What’s Your Start Agenda?
Effective change efforts, whether activist movements or social enterprises, must focus beyond just the problem or symptom they want to eliminate.
Impact Investing Socially responsible investing that produces both financial and social returns
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SSIR Online, Fall 2024 Issue
A collection of standout pieces published online about scaling nonprofits, measuring the impact of training, and the challenge of impact investing.
Can Venture Capital Be Optimized for Happiness?
Venture capitalists have profited handsomely from innovative ventures, but value hasn’t always been shared with other stakeholders. What if we developed a new model for measuring the impact of investments?
Why Investment Funds Don’t Have Enough High-Quality Impact Data
Despite widespread acceptance in impact investing of the need for reliable impact data, funding for producing it lags behind.
Impact Investing Should Be Hard
Striving for value-adding impact means demanding additionality.
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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.