Philanthropy & Funding
Systems Change Isn’t One Thing. Financing Should Reflect That
From experimentation to redesign to optimization, the interconnected processes by which systems are changed require distinct forms of funding.
Tag: Investment
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Business
Follow the Money
An excerpt from Business on the Edge about using business principles to solve big problems
Impact Investing
Why Investment Funds Don’t Have Enough High-Quality Impact Data
Despite widespread acceptance in impact investing of the need for reliable impact data, funding for producing it lags behind.
Impact Investing
Systemic Investing for Social Change
To move beyond single-point solutionism, impact investing must use financial capital as both resource and connective tissue.
Impact Investing
The Benefit Fund
The next step in impact investing is the Delaware statutory public benefit limited partnership, which provides clarity of definition, assuages fears of greenwashing, and harmonizes manager incentives with public good.
Impact Investing
A Realist’s Guide to Investing for Good
What’s the best way for small individual investors to generate returns and deliver impact? (Spoiler: It’s probably not an ESG fund.)
Impact Investing
Impact Investing Can’t Deliver by Chasing Market Returns
To be successful, impact investors need more realistic expectations and to be part of a larger and community-based pool of capital, including philanthropic investments that lays the groundwork for impact.
Social Enterprise
Supporting Diverse Entrepreneurs for Climate Justice
Community-focused entrepreneurs are using innovative business models and technology to make renewable energy and a healthy environment accessible to everyone.
Business
Investing in Climate Justice
Practical ways investors can help the people most affected by climate change become more resilient to it, while still securing a strong financial return.
sponsored
Public Interest Tech Has a Pipeline Problem
Tech companies that prioritize the public interest are essential for a more just future, but they need investments at their earliest stages to thrive.