Impact Investing
Measuring the Hard-to-Measure
A new methodology for assessing mission-related investment strategies.
Tag: Investment
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.
Collaboration
Better Business Support for Early-stage Social Enterprises
The time has come to make private sector support of startup social enterprises the expectation, not the exception.
Food
Feeding the Future of Agriculture with Vertical Farming
The technology-driven model of agriculture may offer a means to address farm output and food security in the years to come.
Social Enterprise
How to Help a Social Startup Thrive
Five rules of the road from a seed-stage investor in financial technology for the underserved.
Philanthropy & Funding
To Change the System, Look Outside the System
Emerging organizations, even if they’re new and small, can help catalyze change in social services.
Podcast
Environment
Bridging the Climate Change Investment Gap
Investments in discovering and developing new solutions to address climate change are woefully low and have even been falling. Sarah Kearney and Scott Burger discuss how can philanthropists help.
Philanthropy & Funding
Investing in Our Future
Philanthropists and other impact investors play a critical role in funding risky, early-stage startups developing science-based solutions to climate change.
Environment
The Investment Gap that Threatens the Planet
To prevent drastic climate change, philanthropists must invest more in nascent solutions ignored by traditional capital markets.
Economic Development
The Art of the Development Deal
The Trump administration can use foreign aid to further American interests and improve the lives of people around the world.