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NextBillion NextBillion.net - is the leading online forum for business-focused solutions that improve the quality of life for the world’s 4 billion low-income producers and consumers. Now in its second decade of publishing, NextBillion helps to raise awareness and influence discourse surrounding social enterprise on a global scale. @NextBillion @NextBillionFI


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As Impact Investors, Here’s Why We Need to Elevate Human Capital

October 16, 2017 By NextBillion

Each week brings with it a new batch of headlines uncovering the ugly underbelly of another Silicon Valley pet gone wild. Scandals have hurled Uber, Kleiner, SoFi, 500 Startups, Google, Zenefits and others into unexpected PR nightmares. With the bad news coming fast and furious, it has become apparent that startups and venture capitalists have […]

Filed Under: -Impact Investing

To Fix the Gender Gap, Fix the Digital Divide

August 9, 2017 By NextBillion

It is no secret that women have unequal access to economic opportunities. Here’s what’s new: As digital technologies dramatically reshape our economies, they can either worsen the problem, or help fix it. Think about it: Most job growth will come from STEM fields, yet women make up only 12 percent of engineering students. Much of […]

Filed Under: -Impact Investing, Beyond Investing

Why Do Social Enterprises Fail? New Research Reveals Three Reasons (And Some Surprises)

May 26, 2017 By NextBillion

I will begin with a confession: I ran a social enterprise that failed and it took me more than a decade to realize with clarity the reasons for that failure. The first seven years after the failure I was in denial. Then, four friends and I founded the F*ckUp Nights movement and I realized how important it […]

Filed Under: -Impact Investing

Dear Diary: New Financial Diaries Research Explains Why Many Americans are So Angry

May 1, 2017 By NextBillion

  Would you rather have more money or a more stable financial life? A striking 92 percent of Americans in a recent survey chose stability – a sign of the deep undercurrent of financial insecurity running through the world’s richest country. A new book by Rachel Schneider of the Center for Financial Services Innovation, and Jonathan Morduch of […]

Filed Under: -Impact Investing, Beyond Investing

In Impact Investing’s Rush to the Mainstream, Who Are We Leaving Behind?

April 12, 2017 By NextBillion

After a long march toward mainstream acceptance, many in impact investing are claiming victory. The industry is garnering attention at major publications like The Economist, and recently celebrated the emergence of a star-studded $2 billion fund. Meanwhile, studies have proliferated supporting the idea that you can earn market rate returns while making a meaningful difference in the […]

Filed Under: -Impact Investing

Why Fossil Fuel Companies Must Evolve or Die: An Interview with Carbon Tracker Founder Mark Campanale

April 7, 2017 By NextBillion

Carbon Tracker is a nonprofit financial think tank that aims to align global capital markets with the climate goals set out in the Paris agreement, limiting global warming by transitioning the world away from fossil fuels. The initiative’s work is based on a stark reality: To keep global warming under 2 degrees Celsius and (hopefully) avoid the harshest […]

Filed Under: -Impact Investing

How Water.org ‘Took a Leap of Faith’ into Social Impact Investing

March 30, 2017 By NextBillion

Editor’s note: Throughout 2017, NextBillion is organizing content around a monthly theme, dedicating special attention to a specific sector alongside our broader coverage. This post is part of our focus on the environment for the month of March. Consumer demand is a force that changes the world. With each purchase, we shape and sometimes even revolutionize the world we live […]

Filed Under: -Impact Investing

How Loan Guarantees Are Unlocking Private Capital for Clean Energy and Sustainable Agriculture

March 22, 2017 By NextBillion

MCE Social Capital (MCE), a nonprofit impact investing firm, was founded in 2006 on the belief that loan guarantees – an ancient finance mechanism – can uniquely unlock private sector capital for the more than 2 billion people in the world who lack access to formal financial services, and for the hundreds of thousands of […]

Filed Under: -Impact Investing

Sorry, ‘Feel Good’ Investors: Deep Impact Requires Concessions

January 26, 2017 By NextBillion

“We thought that the only way to achieve large-scale impact was to build large commercial enterprises that could generate enough cash to support both organizational growth and market-level impact. But as we began investing more heavily and more directly in early-stage companies that targeted less advantaged populations in emerging markets, we began to notice the […]

Filed Under: -Impact Investing

Is Microcredit a Vaccine or an Antibiotic?

