Using Donor-Advised Funds to Invest in Early-Stage Entrepreneurs
Why and how donors should use donor-advised funds to invest in innovation toward achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
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Socially responsible investing that produces both financial and social returns (more)
How to Ensure Opportunity Zone Investments Strengthen Local Communities
Foundations, governments, and crowdfunding platforms show how Opportunity Zones can live up to their promise of making investors money while helping struggling communities across the United States.
To Augment Tech’s Transformation of Sub-Saharan Africa, Impact Investors Should Focus on the Startup Ecosystem
Three recommendations on how impact investors can foster more sustainable changes in Sub-Saharan Africa and its tech sectors by focusing less on "sexy" individual startups and more on universities, hubs, and research and development institutions.
A Surgical Road Map for Global Prosperity
Massive investment in surgical care is essential for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals and improving health equity. The surgical device industry should take the lead. Open access to this article is made possible by Harvard Medical School.
Foundations Can Unlock a Food System to Feed the World
Small farmers and food businesses are essential to building a resilient food system, but they need flexible, patient capital to thrive.
Clarifying Community Benefits to Improve Place-Based Programs
Place-based development incentive programs like Opportunity Zones in the United States and Enterprise Precincts in Australia need a robust framework to meaningfully identify and measure public benefits and the delivery of them. The Net Community Benefit Methodology can help.
France’s ‘Soft Loan’ Model Paves Way for Recoverable Grants in US
A French financing tool that enables private investors to help nonprofits scale could offer a roadmap to define recoverable grants in the United States.
The Downside of Social Impact Bonds
After more than three years researching social impact bonds, a filmmaker argues we need to consider the ways they might be doing more harm than good.
Pay for Success Faces a Funding Gap
Efforts to increase funding for Pay for Success must embrace how risk affects the expectation of returns to attract capital from the appropriate investors.
How to Make Sure Your Nonprofit Isn’t Wasting Its Time With Impact Investing
As more and more international nonprofits explore impact investing, six questions can help them decide whether to forge ahead and how to do it.