Impact Investing: Time for New Terminology?
If we are to effectively grow the impact investing community, we need more clarity about what impact investing is—and isn’t.
Social Enterprise - Most Popular
Innovative ways that organizations are using and adapting business strategies to advance social and environmental well-being (more)
Jessica Alba and the Impact of Social Enterprise
Benefit corporations should share their performance against social impact goals, but few are doing so.
Philanthropy and Impact Investing—Stormy Seas, Rocky Shores
The middle ground between traditional philanthropic and commercial spaces is a continuum; we need to shift the dialogue from morals to tools.
A Working Model for Slum Rehabilitation
How innovative regulation is enabling private capital to deliver social impact and realize attractive returns in Mumbai.
World Literature on Social Innovation: A Quest
A new book makes an important contribution to a field screaming out for diversity—but may also illustrate why there isn’t more diversity.
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New Frontiers of Philanthropy
New Frontiers of Philanthropy: A Guide to the New Tools and Actors Reshaping Global Philanthropy and Social Investing examines the potential impact of contemporary philanthropy in providing new, much-needed models of social and environmental problem-solving.
Passing the Torch on Impact Investing
An introduction to the recently released book New Frontiers of Philanthropy.
Getting Beyond Hype: Four Questions to Predict Real Impact
A simple way to think about investment and design.
Crickets Going Quiet: Questions of Evolution and Scale
Can new insights from biology help us reimagine what and how organizations scale up?