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Telling the Impact Stories of Ours To Own Twin Cities
by Katherine St. Onge on July 05, 2016 Two years ago Calvert Foundation launched Ours To Own, our place-based investment initiative. Through this targeting option of the Community Investment Note, people are able to invest in the cities they live in and love. Last week we held an event to celebrate the local impact that investments in […]
The Impact of Sustainable and Responsible Investment 2016 report by USSIF
USSIF’s latest report “The Impact of Sustainable and Responsible Investment (2016)“ highlights how sustainable, responsible and impact investors have engaged the investment industry, companies, individuals, communities and governments–either individually or collectively–to address environmental, social and governance challenges and to reform the way business is conducted. It presents examples of how these investors have made a difference […]
ImPact Primer: Can You Drive Impact Through Public Equity Investing? Here’s How
The ImPact, a new investor network aiming to normalize impact investing among the world’s wealthiest families, tackles public equities, an often overlooked asset class in impact investing, in the second primer in its asset class series. Generating direct impact through investments in public equities is difficult, because companies have so many other potential sources of capital. Still, investors […]
Opportunity International and MyBucks: A Dangerous Partnership Decision?
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 […]
Free-Range Money: Bitcoin, Blockchains, and the End of Banks
By Tim Parsa, Managing Director, Uphold Mexico and Head of Global Strategy & Markets Cattle ought to be raised grazing in pasture, not confined to dirty feedlots and gorged on government-subsidized corn. That’s not a controversial statement for anyone familiar with the health, ecological, or taste benefits of grass-fed beef. Here’s an even less controversial […]
Exit Opportunities for DPO Investors
When considering an investment in a direct public offering, potential investors may want to understand how they can get their investment back, i.e. their exit strategy. Organizations raising capital via a DPO should expect questions from potential investors on this subject. An investor’s sale of their investment is itself regulated by securities laws, so in […]
ImPact Primer: How to Get Started in Fixed-Income Impact Investing
Fixed-income impact investments can provide all the benefits of many traditional fixed income products — stable income, high liquidity, and a relatively low risk profile — plus high scalable impact. The first primer in the ImPact’s asset class series highlights a growing array of impact fixed-income products. Here are a few highlights from Fixed Income and Impact Investing: Bonds […]
ImpactAssets Impact Investment Notes Deploys $8.3MM In Capital to Latin America and Asia
ImpactAssets announced today that it has deployed more than $8.3MM to financial institutions and agricultural organizations in Latin America and Asia for small business expansion, socioeconomic development and environmental sustainability through its recently launched Impact Investment Notes. These lower-‐minimum, publicly offered debt securities enable financial advisors and their clients to provide capital to growing micro-‐entrepreneurs […]
ImPact Primer: Seven Steps for Getting Started With Impact Investing
Impact investing is a lot like high school sex, says Abigail Noble, chief executive of The ImPact, a new investor network aiming to normalize impact investing among the world’s wealthiest families. “Everyone is talking about it. Very few people are actually doing it,” Noble said in a recent TedX talk. “And those who are doing it, aren’t doing it […]
The Regenerative Qualities of Bed-Stuy Fresh & Local
Sheila Akbar and Dylan Ricards opened the doors of Bed-Stuy Fresh & Local in December 2013 with an abundance of passion but no experience in the grocery business, responding to a need they perceived for fresh, healthy, and affordable food in their neighborhood. Unlike the kind of mini-Whole-Foods clone you see in many gentrifying […]
AVPN 2016: A Conversation with Bernard Chan
From May 23 to 25, the Asian Venture Philanthropy Network (AVPN) held its annual conference for the first time in Hong Kong, away from its home base of Singapore. Among the 130 featured speakers from around the world, one of the most anticipated was Mr. Bernard Chan, a pioneer in advancing social sector work in […]
Trillium CEO, Matt Patsky, Invited to Speak at Second Vatican Conference on Impact Investing
“It is important that ethics once again play its due part in the world of finance and that markets serve the interests of peoples and the common good of humanity.” – Pope Francis JUNE 16, 2016: Trillium Asset Management’s CEO, Matt Patsky has been invited to speak at the Second Vatican Conference on Impact Investing, […]
WHAT’S JEWISH ABOUT IMPACT INVESTING?
