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ESG Investing Outlook for 2019

January 10, 2019 By GreenMoney

Incorporating Environmental, Social and Governance factors Amidst all of the important improvements in ESG data, all of the thoughtful research reports, and all innovative new investment options, another, deeper trend has taken root. As we turn towards 2019, we see increasing evidence that systems thinking is becoming more prevalent and influential throughout corporations and the […]

Filed Under: -Impact Investing, -Sustainable-Responsible Investing Tagged With: GreenMoney Journal

The Year in Community Capital: Coops, Crowdfunding and Other Coups

January 10, 2019 By Locavesting

It’s been a head-spinning year. But amid the chaos, a lot of good progress was made in the community capital field.  Here are some of the top stories of 2018: 1. Coops Rising The United Nations designated 2012 the International Year of Cooperatives, but we would argue 2018 was the year that cooperatives really began to […]

Filed Under: -Community Investing, -Impact Investing

Weekly Impact Investment Market Update

January 9, 2019 By IWV Partner

Impact Investing & ESG How Green Wall Street Can Weather 2019 The New Year promises serious challenges for the rapidly growing number of socially conscious investors. Sustainable Investment in Asia: Ready to Take Off Broader adoption of ESG investing is now accelerating in Asia. In particular, we’re seeing a greater push by leading institutions or […]

Filed Under: -Community Investing, -Impact Investing

The Green New Deal and the shift to a new economy podcast

January 9, 2019 By IWV Partner

This week we have a panel discussion detailing the proposed Green New Deal that activists have been mobilizing for recently. We spoke with The Democracy Collaborative’s own Johanna Bozuwa, the Sierra Club’s Anthony Torres, and Sunrise Movement Co-Founder Evan Weber to explore the economic and social ramifications of a Green New Deal and the obstacles […]

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

Venture Capitalists Wear No Clothes (and Why Revenue Models Beat 10x Exits)

November 12, 2018 By Locavesting

From his perch as founder of Fledge, a network of social impact accelerators, Luni Libes has claimed the role of industry provocateur, critiquing the prevailing Silicon Valley model of investment and agitating for more aligned funding models. In particular, he’s an advocate for revenue-based funding, whether via loans or redeemable equity, where startups buy back their […]

Filed Under: -Community Investing, -Impact Investing

Weekly Impact Investment Market Update

November 7, 2018 By IWV Partner

Impact Investing & ESG Demand for ESG Investing is Knocking at Your Door…or Should Be Panelists at the InvestmentNews Women Adviser Summit discuss the opportunity of engaging clients and prospects on environmental, social and governance issues. World’s Largest Pension Fund Cites Improved ESG Adoption by Corporates Within Asia, equity portfolio from India showed the most […]

Filed Under: -Community Investing, -Impact Investing

White People: Let’s Talk About White Supremacy

October 31, 2018 By LiftEconomy

By Ryan Honeyman, Partner at LIFT Economy One question has consumed me recently: “what is the role of a white person in conversations about racial justice (especially a white, cisgender, heterosexual, non-disabled, upper middle class male who is a U.S. citizen)?” I used to think that the appropriate role for a white male of my […]

Filed Under: -Community Investing, -Impact Investing, Beyond Investing

Decarbonize, Decentralize and Democratize: Investing in a More Just Energy Future

October 31, 2018 By GreenMoney

By Jess Brooks, Chief Development Officer, Sunwealth SOURCE: GreenMoney Journal DESCRIPTION: The existing extractive energy economy isn’t working. Our dependence on coal, oil and gas contributes to global warming, the physical destruction of communities and pollution-related health issues which impact all of us – and disproportionately affect low-income people and communities of color. It’s not […]

Filed Under: -Impact Investing Tagged With: GreenMoney Journal

Climate Innovation Summit

October 30, 2018 By Brian Kaminer

EIT Climate-KIC (Knowledge and Innovation Community) is the EU’s largest public-private partnership addressing climate change through innovation. Our community consists of over 300 leading partners from business, academia, the public sector and NGOs. Our purpose is to help create a prosperous, inclusive, climate resilient society founded on a circular, zero-carbon economy. Focused on levers of […]

