Mission-Driven Returns
Two new case studies reveal practical lessons about successful philanthropic impact investing.
Impact Investing - Most Popular
Socially responsible investing that produces both financial and social returns (more)
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Measuring and Improving Social Impacts: A Guide for Nonprofits, Companies, and Impact Investors
Measuring Social Impacts outlines a five-step method for figuring out which impacts matter and how to measure them.
Student Finance: A New Frontier for Impact Investing?
Student-lending innovations from emerging markets could expand access to education.
The Problem With The Impact Genome Project
Would the Impact Genome Project have predicted the impact of Martin Luther King?
Revealing Social Change Beliefs
What nonprofit boards and leaders think about social change matters—and it’s not always obvious.
Direct Public Offerings for Healthy Communities
Dysfunctional public and private capital markets benefit traders, speculators, and financiers more than companies and communities; direct public offerings provide a capital funding solution that benefits everyone.
Creative Financing for Social Enterprise
Hybrid legal forms offer only a limited solution to the challenge of helping organizations access capital. Includes magazine extras.
The Upside of CSR
For companies, higher levels of social performance often translate into improved access to funding.