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Impact Investing for the Missing Middle in Agri-Finance (SSIR) Original

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By Chris Claes, Steven Serneels, Wouter Vandersypen
| Stanford Social Innovation Review Verified
Imagine being in charge of a profitable vegetable cooperative in Benin. You know the cooperative can increase its income and improve its resilience if most of this year’s profit is set aside for investing in new hardware. You also know that your members are very poor. What would you do? Would you propose foregoing income now for the promise of a higher income later on? Would you be able to resist pressure to deliver immediate income to your cooperative’s members? The answer is almost certainly no.
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Impact Investing for the Missing Middle in Agri-Finance (SSIR)

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By Wouter Vandersypen, Chris Claes, Steven Serneels, Jim Bildner
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Imagine being in charge of a profitable vegetable cooperative in Benin. You know the cooperative can increase its income and improve its resilience if most of this year’s profit is set aside for investing in new hardware. You also know that your members are very poor. What would you do? Would you propose foregoing income now for the promise of a higher income later on? Would you be able to resist pressure to deliver immediate income to your cooperative’s members? The answer is almost certainly no.
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The Four Ways Corporate Foundations Can Align With Their Related Companies for Social Impact

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By Karoline Heitmann, Lonneke Roza, Priscilla Boiardi, Steven Serneels
| Stanford Social Innovation Review Verified
(Illustration by Curt Merlo) The world increasingly expects and needs companies to deliver both economic and social value. Their ability to mobilize resources has surpassed even that of large governments. In the United States, for example, private-sector spending is seven times larger than governmental spending and 20 times larger than nonprofit-sector spending. With such outsize output and influence comes responsibility.
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