BY AVI DEUTSCH Contrary to popular belief, eating is not inherently Jewish. In fact, nearly every Western religion employs this basic human need in the service of religious practice. It is not the eating that is Jewish, it is how we eat that makes it meaningful. The same is true of investing- it is definitely […]
How the ImPact is Making Impact Investing the New Normal for Wealthy Families
At gatherings in Davos and a series of World Economic Forum reports, Abigail Noble has tried to nudge the world’s largest asset managers toward impact investing. Done. Or at least in progress. Last year, Blackrock, the largest asset manager, and Bain Capital, announced new impact investing initiatives. Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley, Goldman […]
Toniic “Venture Philanthropists and Impact Investors” Report Release
Sharing collaboration successes and challenges Toniic Releases Venture Philanthropists & Impact Investors Report. As impact investing matures as a movement, more investment models are being deployed, especially in sectors and regions where various forms of capital are needed to support solutions to some of the world’s chronic social and environmental issues. In this report, we […]
Invest Cheese and Eat it Too at Maker’s Common
By Julie Fahnestock 310. $310,000, that is. That’s the amount of money Californians have invested into a Direct Public Offering (DPO) for the soon-to-be eatery/market, Maker’s Common. For the last five years, cheese lovers and founders of Mission Cheese and Maker’s Common, Sarah Dvorak, Oliver Dameron and Eric Miller, have positioned their first business — […]
Getting Our Hands Dirty: What’s Next in Sustainable Agriculture
Why Investing in Sustainable Agriculture is Vital to our Health and our Wealth Welcome to the new “Investing in Sustainable Agriculture” issue of the award-winning GreenMoney Journal. The issue feature numerous insightful articles on the current state of and the future of Agriculture. The four top articles are: • Organic Economics In A World […]
Overcoming the Selfishness of Sodom: Six Steps in a Jewish Approach to Impact Investing
Many of us feel a tension when it comes to money and wealth. And that’s a good thing. The ancient rabbis share a startling idea. At the moment of Divine judgment in the World to Come, they explain, the first question a person will be asked is not, “Did you pray?” nor “Did you keep […]
TBLI CONFERENCE NORDIC 2016
Invest With Values is a network partner of TBLI CONFERENCE NORDIC 2016. The TBLI CONFERENCE Series-TBLI CONFERENCE is the longest running (nearly 20 years) and largest annual global networking and learning event on Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) and Impact Investment. What to expect? TBLI is a highly respected convener of responsible investment practitioners and thought […]
Raffa Social Capital Advisors Launched To Fill the Gap Between Impact Investors and Entrepreneurs
WASHINGTON, Jun. 02 /CSRwire/ – In response to the growing needs of social impact investors, Raffa, the nation’s largest nonprofit accounting and consulting firm, has launched Raffa Social Capital Advisors (RSCA). RSCA will support social entrepreneurs seeking investment while providing impact investors much-needed data and accountability they have long sought. “Social entrepreneur start ups too […]
Are Foundations Ready to Get Off Their Assets? Endowments Have Become a Hot Topic (Podcast)
Mission-driven foundations should be the point of the spear when it comes to impact investing. Here at ImpactAlpha, we’ve been tracking the growing number of foundations who are expanding their toolsets to include loans, equity and other investments in enterprises that can deliver impact – and return capital. (See, for example, our recent deep dive […]
Gates Offers $80M to Close Gender Data Gap
By Sunny Lewis SEATTLE, Washington, May 31, 2016 (Maximpact.com News) – Compared to the lives of men, little is known about the lives of the world’s women – how much time they spend on unpaid work, if they own land, if they can get credit, if they die in childbirth, which programs meant to help […]
Clients in Conversation: Marian Moore and Lorene Arey Play BIG
Originally published in the RSF Spring Quarterly Fresh off the heels of 2016’s Play BIG, co-founder Marian Moore and attendee Lorene Arey talk takeaways from the four-day event. At Play BIG, participants—all with significant discretionary wealth—are challenged to reimagine their money in the context of the broader vision and mission of their work and their […]
Breaking the iron curtain between investing and grant-making
