Impact Investing
How Venture Capital Can Join the ESG Revolution
Venture capital has lagged behind on adoption of ESG practices. Here are four ways they can become more mainstream.
Socially responsible investing that produces both financial and social returns (more)
Venture capital has lagged behind on adoption of ESG practices. Here are four ways they can become more mainstream.
Like FDR’s “Arsenal of Democracy,” Africa should build from the bottom: Internal instead of external, bottom-up instead of top-down, and focusing on repeatability instead of scalability.
The growth of double bottom line and impact investing can give nonprofits new ways to raise funds and opportunities to grow their influence.
Impact investing needs more than just “evidence” of impact; we need continuous “impact performance” data that is dynamic, fluid, and iterated upon.
For people who are looking to invest responsibly, Adasina Social Capital has established the Adasina Social Justice Index, which informs investors about opportunities in four areas: racial justice, gender justice, economic justice, and climate justice.
New laws enabling ordinary people to become equity investors have the potential to uplift marginalized communities, if the new market creates the infrastructure to include them.
Lack of access to capital is a longstanding and well-known barrier to equity for communities of color and women, but overcoming systemic injustices will take more than moving money. How investments are made, and the power dynamics behind those decisions, need to change, too.
To get an idea of where impact investment might be headed over the next decade, the authors examine where the field has been in three areas that play an outsized role in its goals and practices.
While allies and advisors are important in our work, it’s more important to support and develop our own Indigenous power, leadership, and decision-making.
Five characteristics of effective corporate impact investors to help guide an emerging field.