Deep Listening for Impact Measurement
How AI-driven text and voice analysis can transform impact investing strategies.
Impact Investing - Most Popular
Socially responsible investing that produces both financial and social returns (more)
A New Blueprint for Financing Community Development
The traditional model of community development finance is limited by market conservatism and a focus on scale, rather than local control. We need a new paradigm that prioritizes impact over scale, emphasizes flexible and creative financing strategies, and empowers community voice. | Open access to this article is made possible by The Center for Community Investment, a sponsored project of Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors.
CDFIs Transform Rural Economies. We Just Need to Get Them There.
A budding success story in East Texas offers lessons for other underserved rural regions, philanthropies interested in rural revitalization, and CDFIs pursuing pathways to better engage and serve rural communities.
The Societal Role of Social Entrepreneurship
How can social entrepreneurship promote social justice? An unlikely source provides an unambiguous and practical framework.
What’s Your Start Agenda?
Effective change efforts, whether activist movements or social enterprises, must focus beyond just the problem or symptom they want to eliminate.
SSIR Online, Fall 2024 Issue
A collection of standout pieces published online about scaling nonprofits, measuring the impact of training, and the challenge of impact investing.
Can Venture Capital Be Optimized for Happiness?
Venture capitalists have profited handsomely from innovative ventures, but value hasn’t always been shared with other stakeholders. What if we developed a new model for measuring the impact of investments?
Why Investment Funds Don’t Have Enough High-Quality Impact Data
Despite widespread acceptance in impact investing of the need for reliable impact data, funding for producing it lags behind.
