Education
Why We Need to Nurture Entrepreneurship in Young Girls
Existing programs that promote and support women’s entrepreneurship help address the inequality that currently exists, but they don’t reach women early enough.
Tag: Finance
Impact Investing
How to Use Donor-Advised Funds to Make Impact Investments
There’s a vast missed opportunity to use DAFs for making impact investments in support of market-based solutions to the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
Excerpt
Impact Investing
The Politics of Impact
An excerpt from Jed Emerson’s The Purpose of Capital: Elements of Impact, Financial Flows, and Natural Being
Impact Investing
A More Enlightened Approach to SDG Investing
To solve societal challenges, we need strategies that work, that can be scaled for purpose, and—importantly—that are financially viable. Here’s how to get there.
Education
Rethinking America’s College Savings Programs
Institutionalizing college savings through the application of savings strategies from financial behavior research can help make college accessible to all.
IMPACT INDIA
New Frontiers in Indian Corporate Social Responsibility
The timing is opportune for CSR to catalyze impact in India’s development sector.
Philanthropy & Funding
Money as Medicine
A prescription for healing the dysfunctional colonial dynamics at play in philanthropy and finance.
Impact Investing
A New Form of Capitalism
The Peterborough Social Impact Bond was the first of its kind. Does its success in improving recidivism rates while rewarding investors herald a new way of using finance for social impact?
Technology
Fintech for the Financially Excluded?
Financial technology has the potential to help lift millions out of poverty. But are we adequately assessing its risks?
Social Enterprise
In Defense of ‘Doing Too Much’
More investors need to bet on early-stage social ventures that cover all the bases, and more entrepreneurs need to build them.