Many businesses serving lower income communities languish because they can't raise enough money to fund their growth. To meet their needs, a new breed of private equity investment—development investment capital—has emerged. Although this style of investing is still in its infancy, it is already showing promise.
THE NEW CAPITALISTS: How Citizen Investors Are Reshaping the Corporate Agenda by Stephen Davis, Jon Lukomnik, and David Pitt-Watson
Calvert Community Investment Notes take social investing mainstream.
How a community foundation uses proxy voting to advance its mission.
Do socially responsible funds ask the right questions?
There’s only one bottom line. It ought to be impact.
In adopting data-driven practices, leaders must design and implement programs in ways that engage community members directly in the work of social change.
Acumen Fund uses impact investing to tackle global poverty. It's approach has garnered attention, but does it change aid?
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?
A longer version of "When Can Impact Investing Create Real Impact?" from the Fall 2013 Up for Debate feature.
