You're currently viewing:
Social investment
Yearning for earnings: what´s behind the hunger for social businesses?
In the hip barn of the twenty something owners of a horse-powered winegrowers on the coast of Maine, the rafters echoed with the buzz of wealthy young people who got together because they were excited …
So is it best to invest?
Right now lots of people are talking about social investment. We are being flooded with reports about the size of the market, the government’s desire to stimulate it and funders are increasingly thinking ‘so what …
Participating in a global community helps you innovate locally
The Global Philanthropy Forum, a community of nearly 1,800 donors and social investors, has held its 2013 conference in the middle of April in San Francisco. The event focused on debating ongoing issues like hunger, …
The challenges and lessons learned when creating bridges between finance and social impact
The 49th Social Investor Breakfast Club, held in London on 25 April, featured presentations from two very different organizations which are working to make a social impact. Bertand Beghin and Dominic Llewellyn spoke about Numbers4Good, …
Creating innovative solutions to social issues in Brazil and beyond
To work in the social field and help organizations in their development process requires the ability to read social processes with attention, effort and patience. As it is a development process, it is a process …
‘Mirror, mirror on the wall’ – an honest reflection of impact investing
I was chatting to a friend of mine in the gym the other day, taking a well-deserved water-cooler moment. He was complaining about spending so much time and money going to the gym, and that …
Measurement? There are many ways to define impact
As with many such events, at the most recent Social Investor Breakfast Club, held in London on 21 March, the discussion on ‘Impact Investing in Africa’ led to an acknowledgement that the term impact can …
Venture philanthropy more sophisticated in use of tools
For the 2011 fiscal year, the European venture philanthropy practitioners surveyed in the European Venture Philanthropy Association’s (EVPA’s) second annual industry survey reported significant increases in the amount of financial support they provided to investees. …
The need for financial literacy
Brazil is a country with mild winter, which means that for a Brazilian to hit the slopes and learn how to ski, he or she needs to be able to travel, and therefore gets to …
Social finance coming up short(er) by £2.1 billion
The signs are that the government’s big society needs to get bigger than earlier estimates suggested, at least as regards social finance. A new report from the Community Development Finance Association finds a difference of …
