Impact Investing
Deep Listening for Impact Measurement
How AI-driven text and voice analysis can transform impact investing strategies.
Impact Investing Socially responsible investing that produces both financial and social returns
Economic Development
A New Blueprint for Financing Community Development
The traditional model of community development finance is limited by market conservatism and a focus on scale, rather than local control. We need a new paradigm that prioritizes impact over scale, emphasizes flexible and creative financing strategies, and empowers community voice. | Open access to this article is made possible by The Center for Community Investment, a sponsored project of Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors.
Impact Investing
The Little Book of Impact Investing: Aligning Profit and Purpose to Change the World
An excerpt from The Little Book of Impact Investing on impact investing for everyone
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The Impact Portfolio That Beat the Market
I had a mandate to create an investment portfolio wholly devoted to impact that would not sacrifice returns. After a decade, it outperformed its benchmarks of traditional market indexes and demonstrated that socially positive investments are long-term value investments.
HBCUs Want to Shift From Survival to Sovereignty
How well-targeted investments can help unlock the full potential of Black higher education.
Market Creation Has Been Having a Moment. Now Comes the Hard Part
Shifting impact investment toward market creation means doing a lot more than changing how we talk about what we do.
Philanthropy Is Too Small to Save the World
To meet the moment, we need to build the middle ground between philanthropy and commercial investing.
SSIR Online, Spring 2026 Issue
What SSIR readers are saying about articles on innovation in trying times, data and social justice, and impact investing.
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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.