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Viewpoint: Scaling Impact Investing Using Blockchain Technology
Most opportunities empower socio-environmental causes in developing or underdeveloped nations where typically there are no standards and norms to regulate this sector. This creates transparency challenges for investors who lack visibility into how their patient capital is being used (or potentially misused).
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Press Release: LISC Names Annie Donovan as New COO
The Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC) has named Annie Donovan, former director of the federal Community Development Financial Institutions Fund (CDFI Fund) and a national thought leader on community investing, as its new chief operating officer.
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- Investing
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- North America
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Press Release: Tides Canada Launches First Customizable Donor Advised Fund to Be 100 Percent Invested for Impact
Tides Canada launches first customizable Donor Advised Fund to be 100 percent invested for impact Tides Canada’s new initiative with the Genus-SVX Impact Investment Counsel advances Impact Investing for Canadians
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- Investing
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- North America
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- impact investing
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Future Returns: Investing With a Gender Lens
Gender lens investing strategies have boomed in recent years, fueled by the #MeToo movement, increased awareness about how women often are treated, and a recognition that companies benefit when diversity and inclusion is fostered.
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Viewpoint: Shut Up, Ask Questions and Embrace the Struggle: Jed Emerson’s Plea to Impact Investors
Jed Emerson has never been afraid to tell it like it is. Now, after 30-odd years of exploring impact and purpose-driven capital – and eight books later – he believes the field has become ‘lazy’, offering superficial answers to humanity’s most difficult questions as we skip straight to the ‘how’ of tactics and strategy.
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HBS, Impact Investing And The Power Of Story – The Rise Fund’s Maya Chorengel
She has been an instrumental force in proving that delivery of positive impact can exist alongside competitive financial returns, mobilizing the investing market to advance social and environmental benefits at scale.
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Inside the Quest to Measure the Impact of Impact Investing
This is the kind of valuation challenge impact investors have been grappling with for years. Purely financial investments come with an accepted methodology for measuring return on investment. But with investments in projects or organizations working to deliver social or environmental impact, there’s no shared accounting framework for measuring the value of what’s been achieved.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
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Study: 94% of Investors Ready for Impact in Next 1-3 Years
KBIGI, which boasts a long-standing commitment to responsible investing has published the findings of a new global Impact Investing study, exploring investor views on what it calls the Public/Private approach.
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- Investing
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- impact investing