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

With Acquisition, A New Chapter for Vermont’s Milk Money

October 29, 2018 By Locavesting

Milk Money, a Vermont-only crowd investing portal, has been acquired, signaling a new phase for the platform—and perhaps the intrastate crowdfunding market as well. The two-year old intrastate crowdfunding platform’s new owner is the Vermont Innovation Commons, a regional innovation hub in Burlington combining a startup accelerator, co-working space and residential units under one roof. The […]

Filed Under: -Community Investing, -Impact Investing

2018 Calvert Impact Report goes live

October 29, 2018 By EthicalMarkets

Changing Markets, Changing Minds: Our 2018 Impact Report Dear Friends, We’re pleased to share our 2018 Impact Report with you. This report is the key way we provide authentic and transparent reporting to our investors and industry partners on the impact of their investments and partnership. This year we provide … Read More The full […]

Filed Under: -Impact Investing

The future of impact investing: a view from Asia

October 18, 2018 By AllianceMagazine

Within philanthropy circles, people are beginning to look beyond grants to the creation of a package of what might be called social finance, which will not only be bigger but will involve the kind of expertise traditionally considered the province of the financial industry. If the UN’s Sustainable… This article is only available for our […]

Filed Under: -Impact Investing

On Money, Race, and Power

October 17, 2018 By IWV Sponsor

Deb: I have had the good fortune of working with both of you and would love to hear more about the work that you’re doing to build a more equitable economy. Can you tell us about what you do? Deborah: I co-founded the Boston Impact Initiative, a place-based impact investing fund focused on closing the […]

Filed Under: -Impact Investing, Beyond Investing Tagged With: RSF, Sponsor

Program for Diverse Founders Targets Lack of Friends and Family Funding

October 16, 2018 By Locavesting

Most startups fund their earliest days with money from friends and family, as well as angel investors. But what if your friends and family are not wealthy—and, in fact, are more on the struggling side of the equation? That’s the stark reality for many entrepreneurs, especially those from diverse backgrounds. The average white household has […]

Filed Under: -Community Investing, -Impact Investing

Small initiatives can create huge impact

October 16, 2018 By AllianceMagazine

What would you do without your smartphone these days? We depend on it for so many activities. But not everyone is aware of how their smartphone is produced. Our phones hold a complex story of the hundreds of people who helped make it. Fairphone wants to tell that story, and positively impact the way phones […]

Filed Under: -Impact Investing

Buy The Block Empowers Black Communities to Invest in Themselves

October 3, 2018 By Locavesting

In this age of wealth inequality, runaway development and gentrification, it’s easy for communities to feel powerless in the face of rapid change. Lynn Smith founded Buy The Block, a real estate crowdfunding portal and the first portal that is African American-owned, to help change that dynamic. Smith (pictured above) has invested in real estate since […]

Filed Under: -Community Investing, -Impact Investing

Weekly Impact Investment Market Update

September 28, 2018 By IWV Partner

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 […]

Filed Under: -Community Investing, -Impact Investing

TriLinc Celebrates 5 Years of Impact Investing

September 27, 2018 By IWV Partner

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.

Filed Under: -Community Investing, -Impact Investing

Book Review: “Can Finance Save The World?”

September 27, 2018 By EthicalMarkets

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 […]

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

Women-Owned Businesses Surge, Led by Black and Latina Owners

September 25, 2018 By Locavesting

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 […]

Filed Under: -Community Investing, -Impact Investing

Fair Trade Clothing Company Grows Fast and Well

September 24, 2018 By IWV Sponsor

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 […]

Filed Under: -Impact Investing Tagged With: RSF, Sponsor

Family Office Forum on Impact Investing, San Francisco, September 12-13th, 2018

August 27, 2018 By CSRwire

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 […]

Filed Under: -Impact Investing

Weekly Impact Investment Market Update

August 27, 2018 By IWV Partner

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 […]

