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Oikocredit: Impact investment’s best kept secret

This post gives an overview of the activities of Oikocredit, which primarily socially invests in microfinance in the developing world. The way it raises its money is through donations and that has limited its options. However, its progressive procedure of lending money rather than giving it away has encouraged entrepreneurship […]

October 1, 2012

Linking social enterprises to businesses that can help them scale

It has very frequently been seen that when impact investment firms are ready to invest, there is a lack of social enterprises worthy of large investments. This is why a long term advisor to General Electric’s ecomagination initiative is founding a new investment firm that will link enterprises with promising […]

October 1, 2012

Bamboo Finance uses IRIS standards

In a transparent practical demonstration of how the IRIS (Impact Reporting & Investment Standards) metrics and reporting methodologies have helped the international impact investing firm Bamboo Finance, this post looks at the different utilities of IRIS metrics in financial performance, operational and product impact. Read more here.

October 1, 2012

GIIN launches public IRIS user registry

The Global Impact Investment Network recently launched an online registry wherein users of the IRIS (Impact Reporting and Investment Standards) would be urged to list for the view of the public the IRIS metrics they use to measure their social, environmental and financial performance relating to their impact investments. This […]

October 1, 2012

Engineers without Borders recognizes the problems of impact investing in Africa

About US$100 billion has been disseminated by way of impact investment in Africa. Given the fact that the idea of impact investment has ‘exploded’ as put here, it is important to recognize the problems that have cropped up as well. Impact investment demands returns and it is precisely there that […]

October 1, 2012

Millennium Challenge Corporation, and its role in impact investing

The Millennium Challenge Corporation is government body the aim of which is to ensure that the private sector ecosystem is nurtured in such a way as to encourage and sustain impact investment for the global good. Read more here.

October 1, 2012

Who is ready for social investment?

The report released last week, ‘Investment Readiness in the UK’ by the Big Lottery Fund, and the previous report by BCG called ‘The First Billion’ are connected in the way that one estimates the investment readiness of the social enterprise sector, while the other estimates the demand for the ready […]

October 1, 2012

UK: Investment readiness funds hands out the first £1 million

The first set of investment from the total of the £10 million fund decided on by the Investment and Contract Readiness Fund were announced recently. This investment would help eight social ventures hire specialists to turn their respective businesses into ventures worthy of investor interest. Read more here.

October 1, 2012

UK: Skills needed to boost social enterprise investment

A new study commissioned by the Big Lottery Fund suggests that a number of voluntary, community and social enterprise (VCSE) are missing out on investment opportunities because of lack of business and enterprising skills. Read more here.