At this week’s ComCap17 Conference in Monterey, CA, one of the sessions that I participated in dealt with the roles of financial, legal, and business professionals as it relates to community capital. Our panel was moderated by my old friend, Michael Shuman, and we were joined by other professionals providing technology (Amy Wan), platforms (Youngro […]
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If you saw enough would you recognize it?
This was a bumper sticker I saw at Burning Man in 2007. Over the last decade, it has been for me a source of philosophical inquiry about our consumeristic society, the concept of sufficiency and, dare I say it, the meaning of life. I was reminded of it again during a recent conversation with the […]
7 Questions for Peter Krull, Sustainable Wealth Advisor
Peter Krull founded Earth Equity Advisors in 2004, because he wanted to give investors an opportunity to invest with their values. An outspoken advocate for the environment and social issues, and a well-known figure in Ashville’s green business community, Pete truly walks the walk. He believes in giving back to his communities and has served as Chair […]
An Economy For Everyone: August Good Jobs Recap
In order to build wealth and create opportunities in and across America’s underserved communities, and reverse the troubling trends we’re seeing in our economy, we no longer find it defensible to focus on job creation alone. It’s clear that job creation does not itself equate to lasting economic change. And so, we must shift our […]
What’s New In Impact Investing? August Roundup
Impact investing is about using markets and money for social good. Impact investing is built on the belief that private capital can play a powerful role in solving the massive global challenges of our day, and that capital markets should work for good as well as profit. This vision is realized through investments made into […]
Millennials and Sustainable / Responsible / Impact Investing — A New Force To Be Reckoned With!
We Americans are fond of putting specific age cohorts in neatly assembled descriptors — the Silent Generation; the Greatest Generation; the Baby Boom Generation; Gen X and Gen Y. Now in focus: The Millennial Generation, fast approaching the vaunted celebrity status of the post-WW II Baby Boom Generation. You’ll recall The Boomers were born in years 1946 to 1964 […]
Impact Investments in Public Equities ~ Webinar Invitation
Join Green Alpha’s CIO and COO for the live Impact Investments webinar to learn how to capitalize on the inevitable transition to a sustainable economy by investing in companies whose business models focus on creating innovative solutions to our greatest economic and environmental risks. Wednesday, August 23rd at 1pm Eastern CE credit available! Register here: […]
Why Work in Impact Investing?
Impact Investing Job Seekers: How Will Keyholders to Your Next Open Door Remember You? By: Jessica Loman I veered away from an impact investing career for some time because of two false assumptions, False assumption #1: I thought all investing was run by brutal capitalists centered only on the bottom line of making profit at […]
Growth of responsible investment in Japan & Malaysia to constitute core case studies at Global Ethical Finance Forum
Under the patronage of the Scottish Government and supported by the UK Government, the 2nd edition of GEFF will delve in-depth into two insightful case studies that focus on the growth of responsible investment in emerging and developed markets. Edinburgh, Scotland – 03 August 2017: Middle East Global Advisors, a leading financial intelligence platform spearheading […]
A Slow Money Journey: Eric Becker
The idea was simple at the beginning, back in 2006: find a fund in which my clients could invest their money that would finance farms and businesses involved in sustainable agriculture. I quickly discovered that no such thing existed. Instead, the inquiry set me off on a rewarding decade-long journey of learning, collaboration, and co-creation. […]
What’s New In Impact Investing? July Roundup
Impact investing is about using markets and money for social good. Impact investing is built on the belief that private capital can play a powerful role in solving the massive global challenges of our day, and that capital markets should work for good as well as profit. This vision is realized through investments made into […]
Scaling Up Impact Investments to take centre stage at the Global Ethical Finance Forum
-Under the patronage of the Scottish Government, the 2nd edition of GEFF will spearhead an insightful panel session that focuses on the vast opportunity for investors in balancing risk and reward whilst creating impact for the greater good. Edinburgh, Scotland – 20 July 2017: Middle East Global Advisors, a leading financial intelligence platform spearheading the […]
UNCW and G&A Institute Announce The Certificate & Certification in “Corporate Responsibility & Sustainability Strategies” Online E-Learning Course Offering Dual Credentials
