Using Donor-Advised Funds to Invest in Early-Stage Entrepreneurs
Why and how donors should use donor-advised funds to invest in innovation toward achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
Impact Investing Socially responsible investing that produces both financial and social returns
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How to Ensure Opportunity Zone Investments Strengthen Local Communities
Foundations, governments, and crowdfunding platforms show how Opportunity Zones can live up to their promise of making investors money while helping struggling communities across the United States.
To Augment Tech’s Transformation of Sub-Saharan Africa, Impact Investors Should Focus on the Startup Ecosystem
Three recommendations on how impact investors can foster more sustainable changes in Sub-Saharan Africa and its tech sectors by focusing less on "sexy" individual startups and more on universities, hubs, and research and development institutions.
A Surgical Road Map for Global Prosperity
Massive investment in surgical care is essential for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals and improving health equity. The surgical device industry should take the lead. Open access to this article is made possible by Harvard Medical School.
Foundations Can Unlock a Food System to Feed the World
Small farmers and food businesses are essential to building a resilient food system, but they need flexible, patient capital to thrive.
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ESG Is Not Impact Investing and Impact Investing Is Not ESG
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Fixing the S in ESG
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The Trouble With Impact Investing: P1
There’s only one bottom line. It ought to be impact.
The Next 10 Years of Impact Investment
To get an idea of where impact investment might be headed over the next decade, the authors examine where the field has been in three areas that play an outsized role in its goals and practices.
The Social Impact Investment Mirage
It’s time for funders to get real about what social entrepreneurs need to succeed.