January 25, 2017 By NextBillion

I believe there’s a strong case for social investment in microcredit, but that the best case is built on new theories of change. Historically the standard microcredit theory of change has been that many (if not most) households are eager to start their own microenterprise but are stymied by a lack of access to credit, […]

Filed Under: -Community Investing, -Impact Investing

Measuring Impact With Meaning: 50 Funds That Are Best For The World

January 16, 2017 By NextBillion

December was a big month for impact investing, wrapping up an even bigger year. The momentum of our movement was on display at an oversubscribed GIIN Investor Forum in Amsterdam, where more than 800 investors and supporters of impact gathered for a two-day deep dive on the state of the industry. Nearly a decade in, […]

Filed Under: -Impact Investing

Impact Investing Buzz: GIIN and Toniic Mix with Growth Reports

December 15, 2016 By NextBillion

The knock on impact investing – both within and outside of the industry – is the lack of long-term data and platforms to observe deals in a more transparent way. The Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN) and Toniic, arguably the industry’s most influential trade groups, both released studies designed to turn around some of those […]

Filed Under: -Impact Investing

Technology Meets Impact: New Online Marketplace Aims to Expand the Reach of Impact Investing

December 13, 2016 By NextBillion

ImpactUs aims to simplify the process of impact investing through an online platform that allows investors to identify and invest in products that provide social impact. In this email Q&A with NextBillion Senior Editor James Militzer, Reginald Stanley, president and CEO of ImpactUs, explains how the platform works – and why it’s needed..   James […]

Filed Under: -Impact Investing

Social Investing’s Pension Problem: Just a Speedbump, or Something More Ominous?

November 30, 2016 By NextBillion

It hasn’t attracted much attention in the social investing sphere – far less than the ongoing stream of reports attesting to the sector’s competitive returns and growing momentum. But a new brief from the influential Center for Retirement Research (CRR) at Boston College could be significant – and not just because of its surprisingly bleak […]

Filed Under: -Impact Investing

New Report: Small Merchants Offer Big Financial Inclusion Opportunities

November 8, 2016 By NextBillion

There are more than 180 million micro and small merchants operating in developing and emerging markets globally. These merchants serve the world’s lowest income customers at a scale that is staggering. Every day, small merchants interact with more than 4.5 billion customers. While individually each merchant generates low revenues, they collectively influence the global economy […]

Filed Under: -Community Investing, -Impact Investing

How Social Enterprises and Impact Investors Can Move the Needle to Achieve the SDGs

November 8, 2016 By NextBillion

Last month the UNDP and Impact Hub organized the first Social Good Summit in Geneva, bringing together impact investors, international organizations and entrepreneurs to discuss how to scale up and finance impact-driven ventures to accelerate the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). There was a great appetite at the summit to exchange ideas. Investors […]

Filed Under: -Impact Investing

‘Not just for profit – but for survival’: CEO Amit Bouri discusses the GIIN’s bold call for all investors to tackle the SDGs

October 31, 2016 By NextBillion

The Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN) made headlines last month when it launched a rather audacious campaign to mobilize investors behind the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). In an impassioned op-ed, GIIN CEO Amit Bouri declared that “this investment is not just for profit – but for survival,” asked that “every investor not already involved make at least one SDG-focused impact investment” – and called on them […]

Filed Under: -Impact Investing

Facebook Live from SOCAP

September 14, 2016 By NextBillion

The Social Capital Markets (SOCAP) conference is again upon us. And this year, we’re trying something new. NextBillion will broadcast a series of interviews through Facebook Live, starting this evening and continuing through the end of the conference on Friday. We have more than 10 (and counting) discussions lined up with a diverse group of […]

Filed Under: -Impact Investing, Beyond Investing

Closing the $2.5 Trillion Gap: How blended finance can help achieve the SDGs

September 8, 2016 By NextBillion

One of the most quoted numbers in international development today is $3.9 trillion. That’s the annual funding the UN estimates will be needed to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). That’s a pretty tall order – especially considering that current annual levels of official development assistance funding are only $180 billion, with combined public and […]

Filed Under: -Impact Investing, -Sustainable-Responsible Investing

Curing Silicon Valley’s Myopia: Ross Baird, on How to Change the Narrative Around Investment and Innovation

August 31, 2016 By NextBillion

As Silicon Valley has grown in influence in both the business world and the broader culture, a growing chorus of critics have leveled a similar critique: Why are some of the world’s most brilliant innovators and deep-pocketed investors focusing so much of their time and resources on solving petty problems, while ignoring countless more pressing concerns? Ross Baird, executive director of Village Capital […]

Filed Under: -Impact Investing

Impact Investing Comes of Age: ImpactAlpha Rounds up Nine Stories Shaping the Marketplace

