Scaling
When Building a Field Requires Building a New Organization
Starting a new organization to fill a gap in a field is a bold and difficult step, but four strategies can help ensure success.
Tag: GIIN
Impact Investing
Market Making for Mission
Foundations have an important role to play in impact investing—in building platforms and products that efficiently mobilize capital, mitigate risk, and improve liquidity.
Impact Investing
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.
Impact Investing
Evolving Investors’ Sense of Self
A closer look at the role finance must play in solving the world’s problems.
Impact Investing
Impact Investing and a 200-year-old Debate
Three strategies investors can use to create impactful outcomes at scale.
Impact Investing
Investing in Cross-Subsidy for Greater Impact
Investors need ways to gauge social impact and business health. Cross-subsidy models can help.
Impact Investing
Impact Investors Are Raising Their Game
To bring impact investing into the mainstream, the World Economic Forum is using market-simulated games to advance the conversations.
Impact Investing
Mission-Driven Returns
Two new case studies reveal practical lessons about successful philanthropic impact investing.
Measuring Social Impact
Setting the Stage to Measure Impact in Health
A new catalog of metrics can help investors and organizations demonstrate that positive financial returns and social returns can be twinned.
Health
Evaluating High-tech Health Approaches in Low-income Countries
Promising technologies for maternal and child health, TB, and malaria abound, but we need to determine what really works.