How to Begin Considering a Gender Lens Investing Strategy
Implementing a gender lens at an investment fund can be daunting. Start by assessing the gender diversity across four levels of your existing operations to reveal where change is most needed.
Impact Investing Socially responsible investing that produces both financial and social returns
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A Guaranteed Return
The Good Returns Cycle Program aims to supplement corporate philanthropy by unlocking profits to help social enterprises.
Rediscovering Fixed Amount Awards
With pending changes to the federal grantmaking regulations promoting results-oriented accountability, now is a good time for grant makers and grantees to see how using fixed amount awards can promote performance over compliance.
Layering Evidence for Impact Investing Success
How investors can gather more context and nuance about the social impact of their investments, and thus bridge the gap between impact investing theory and practice.
What Investors Need to Know to Embrace Catalytic Capital
Development finance institutions, private foundations, and other types of investors have distinct questions about using catalytic capital. We must answer them help this branch of impact investing do more to solve pressing societal problems.
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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.