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
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