Impact Investing

Capital for Justice: Spurring On Impact Investing for Racial Equity

By Roy Swan & Darren Walker 3

How one foundation is building on a 50-year history of impact investing to unlock more capital and more justice toward greater equity, progress, and prosperity.  

Investors Worried About Wealth Inequality Should Focus on Fund Manager Compensation

By Delilah Rothenberg

The compensation structures in the impact and ESG investing industries may be exacerbating the very problems that ethically minded financial professionals are trying to solve.

Crackdown on Environmental Action: How Funders Can Respond

By David Gordon & Chris Allan

Environmental and conservation funders are finding new ways to support civil society organizations as restrictions on their work rapidly increase.

SSIR’s Earth Day Reading List

By Jasmine Liu

A collection of our recent articles, essays, and book excerpts covering climate change, environmental protection, and sustainability.

Impact Investing

Diversity and Inclusion: Turning Shared Value into Shared Success

By Lata Reddy 1

A look at how one financial services organization is using an integrated impact investing approach to support diversity and economic inclusion.

To Spread Prosperity Further, Philanthropy Should Take Lessons From China

By Tim Hanstad 2

Philanthropic and social change organizations have much to learn from China's success with alleviating poverty through reforms targeting entrepreneurialism, governance, businesses, and women.

Impact Investing

Creating Opportunity for Communities of Color Through Entrepreneurship

By Lisa M. Hamilton 4

Supporting and strengthening small business owners can help increase economic opportunity in communities of color, building family and community wealth.

Women’s Groups and Funders Respond to Global Gag Rule

By Leila Hessini 3

Four successful strategies to mitigate the effects of a restrictive funding policy that the Trump administration reinstated.