Private companies have the purpose to make money. Civil society organisations want to do good. Foundations need to do both – make money through investing their endowment, and contribute to social change, based on their values and mission. This hybrid character of foundations – the challenge to match the mission with the need to make […]
Why We Are Seeing A Growing Demand For Our Capital
Earlier this month Justin shared with you all news of our new increased rates. He explained that this was a result of a growing demand for impact capital in our markets. This is exciting news, not just for ourselves and our investors, but for the industry as a whole. As Justin put it, “There has […]
RPI and ESG on the Up-and-Up
Responsible Property Investment (RPI) is an approach to property investing that incorporates environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors alongside conventional financial goals. RPI strategies generally seek long term sustainable returns whilst also addressing environmental and social performance. Blog The Green Perspective As previously predicted by CBRE, the demand for ESG investment in real estate is stronger […]
Who’s Crowdfunding? A Snapshot of Week 1 of Regulation Crowdfunding
Will Regulation Crowdfunding be the game-changer that it was expected to be when the JOBS Act was signed into law four years ago? Time will tell. In the meantime, we decided to take a closer look at the offerings floated under the new rule, which opens up investment in private companies to all Americans and […]
True Peer-to-Peer Lending
By Johnny Price, Senior Director, Kiva Zip In the conventional finance model, a central institution, such as Bank of America, provides capital and decides which borrowers qualify for loans. In the peer-to-peer model, individual people brought together by the power of the Internet, in an aggregate known as “the crowd,” provide the capital and make […]
Making Markets Work for the Poor: How the Gates Foundation Uses Program-Related Investments
A new kind of strategic investor is sniffing around promising startups and innovative entrepreneurs. These strategists are not corporate suits seeking a competitive edge. They are officers of private foundations looking for scientific breakthroughs on neglected diseases, technologies that can be steered toward disadvantaged populations and financing models that harness the power of markets for […]
Behind the Most Successful Microfinance IPO in India’s History: What does gender lens investing have to do with it?
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, […]
Making Deals in Impact Investing
By Pallavi Shah, International sustainable/impact investing consultant; photographer Global Investing, May 20, 2016 (Maximpact.com News) – Impact investing is gaining traction among both large and small investors and entrepreneurs. Angels, private equity firms, and banks are expanding beyond their traditional markets and exploring deals that could generate financial returns, while also having a positive environmental or social […]
To Be Young, Wealthy and Committed to Impact: Millennials Move from Talk to Action
You may have heard more than enough about Millennials, but possibly not from wealthy Millennials themselves. Meet Alexandra and Josephine, Seth, Steph, Antonis, Adam and Chloe, Sapphira, Talia and Eric. These 20- and 30-somethings recount their personal journeys toward impact investing in “Millennials and Impact Investing,” from Toniic, the global network of impact angel investors […]
Impact Investing a Bright Spot in Emerging Markets Private Equity
Impact investing and emerging markets private equity are like twins that were separated at birth – and have once again been reunited. Approximately 20 percent of LPs said they plan to increase the value of their new emerging markets private equity commitments because they are seeking greater environmental, social and economic impact. The similarities in […]
RSF Prime: Six Years Later, Here’s How It’s Going
By John Bloom Can you imagine your bank inviting you to come and talk about your interest rate? I usually open RSF Social Finance’s quarterly pricing meetings with this question. So far, no one has said yes. That’s understandable. When we decided in late 2009 to abandon LIBOR (a move that turned out to be […]
The Currency of Self
by John Bloom Technically, money is meant to be nothing more than a holder of assigned value and to serve as a means for facilitating the exchange of goods and services. However, money is also a complicated social reality, and it is encrusted with layers of perception, values, assumptions, and behaviors. For example, we say […]
If Not Wall Street, Then Where?
