Articles by Logan Yonavjak
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Monday
September 23
2013NexThought Monday – Making Social, Environment Standards – Standard: The days of pure financial reporting for public companies are numbered
As it turns out, environmental and social reporting doesn’t even require a change in legislation. Since 1982 public companies have been required to disclose “material” information in their 10-k filing requirements with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) under a legal framework called the S-K. The problem is, no one has defined what that means, until now.
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- Environment, Impact Assessment
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- impact investing
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Friday
April 5
2013Want Healthier Food? Pay Farmers to Manage Nutrient Flows: The movement toward “ecosystem services” compensation
Farmers have traditionally made their money by producing food. But the growing awareness of the relationship between healthy ecosystems and healthy foods is leading some to consider other forms of compensation. Farmers may be paid to control water flow or sequester carbon dioxide on their property, for example. As part of their Nutrients for All campaign, Ashoka Changemakers explores some of these emerging compensation approaches.
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- Agriculture, Environment, Health Care
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- nutrition, public health
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Wednesday
March 20
2013Which Leading Investors are Seeking Profit and 100% Impact by 2020?: A push for the ‘Investing Pledge’ at the IMN Impact Investing Summit
Three leading investors shared how they are “Seeking Impact and Sustainable Investments” at the inaugural IMN Impact Investing Summit last week in Huntington Beach, CA. While most conference panels are mostly “talk,” this discussion described real investor commitments that seek positive financial, social and environmental gains. The panel also showcased a new initiative: The Investing Pledge, a society-wide, cross-sector collaborative opportunity for impact investors across all geographies to come together to build a better world across all asset classes in their portfolio.
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- impact investing
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Friday
February 22
2013A New Business Model for Farmers in the Nutrient Economy
You could argue that a more comprehensive, albeit wonky, word for farmer is “nutrient steward.” Unfortunately, most farmers are only compensated for their end products, like corn and cotton. In reality, however, farmers are stewarding the nutrient processes that result in these end products. So why shouldn’t they be compensated for these services?
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- Agriculture, Environment, Health Care
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- nutrition, public health
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Thursday
November 29
2012Creating a Sense of Place By Investing Locally: Strategies for rebuilding community wealth in the U.S., globally
As more and more impact industry leaders think about how to invest locally, and as more people become interested in opportunities to do so, the impact sector has to come up with resources to educate people. It also must offer them opportunities to invest, whether through platforms such as Microplace or through Direct Public Offerings (DPOs)
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- impact investing
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Monday
October 15
2012Peering Through a Gender Lens at SOCAP12
I was invited to join a fascinating conversation at SOCAP12 about Gender Lens investing. Criterion Institute, one of the main organizations driving the conversation, describes a “Gender Lens “as a viewfinder that reveals opportunities for the world of investing with a focus on women and girls. The goal of Gender Lens investing is to drive increased investing and return through the implementation of a Gender Lens.
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Wednesday
September 19
2012The IRIS Registry: Bringing Metrics to Life for the Impact Sector
The IRIS registry is a platform created by the Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN), a not-for-profit organization, which since its founding in 2009 has been dedicated to increasing the scale and effectiveness of impact investing. The Registry functions as a directory that provides transparency into the IRIS metrics regularly in use by various organizations; it also allows users to browse organization profiles by the sector focus, impact goals, and target regions of the listing organization.
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- Impact Assessment
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- impact investing
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Tuesday
August 14
2012Financing Business Skills Development for Impact Enterprises: Who Pays?
One of the main barriers preventing small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) from getting to scale in emerging economies is a lack of core business skills. To meet this need, a plethora of stand-alone business incubators and accelerators have emerged over recent years. All play a critical role in preparing companies for the market, but who ends up footing the bill?
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