News Archive - Page 349 of 366

Recent Developments, <br /> Key Innovations, and <br /> Insightful Reports

Recent Developments,
Key Innovations, and
Insightful Reports

Your One Stop Platform for Regular Sector Updates

Sector news

Clearing the impact measurement hurdle

Investors want to know that they and the funds they invest in quantify social and environmental benefit, because doing so gives them a way to ‘mainstream’ impact investing by making it alike to traditional investment analysing. But, getting your arms around social or environmental impact is difficult. Read more here.

July 31, 2012

Impact Investing and the Importance of Monitoring and Evaluation

There is only one guiding principle to ensure social enterprises work – for a social enterprise that serves the Base of the Pyramid (BoP), the benefit of the poor is essential for the business to survive. Thus, if a business provides a socially needed good or service that the very […]

July 31, 2012

Impact investing for philanthropists, to non-profits

This post discusses the meaning of impact investing in the scenario where philanthropists and non-profits are connected. It recognizes small non-profits as being innovative in bringing about desired progressive changes. Read more here.

July 31, 2012

3 Impact Investing tips for Bill Gates and Warren Buffett, and the Giving Pledge billionaires3 Impact Investing tips for Bill Gates and Warren Buffett, and the Giving Pledge billionaires3 Impact Investing tips for Bill Gates and Warren Buffett, and the Giving Pledge billionaires

Though impact investing is a growing space, investors seeking social impact in addition to financial return will find organizations working to invest in enterprises in ever-more creative ways. Here, three types of innovative models providing insight to newcomers looking to deploy capital are listed. Read them here.

July 31, 2012

New options for impact investing

Greater participation by women in the labor force would raise America’s GDP by 9 per cent, Eurozone’s GDP by 13 per cent, and that of Middle East and North Africa by 25 per cent. Investing in women is not the same as donating charity to women, is what this post advocating […]

July 31, 2012

Global Investor Survey on Climate Change – Annual report on actions and progress 2011

Institutional investors are becoming increasingly concerned that climate change poses a serious challenge to their investments. This report provides the results of the second global survey of investment practices coordinated by the three investor networks on climate change – the IIGCC, based in Europe, INCR, based in North America and […]

July 31, 2012

UK: Big Lottery Fund announces £1.45 million in social investment funding

The Big Lottery Fund has awarded £1.45m to eight social investment projects, including a property scheme and a social impact bond. Read more here.

July 31, 2012

PULSE: Sorting through tools to measure impact

According to a recent report from J.P. Morgan, the impact investing industry’s biggest risk is around investment illiquidity and uncertainty of financial returns. For impact data to be useful to an organization, it needs to be collected and managed in an organized way. This is where PULSE, a cloud-based database that […]

July 31, 2012

List of notable impact investors, with sectors of interest

GIIN (Global Impact Investing Network) has compiled a list of notable and globally differentiated list of impact investing funds and foundations. Read about their investee projects, sectors of investment and more here.