On October 19th 2015, The Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN), released a landscape study of the US Community Impact Investment field. Titled Scaling U.S. Community Investing: The Investor-Product Interface, the report provides insight into the barriers and opportunities to increasing…
In October of 2015, BlackRock, Inc. announced the launch of the BlackRock Social Impact fund. Led by Black Rocks Scientific Active team, the BlackRock Impact Fund consists out of equity securities in companies targeting competitive market returns and aggregate social…
On October 7, 2015, Omidyar Network published a report named “Frontier Capital: Early Stage Investing for Financial Returns and Social Impact in Emerging Markets”. The report offers a strategic guide to how investors can achieve financial returns and social impact…
On Tuesday October 6th, Pacific Community Ventures sent out an introductory letter from their new CEO. Mary Jo Cook joins Pacific Joint Ventures from Fair Trade USA. A Mission driven leader with 25 years of experience in strategy development for…
More than 1400 companies around the world are already certified B corps. This month, as the B Corp movement officially hit the UK, the Bridges Ventures released a paper to provide an investors perspective on the growing movement. Entitled “To…
On September 14th, the Kauffman Foundation published a report titled “The Importance of Young Firms for Economic Growth”, showing that young and growing companies have accounted for nearly all net new job creation in the economy in the eight years…
For small staffed foundations, entering the impact investment field presents a unique set of challenges. To address these challenges Arabella advisors put together “Essentials of Impact Investing: A Guide for Small-Staffed Foundations”. Published on September 9, 2015, the guide offers…
On June 18th 2015, wealth insight published Insight Report: “Impact Investments 2015 – Global Opportunities”. By identifying product and service offering by banks in North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, Latin America, the Middle East, and Africa, the report aims to provide…
A new Seattle-based global business accelerator called Capria seeks to provide investment support and help for new fund managers backing early-stage startups. Offering everything from capital, technical know-how, and connections to other fund managers, the accelerator takes on a longer-term…