communities and individuals who have been left behind in domestic and international development; and in keeping with its university mission to cultivate a readiness to sacrifice on behalf of others, the Shepherd Program seeks to offer opportunities for students to acquire skills and qualities of character that dispose them to serve communities and disadvantaged individuals.
Mattingly House
Washington and Lee University
Lexington, Virginia 24450
Tel.: 540.458.8784
Web: http://www.wlu.edu/shepherd-program
VIII. Impact Investment Exchange Asia (IIX)
IIX attempts to provide Social Enterprises in Asia with greater access to capital, allowing them to more rapidly expand the impact of their activities. IIX seeks to address the various stages of capital raising that a Social Enterprise may encounter throughout its lifecycle. IIX operates the Impact Incubator and Impact Partners platforms to help Social Enterprises access impact investment capital in private transactions. IIX also launched Impact Exchange, the world’s first social stock exchange in a joint initiative between the Stock Exchange of Mauritius Exchange – to allow larger Social Enterprises to access the public capital markets while offering socially-minded Impact Investors the opportunity to efficiently and effectively direct their capital into liquid investments that align with their values.
Impact Investment Exchange Asia (IIX)
Impact Investment Exchange (Asia) Pte Ltd
1 King George’s Avenue
#05-00, Singapore 208557
Tel: (65) 6221 7051
Fax: (65) 6291 1561
Email:
Web: https://iixglobal.com/
IX. Society for Effectual Action
(Batten Institute at the Darden Graduate School of Business, University of Virginia)
The Society for Effectual Action (SEA) is a group of academic researchers, instructors, and entrepreneurs gathered for a single purpose: to fundamentally change the way entrepreneurship is taught and learned around the world. SEA is housed within the Batten Institute at the Darden Graduate School of Business, University of Virginia.
Co-founded by Professor Saras Sarasvathy and Darden alumni Chip Ransler and Ian Ayers, with support from the Batten Institute, SEA enables researchers and instructors to disseminate and discuss contributed papers, articles, teaching materials and techniques. Serving as a central hub for effectuation research, SEA invites the community to extend the principles presented in Sarasvathy's book, Effectuation: Elements of Entrepreneurial Expertise (2008), to new areas and practical applications.
Web: http://www.effectuation.org/
X. Tostan, Inc.
Tostan attempts to empower African communities to bring about sustainable development and positive social transformation based on respect for human rights. We believe that through this mission we can ensure every person—woman, man, girl, and boy—is able to live a life of dignity.
Headquarters
5, Cité Aelmas
Ouest Foire VDN, en face CICES
B.P. 29371, Dakar-Yoff, Senegal
Tel: +221 33 820 5589
Web: http://www.tostan.org/
DC Office
2121 Decatur Pl NW
Washington, DC 20008
Tel: +1 202 818 8851
Web: http://www.tostan.org/
XI. Transparency International
Transparency International is an entity seeking to combat corruption in government, business, civil society and the daily lives of people.
Transparency International Secretariat
Alt-Moabit 96
10559 Berlin
Germany
General contact:
Tel: +49-30 3438 200
Fax: +49 30 3470 3912
Email: ti@transparency.org
Web: http://www.transparency.org
XII. The World Bank Group
The World Bank Group
1818 H Street, NW
Washington, DC 20433 USA
Tel: (202) 473-1000
Fax: (202) 477-6391
Web: http://www.worldbank.org/
XII. The World Bank/Business Ready Project (B-READY)
Business Ready (B-READY) is the World Bank’s new flagship report benchmarking the business environment and investment climate in most economies worldwide. The report assesses the regulatory framework and public services directed at firms, and the efficiency with which regulatory framework and public services are combined in practice.
With data that are comparable across economies and over time, B-READY provides actionable evidence to promote reforms for a stronger private sector.
The first B-READY report will be launched on September 25, 2024.
Email: rru@worldbank.org
Web: https://www.worldbank.org/en/businessready
XIV. The World Federation of Exchanges
The WFE is a central reference point for the securities industry, and for exchanges themselves. The WFE is the association of 54 regulated exchanges around the world. The WFE offers member guidance in their business strategies, and in the improvement and harmonization of their management practices.
World Federation of Exchanges
125 Old Broad Street
London EC2N 1AR
United Kingdom
Tel: +44 (0) 20 7151 4150
Web: www.world-exchanges.org
Materials
I. Accelerating Impact: Achievements, Challenges and What’s Next in Building the Impact Investing Industry, E.T. Jackson and Associates Ltd. (July 2012); prepared for the Rockefeller Foundation
http://www.rockefellerfoundation.org//uploads/images/fda23ba9-ab7e-4c83-9218-24fdd79289cc.pdf
II. Beyond the Business Plan: 10 Principles for New Venture Explorers, by S. Bridge, C. Hegarty (Palgrave Macmillan, October 11, 2013)
III. Effectual Entrepreneurship, by Stuart Read, Saras Sarasvathy, Nick Dew, Robert Wiltbank, and Anne-Valérie Ohlsson (Routledge, December 23, 2010)
IV. Effectuation: Elements of Entrepreneurial Expertise, by Saras D. Sarasvathy (New Horizons in Entrepreneurship Series; Edward Elgar Publishing, May 31, 2009)
V. The Entrepreneurial Method: A New Paradigm in Entrepreneurship Education, by Thomas N. Duening and Gregory N. Stock, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs (NCIIA, 17th Annual Conference, Washington, DC, 2013)
/uploads/3/5/9/0/35904994/1478396-v1-the_entrepreneurial_method_a_new_paradigm_in_entrepreneurship_education_duening_and_stock_nciia_2013.pdf
VI. Entrepreneurship as a science of the artificial, by Saras D Sarasvathy; Journal of Economic Psychology (Volume 24, Issue 2, April 2003, Pages 203–220)
VII. Everyone Should Learn the Entrepreneurial Method, By Saras Sarasvathy; Harvard Business Review: March 15, 2012
VIII. Impact Investing: Transforming How We Make Money While Making a Difference, by Levine & Emerson (Jossey-Bass, 2011)
IX. Impact Investments: An emerging asset class; JP Morgan, Global Research (November 2010)
X. Investing for Impact: How Social Entrepreneurship is Redefining the Meaning of Return
Credit Suisse Research Investment (January 2012)
https://infocus.credit-suisse.com/data/_product_documents/_shop/336096/investing_for_impact.pdf
XI. Investing for Social and Environmental Impact; Monitor Institute (January 2009)
thegiin.org/search?search=impact+investing
www.mycnote.com/blog/what-is-impact-investing/
XII. SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP FOR THE 21st CENTURY: Innovation across the Nonprofit, Private and Public Sectors, by Georgia Levenson Keohane (McGraw-Hill, 2013)
XIII. Stock Market Development and Economic Growth; Salvatore Capasso; United Nations World Institute for Development Economics Research (Research paper No. 2006/102)
http://www.wider.unu.edu/publications/working-papers/research-papers/2006/en_GB/rp2006-102/_files/78091810785265805/default/rp2006-102.pdf
XIV. THE TYRANNY OF EXPERTS: Economists, Dictators, and the Forgotten Rights of the Poor, by William Easterly (Basic Books, 2013)
XV. United States Internal Revenue Service Materials on Charitable Organizations;
Web site: http://www.irs.gov/Charities-&-Non-Profits?navmenu=menu1
XV. Luanshya District Integrated Development Plan 2023-2033; www.luanshyacouncil.gov.zm/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/LUANSHYA-DISTRICT-INTEGRATED-DEVELOPMENT-PLAN-2023-2033.pdf