How a Nonprofit Raised Growth Capital From Public Markets
Lessons TechSoup learned from engaging stakeholders as impact investors to support their long-term growth.
Impact Investing - Articles
Socially responsible investing that produces both financial and social returns (more)
ESG + Public Health = ESHG
For a more inclusive form of capitalism, human capital must flourish as much as financial capital does.
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You Can’t Manage What You Can’t Measure
An excerpt from Frontiers in Social Innovation on making ESG metrics trustworthy
Fixing the S in ESG
How to move from net zero to net impact.
The Case for Investing in Employee Ownership
Transitioning businesses to employee ownership has the potential to significantly reduce the overall wealth gap as well as the racial equity gap. But it will take capital investment to scale.
Building Blended Finance in India
While blended finance has the potential to accelerate development in India, there are bottlenecks holding back its potential.
The Promise of Outcomes Funds
Efforts at improving global education too often fail to have the desired impact. Outcomes funds can help shift funders and policy makers toward the most effective approaches.
Why Sustainable Investment Means Investing in Advocacy
Combining traditional impact investment approaches with investment in advocacy is the only way businesses and investors can fuel meaningful social and environmental progress.
How Venture Capital Can Join the ESG Revolution
Venture capital has lagged behind on adoption of ESG practices. Here are four ways they can become more mainstream.
An Arsenal of Operator-Investors for Africa
Like FDR’s “Arsenal of Democracy,” Africa should build from the bottom: Internal instead of external, bottom-up instead of top-down, and focusing on repeatability instead of scalability.