Investing in people and ideas that can change the world.
Impact Capitalism Summit
Learn how to deploy capital to make a positive impact while still maximizing returns.
Investing for Impact
Mini-conferences designed to educate investors and investment professionals.
US Sustainable, Responsible and Impact Investing Trends | US SIF
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3BL Media
News and content distribution for innovative companies.
Sonen Capital
Sonen Capital is a specialized investment management firm dedicated to investors seeking financial returns with lasting social and environmental impact.
Investor’s Circle
Investors’ Circle is the oldest, largest and most successful early-stage impact investing network. Together with hundreds of angels, venture capitalists, foundations and family offices, we have propelled $172 million plus $4 billion in follow on investment into 271 enterprises dedicated to improving the environment, education, health and community. IC’s mission is to promote the transition to a sustainable economy by increasing the flow of capital to enterprises that are addressing social and environmental challenges.
Big Path Capital
Five Fund Forum – A showcase of five investment funds across the spectrum of sustainability including clean energy, microfinance, energy efficiency, sustainable agriculture, impact, green consumer products and others. The event is invitation-only. Presented by Big Path Capital.
Impact Investing 2.0 – The Way Forward, Insight from 12 Outstanding Funds
Impact Investing 2.0 – What $3 billion tells us about the next $300 billion
Community Development Venture Capital Alliance (CDVCA)
Community Development Venture Capital Alliance (CDVCA) The network for the field of community development venture capital (CDVC) investing. CDVC funds provide equity capital to businesses in underinvested markets, seeking market-rate financial returns, as well as the creation of good jobs, wealth, and entrepreneurial capacity. CDVCA promotes the field by combining advocacy, education, communications, and best-practice dissemination through conferences and workshops. CDVCA makes its expertise available to CDVC funds by providing consulting services and technical assistance.
Pipeline Fellowship
The Pipeline Fellowship, an angel investing bootcamp for women, works to increase diversity in the U.S. angel investing community and creates capital for women social entrepreneurs.
Five Fund Forum
Five Fund Forum – A showcase of five investment funds across the spectrum of sustainability including clean energy, microfinance, energy efficiency, sustainable agriculture, impact, green consumer products and others. The event is invitation-only. Presented by Watershed Capital
Symgen
The SymGen.us platform is a news aggregation tool to find the latest information on the sharing economy, cooperative economy, social solidarity economy, green economy, new economy, as well as the types of enterprises and development strategies contained therein.
Definition from GIIRS
Investor
Investors’ Circle is the oldest, largest and most successful early-stage impact investing network. Together with hundreds of angels, venture capitalists, foundations and family offices, we have propelled $172 million plus $4 billion in follow on investment into 271 enterprises dedicated to improving the environment, education, health and community. IC’s mission is to promote the transition to a sustainable economy by increasing the flow of capital to enterprises that are addressing social and environmental challenges
Portfolio for the Planet : Lessons from 10 Years of Impact Investing
Portfolio for the Planet : Lessons from 10 Years of Impact Investing
Impact investing: Happy returns | The Economist
Impact investing: Happy returns | The Economist
How to Do Impact Investing | World Economic Forum
From Ideas to Practice, Pilots to Strategy Practical Solutions and Actionable Insights on How to Do Impact Investing
Definition from GIIN
Intellecap Impact Investing Network, I3N
The Intellecap Impact Investment Network (I3N or I-cube-N) is India’s first angel investment network focused on funding early stage impact enterprises. I3N is promoted by Intellecap. We are a unique platform for investors who are willing to support daring young entrepreneurs with cutting-edge solutions to solve problems at the bottom of our social pyramid.
Collaborative Capitalism and the Rise of Impact Investing 2014
Collaborative Capitalism and the Rise of Impact Investing sees these movements as signs of a much more fundamental shift, as finance as a whole responds to an increased consumer demand for market transparency
Impact Investing Monthly
Social Capital Markets and CSRwire have partnered to bring you Impact Investing Monthly, a monthly newsletter featuring the best in global impact investing news. Each month this newsletter provides editorials, interviews, videos and more from leading global thought leaders and practitioners who are evolving the impact investing space.
Blended Value Map
The Blended Value Map: Tracking the Intersects and Opportunities of Economic, Social and Environmental Value Creation
Case Foundation
Case Foundation’s working version of A Short Guide to Impact Investing — a basic primer to help individuals better understand how business can drive social change and create social impact. We’ve talked with hundreds from the impact investing community to create this document and now we want to hear from you.
GIIN
The Global Impact Investing Network is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization dedicated to increasing the scale and effectiveness of impact investing. The GIIN addresses systemic barriers to effective impact investing by building critical infrastructure and developing activities, education, and research that attract more investment capital to poverty alleviation and environmental solutions.
