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.
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, with its goal of delivering both financial value and social benefits, is particularly vulnerable to cognitive biases. Here are a few ways to overcome them. Part of the Impact Investing Today and Tomorrow in-depth series.
For a more inclusive form of capitalism, human capital must flourish as much as financial capital does.
An excerpt from Frontiers in Social Innovation on making ESG metrics trustworthy
How to move from net zero to net impact.
Transitioning businesses to employee ownership has the potential to significantly reduce the overall wealth gap as well as the racial equity gap. But it will take capital investment to scale.
While blended finance has the potential to accelerate development in India, there are bottlenecks holding back its potential.
There’s only one bottom line. It ought to be impact.
Acumen Fund uses impact investing to tackle global poverty. It’s approach has garnered attention, but does it change aid?
A group of social innovation leaders from around the world discuss impact investing and how to make it more effective.
Voluntary carbon offsets allow people to invest in projects that allegedly counteract their greenhouse gas emissions. But can voluntary offsets help slow global warming? Or are offsets a way for consumers to buy their way out of bad feelings?
In piloting social impact bonds, governments have already yielded some lessons from the field.
