Month: September 2023

Maximpact Founder Tom Holland Interview with Tom Holland by Marta Maretich Maximpact.com is characterized by its “big tent” approach to impact investing. What made you set it up this way? When I came in as an impact investor and started looking for deals I began to realize that the sector had structural inefficiencies. The deals above $100,000,000 are taken care of by private banking, the deals be...[Read More]

By Sunny Lewis CYBERSPACE, April 7, 2016 (Maximpact.com News) – Device development at the intersection of smartphones, wearable and flexible electronics, everyday materials and healthcare is advancing quickly. Scientists are working on smartphone microscopes to detect skin cancers, smartphone software to diagnose ear infections, and smart contact lenses to track blood sugar levels. Wearable electr...[Read More]

By Sunny Lewis SAN FRANCISCO, California, November 18, 2015 (Maximpact News) – Best business practices, collaborative approaches to sustainable development and inspiring ways to build a better world were front and center as 1,000 business, government and civil society leaders gathered in San Francisco earlier this month for their annual Business for Social Responsibility Conference. Now in its 23r...[Read More]

As the trend in “going green” continues to rise, and customers become more environmentally aware and conscious, energy efficiency shifts from being a nice-to-have to a necessity. When choosing where to stay, potential guests are starting to take the hotel’s carbon footprint and sustainability efforts into account and will often opt for a hotel that displays a tendency towards being environmentally...[Read More]

Workers assemble children’s wear in a textile factory in Huzhou, China. Greenpeace tested the garments for hazardous residues of nonylphenol ethoxylates, phthalates, antimony and other toxics and found plenty of chemical risks. (Photo by Greenpeace International) @Maximpactdotcom By Sunny Lewis BRUSSELS, Belgium, April 28, 2016 (Maximpact.com News) – Buyers beware! The European Commission has publ...[Read More]

Ecuador’s capital, Quito, population 2.1 million, is distinguished by the Cathedral of Quito, first opened in 1567. (Photo by Al Tuttle) Creative Commons license via Flickr By Sunny Lewis QUITO, Ecuador, November 1, 2016 (Maximpact.com News) – Habitat III, the United Nations Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development, has wrapped up in Quito, Ecuador, as delegations adopted the New Ur...[Read More]

by Donna Howard  March 18, 2018, Marketing is a social process. Although there are all sorts of metrics that can be used, data gathered, and analytics generated, marketing innovation is typically not driven by data. Data drives tactics, experience, practice and intuition drive marketing strategy. It’s not too complicated to employ marketing tactics, but it’s very difficult to master marketing stra...[Read More]

By Marta Maretich The impact landscape is changing fast and progressive impact intermediaries are changing with it, as shown in a recent article by Willy Foote for Forbes. Foote spoke to Antony Bugg-Levine, head of the Nonprofit Finance Fund (NFF) about some of the current challenges facing impact investing intermediaries. This pair know what they’re talking about: Foote is the founder of Root Cap...[Read More]

In 2016, 1.2 million people in the African country of Sudan have been affected by El Niño-induced drought as well as floods. August 24, 2016 (Photo by Anouk Delafortrie / EU/ECHO) Creative Commons license via Flickr. By Sunny Lewis GENEVA, Switzerland, October 4, 2016 (Maximpact.com News) – Record high global levels of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide, CO2, were measured in September at over 400 ...[Read More]

NEW YORK, New York, March 20, 2021 (Maximpact.com News ) – Clean drinkable water is rare and precious. Of the waters that cover 70 percent of the Earth’s surface, roughly 97 percent is the saltwater of the oceans; just three percent is freshwater. Of that, only 1.2 percent can be used as drinking water; the rest is locked up in glaciers, ice caps, and permafrost, or stored too far beneath the surf...[Read More]

Farmers tend a crop of rice near Gujranwala City in Punjab State, Pakistan. July 28, 2013 (Photo by Aftab Rizvi) Creative Commons license via Flickr. By Sunny Lewis ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, February 14, 2019 (Maximpact.com News) – No country’s economy is more water-intensive than Pakistan’s, and this degree of water use, combined with a warming climate, is leading to drought, water scarcity and arseni...[Read More]

The 83 Heads of State and Government who participated in the 5th African Union – European Union Summit in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, November 30, 2017 (Photo courtesy African Union) Posted for media use By Sunny Lewis ABIDJAN, Côte d’Ivoire, December 5, 2017 (Maximpact.com  News) – To ensure a sustainable future, the European Union and the African Union are solidifying their decade-old financial and ...[Read More]