Business
Supercharging Corporate Sustainability
To accelerate progress on sustainability, businesses need a radically different approach to engaging investors and consumers.
Tag: Investment
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Global Issues
The Resilience Dividend
In The Resilience Dividend, Judith Rodin addresses how individuals, communities, and organizations have built resilience in the aftermath of disasters, and why resilience is an urgent socio-economic issue.
Social Entrepreneurship
Fueling Financial Innovation in the Middle East
Getting social entrepreneurs in Arab countries to take bigger risks in financing for scale may require that they put more skin in the game.
Nonprofits & NGOs
Seasonal Planning Disorder? Take a Hike!
Nature can offer organizations new insights on risk and resilience, and inform both short- and long-term strategy.
Socially Responsible Business
The Rise of Social Stock Exchanges
A new, innovative platform is helping more investors support social enterprises.
Impact Investing
Do Impact Investors Expect Too Much?
The history of microfinance shows how far off-mission social enterprise can go under the weight of massive investment.
Impact Investing
Next-Generation Social Impact Bonds
How financial engineering can improve SIBs, convert greed to good, and spur social investments worldwide.
Foundations
Foundations Can Step Up as Shareholders
Foundations should become more informed and active shareholders in the companies in which they invest their endowment funds.
Foundations
Advocacy Funding Pays Off Big
Foundations can generate big impact by investing their charitable dollars in advocacy, community organizing, and civic engagement.
Foundations
Grantmakers Can Do More than Make Grants
In the midst of a crippling recession, grantmakers and foundations should look to investments that both promise returns and advance their mission.