New York, NY/Wilmington, NC – July 10, 2017 – To meet the needs of professionals seeking knowledge about the dramatically-expanding fields of Corporate Social Responsibility, Corporate Sustainability, Corporate Citizenship, Sustainable Investing and related subject matters, Governance & Accountability Institute, Inc. has partnered with the Swain Center for Executive Education at the University of North Carolina Wilmington […]
WEBINAR: Economic Activism Starts at Home: The Impact of Community Investment Funds July 27, 2017 11 a.m. PT
Work for or operate a nonprofit organization, innovation hub, accelerator, or incubator? Are you a community leader or economic development specialist? Do you want to learn about community investment funds and community capital raising? Join Cutting Edge Capital’s webinar on July 27th at 11 a.m. PT with Kim Arnone and Brian Beckon to learn in depth about community investment funds and how […]
Global Ethical Finance Forum to highlight the massive potential Sustainable Capitalism harbours
-Under the patronage of the Scottish Government, the 2nd edition of GEFF will spearhead an insightful panel session that focuses on the vast opportunities that come with embracing a long-term sustainable approach instead of an obsession with short-term profits. Edinburgh, Scotland – 29 June 2017: Middle East Global Advisors, a leading financial intelligence platform spearheading […]
What’s New In Impact Investing? June Roundup
Impact investing is about using markets and money for social good. Impact investing is built on the belief that private capital can play a powerful role in solving the massive global challenges of our day, and that capital markets should work for good as well as profit. This vision is realized through investments made into […]
Are You Still In? Are You Signed on Yet? C’Mon – the Country Needs You!
by Hank Boerner, Chairman & Chief Strategist, G&A Institute Question of the Day: Are YOU Still In? Have you signed on? “In” — that is, for the long haul on addressing the many challenges of climate change and related global warming issues. And “signed on” — to the We Are Still In Movement (please see wearestillin.com for information). […]
Investing with the Principles of Slow Money: Q&A with Claude Arpels
by Logan Yonavjak Slow Money was founded on a core set of principles that differ from the way most investors make decisions. These principles emphasize patient capital and investing in local community – whereas the mainstream typically highlights quarterly earnings and profit maximization. This series of three blogs seeks to better explain why some investors – […]
TriLinc Joins Forces with SOCAP in Good Capital Project Launch
TriLinc Joins Forces with SOCAP in Good Capital Project Launch On June 19th New York City, the epicenter for capitalism, provided the setting for the launch of the Good Capital Project (GCP), a two-year impact investment initiative spearheaded by Social Capital Markets (SOCAP) to increase the flow of capital into purpose-driven investments. Over the past […]
Resolved! The USA Will Move Forward Despite the Administration’s Cancellation of the Cop 21 -the Paris Accord
“Resolute!” – The root of the word comes down to us from the ancient Latin, meaning (over many centuries) to decide on and stay with a course of action. We’re seeing that these days in the “resolve” of the US corporate community, in the resolute actions of many cities and municipalities, in the actions of […]
Economically Targeted Investments by U.S. Pension Funds
U.S.-based public and private pension funds have been making Economically Targeted Investments (ETIs)—investments that generate societal benefits in addition to the investment return—since the 1960s. Over this time, pension funds have sought risk-adjusted returns for their plan’s participants and beneficiaries through investments in worker-friendly affordable housing, in-state businesses, infrastructure, and other projects. The practice of […]
Meet Peter Fusaro – Chairman – Global Change Associates @ #Intro2ESG Training
Presenting at Introduction to ESG, Sustainable & Impact Investment One–Day Training The How & Why of Applying ESG to Corporate Valuations Hosted by Zicklin School of Business at Baruch College/CUNY on June 15th Introduction: For professionals in the capital markets, and in the corporate sector, G&A Institute and Global Change Associates are teamed to present […]
Beyond the Money: The Impact of Community Capital
I was recently at Women and the Environment, an amazing conference in Santa Barbara hosted by Pacific Standard Magazine and the awesome folks at LoaCom. I was fortunate to attend, speak, and hear about the great work being done, and the great work still to do, on environmental and social justice issues, much of which […]
InvestorFlow Report: The First 151 Investors
Who, What, Where, and How: The First 151 Investors Who are these “so called” impact investors? Where do they live? Where do they invest? What sectors do they invest in? Which stages of growth? What investment structures do they use? Our first report attempts to answer those questions, based on the profiles of the first […]
A busy day
