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.
Total Portfolio Activation | Trillium Asset Management
Total Portfolio Activation | Trillium Asset Management
MicroVest Capital Funds
MicroVest seeks partners to build capital markets that work for the world’s entrepreneurial poor. We seek sustainable solutions to poverty by facilitating the flow of international private capital to low-income financial institutions. We believe a commercial approach offers the most effective, scalable, and sustainable solution for generating a positive impact in the developing world while achieving market financial returns to our investors.
Mission Markets –
An independent capital marketplace and community network for the impact and impact-related investing markets. They make it easier to source, research and move capital into investments that have a positive social & environmental impact.
MaxImpact –
Maximpact impact investing network is an web-based metaportal designed to increase the depth and effectiveness of impact investment across the globe. It operates as a secure listing service that allows entrepreneurs, intermediaries and funders to share information about impact investment deals online.
Social Impact Investing
Social Impact Investing
Impact Investments | J.P. Morgan
Impact Investments | J.P. Morgan
Calvert Foundation
Calvert Foundation enables people to invest for social good. Through the Community Investment Note, they connect individual investors with organizations working around the globe, developing affordable housing, creating jobs, protecting the environment, and working in numerous other ways for the social good.
GATE impact –
GATE Impact fulfills the increasing global demand for market infrastructure enabling capital to identify & transact investments that provide sustainable social and environmental benefits in addition to financial returns.
Impact Investor
Impact Investor was developed by the Social Stock Exchange as the first truly comprehensive resource to meet the needs of those people who wish to explore investing in businesses that deliver an impact _ be that social, environmental or ethical _ alongside a financial return. Our website provides a content rich portal where engaged users are able to learn about the significance and scale of the global impact investing market, whilst exploring the growing swathe of opportunities available to those investors who wish to put their money to work for more than just financial gains.
Huffington Post
News
When Can Impact Investing Create Real Impact
When Can Impact Investing Create Real Impact
Calvert Foundation
Calvert Foundation enables people to invest for social good. Through the Community Investment Note, we connect individual investors with organizations working around the globe, developing affordable housing, creating jobs, protecting the environment, and working in numerous other ways for the social good.
CapNexus –
An online database that matches money and partners to community development finance opportunities.
ImpactSpace
ImpactSpace is the open data and resources platform powering the global impact market. We are making this information available to everyone and maintainable by anyone.
Green Money
Green Money
Spotlight on the Market – – The Impact Investor Survey | JP Morgan & The GIIN
This report presents the findings of the fourth annual impact investor survey conducted by The Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN) and J.P. Morgan. Building upon the surveys from previous years, we have taken a deeper dive into certain thematic areas this year, both through the survey and through our own desk research.
Investors’ Circle
Beyond the Pitch events are hosted by Investors’ Circle. They deliver promising entrepreneurs, quality company presentations, and investor engagement – with the extra IC elements that go beyond – facilitated investor conversations, immediate entrepreneur follow-up, and real opportunities to jump into due diligence.
asiaIIX –
Impact Investment Exchange (Asia) (IIX) is the home of Asia’s first private and public platforms for Social Enterprises (SEs) to raise capital efficiently. To provide Social Enterprises in Asia with greater access to capital, allowing them to more rapidly expand the impact of their activities.
ImpactBase
ImpactBase is the searchable, online database of impact investment funds and products designed for accredited investors and investment managers.
Impact Investing
Impact Investing
Impact Investing 2.0 – The Way Forward, Insight from 12 Outstanding Funds
The Impact Investor Project was established in 2012 as a two-year research partnership between InSight at Pacific Community Ventures, CASE at Duke University, and ImpactAssets. The goal was simple: supplant the guesswork and conjecture in impact investing with solid evidence of high performance and, in the process, expose the concrete practices of outstanding funds for use as the foundation for a more sophisticated and successful market.
Toniic
Toniic is a global network of action-oriented impact investors, both individuals and institutions. We increase the velocity of money and services into impact investing to address global challenges. Our members commit to discover, evaluate, nurture and invest in entrepreneurs, enterprises and funds that promote a just and sustainable economy. Toniic has members in over 20 countries and its members have invested in over 15 countries.
ImpactAssets 50: A Global Landscape of Impact Investment Fund Managers
The ImpactAssets 50 (IA 50) is the first publicly available database of experienced private debt and equity impact investment fund managers.
Locavesting
Locavesting
Private Capital, Public Good
This report, Private Capital, Public Good: How Smart Federal Policy Can Galvanize Impact Investing – and Why It’s Urgent (June 2014), by the US National Advisory Board on Impact Investing (NAB) provides a framework for federal policy action in support of impact investing.
Enable Impact
To provide a platform where social entrepreneurs, impact investors, and impact programs focused on solving challenging social, ecological, and humanitarian issues can connect and thrive.
Slow Money
Slow Money is bringing people together around a shared vision about what it means to be an investor in the 21st Century: Money can erode. Or money can nurture. Millions of us, slowing just a little of our money down, can begin to create the nurture capital industry—as important to the next generation as venture capital has been to this generation. Looking at philanthropy and investment through the lens of food, soil and place, we will find new ways to rebuild trust and to support millions of small acts of entrepreneurial care.
Global Impact Investment Map – GIIMAP
Focused on Mexico and Latin America, GIIMAP is the first collaborative platform for mapping organizations and individuals working across the global in the impact investing space. These actors include funders, investors, technical support organizations, business development service providers, consultants, researchers, small and growing businesses (SGBs) and social entrepreneurs.
Evolution of an Impact Portfolio: From Implementation to Results
Evolution of an Impact Portfolio: From Implementation to Results demonstrates to investors that impact investments can compete with, and at times outperform, traditional asset allocation strategies while pursuing meaningful and measurable social and environmental impact results.
Social Funds
Social Funds – List of CDVC funds
Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is Community (PYMWYMIC)
Pymwymic is Europe’s most active and longest-standing community of impact investors. Created originally in 1994 by Europe’s (then) ‘next-gen’ influencers, Pymwymic has for 20 years, advocated, catalyzed and invested into impact enterprise. Over years we’ve together invested many millions, helped 45+ companies with significant seed or growth funding, and supported and connection.
Fundpeak
Impact Database is a platform which allows impact investors to search and analyze impact investing funds and products. It also helps with ongoing performance monitoring.
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