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Businesses ‘doing good’? Prove it
“It is a bit of a dark art, measuring impact,” Jessi Baker, founder and chief executive of Provenance, a British social enterprise that uses blockchain technology to make supply chains more transparent, told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
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- Entrepreneurship, Impact Assessment, Technology
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- Europe & Eurasia
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Bill Gates tweeted out a chart and sparked a huge debate about global poverty
I think the basic fact that we’ve made progress in recent decades is important. Politics and the global economy are dismal places, especially if you only see them through the lens of news coverage. It’s easy to become fatalistic.
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- Impact Assessment
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Major funds launch toolkit to help investors measure SDG impact
A dashboard developed by CISL's Investment Leaders Group, including PIMCO, Union Bancaire Privée and Zurich Insurance provides metrics to assess corporate social and environmental impact.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
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Press release: Impact Investing Leaders Introduce Opportunity Zones Reporting Framework
The U.S. Impact Investing Alliance and Beeck Center for Social Impact + Innovation at Georgetown University collaborate to create a shared framework to guide best practices in the Opportunity Zones market.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
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The Rise Fund Spin-Off Marks Growth of Impact Investing
“A lot of what happens with impact investing and philanthropy is people measure afterward,” says Chris Addy, a partner at Bridgespan. The IMM is a metric “to quantitatively account for” social or environmental impact before an investment is made, he says, “with a goal being, you can actually look at hard numbers.”
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
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Viewpoint: Investors Need More and Better Data on Sustainability
Measurable results are central to advance sustainable finance – the kind that rewards companies being environmentally or socially responsible.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
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Perspective: Big Business Has a New Scam – The ‘Purpose Paradigm’
As a self-serving corporate fantasy, the purpose paradigm is designed to win trust that isn’t earned, perpetuate power that is not legitimate, and preserve a lack of governmental oversight under which corporations compete with each other for profits.
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- Agriculture, Education, Environment, Impact Assessment
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Investing’s Final Frontier: Impact Measurement
In general, each type of social return calls for its own metrics to answer this basic question: Is this social impact investment/initiative having the intended effect?
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
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