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Impact Investing Socially responsible investing that produces both financial and social returns
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Impact Investing Can’t Deliver by Chasing Market Returns
To be successful, impact investors need more realistic expectations and to be part of a larger and community-based pool of capital, including philanthropic investments that lays the groundwork for impact.
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Using Impact Science to Solve Hunger More Effectively
Despite spending billions on food programs each year, the root causes of hunger remain unaddressed.
A Social Movement Requires Momentum
New strategies and mindsets for fueling local leaders and solutions.
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Sharpening Your Edges
It’s important to understand how the world is shifting and how philanthropy is adapting in response. But what does that mean for your own work?
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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.