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Blended finance is the use of catalytic capital from public or philanthropic sources to increase private sector investment in enterprises that advance sustainable development.

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Innovative business and finance solutions for transforming our throwaway economy into one where waste is eliminated, resources are circulated, and nature is regenerated.

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Moving values-aligned capital to creative arenas like ethical fashion, sustainable food, and social impact media to advance sustainability and inclusivity.

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Increasing numbers of stakeholders – including investors, companies, policy makers, regulators, NGOs, and civil society—are using ESG criteria to evaluate businesses, investments, and markets. Accompanying this is a growing ecosystem of organizations providing and using ESG information.

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Today, billions of people lack the financial tools needed to fully participate in the economy. Financial inclusion strives to create more inclusive financial systems and services for all — including payments, savings, credit, insurance, transactions — to help improve their lives and prosper.

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Assessing the impact – positive, negative, or none at all – that potential investments have on women and girls to hasten economic development, increase profitability, scale social impact, and cement lasting change.

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Investments made with the intention to generate positive, measurable social and environmental impact alongside a financial return. Impact investments can be made in both emerging and developed markets, and target a range of returns from below market to market rate, depending on investors' strategic goals.

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The ongoing practice of measuring, assessing, and improving impacts on sustainability issues. It is relevant for enterprises and investors who want to manage environmental, social, and governance (ESG) risks, as well as those who also want to contribute positively to global goals.

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LGBTQ+ or “queer-lens” solutions aim to address violence, oppression, and discrimination in employment, housing, healthcare, and funding faced globally by people who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer, intersex, non-binary, and others who are marginalized in terms of gender expression or sexual orientation.

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Catalyzing and deploying impact capital locally to address the needs of marginalized communities.

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Policies and regulatory frameworks that enable the development of the impact economy. These policies help create transparency, assist markets in functioning more efficiently, and hold organizations accountable for their impacts.

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Using economic and other resources to construct deliberate systems and supports to achieve and sustain racially equitable outcomes.

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Redefining Security examines the paradigm shift from fortress to foundation — from security built through walls, weapons, and extraction to security built through prevention, distribution, and mutualism. The department covers how impact entrepreneurs, communities, and capital are constructing genuine resilience: ecological, economic, public-health, democratic, and social — making real safety operational at scale.

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Addressing sustainability challenges and barriers to growth by developing strategies to expand and extend positive impacts.

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A system in which businesses are oriented to serve the interests of all their stakeholders by delivering value to customers, investing in employees, dealing fairly and ethically with suppliers, supporting the communities in which they work, and generating long-term value for shareholders.

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Transformative systems change moves beyond incremental changes or reforms, includes whole-system awareness, and works towards fundamental reorientation of core relationships, and creating new ways of thinking and action.

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The intentional design, development, and use of digital technologies to address social challenges and improve social, environmental, and economic outcomes.

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