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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.
October 1, 2012
What happens when Rockefeller Foundation pulls out?
This post points out that a number of initiatives that matter on an international impact scale, including a number of research from Insight at Pacific Community Ventures, GIIN, JP Morgan, and more were funded by the Rockefeller Foundation. While it infused a lot of money in what it calls incubation […]
October 1, 2012
UK: Three reforms that will ignite the social investment market
This post by the CAF (Charities Aid Foundation) enlists from the list of ten reforms published in the report by the solicitors Bates Wells and Braithwaite, the top three which the CAF believes are the most important for the growth of social investment in the UK. Read more here.
October 1, 2012
Impact investment can help the environmentalists
According to research by AAA (Alternate Asset Analysis), another application of impact investment in this world is to help environmentalists protect valuable land with how environmental diversity value from being destroyed. A recent post by Nature Conservancy’s Mark Tercek in The Huffington Post, mentioned in a previous issue of our […]
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