Editor’s Note: Students from Dartmouth’s Thayer School of Engineering are working in Tanzania to help improve sanitation and energy technologies in local villages. The student-led group, known as Humanitarian Engineering Leadership Projects (HELP), will file dispatches from the field during their trip. This is their sixth blog post for Scientific American.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/post.cfm?id=searching-for-fundi-and-studying-th-2010-08-25
WASHINGTON, D.C., Apr. 26 /CSRwire/ – In conjunction with the Presidential Summit on Entrepreneurship today, a consortium of government, private sector, and non-profit players have partnered to support the Global Impact Investing Rating System (”GIIRS”), a new organization that will drive impact investment capital to entrepreneurs who use business to address the world’s most challenging problems. The Rockefeller Foundation, the United States Agency for International Development, Prudential Financial, and Deloitte have partnered with the non-profit B Lab to provide $6.5 million to support the development and use of GIIRS. Their objective is to use GIIRS to catalyze the flow of private sector investment into these high impact enterprises in developing countries.
http://www.csrwire.com/press/press_release/29468-Impact-Investing-Partnership-with-USAID-Rockefeller-Foundation-Deloitte-and-Prudential-Financial-to-Support-Entrepreneurs-in-the-Developing-World?
SolarWorld is donating solar modules to power 10 pump stations to provide clean water for up to 175,000 earthquake survivors in Haiti.
http://www.renewableenergyfocus.com/view/6604/solarworld-donates-solar-panels-to-pump-water-in-haiti-following-earthquakes/
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