August 18, 2016 By NextBillion

Editor’s note: NextBillion is collaborating with ImpactAlpha to highlight coverage of the top stories, leaders and trends in impact investing. In periodic NextBillion posts, their team will share the key stories and market activities that have crossed their desks in recent weeks. When global leaders launched the Millennium Development Goals in 2000 there was no well-developed way […]

Filed Under: -Impact Investing

Impact Investing Conference at the Vatican: New Perspectives From Both Sides

August 2, 2016 By NextBillion

In late June, the Second Vatican Conference on Impact Investing (VIIC) brought together leaders from the Catholic Church and impact investment communities to discuss the role of impact investing for the poor. Because the Vatican conference occurred during the Extraordinary Year of Mercy established by Pope Francis, the VIIC chose the theme “Making the Year […]

Filed Under: -Impact Investing

Summer of Impact Investing: ImpactAlpha Flags 10 Recent Developments Shaping the Sector

July 18, 2016 By NextBillion

Editor’s note: NextBillion is collaborating with ImpactAlpha to highlight coverage of the top stories, leaders and trends in impact investing. In periodic NextBillion posts, their team will share the key stories and market activities that have crossed their desks in recent weeks.   Summer of Impact British voters have thrown a stick through the spokes […]

Filed Under: -Impact Investing

Opportunity International and MyBucks: A Dangerous Partnership Decision?

June 29, 2016 By NextBillion

Editor’s note: The sale of microfinance institutions to fintech companies has broad potential repercussions for both clients and the sector’s overall development. Because opinions differ on whether this impact will be positive or negative, NextBillion is running multiple, comprehensive posts on the topic. The post below was independently authored by former MFTransparency CEO Chuck Waterfield, and provides a critical […]

Filed Under: -Community Investing, -Impact Investing

Behind the Most Successful Microfinance IPO in India’s History: What does gender lens investing have to do with it?

May 24, 2016 By NextBillion

I never thought that selling our shares in an IPO – the holy grail of private equity investing – would be such a grueling process. But it was all worth it when on April 28 in the pre-dawn hours of a New York morning I checked the news from India. The subscriptions had come in slowly at first, […]

Filed Under: -Community Investing, -Impact Investing

NexThought Monday: Impact and the Science of Social Networks – More Bang For Your Buck

April 24, 2016 By NextBillion

The basic principle behind network science is very simple: Things are connected, and the ways they are connected affect their individual and collective performance. Thus, the pattern of connections among neurons in the brain reveals the inner workings of cognition, just as gene combinations give us a clue about disease, or international trade between countries […]

Filed Under: -Impact Investing

The Most Powerful Weapon for Changing the World: How Microfinance Institutions Can Increase Access to Education

April 21, 2016 By NextBillion

Education may be the “silver bullet” of development. It is, as Nelson Mandela described it, the “most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” Increase access to quality education for children and adults, and the knock-on effects can be profound – on health, women’s and girls’ opportunities, technology, and the growth of […]

Filed Under: -Impact Investing

Turning the Microfinance Model Upside Down: An Interview with Jeffrey Ashe

April 14, 2016 By NextBillion

In the early days of microfinance – before its dramatic evolution from development sector hero to over-hyped villain and back to somewhat chastened respectability – it captured the imagination of many anti-poverty advocates, among them Jeffrey Ashe. After a stint in the Peace Corps, Ashe spent 20 years designing, evaluating and managing microfinance programs in over thirty countries – but then […]

Filed Under: -Impact Investing

Tunisia’s Entrepreneurial Ecosystem – Why Youth and Tech are Vital Elements

April 11, 2016 By NextBillion

In February, The New York Times reported on the state of joblessness and resulting desperation among educated young people in rural Tunisia. This was the same demographic that protested in 2010, overthrowing the Ben Ali regime and sparking the Arab Spring. Five years on, an arid employment landscape (62.3 percent of college graduates are without […]

Filed Under: -Impact Investing

Blueprint for Ignition: How the Catalyst Fund Got Started

April 5, 2016 By NextBillion

Impact investors collaborate to address funding gap for startups The emergence and rapid adoption of new technologies like the Internet, cloud computing and smartphones are transforming the way the poor and underserved access financial services. Startups are at the cutting edge of these innovations. They are catalyzing the next leap forward in financial inclusion by […]

Filed Under: -Impact Investing

Helping Smallholders’ Grow a Pharmacy on their Farms

March 31, 2016 By NextBillion

Albrecht Dürer’s masterful woodcut, “Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse,” is drawn from the Book of Revelation, the last book of the Bible’s New Testament. In it, the horsemen ride on red, black, white and pale horses, symbolizing war, famine, conquest and death. The black horse symbolizes famine ­– its darkness depicting the brute force of hunger. But this […]

