Millennium Promise - Home About Us At Millennium Promise, our vision is the eradication of extreme poverty, hunger, and preventable disease within our lifetime. Our mission is to provide the operational platform and resource mobilization for the Millennium Villages Project, which empowers communities to lift themselves out of extreme poverty. We believe that extreme poverty can be cut in half by 2015, even in some of the poorest, most remote places in the world.
Social entrepreneurship Social entrepreneurship is the process of pursuing innovative solutions to social problems. More specifically, social entrepreneurs adopt a mission to create and sustain social value. They pursue opportunities to serve this mission, while continuously adapting and learning. Impact Assets ImpactAssets Issue Briefs explore topics of interest to impact investors, wealth advisors and others active in the field of impact investing. They are offered as a resource to those seeking a deeper understanding of impact investing and of current issues being discussed by those active in the field. PDF ImpactAssets Issue Brief #1 Invest with Meaning: An Introduction to a Unified Investment Strategy for Impact Explains the importance of a unified investment strategy; describes sample investment products with social and environmental impact; and provides a profile of the FB Heron Foundation. By Jed Emerson, Chief Impact Strategist, and Tim Freundlich, President PDF ImpactAssets Issue Brief #2
Climate Leaders Learn How to Measure and Lower GHG Emissions Throughout an Organization's Supply Chain » EPA's Center for Corporate Climate Leadership serves as a resource center for all organizations looking to expand their work in the area of greenhouse gas (GHG) measurement and management. The Center was launched in 2012 to establish norms of climate leadership by encouraging organizations with emerging climate objectives to identify and achieve cost-effective GHG emission reductions, while helping more advanced organizations drive innovations in reducing their greenhouse gas impacts in their supply chains and beyond. The Center also recognizes exemplary corporate, organizational, and individual leadership in addressing climate change by co-sponsoring The Climate Leadership Awards with the Association of Climate Change Officers, the Center for Climate and Energy Solutions, and The Climate Registry, and serving as the Climate Leadership Conference headline sponsor.
Global Impact Investing Network Measuring Impact Measuring Impact and the Guidelines for Good Impact Practice were developed by the Impact Measurement Working Group of the Social Impact Investment Taskforce established by the UK’S presidency of the G8. It was co-chaired by the GIIN and New Philanthropy Capital (NPC). GIIN Webinar Series on the Social Impact Investment Taskforce and Working Groups Introducing the Impact Investing Benchmark The GIIN and Cambridge Associates launch the Impact Investing Benchmark, the first comprehensive analysis of the financial performance of market rate private equity and venture capital impact investing funds. Screening Green Businesses Certification for Green Businesses Green America certifies businesses that are committed to using business as a platform for social change. Since 1982, Green America has evaluated over 8,000 small businesses.
The New Heroes . What is Social Entrepreneurship? Photo: Mitch Wilson A social entrepreneur identifies and solves social problems on a large scale. Just as business entrepreneurs create and transform whole industries, social entrepreneurs act as the change agents for society, seizing opportunities others miss in order to improve systems, invent and disseminate new approaches and advance sustainable solutions that create social value. Global Impact Investing Network Financier and philanthropist Michael Milken shares his perspective with the GIIN community. Nick O’Donohoe, CEO of Big Society Capital (BSC), an independent financial institution established in 2012 to develop and shape a sustainable social investment market in the UK, shares his perspective with the GIIN community. In addition, BSC Board Chairman Sir Ronald Cohen adds his perspective, drawing on his experience with the development of the UK venture capital market. Lok Capital Vishal Mehta, Co-founder of Lok Capital, an Indian venture capital firm that invests in enterprises serving the lower income and base of the economic pyramid population segments, shares his perspective with the GIIN community.
Communities: Our Criteria General Requirements 1) Labor Standards Healthy and safe working conditions.Wages and benefits sufficient to lift workers' families out of poverty.