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Impact investing

Impact investing

Housing in Baltimore: A Tale of Two Cities

By Rob Meiksins | January 8, 2019

Building units that are affordable is wonderful, but so too is ensuring that people have living wage jobs.

Impact investing

Impact Investing Grows, but Field Leaders Concede Limitations

By Steve Dubb | October 3, 2018

Impact investing that seeks to align investments with social and environmental goals is growing. But might “impact-washing” be not far behind?

Impact investing

Impact Investing Rises, but the Impact of the Investments Remains in Doubt

By Steve Dubb | June 13, 2018

The core “impact investing” idea of using capital to address pressing global challenges is gaining rapidly in scale. But while solid economic returns can be demonstrated, showing socially transformative impact has proved more challenging.

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Nathan Cummings No Longer Just Experimenting with Impact Investing

By Marian Conway | March 27, 2018

The hands-on practice of impact investing has convinced this philanthropic institution to go all in.

Nonprofit News

Living Right: Buen Vivir Fund Heralds a More Democratic Kind of Impact Investing

By Steve Dubb | March 21, 2018

Imagine a loan fund in which borrowers constitute half the loan committee. Such is the structure of the Buen Vivir Fund, which launched operations this month with its first set of loans.

Philanthropy

Nonprofit Earned-Income Ventures Aren’t Rockets: Another Launchpad Failure

By John MacIntosh | March 19, 2018

Here, John MacIntosh examines the failure of an impact-investing intermediary. Foundations and nonprofits often support startups without accepting the hard lessons that private investors have learned: without risk, there’s rarely reward.

Nonprofit News

Generational Musings on Impact Investing: Are They Worth the Paper?

By Sheela Nimishakavi | September 25, 2017

Sometimes research findings are sufficient to generate headlines but insufficient as far as advancing learning is concerned.

Impact investing

UN’s Sustainable Development Goals Positively Influence Impact Investing

By Jim Schaffer | June 7, 2017

Global Impact Investing Network’s 2017 survey shows positive trends for impact investing prioritizing social over financial gains.

Nonprofit News

Nonprofit Investing Venture Supports Social Entrepreneurship

By Lauren Karch | October 3, 2016

RSF Social Finance brings integrated capital funding to the social field.

Opinion

SOCAP16 and the Continued Evolution of Impact Investing

By Gene Takagi and Michele Berger | September 26, 2016

Social Capital Markets 2016 is the latest in a series of annual conferences hosted by Mission Hub and designed to “increase the flow of capital toward social good.” This year’s conference moved from a discussion of the nature of social investing to one on why social investing is the proper use of capital.

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