Investing Beyond Exit
An important question that social entrepreneurs should also be thinking about when dealing with impact investing.
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Constructing the Case for Impact Investment
What social entrepreneurs need to be thinking about when approaching impact investors and making the pitch for investment capital.
Investing in Impact
As entrepreneurs create more for-profit businesses with strong social missions, the opportunity for socially minded investors to invest in them grows.
Giving Blind
Watch dog organizations don't reach most donors.
Roundtable on Impact Investing
A group of social innovation leaders from around the world discuss impact investing and how to make it more effective.
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Drowning in Data
Funders are calling for more program evaluation, but nonprofits are often collecting dubious data, at great cost to themselves and ultimately to the people they serve.
Collective Impact
Large-scale social change requires broad cross-sector coordination, not the isolated intervention of individual organizations.
Ten Nonprofit Funding Models
With an understanding of these 10 funding models, nonprofit leaders can use the for-profit world's valuable practice of engaging in succinct and clear conversations about long-term financial strategy.
Microfinance Misses Its Mark
Despite the hoopla over microfinance, it doesn't cure poverty. But stable jobs do. If societies are serious about helping the poorest of the poor, they should stop investing in microfinance and start supporting large, labor-intensive industries.
Rediscovering Social Innovation
Social entrepreneurship and social enterprise have become popular and positive rallying points for those trying to improve the world, but social innovation is a better vehicle for understanding and creating social change in all of its manifestations.