Slow Money
Slow Money
Impact Alpha
ImpactAlpha is chronicling the emergence of this investment thesis from the margins into the mainstream. From the handful of high-net worth individuals and forward-thinking foundations that today represent perhaps $40 billion in capital committed to impact investing, to pension funds and other institutional asset managers that represent the tens of trillions in capital that will be invested in the sustainable future.
Investing for Social and Environmental Impact – Monitor Institute
Investing for Social and Environmental Impact – Monitor Institute
Social Finance Israel
Social Finance Israel (SFI) is a financial intermediary that aims to provide both social and financial returns to investors. SFI will issue social-financial products, such as Social Impact Bonds, in order to raise new capital for the most effective not-for-profit organizations in Israel, tackling the country’s most pressing social and economic issues, while delivering monetary returns to investors.
Clearly Social Angels –
Clearly Social Angels (CSA) is the UK’s first angel network dedicated to businesses that create positive social change.
The Power of Impact Investing
In The Power of Impact Investing, Rockefeller Foundation president Judith Rodin and Margot Brandenburg, two of the foremost experts in the field, explain what impact investing is, how it compares to philanthropy and traditional investments, where opportunities are evolving around the world, and how to get started.
Gateways to Impact
Gateways to Impact
RSF Social Finance
RSF Social Finance (RSF) is a pioneering non-profit financial services organization dedicated to transforming the way the world works with money. In partnership with a community of investors and donors, RSF provides capital to non-profit and for-profit social enterprises addressing key issues in the areas of Food & Agriculture, Education & the Arts, and Ecological Stewardship. RSF offers investing, lending and giving services that generate positive social and environmental impact while fostering community and collaboration among participants. Since 1984, RSF has made over $275 million in loans and $100 million in grants to non-profit and for-profit social enterprises in its focus areas.
Social Finance UK
Social Finance is a not for profit organisation that partners with the government, the social sector and the financial community to find better ways of tackling social problems in the UK and beyond.
Social Finance US
Founded in January 2011, Social Finance US is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that is dedicated to mobilizing investment capital to drive social progress. We believe that everyone deserves the opportunity to thrive, and that social impact financing can play a catalytic role in creating these opportunities.
The Responsible Entrepreneur
The Responsible Entrepreneur offers a blueprint for this new kind of business leadership, describing the means by which any entrepreneur can pursue a higher order of work. In it, Carol Sanford, one of the most trusted names in responsible business development, brings her vast expertise in helping executives and corporations to the entrepreneur looking to launch and scale a venture.
Decoding Impact Investing’s Alphabet Soup of Measurement Tools
Decoding Impact Investing’s Alphabet Soup of Measurement Tools
Reimagine Money (RSF Social Finance)
RSF Social Finance believes that inquiry and dialogue are essential tools for transforming the way we work with money. We are committed to creating frequent opportunities for our community to engage in exploring the role of money and finance in our lives.
Boundless Impact –
Boundless Impact is a learning community helping investors maximize the impact of their capital.
Liquidnet’s 2012 “Markets for Good” Challenge
Local Dollars, Local Sense
Local Dollars, Local Sense
Impact at Scale
Impact at Scale
RSF Social Finance
The RSF Donor Advised Fund is a charitable giving vehicle that allows an individual, group, family, corporation, trust, or foundation to make a tax-deductible contribution to RSF, and then recommend grants from that contribution to qualified non-profit organizations. Donors not only receive an immediate tax deduction and back-office services, they also gain access to RSF
SVX
An impact first platform connecting social ventures, impact funds, and impact investors.
Prezi: Spectrum of Markets
Spectrum of Markets
The Nature of Investing
The Nature of Investing
Harnessing the Power of Impact Investing : The Rockefeller
Harnessing the Power of Impact Investing : The Rockefeller
Grassroots Capital Management
Grassroots Capital Management (GCM) is an impact investment manager based in the US. Together with its India partner, Caspian Advisors, GCM launched six funds since 2003, capitalization exceeding $300mm. Investments focus on microfinance in emerging markets but include housing, SME and sustainable agriculture. Currently GCM is exploring investment possibilities in sustainable food systems in the US northeast.
Social Stock Exchange
The Social Stock Exchange launched as an information platform for investors seeking to access impact opportunities on the public markets. Through its platform, member companies have the opportunity to articulate and evidence their social and environmental credentials through the production of an independently assessed Impact Report. The Social Stock Exchange was set up to help unlock capital at scale, via a growing community of global impact investors, for all organisations and businesses that create an evidenced social or environmental impact through their core activities.
Impact Investing 101
Impact Investing graphic. There is a spectrum of investors, capital and enterprises.