How Impact Investors Actually Measure Impact
A systematic look at leading impact investors’ wide array of impact measurement practices—and how best to combine them.
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The Institutional Impact Investing Revolution
Institutional investments that generate social and environmental impact are increasing, and they are changing the field of impact investing as they go.
Evolving Investors’ Sense of Self
A closer look at the role finance must play in solving the world’s problems.
Homing In on Realistic Impact Investment Strategies in Africa
Emerging insights indicate an opportunity for impact investors to better align commercial and social targets with market realities in Africa.
Accounting for Climate Exposure
A broader view of the impact of climate change can offer mainstream and impact investors a competitive edge.
New Approaches to Ed-Tech Funding
Until recently, both foundations and venture capital firms were wary of directing resources toward education technology startups. Here’s how “blended capital” is expanding the ed-tech field.
What Impact Investors Can Learn from the Microfinance Industry
Substitute the word “impact” for “social performance,” and current debates in the investment community sound exactly like the ones the microfinance industry had 10 years ago. The investor community can learn from microfinance’s successful efforts to set standards for non-financial returns—the “other bottom line.”
A Good Deal for Social Good
How impact investors, commercial investors, and social enterprises can take advantage of Series B financing and create greater impact.
Impact Investing: Four Opportunities for 2016
Let’s be ambitious about using innovative financing to help sort out global supply chains, provide catalytic capital for energy transition, and link talent in emerging markets to online marketplaces.
Refugee Crisis: Capitalism to the Rescue?
Solving the problem means taking an inclusive approach to foster sustainable development in the countries of origin.