Impact Investing & ESG Why Foundations Should Step Up their Game in Impact Investing There’s a growing number of people in the world of social entrepreneurship focused on not just building impact-oriented companies, but on creating a more fundamental systemic change. Impact Investment: Private Equity Puts Its Money Where Its Mouth Hasn’t Been Impact investing […]
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TriLinc Celebrates 5 Years of Impact Investing
TriLinc celebrates 5 years of its impact investing strategy: Private Debt Plus®. The post TriLinc Celebrates 5 Years of Impact Investing appeared first on TriLinc.
Book Review: “Can Finance Save The World?”
Book Review: “Can Finance Save The World?” Jan. 30, 2018 12:44 PM ET Hazel Henderson Green Economy, Circular Economy, energy, natural resources Ethical Markets SUMMARY Former banker Bertrand Badré aims to re-direct global finance toward the common good. This visionary book’s foreword is by French President Emmanuel Macron. Britain’s Gordon Brown also supports Badré’s vision […]
Women-Owned Businesses Surge, Led by Black and Latina Owners
Women are creating more businesses than their male counterparts, and African American and Latina women are driving that trend. However, women, especially non-white women, still lag in revenue and job creation. Those are some of the top line findings from the 2018 State of Women-Owned Businesses Report, an annual report commissioned by American Express and prepared […]
Fair Trade Clothing Company Grows Fast and Well
When Kate Fisher and Henry Schwab, the owners of Synergy Organic Clothing, received their first order from Whole Foods Market in 2014, they were thrilled. The husband-and-wife team had sold their organic cotton clothing in their three retail stores and at festival booths nationwide for years, all the while aspiring to a bigger stage. So […]
Family Office Forum on Impact Investing, San Francisco, September 12-13th, 2018
Prestel & Partner launches its first Family Office Forum in the US, September 12th & 13th in San Francisco, an exchange between family offices, major private investors, other wealth owners, and select few partners with topical expertise. “We bring together 100+ Family Offices and Ultra-High Net-Worth Individuals (UHNWIs) to each forum and our participants attend our events to gain knowledge and […]
Weekly Impact Investment Market Update
Impact Investing & ESG To Invest for Impact, We Need to Start by Agreeing What ‘Impact’ Means Michele Giddens, partner at Bridges Fund Management, explains how the Impact Management Project is the first sector-wide effort to produce a commonly-recognized convention for analyzing and talking about impact. State of the Small & Growing Business Sector- 2017 […]
What We’ve Learned in 20 Years
We’re working against a hard, ingrained problem that’s existed since before we were founded – it’s the problem of building and shaping an economy that first and foremost creates good-quality jobs. In the introduction to PCV’s first social impact report from 1999, our founders Bud Colligan and Penelope Douglas wrote, “No one could ask for […]
Community Development Loan Funds: An Effective Partner for Local Impact Investing
Bonny Moellenbrock, LOCUS’ advisor, shares insights on how Community Development Loan Funds (CDLFs) can be used for impact investing. This spring, the Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN) and investment firm Symbiotics released The Financial Performance of Impact Investing Through Private Debt, the latest in a series of reports benchmarking impact investing opportunities in different asset […]
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Impact Investing & ESG The Rise of ESG & Sustainable Governance in Blockchain A changing of the guard is taking place right now, as the Baby Boomer generation moves into retirement and Millennials form a growing proportion of total capital investments. The Rise of B Corps Highlights the Emergence of a New Way of Doing […]
50 Farms and No Regrets
Iroquois Valley Farms Organic Farmland REIT Iroquois Valley Farms has reached a milestone: This spring we added the 50th farm to our portfolio. Our farmland REIT — honored as a “Best for the World” company from B Labs — provides secure land tenure for 35 farm families working nearly 9,000 acres of farmland. More families […]
Is JOBS Act 3.0 About to Become Reality?
