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Morgan Stanley’s Investing with Impact Approach
To help provide clarity to its clients, Morgan Stanley outlines an Investing with Impact framework, encompassing four integrated approaches.
Mars’ Sustainable Cocoa Initiative in Cote d’Ivoire
The entire cocoa sector—exporters, NGOs, manufacturers, and governments—must help farmers boost their productivity and income.
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Our understanding of community can help funders and evaluators identify, understand, and strengthen the communities they work with.
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The Elitist Philanthropy of So-Called Effective Altruism
The superficially enticing “logic” of effective altruism ultimately leads to a moralistic, hyper-rationalistic, top-down approach to philanthropy that can kill the very altruistic spirit it claims to foster.
The Trouble With Impact Investing: P1
There’s only one bottom line. It ought to be impact.
No art? No social change. No innovation economy.
America must invest in art and imaginative capacity.