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UK: Big Society Capital has committed upto £100 million for 2013, ‘Payments by Results’ to be the testing model

Social investment bank in the UK, the Big Society Capital has committed up to £100 million in new social projects in 2013. The organization will be targeting up to 20 new investments this year. Read more here. According to BSC’s CEO, Nick O’Donohue’s, plans to use a mode of “Payments […]

January 28, 2013

CSI – How companies can successfully drive it to achieve full potential

In the past, CSI, or corporate social investment has earned itself a reputation for ‘flakiness’, according to a blogger for The Economist. For companies looking to tap CSI to its full potential, measuring impact of investments through effective measurements is of the utmost importance. Read more here.

January 28, 2013

Kenya: Firms increasingly interested in backing social ventures

This post talks about the newest trend in the corporate area in Kenya, wherein firms are increasingly avoiding the route giving handouts to needy communities. The firms are instead, deriving more value under the CSI, or the Corporate Social Investment model. Read more here.

January 28, 2013

India: Rang De to allow foreign investors to invest

Rang De, a peer to peer online lending platform which raises social investments for social entrepreneurs has now opened up the option for foreign investors to invest through its platform. Rang De receives two kinds of capital – debt and donated, and so far, only Indians were allowed to invest. […]

January 28, 2013

How social entrepreneurship and impact investing align to drive change

This post is a Q&A with Skoll Foundation’s Edwin Ou, who talks about his take on how Skoll Foundation has facilitated a symbiotic and mutually beneficial relationship between impact investors and social entrepreneurs. Read more here.

January 28, 2013

How Venture Social Investment could be the newest form of developmental aid

This post argues for the case of Venture Capital (VC) being the motivating factor behind impact investment through developmental aid. This would help LICs, or Low Income Countries progress, and create a progressive and symbiotic relationship in terms of international trade, and would benefit developed and developing countries alike. The […]

January 28, 2013

Social impact investing in the US

This post enlists the process of social impact investing, through social impact bonds, in the US. It mentions the potential sources of impact investors in this ecosystem, and the organizations that are recipients of this impact investing. Read more here.

January 28, 2013

Growth in market and satisfaction for impact investors

According to the new report by the GIIN and JPMorgan, “Perspectives on Progress” (read here) there has been a steady growth in the impact investment market, with the interviewed 99 respondents planning to commit up to US$ 9 billion in 2013, up from US$ 8 billion in 2012. Read more […]

January 28, 2013

Why social impact investing will be the future’s new venture capital

This post compares social entrepreneurship, and the required social impact investing for it to venture capital funding, and how they are not quite so different. Impact investment has motivated an entrepreneurship and market based model to social programmes, and a number of innovations are already apparent. These innovations will only […]