Investment crowdfunding may finally get the fixes that advocates have long called for. On Wednesday, a sweeping collection of bipartisan bills known collectively as the JOBS Act 3.0 passed the House of Representatives with broad support. The package now moves to the Senate. Sponsored by House Financial Services Committee Chairman Jeb Hensarling (R-TX) and Ranking […]
40 Years in the Making
Ms. Jessie Ball’s fortunes changed in 1920. It was during this year that Jessie, having returned to her childhood home in the Northern Neck of Virginia, reconnected with a long-time friend, Mr. Alfred I. duPont – of the distinguished duPont Family. Shortly thereafter, the two wed, and Jessie adopted the name that would become associated […]
Engage the Chain: An Investor Guide to Engaging the Food Sector on Sustainability Risks
In April, Greenpeace released video footage showing that a palm oil supplier for major food companies, the Hayel Saeed Anam Group was destroying large swaths of rainforest in Indonesia, despite concerted efforts by industry stakeholders to stop forest destruction in palm oil supply chains. The repercussions for Hayel Saeed Anam Group are still unfolding, but recent […]
PCV Contributes To The Navigating Impact Project
We have some exciting news: the new financial inclusion theme of the our partner the Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN)’s Navigating Impact project is live! Created in consultation with several hundred industry experts, impact investors, and standards setters, the Navigating Impact project provides an on-ramp to setting and streamlining impact strategies. Led by SPTF, this […]
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Impact Investing & ESG 5 Things About Sustainable Investing in the First Half of 2018 Five key takeaways from sustainable investing in the first half of 2018. Legendary Investor’s Embrace of Sustainable Investing is New, but the Movement Isn’t Earlier this month, hedge fund manager Paul Tudor Jones made headlines across the financial press with […]
Real Pickles: Anatomy of a Successful DPO
Long before the JOBS Act and state-specific laws legalized investment crowdfunding, there was the direct public offering, or DPO, a sort of do-it-yourself IPO. Kassandra Mayhew of Cutting Edge Capital recently talked to Real Pickles cofounder Addie Rose Holland (pictured at left) about how a DPO helped the Greenfield, MA company transition to a worker-owned cooperative and preserve its […]
Four Recent Reports Shed Light on the State of Impact Investing
Having trouble keeping up with the latest developments in the world of impact investing? Allow us to help. We dove into the weeds of four of the field’s most notable recent studies, extracting the most interesting findings for you. Some of the key themes involve the mainstreaming of impact investing, the vital role that women […]
Investing For Stronger Communities
The more things change, the more they stay the same. In PCV’s first social impact report from 1999 our founders Bud Colligan and Penelope Douglas wrote, “No one could ask for more business activity than the country has seen in the last eight years, yet lower-income people are not any better off and many communities […]
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Impact Investing & ESG Money Managers are Flocking to a $23 Trillion Investing Strategy that Morgan Stanley Says is Ready to Take Off Environmental, social, and governance investing — also known as ESG — has exploded in popularity, with roughly $23 trillion being invested with at least a partial ESG mandate. Investors are Right to […]
Is Your Financial Advisor ‘Best for the World’?
Impact investing is going mainstream. But while you may rest easier knowing that your nest egg is making a positive contribution to society (as well as your financial position), what about the financial intermediaries in your life? Every year, B Lab publishes a list of “Best for the World” B Corps—those that rank in the top 10% […]
Impact investments are philanthropy’s brave new world
The synchronisation of asset portfolios and donations within a joint mission is the way forward if philanthropic foundations and funds are to maximise their impact and value. That’s the view of impact-investment organisation GIIN. But what is needed to achieve this brave new world? When foundations develop new strategies, they are often designed with sharp […]
Jay Coen Gilbert: B Corps & Fixing the Source Code Error in the DNA of Business
Despite having no game, Jay Coen Gilbert co-founded and sold AND 1, a $250M basketball footwear and apparel company based outside Philadelphia. He led AND 1’s product and marketing for 13 years and was AND 1’s Chief Executive Officer during its period of most rapid growth. He is also cofounder of B Lab, a nonprofit […]
Impact Investing – Is It Possible to Have Your Cake and Eat It, Too?
