Impact Investing
Unpacking the Impact in Impact Investing
A longer version of "When Can Impact Investing Create Real Impact?" from the Fall 2013 Up for Debate feature.
Tag: Root Capital
Nonprofit Management
Embracing the Paradoxes of Innovation
Innovation is necessary to further social progress, and yet the challenges and paradoxes inherent in the endeavor cannot be avoided.
Measuring Social Impact
A GPS for Social Impact
Root Capital and Acumen Fund propose a system for program evaluation that is akin to GPS.
Impact Investing
Investing with a Purpose
Impact investing can meet the needs of society’s most disadvantaged, whether they are cocoa farmers in Sierra Leone or the hard-to-employ in New York.
Economic Development
An Agricultural Peace Dividend
In northern Uganda, home to one of Africa’s longest and most brutal civil conflicts, organic farming is producing economic growth and stability.
Social Innovations
Root Solutions
Nonprofit lender Root Capital connects rural farmers and artisans with the corporations that crave their products.