Following the conversation Don Shaffer started in 2015 about RSF’s decision to seek alternatives to Wall Street, this webinar focuses on different approaches to aligning money with mission and values. Funds, firms, and advisors are now using the term impact investing but definitions and intentions are inconsistent. It can be overwhelming, even for financial professionals. […]
An Increase in Demand Means Higher Rates for Investors
In April, alongside the release of our new prospectus, Calvert Foundation raised the interest rates on our Community Investment Note®. Previous Rates New Rates- as of April 2016 3 Year 05/15/2019 5 Year 05/17/2021 10 Year 05/15/2026 15 Year 05/15/2031 We have already received a lot of questions about this change: Did this have anything […]
Seizing the Momentum: ‘But For’ These Foundations, Less Impact in Investing
Baltimore, Md. – There’s a tendency for some hardcore finance types to look down their noses at philanthropic foundations. Soft-headed. Concessionary. Anti-business. It may be time for a new view: Pioneering. Catalytic. Risk-taking. And in the nascent market for investments that generate financial returns through the creation of social and environmental benefits, perhaps essential. In the […]
IFC: How Blended Finance Helped Turn $385 Million Into More Than $4 Billion (3 of 3)
In a recent blog post, my colleague Neil Gregory has shared his thoughts on the practice of combining public and private-sector funds to financing projects with high development impact. As Neil mentioned, there are many shapes and forms in which public funds can be combined to private finance to leverage public aid dollars and crowd in […]
Can the ‘Chicago Model’ Work in Other Cities to Fill Social Capital Gaps? (Podcast)
Reactions to last week’s unveiling of Benefit Chicago recalls the story of the blind men and an elephant. Different folks saw different parts. The latest Returns on Investment podcast from ImpactAlpha looked at all aspects of the new $100 million fund. Listen to “Chicago Model” on Returns on Investment with Imogen Rose-Smith, Brian Walsh, and David Bank. Benefit Chicago will […]
The Disruption of Local Living, Investing and Cheese
(3BL Media and Just Means) – Peering through the window, San Francisco-based Mission Cheese looks like a cool cheese and wine bar, an intimate and hip place for a date or business meeting. Ask a few questions about the Bent River, Marieke Gouda or Fleur de la Valle cheeses that you ordered as part of […]
$100 Million Impact Investment Collaboration to Benefit Chicago
The Chicago Community Trust, MacArthur and Calvert Foundation announce Benefit Chicago, an innovative collaboration that aims to mobilize $100 million in impact investments for nonprofits and social enterprises in Chicago. This significant infusion of much-needed capital will provide low-interest loans and other investments to accelerate the efforts of local social sector organizations working to address […]
Sustainability Ratings: Coming to an Investment Near You
By Ben Gruitt Last month Morningstar Inc., an investment research and management firm, announced a new sustainability rating system would be available for funds on its North American and European websites as well as in Morningstar Advisor Workstation, the company’s Web-based practice management platform for advisors. The Morningstar Sustainability Rating aids investors in evaluating funds based […]
Democratic Finance for Affordable Space in NYC
New York City is the quintessential melting pot. People from all over the world come to the city in search of culture, cuisine, art and opportunity. Yet for many New Yorkers, their ability to stay in the city they’ve helped create has been compromised in recent years by soaring real estate prices. Between 2000 and […]
A Call for Systemic Impact
Foundations, Families and Funds can play a very important role in helping to redirect capitalism toward a more fair and just application, while also finding the right social enterprises to support. By playing a more comprehensive role in the creation and support of Community Capital Markets, these funding sources can build impact into a systemic […]
Green Transition Scoreboard Global Total Now $7.13 Trillion
Ethical Markets focuses on transition management’s top priority: ending externalities ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla., Apr. 22 /CSRwire/ – Ethical Markets Media welcomes Earth Day with a stunning new total for its Green Transition Scoreboard® (GTS). As of Q4 2015, the GTS totals $7.13 TRILLION cumulative in non-government investments and commitments tracked since 2007 in the global […]
IRS Widens the Scope of Program-Related Impact Investing by Foundations
Federal guidelines are finally catching up to the kind of impact investments leading philanthropic foundations have already been making in for-profit companies and other market-based approaches to social and environmental problems. The new IRS and Treasury Department guidance on so-called “program-related investments” by foundations, to be published Monday, are the latest in a series of […]
NexThought Monday: Impact and the Science of Social Networks – More Bang For Your Buck
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 […]
The Most Powerful Weapon for Changing the World: How Microfinance Institutions Can Increase Access to Education
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 […]
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