Is it actually possible to create investments that offer impact while at the same time returning market-rate financial returns? We interviewed Gloria Nelund of TriLinc Global, an investment sponsor with the mission of doing exactly that. Vanderbilt: What do you see as the #1 reason you’ve been able to perform as well as you’ve been able to, creating […]
Investing in saltwater agriculture: the next big thing
In this program, Hazel Henderson and NASA Chief Scientist Dennis Bushnell continue their exploration of the massive global potential in shifting over-investments in food and agriculture dependent on the planet’s 3% of freshwater to the other halt of the plant kingdom: the 10,000 salt-loving (halophyte) plants that can fill human food and fuel needs for […]
Weekly Impact Investment Market Update
Impact Investing & ESG Can Impact Investing Avoid the Failures of Microfinance? The impact investment industry is growing rapidly. In 2010, J.P Morgan projected up to $1T in investment would be deployed this decade — which would make impact investing twice the size of official development aid to the world’s less develop countries. Getting Asia […]
20 Years Of Investing In Small Business And Big Ideas
Too many people struggle to make ends meet because they’re denied opportunities to prosper. Over our 20-year history, Pacific Community Ventures has given people a fair shake and access to the things that make communities strong, like good jobs, affordable housing, and healthy food. Our unique combination of fair lending, free mentorship, skilled volunteerism, and […]
Debt-based Crowdfunding Is Quietly Generating Investor Returns
Crowdfunding success is often measured by the number of campaigns meeting their funding targets and the dollars raised. But what about the investor side of the equation? It’s still very early, and there are no industry-wide performance metrics that measure investor returns. But there are inklings. Some investment crowdfunding portals have lately taken to reporting […]
Reflections from Mission Investors Exchange
I attended my first Mission Investors Exchange (MIE) conference in Chicago (May 14-16), along with several other members of the LOCUS team. I challenged myself and my colleagues to listen and learn, with our place-focused foundation partners in mind. What reflections or insights could we bring back and share that might be helpful to a […]
Impact investing assets under management doubled to $228 billion last year
ImpactAlpha, May 31 – The Global Impact Investing Network’s Amit Bouri dropped the figure in an interview with Business Insider ahead of the release of GIIN’s annual investor survey next week. The new figure, which tallies actual responses to the survey, represents the new “floor” for the industry and a year-over-year doubling of impact assets under […]
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Impact Investing & ESG Give the People What They Want: Socially Responsible Investments in 401(k)s If you spend much time reading the financial press nowadays, it’s likely that you’ve come across more than a few articles discussing the growing popularity of investing according to various social and environmental mandates. Ahead of the Curve: Valuable Tools […]
2018 Green Transition Scoreboard
“WORLDWIDE EVIDENCE FOODS FROM SALTWATER AGRICULTURE ARE BETTER FOR HUMANS AND CLIMATE” Ethical Markets’ 2018 Green Transition Scoreboard® finds $9.3 trillion of private investments in green sectors worldwide, cumulatively since 2007. This 2018 report: “CAPTURING CO2 WHILE IMPROVING HUMAN NUTRITION & HEALTH” also focuses on how productive capture of CO2 is making useful products and how expanding […]
The frontier of impact investing 2018 – toniic
Investors Accelerate Toward 100% Impact New report from Toniic provides evidence that investors are going farther, faster and deeper into impact, while meeting their targeted financial and impact returns SAN FRANCISCO/NEW YORK, May 24, 2018—100% impact portfolios are getting easier to build, the pioneers behind them are accelerating their shift to deeper impact, and investors […]
Obvious Ventures: Investing in Solutions for People and Planet
Entrepreneurs are often lauded as “disruptors” in their fields. But what about funders? Early stage venture capital firm Obvious Ventures is betting on a way of investing that disrupts the process at its core. The Silicon Valley-based firm makes investments in what it calls “world positive” companies, or “startups that create new solutions to big world problems in […]
Beyond neoliberalism, 100% impact network, Abraaj health fund in play, longevity economy
Pushing impact investing beyond neoliberalism. Just what is impact investing’s “theory of change”? “If you think the market economy needs to be changed, and I do, this is not the way to do that,” the Hewlett Foundation’s Larry Kramer told other foundation leaders last week. In this week’s column, ImpactAlpha’s David Bank writes, “I’m no […]
Slow Living Summit 2018 – Future of Farm & Food Entrepreneurship
How can you create and grow a resilient food business that affects your community in a positive way, while supporting your family? The Future of Farm & Food Entrepreneurship Summit 2018 focuses on growing conscious food and agriculture businesses, giving current and aspiring entrepreneurs the tools, resources, and mentorship needed to evolve businesses, create positive […]
Three ways collaboration could potentially advance place-based impact investing
Place-based impact investing is gaining momentum in philanthropy, helping communities grow small businesses, create high-wage jobs, and increase the supply of affordable housing. Rather than going at this practice alone, many foundations, especially small and midsize foundations, are designing innovative ways to work with each other and leverage their own investment capital and the capital of others to make […]
What Will You Do to Shift Capital?