Impact investors are picky. They each have specific sectors, geographies, stages, and scale that have to match their interests, in addition to the standard needs of liking the team, the plan, and the opportunity. Case in point: today (April 26th 2017) we circulated a total of eight deals shared by lead investors. In total they matched […]
PCV Reaffirms Our Support For The Small Business Borrower’s Bill of Rights
We work with small business owners who have a dream, but who don’t have big built-in networks or access to enormous sums of capital. For example, the fastest-growing group of Americans starting new ventures is African-American women. But you’d never know that based on where the money is going. Sarah Kersten Studio in Berkeley has […]
What’s New In Impact Investing? April Roundup
Impact investing is about using markets and money for social good. Impact investing is built on the belief that private capital can play a powerful role in solving the massive global challenges of our day, and that capital markets should work for good as well as profit. This vision is realized through investments made into […]
New Systems Series: Volume Six
The sixth volume of papers in our “New Systems: Possibilities and Proposals” series offers visions ranging from a Cooperative Commonwealth and plural forms of Public Ownership to a Joyful Economy and the transition to a Cooperative Economic Democracy, sharing the hopeful message that a next system is closer than we think. In Cooperative Commonwealth & […]
Why the Good Capital Project: Interview with John Kohler from Miller Center for Social Entrepreneurship
The Good Capital Project will convene for the first time this June in New York City. This new SOCAP initiative will bring together a cross-sector collection of experts, practitioners, industry leaders and other stakeholders to drive greater collaboration and accelerate capital flows into purpose driven investments. In the months leading up that event we will […]
Want to be an RSF Integrated Capital Fellow? Apply By April 15, 2017
RSF is a nonprofit financial services organization dedicated to transforming the way the world works with money. In service of their mission to educate, support and inspire the next generation of integrated capital practitioners and catalyze the flow of money to support healthy, regenerative economies in all communities, they have created the RSF Integrative Capital […]
What’s New In Impact Investing? March Roundup
Impact investing is about using markets and money for social good. Impact investing is built on the belief that private capital can play a powerful role in solving the massive global challenges of our day, and that capital markets should work for good as well as profit. This vision is realized through investments made into […]
A New SOCAP Initiative: The Good Capital Project
SOCAP is excited to announce a new initiative, The Good Capital Project, launching June 19th, 2017 at an event in New York City. The Good Capital Project (GCP) is an integral step in evolving impact investment from an emerging industry into mainstream practice. Through a new design thinking process, we will convene all constituents to […]
5 Ways to Be a Clean Money Revolutionary in 2017
A SOCAP Guest Post by Joel Solomon My first book, The Clean Money Revolution, is coming out in May. So, you may be asking, what is clean money? Clean Money is money aligned with purpose: money that is about more than self-interest; money that prioritizes the commons; money that makes the world better. Clean money […]
What’s New In Impact Investing? February Roundup
Impact investing is about using markets and money for social good. Impact investing is built on the belief that private capital can play a powerful role in solving the massive global challenges of our day, and that capital markets should work for good as well as profit. This vision is realized through investments made into […]
An Economy For Everyone: February Good Jobs Recap
In order to build wealth and create opportunities in and across America’s underserved communities, and reverse the troubling trends we’re seeing in our economy, we no longer find it defensible to focus on job creation alone. It’s clear that job creation does not itself equate to lasting economic change. And so, we must shift our […]
Not All Crowdfunding Strategies Are Created Equal
There has been a lot of controversy lately surrounding Title III platforms that has been giving crowdfunding a bad name. To offer some clarity, it is helpful to understand the difference between crowdfunding, the JOBS Act, and Direct Public Offerings. The Jumpstart Our Business Startups (JOBS) Act, was initially signed into law on April 5, […]
Invest Northwest: Ten-Year Final Performance Review
For ten years Pacific Community Ventures has worked with the Northwest Area Foundation (NWAF) and the Annie E. Casey Foundation (AECF) to annually evaluate the social performance of Invest Northwest, a place-based mission-related private equity fund. Invest Northwest was created in 2004 with the twin objectives of generating market-rate financial returns and social returns aligned […]
