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

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Key Innovations, and
Insightful Reports

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How can social enterprise work with the private sector?

This post explores the connection between social enterprises and the private sector. A number of initiatives including private firms sourcing supplies from social enterprises, and more have been mentioned. Read more about the dynamics between the private sector and social enterprise in the UK here.

December 26, 2013

Impact Investing: An idea whose time has come

This post, by Ronald Cohen, known as “the father of British venture capital and social investment” talks about how impact investment is an idea whose time has come, especially with the British Prime Minister putting impact investment firmly on the international agenda at the London G8 Social Impact Investment Forum. […]

December 26, 2013

Q&A with Morgan Stanley: Clients demand impact investment options

Morgan Stanley recently committed a sum of US$10 billion for its “Investing with Impact platform” through client assets, offering a variety of social responsibility and environmental sustainability as options. This report is a Q&A session with Audrey Choi, CEO of the bank’s newly formed Institute for Sustainable Investing, and also […]

December 26, 2013

Nearing transparency in impact investing

More investors can be won over to the cause of impact investing only if transparency is increased, according to this post. Towards this end, who better than foundations, which are required to be transparent anyway? Initial observations have shown that most impact investing portfolios talk about impact from mostly return […]

December 26, 2013

5 reasons why impact investing is not for everyone

While wanting to combine social motive and profit motive to arrive at impact investing for social business is the all the global buzz now, impact investing is not for everyone. According to Vineet Rai, Managing Director of social impact fund Aavishkaar, five tell-tale signs will make it obvious for any […]

December 26, 2013

India: Impact investors now tap urban poor market

According to this report, there is a clear trend of shift of interest of impact investors, who are now focusing on social investment through business solutions for the urban poor. There are indications of a clear departure from investment in rural projects, including microfinance for the rural poor.

December 26, 2013

The Impact Leaders of tomorrow

This post, a Q&A session with Jed Emerson, one of the authors of the study “Impact Investing 2.0” talks about the skills needed for a team that is multilingual in nature. He also talks about the grad schools with the best courses in training the impact leaders of tomorrow. Read […]

December 26, 2013

Corporate Impact Innovation Workshop highlights from SoCap

This year’s Social Capital Markets Conference (SoCap) dug into the issue of why collaboration of business interests with shared value impacts is the exception and not yet the rule in business today. This read is a breakdown on the workshop which sought to answer this question by discussing potential solutions […]

December 26, 2013

e-Guide to Early Stage Global Impact Investing

Toniic Insitute, in collaboration with Duke University’s CASEi3 has published a guide to early stage impact investing. The report, available online, was funded by the Rockefeller Institute. This paper represents a first of its kind 7-step framework to global early stage impact investment. Read the report here.