Month: September 2023

by Marta Maretich @maximpactdotcom Let’s face it: metrics are a pain. Even impact investors, committed to the principle of measuring social and environmental impact, find them so. While it’s true that the art and science of impact performance measurement have made strides in recent years (GIIN’s IRIS now gives the impact investing sector standardized tools to work with; projects including ImpactBa...[Read More]

NGO’s by their very nature are not concerned with the accumulation of wealth. Whether you are classed as charitable, community based, national or international, the outlook and goals are usually far more long term. Financing these goals usually takes a lot of effort and commitment from dedicated people within the NGO whose passion drives the project forward. This leaves little funding for anything...[Read More]

Web Summit 2016, will be held in Lisbon this year and has become Europe’s Largest Technology Marketplace with over 50,000 attendees, 20,000 plus companies from over 150 countries. The Summit has grown exponentially since it’s creation 6 years ago, which is perhaps a reflection of the general growth rate within the technology sector. Though the number of companies and advancements in technology and...[Read More]

A healthy reef in Jarvis Island National Wildlife Refuge, located 1,305 nautical miles south of Honolulu. (Photo: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service) Public domain. By Sunny Lewis NAIROBI, Kenya, June 21, 2018 (Maximpact.com  News) – Mohamed Abdirahman, 29, of Hargeisa, Somaliland established his own tree-planting program in 2015, the same year he graduated from the University of Hargeisa with a degre...[Read More]

By Sunny Lewis KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, March 1, 2016 (Maximpact.com News) – Apples, mangoes and almonds are delicious, pollinator-dependent foods, but these dietary staples are at risk because bees and other pollinators worldwide are disappearing, driven toward extinction by the pressures of living with humans. The holes they are leaving in the fabric of life threaten millions of human livelihoods...[Read More]

By Sunny Lewis BARCELONA, Spain, February 29, 2016 (Maximpact.com News) – The European Union and Brazil have signed an agreement to develop 5G Broadband, the fifth generation of wireless network technology that will speed the uptake of smart transportation, sustainable urban environments, home automation, emergency response, intelligent shopping and e-books, among other applications. European Comm...[Read More]

Displaced community members in Gedeb, Ethiopia receive aid from the UN International Organization for Migration (IOM) donated by UKAID. July 28, 2018 (Photo by Olivia Headon / IOM) Posted for media use. By Sunny Lewis GENEVA, Switzerland, August 1, 2019 (Maximpact.com News) – Migration and climate have always been connected throughout human history, but today the impacts of the human-made climate ...[Read More]

By Marta Maretich, Chief Editor @maximpactdotcom Healthcare is undergoing a global revolution. Demographic changes, including aging populations and rising levels of affluence in many countries, are altering health priorities for citizens and governments alike. Meanwhile an explosion in healthcare technology — both in new devices and in the increasing importance of data — is transforming healthcare...[Read More]

Feeling alone on a rainy winter day during lockdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic, January 31, 2021, St. Ives, England (Photo by Hedgehod Digital) Creative Commons license via Flickr GENEVA, Switzerland, April 17, 2021 (Maximpact.com News) – COVID-19 has caused changes to people’s wellbeing around the world ever since the World Health Organization declared the viral outbreak a global pandemic on Ma...[Read More]

By Marta Maretich Originally posted on the OpenForests blog. OpenForests is a consultancy specializing in sustainable forestry projects. So, you’ve written the business plan. Congratulations! (And thanks to OpenForests for their useful guide to writing a business plan for a sustainable forestry enterprise.) Now you’re ready to look past the trees and focus on the forest; the wide world of impact i...[Read More]

What do a youth start-up acceleration program, a book distributor serving children at the base of the economic pyramid and a rural village educational program focusing on sanitation have in common? One: their initiatives provide alternatives to national and global corporate and government programs. Two: all three deals are listing on Maximpact today. Deal D000474 This entrepreneur is organizing su...[Read More]

Before the Chairman Mao regime came into power, China was a heavily forested country. In fact, the Forbidden City was made entirely out of wood. When Mao took over, he wanted to make China a steel country, during the Great Leap Forward (1958–62). He forced every farmer to use backyard steel furnaces for steelmaking, which required vast amounts of wood to maintain the intense level of heat required...[Read More]