Filed Under: -Community Investing, -Impact Investing

What We’ve Learned in 20 Years

August 8, 2018 By IWV Partner

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 […]

Filed Under: -Impact Investing

Community Development Loan Funds: An Effective Partner for Local Impact Investing

August 7, 2018 By IWV Sponsor

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 […]

Filed Under: -Community Investing, -Impact Investing

Weekly Impact Investment Market Update

August 7, 2018 By IWV Partner

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 […]

Filed Under: -Community Investing, -Impact Investing

50 Farms and No Regrets

July 25, 2018 By GreenMoney

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 […]

Filed Under: -Impact Investing Tagged With: GreenMoney Journal

Is JOBS Act 3.0 About to Become Reality?

July 24, 2018 By Locavesting

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 […]

Filed Under: -Community Investing, -Impact Investing

40 Years in the Making

July 11, 2018 By IWV Sponsor

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 […]

Filed Under: -Community Investing, -Impact Investing

Engage the Chain: An Investor Guide to Engaging the Food Sector on Sustainability Risks

July 11, 2018 By GreenMoney

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 […]

Filed Under: -Impact Investing Tagged With: GreenMoney Journal

PCV Contributes To The Navigating Impact Project

July 10, 2018 By IWV Partner

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 […]

Filed Under: -Impact Investing

Weekly Impact Investment Market Update

July 9, 2018 By IWV Partner

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 […]

Filed Under: -Community Investing, -Impact Investing

Real Pickles: Anatomy of a Successful DPO

July 3, 2018 By Locavesting

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 […]

Filed Under: -Community Investing, -Impact Investing

Four Recent Reports Shed Light on the State of Impact Investing

June 27, 2018 By Locavesting

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 […]

Filed Under: -Community Investing, -Impact Investing

Investing For Stronger Communities

June 26, 2018 By IWV Partner

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 […]

Filed Under: -Impact Investing

Weekly Impact Investment Market Update

June 25, 2018 By IWV Partner

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 […]

Filed Under: -Community Investing, -Impact Investing

Is Your Financial Advisor ‘Best for the World’?

June 20, 2018 By Locavesting

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% […]

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

Impact investments are philanthropy’s brave new world

June 20, 2018 By AllianceMagazine

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 […]

Filed Under: -Impact Investing

Jay Coen Gilbert: B Corps & Fixing the Source Code Error in the DNA of Business

June 19, 2018 By LiftEconomy

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 […]

Filed Under: -Impact Investing

Impact Investing – Is It Possible to Have Your Cake and Eat It, Too?

June 19, 2018 By IWV Partner

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 […]

Filed Under: -Impact Investing

Investing in saltwater agriculture: the next big thing

June 18, 2018 By EthicalMarkets

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 […]

Filed Under: -Impact Investing

Weekly Impact Investment Market Update

June 18, 2018 By IWV Partner

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 […]

Filed Under: -Community Investing, -Impact Investing

20 Years Of Investing In Small Business And Big Ideas

June 7, 2018 By IWV Partner

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 […]

Filed Under: -Impact Investing

Debt-based Crowdfunding Is Quietly Generating Investor Returns

June 5, 2018 By Locavesting

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 […]

Filed Under: -Community Investing, -Impact Investing

Reflections from Mission Investors Exchange

June 5, 2018 By IWV Sponsor

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 […]

Filed Under: -Impact Investing

Impact investing assets under management doubled to $228 billion last year

June 5, 2018 By ImpactAlpha

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 […]

Filed Under: -Impact Investing

Weekly Impact Investment Market Update

June 4, 2018 By IWV Partner

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 […]

Filed Under: -Impact Investing

2018 Green Transition Scoreboard

May 30, 2018 By Brian Kaminer

“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 […]

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

The frontier of impact investing 2018 – toniic

May 29, 2018 By Brian Kaminer

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 […]

Filed Under: -Impact Investing

Obvious Ventures: Investing in Solutions for People and Planet

May 29, 2018 By Locavesting

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 […]

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