Impact Investing News

Pacific Community Ventures has worked in partnership with The Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN) to develop IRIS+ for Impact Due Diligence. IRIS+ provides a solid foundation for investors to integrate impact performance into decision-making across the investment cycle, including the due diligence process. Adopting IRIS+ strengthens the integrity of investment decisions, leading to social, environmental, […]

PCV CEO Bulbul Gupta Speaks On Domestic Policy Conference on Economic Inclusion and Growth at the Clinton Presidential Center On November 20, President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton will host “Economic Inclusion and Growth: The Way Forward,” a conference on domestic economic policy at the Clinton Presidential Center in Little […]

Shavon Marley was working in sales while dreaming of starting a business in her hometown of Raleigh, North Carolina. Then in 2016 she was hit with a breast cancer diagnosis. Faced with a situation that might have derailed many others, Shavon used it for fuel to turn her dream into reality. During long hours of […]

As a member of the Pacific Community Ventures’ community, we wanted to let you know that our President and CEO, Mary Jo Cook, has made the decision to retire from PCV. We’re thrilled to announce that effective today, PCV Board member Bulbul Gupta has taken over as our new President & CEO. To ensure a smooth […]

At Pacific Community Ventures, we’ve seen firsthand though our work with small businesses and impact investors that job creation alone is insufficient to create lasting economic change in underinvested communities. We view the advancement of good-quality jobs as an important avenue to better support our communities and address rising income and wealth inequality across the […]

This month, LOCUS shares how to get up to speed on place-based impact investing. Pictured: LOCUS’ parent company, Virginia Community Capital, hosts an annual event aimed at convening a learning experience for socially motivated investors, the VCC Learning Exchange. The dogdays of summer are winding to a close, and the kids are back in class. […]

Not so Swell – retail impact investing platform shuts due to low uptake Swell Investing, which allowed people to invest in portfolios of companies solving global challenges, like clean water, green technology and zero waste, has closed its doors. The platform helped people get started with impact investing, offering “an easy-to-use web platform and iOS […]

Over the last year, it feels that philanthropists have become the new target group tasked with a responsibility of ensuring that impact investments continue to scale at the current market pace. My attention to this trend may very well be the result of my own changed interests and focus areas, but it is an interesting […]

When Felix Oldenburg shifted his career from social entrepreneurship to philanthropy, he had high hopes for the role of foundations in financing social ventures. After three years leading a network of 4,500 foundations, those hopes are yet to materialise. But, he writes, it’s not time to give up yet: foundations can become serious impact investors by innovating with […]

Elizabeth Corley and Harvey McGrath, chairs of the new Impact Investing Institute, are pleased to announce the appointment of its first chief executive officer, Sarah Gordon.  The Impact Investing Institute, which was announced on 3 June 2019, will look for more effective ways to combine financial returns with a social purpose to help improve people’s […]

As the impact investing industry has matured rapidly in recent years, the field is increasingly recognizing the need for commonly accepted approaches to defining, measuring and managing impact. Still, there is more work to be done to effectively manage for impact alongside financial risk and return.   In response, we at Pacific Community Ventures launched […]

We at Pacific Community Ventures are thrilled to announce the publication of Impact Due Diligence: Emerging Best Practices, a report which surfaces the shared impact due diligence approaches employed by leading impact investors. The report examines trends and offers insights in an important, yet underdeveloped, area of investment practice. While impact measurement and management (IMM) […]

ImpactAssets, a nonprofit financial services firm that increases the flow of capital into investments delivering financial, social and environmental returns, celebrated its ten-year anniversary by announcing today that assets under management in The Giving Fund, its donor advised fund, have topped $1 billion. In less than six months, ImpactAssets has more than doubled assets from […]

The idea of “nose-to-tail” dining, shorthand for using as much of an animal as possible, has no field-grown counterpart. What about the grains that make up so much of our agricultural production and diet? Where is our “seed to stalk?” Crafting a Sustainable Grain Cycle In Maine, a collective of innovative businesses is making sure […]

A new independent body is being created to advance impact investing and to promote the UK as a world leader in this field. Announced today by the government’s Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) and the Department for International Development (DFID), the Impact Investing Institute will be independent of government. It is due to open […]

International philanthropy has consistently been on the leading edge of the movement to use market forces to stimulate sustainable social change. Organizations like the Grameen Bank and KIVA, for example, taught donors the power of providing access to capital to change the statistics of poverty for women and low-income entrepreneurs in far-flung communities, and paved […]

It’s not just a question of giving money or making investments, it’s time for us all to examine our work through a gender lens Long ago, in simpler times when donors roamed the philanthropy forest giving away money to causes close to their heart, often without a strategy or evaluation, the donor I worked for […]

LeapFrog Investments has announced the largest-ever private equity fund by a dedicated impact fund manager, raising US$700m. The new fund invests in healthcare and financial services companies in Asia and Africa and aims to reach 70 million consumers in emerging markets. Andrew Kuper, LeapFrog founder and CEO, called the announcement “an important moment for responsible private […]