Filed Under: -Impact Investing

A Holistic Approach: Three keys to helping small businesses access the finance they need

March 31, 2016 By NextBillion

According to the World Bank, small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) provide more than 90 percent of all jobs in low-income countries, and such firms are an essential part of emerging economies. However, these firms are far less competitive than their counterparts in industrialized countries. Among the many obstacles to the growth faced by SMEs, the […]

Filed Under: -Community Investing, -Impact Investing

A Shared Destination: Why we need open source impact metrics

March 29, 2016 By NextBillion

Editor’s note: This is the third in a series of three articles offering new methods in generating, comprehending and The definition of social impact dramatically differs based on the role we are referencing, e.g. impact investor, funder, program agency or practitioner. Though there is a plethora of standards, tools and frameworks, most organizations do not […]

Filed Under: -Impact Investing

The Surprising Reason Why Savings Boosts Income: New Research Reveals an Unexpected Benefit of Financial Inclusion

March 22, 2016 By NextBillion

Make it easier to save, and people will save more. This seems straightforward and holds true when offering savings accounts to customers in rich and poor countries alike. Make it easier to save, and people will save more and earn more. This sounds a little more surprising, especially if you posit that this increase in […]

Filed Under: -Local Banking, Beyond Investing

Mapping the Path to Full Financial Inclusion

March 10, 2016 By NextBillion

When attempting to solve a complex development challenge, we often jump from creating ambitious goals to making plans, without first identifying who we need to reach with our goals, where those people reside, and what challenge and opportunities they face. This approach has numerous drawbacks: We often get surprised by obstacles we did not foresee […]

Filed Under: -Impact Investing

‘The Face of the African Entrepreneur’

February 10, 2016 By NextBillion

The Sankalp Africa Forum focuses on challenges facing entrepreneurs like Angwenyi   Editor’s note: The third annual Sankalp Africa Summit takes place Feb. 24-26 in Nairobi and is centered on the theme “Spurring the Entrepreneurship Economy.” Sponsored by Intellecap, the conference advances conversations on entrepreneurship, innovation and inclusive development. This Q&A previews some of the summit’s planned discussions and themes. […]

Filed Under: -Impact Investing, Beyond Investing

Building Efficient Social Sector Initiatives Through New Generation Impact Measurement

February 2, 2016 By NextBillion

The social sector is going through a massive change never seen before. Thanks to the advocacy of innovative foundations, impact investments are now becoming mainstream, along with collective impact programs and other initiatives like social impact bonds and Pay for Success programs. In the U.S. alone, impact (or socially responsible investing) has grown to $6.57 […]

Filed Under: Beyond Investing

NexThought Monday: Why Microfinance Should Embrace – Not Resist – A New Brand

February 1, 2016 By NextBillion

We live in the Age of Brand Management. The holy grail of “brand managers” is always the simple and compelling message, told by words, images, stories and evidence. In their constant quest, truth is both resource and constraint on what they can say, show and imply. There is constant tension between the subtle complications of […]

Filed Under: -Impact Investing

A Solution to Urban Blight? Crowdfunding’s Potential to Transform Cities

January 28, 2016 By NextBillion

Editor’s note: The following is part of an ongoing series of posts about U.S. financial innovation enterprises and initiatives.    Since the market crash of 2008, financial recovery for some major American cities is still an uphill battle. Cities like Detroit and Atlantic City have faced an array of forces stifling positive growth, from crime […]

Filed Under: -Impact Investing

Filling the Funding Gap in ‘Pay for Success’

January 22, 2016 By NextBillion

Experimentation and social change go hand in hand. At a time when government resources are constrained, we need to experiment with new approaches to finance and scale promising social programs. At Living Cities, we are exploring new ways to unlock private capital for social good, harnessing the collective power of 22 of the world’s largest […]

Filed Under: -Impact Investing

An Eventful Year in Impact Investing – An Interview with ImpactAssets’ Fran Seegull

January 14, 2016 By NextBillion

2015 was a big year for impact investing – one that saw it take some crucial steps toward the mainstream. We spoke with ImpactAssets’ Chief Investment Officer and Managing Director Fran Seegull at the 2015 SOCAP conference about these changes and what they mean for the sector. Among the many milestones she pointed to were high-profile market entrants like BlackRock and […]

Filed Under: -Impact Investing

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