Impact Investing for the 99%: A New Path to Mainstreaming
A SOCAP Guest Post by Joshua Levin of OpenInvest All investments have impact. But to-date, impact investing has been largely limited to small, private companies, and accessible only to accredited investors. What if it were possible for normal folks to easily allocate their retirement portfolios in such a way that maximized the impact of their investments […]
What’s New In Impact Investing? January Roundup
Impact investing is about using markets and money for social good. Impact investing is built on the belief that private capital can play a powerful role in solving the massive global challenges of our day, and that capital markets should work for good as well as profit. This vision is realized through investments made into […]
Community Capital Makes Strange Bedfellows
These past few months have shown us an America more politically polarized than ever. Any proposed solution is viewed through a conservative vs. liberal lens, and each side vows to oppose any proposal by the other. So it may be worth asking where community capital fits on that spectrum. As our readers know, the term […]
The SRI Conference Popcorn Presentation
In past Popcorn Presentations, many of you heard our CIO Garvin Jabusch speak about Green Alpha Advisors, but we thought we’d try something a little different this year. I’m Arina, the newest addition to the Green Alpha team. I’d like to briefly share with you how I found myself at Green Alpha, and hopefully give […]
Cooperative Banking in Croatia
The Democracy Collaborative’s Adam Simpson and Sarah McKinley sat down with Goran Jeras, one of the lead developers of ebanka, an ethical bank project launching in Croatia, for a conversation about building the institutions of an ethical and sustainable financial system. Adam Simpson: Goran, thank you for joining us today. You are the cooperative manager […]
The Good News: 15 Media Outlets Focused on Social Entrepreneurship and Impact Investing
A SOCAP Guest Post by Gary Gach The ever-growing SOCAP community is witnessing history in the making: the birth and fostering of a new economy, a new economy that’s inclusive, regenerative, and truly thriving. We are making a new road at the intersection of money and meaning and several impact-focused, independent media outlets are covering […]
Community Investment Funds: Four Models
Community capital is about empowerment of communities. It is a set of strategies that allows ventures to raise capital from their ideal investors within their own community, allows anyone of virtually any economic class to invest in their community, and allows communities to build wealth though a cycle of investment, growth, profit, and reinvestment. As […]
New SEC Rules to Make DPOs Easier
On October 26, 2017, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) issued new rules designed to make capital-raising for small businesses easier. The two exemptions the SEC has updated, the intrastate offering exemption and Rule 504, are the two most commonly used strategies for companies doing direct public offerings to raise capital from their own […]
Wealth Management’s Changing Landscape: Women & Millennials
As consumers and investors, women are changing the way society interacts with its money by consistently making more holistic decisions than men about how they spend, save and invest their money. Currently, women directly control 39% ($11.2 Trillion) of the investable assets in the U.S., and are already strong influencers on the disposition of most […]
What’s Next? Parecon, or Participatory Economics
Download the PDF This paper by Michael Albert, published alongside three others, is one of many proposals for a systemic alternative we have published or will be publishing here at the Next System Project. You can read it below, or download the PDF. We have commissioned these papers in order to facilitate an informed […]
Well-being Economy: A Scenario for a Post-growth Horizontal Governance System
Download the PDF This paper by Lorenzo Fioramonti, published alongside three others, is one of many proposals for a systemic alternative we have published or will be publishing here at the Next System Project. You can read it below, or download the PDF. We have commissioned these papers in order to facilitate an informed […]
Dark times call for brighter new visions of the world we want to see
Our system is failing. Profound anger at a rigged system has led many voters to reach for something different – even if it means turning in a dangerous new direction. The voters have rejected a stale elite consensus, but we are now confronting a still greater threat. What remains of Madisonian checks and balances has […]
Towards a New, Green Economy
Download the PDF This paper by Tim Jackson and Peter A. Victor, published alongside three others, is one of many proposals for a systemic alternative we have published or will be publishing here at the Next System Project. You can read it below, or download the PDF. We have commissioned these papers in order […]