I’ve had a busy month spread over Detroit, Jersey City, Chicago, and New York connecting with BALLE Network Leaders. Through our discussions, several themes have emerged, but one area of inquiry has stood out to me personally: How can BALLE catalyze a greater shift in capital to address the most urgent needs in our communities? […]
For Regulation Crowdfunding, a Glass Half Full
Two years ago today, Regulation Crowdfunding went into effect with a promise to transform the investment landscape for entrepreneurs as well as investors. So how’s it working out? In the first two years, 910 businesses have used the Regulation Crowdfunding exemption (aka Title III of the JOBS Act) which allows them to raise up to […]
Building the Foundations of Economies That Work For All
The first immersion of the 2018 BALLE Local Economy Fellows took place April 22-26 at Evan’s Mill, a nature-and-retreat center in Smithville, Tennessee, a small town that is about an hour east of Nashville. For BALLE, this marks its fifth class of Fellows, meaning that a sizeable Fellowship “alumni” network now exists. It also means that […]
Place-based impact, talking system-change at MIE, Rise Fund’s first Africa investment, Michigan fund-of-funds
Impact investors rediscover the power of ‘place.’ Invest in where you know. From downtown Detroit and Chicago to communities across Central Appalachia and the Navajo Nation, “place-based investing” is taking off. Private investors are tapping civic leaders, community foundations and local nonprofits to find opportunities to finance small businesses, schools, health clinics and urban infrastructure. A […]
RSF Collaboratives: Filling a Funding Gap
Before joining RSF Social Finance’s leadership team two years ago, I spent fifteen years leading Social Venture Network, a community of mission-driven entrepreneurs and impact investors. During that time, I got to know hundreds of social entrepreneurs who had launched companies and nonprofits that were tackling some of our most pressing social and environmental challenges. […]
Weekly Impact Investment Market Update
Impact Investing & ESG How Socially Responsible Investing Can Help You Avoid Catastrophic Drops within Your Portfolio Martin Kremenstein, head of retirement and ETF solutions at Nuveen, explains how ESG metrics serve as an indicator of quality and can be used as a risk management tool. ESG Reins in Volatility after Rough Start Critics of […]
7 Questions for Suzette Hibble, SHE Photography
There’s no doubt about it – Suzette Hibble is an amazing photographer who is elevating female entrepreneurs with her photography business, SHE Photography, A Suzette Hibble Experience. Suzette creates images that tell a story about each entrepreneur – who they are, what they do, and what unique talents they bring to their clients. Such skillfully […]
A #MeToo moment for impact investing, unlocking refugee talent, a fund for black women founders
Opportunity Collaboration reckons with a #MeToo moment in impact investing. Powerbrokers have become pariahs in Hollywood, Silicon Valley, Washington, Wall Street and beyond. Claims of sexual harassment have roiled the social-impact world as well, leading to resignations at the nonprofit Defy Ventures and the Silicon Valley Community Foundation. At this week’s Opportunity Collaboration gathering in Florida, […]
Charles Eisenstein: Awakened By A New and Ancient Story That We’ve Known All Along
Charles Eisenstein is a teacher, speaker, human being, voracious reader, and writer focusing on themes of civilization, consciousness, money, and human cultural evolution. His books (see Resources section below) as well as his other essays and blog posts, and other media have generated a vast online following. He speaks frequently at conferences and other events, […]
Making Local Wealth Stick
Across the United States, LOCUS estimates that $9 trillion will transfer from one generation to the next by 2029. When you dig into the numbers, it’s clear that communities – rural and urban, wealthy and poor – have assets. The challenge for community philanthropy is how to turn that wealth into what a community really […]
TBLI Conference Nordic-November 8-9, Nasdaq, Stockholm Sweden
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 the worlds leading authority on ESG and Impact Investing and has been curating content for TBLi Conference, for over 20 years.With a track record […]
Pacific Community Ventures Receives $3.2M from the Quality Jobs Fund
We’re excited to announce that we’ve been awarded a $3.2M impact investment from The Quality Jobs Funds. The Fund, seeded with a charitable donation of $100M, has made the investment with Pacific Community Ventures, a nationally-recognized CDFI, to support Bay Area small businesses. Pacific Community Ventures (PCV) will leverage this investment to deploy more than $5 million in loans […]
RSF Prime Rate Change
On April 1, 2018, RSF Social Finance increased its RSF Prime base interest rate for borrowers by 0.25% to 5.25%. The other participants in the Social Investment Fund (SIF) are affected as follows: the investor rate is now 1.00%, up from 0.75%, and the RSF revenue share remains at 4.25%. RSF Prime is reset each […]
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