Searching for Impact
How search funds, a little-known private equity investment vehicle, can become a useful tool for impact investing.
Impact Investing Socially responsible investing that produces both financial and social returns
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Talking About Ethics in Impact Investing
To make the best and most consistent decisions, impact investors need to think about values as much as they think about growth and financial returns.
The Next Phase of Innovative Financing
Why pay-for-success models of humanitarian impact investing offer promise for the future.
Sustainable Investments Are Not Always What They Seem
Investors need to better educate themselves about the local context in which their funds are deployed.
Reframing Education Change in India
Improving learning outcomes in India requires that funders and social purpose organizations shift to working on the entire educational ecosystem rather than focused interventions.
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ESG Is Not Impact Investing and Impact Investing Is Not ESG
Understanding these six important differences will both facilitate better conversations and help channel funds appropriately.
Fixing the S in ESG
How to move from net zero to net impact.
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.