Valuing Social Impact Expertise in Impact Investing
The expertise and wisdom of social impact professionals is not as important to financiers as it should be.
Impact Investing - Most Popular
Socially responsible investing that produces both financial and social returns (more)
Using Data to Accelerate the Impact of Early-stage Investments
Why having enough money and data is the difference between success and failure for early-stage organizations.
Searching for Impact
How search funds, a little-known private equity investment vehicle, can become a useful tool for impact investing.
Talking About Ethics in Impact Investing
To make the best and most consistent decisions, impact investors need to think about values as much as they think about growth and financial returns.
The Next Phase of Innovative Financing
Why pay-for-success models of humanitarian impact investing offer promise for the future.
Sustainable Investments Are Not Always What They Seem
Investors need to better educate themselves about the local context in which their funds are deployed.
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Reframing Education Change in India
Improving learning outcomes in India requires that funders and social purpose organizations shift to working on the entire educational ecosystem rather than focused interventions.
Marginalized Returns
Impact investing has been seduced by a false narrative of combining social impact with financial gains.
Capital for Creativity
Impact investors have ignored the arts and culture sector, at the expense of the communities they seek to help.
Widening Our View of ESG Investing
Two strategies that can create greater environmental, social, and governance change than divestment while improving investment returns.