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Using private investor capital to increase NGO impact: a framework and key considerations to facilitate engagement | PSI
SOCIAL INVESTMENT MARKET
This report was produced as the result of an ongoing collaboration between Zurich and Population Services International (PSI). It aims...
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Align Your Portfolio with Your Values – A Straightforward Approach to Fixed Income Impact Investing (2014)
SOCIAL PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT
Through impact investing, institutional investors can pursue competitive investment returns while also making social and environmental impacts. The field of...
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Supporting biodiversity conservation ventures: Assessing the Impact Investing sector for an investment strategy to support environmental entrepreneurism (2014)
SOCIAL INVESTMENT MARKET
The overwhelming majority of the financial sector has yet to show interest in biodiversity conservation. In great contrast, impact investing...
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Growing the social investment market: 2014 progress update (2014)
SOCIAL INVESTMENT MARKET
Social investment is a tool to help increase social impact. The social investment market helps charities and social enterprises do...
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New Investment Approaches for Addressing Social and Economic Challenges (2014)
SOCIAL INVESTMENT MARKET
Social investment is the provision of finance to organisations with the explicit expectation of a social, as well as financial,...
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Funding Social Enterprises (2014)
SOCIAL INVESTMENT MARKET
These proﬁles illustrate how four diverse social enterprises have secured seed- and early-stage philanthropic and investment capital to build their...
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The Law Commission’s Consultation Paper On Social Investment By Charities (2014)
BUSINESS STRUCTURES & TAX IMPLICATIONS
1. The Law Commission is conducting a review of selected issues in charity law, most of which arose from the...
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The ClearlySo Guide for the Ambitious Social Entrepreneur (2014)
SOCIAL INVESTMENT MARKET
ClearlySo started because, simply put, we thought that the social economy should be bigger. One thing that we identified as...
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Social Impact Strategies for Banks – Venture Philanthropy and Social Investment (2014)
SOCIAL INVESTMENT MARKET
Why are VP and social investment important for banks? • Social finance is considered the biggest idea to renew the...
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European Venture Philanthropy and Social Investment 2012/2013 (2014)
SOCIAL INVESTMENT MARKET
This is the report1 of EVPA’s third annual survey of European Venture Philanthropy and Social Investment. The purpose of the...
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Impact Capitalism Summit – SmarterMoney (2014)
SOCIAL INVESTMENT MARKET
As Impact Investing mainstreams, Watershed Capital Group recognizes the importance of the dissemination of research and thought-leadership to those new...
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Social finance in the UK – Designing the experience for ventures (2014)
SOCIAL INVESTMENT MARKET
In the emerging and fast growing market for social finance, ventures seeking investment can struggle to identify and obtain the...
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Venture Philanthropy in Development – Dynamics, Challenges and Lessons in the Search for Greater Impact (2014)
SOCIAL INVESTMENT MARKET
Aid agencies and development partners alike now recognise that private funders and investors, including foundations, are an important and growing...
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Why and how are donors supporting social enterprises? (2014)
SOCIAL INVESTMENT MARKET
This is a partial and preliminary stock-take of public donor agency support to social enterprises, or at least, enterprises which...
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Final Policy Paper: Exploration of Social Impact Bonds for SME Development (2014)
SOCIAL IMPACT BONDS
In September 2013, The Bertha Centre (located within University of Cape Town’s Graduate School of Business), Genesis Analytics and Social...
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Foundations for Social Impact Bonds – How and Why Philanthropy Is Catalyzing the Development of a New Market (2014)
SOCIAL IMPACT BONDS
The provision of social services in the United States has entered a new era marked by two powerful forces: mounting...
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