Impact Investing: Four Opportunities for 2016
Let’s be ambitious about using innovative financing to help sort out global supply chains, provide catalytic capital for energy transition, and link talent in emerging markets to online marketplaces.
Let’s be ambitious about using innovative financing to help sort out global supply chains, provide catalytic capital for energy transition, and link talent in emerging markets to online marketplaces.
Solving the problem means taking an inclusive approach to foster sustainable development in the countries of origin.
Even foundations that don’t have an impact investment program can catalyze market-based social innovations by getting creative with how they structure their grants.
The favorites of the year.
Two federal agencies have removed barriers that have discouraged foundations and pension funds from seeking out impact investments.
Understanding these six important differences will both facilitate better conversations and help channel funds appropriately.
How to move from net zero to net impact.
There’s only one bottom line. It ought to be impact.
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.
It’s time for funders to get real about what social entrepreneurs need to succeed.