On October 8th 2015, as members of the impact investing and social entrepreneurship field gathered for the SOCAP event Wharton Social Impact initiative used the opportunity to launch their first-ever report on the financial performance of impact investing. The report,…
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…
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 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…
On June 25, 2015, Cambridge Associates and the Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN) published a report titled “Introducing the Impact Investing Benchmark.” This report contains findings from the first comprehensive analysis of the financial performance of market rate private equity…
A National Public Radio Broadcast by Greg Allen highlights the bait-and-switch technique of massive budget cuts used only for further tax cuts (Michigan, Ohio), though some states (e.g. Florida) with upcoming gubernatorial elections plan politically strategic investments. Paul Beck, a…
Social Impact Bonds (Pay for Success) offer an attractive alternative to the status quo of paying for programs instead of results. Despite our best efforts, the poverty rate today is roughly what it was when the War on Poverty began…
Taking a closer look at household balance sheets before and after the recession, Emmons and Noeth find that younger, minority and lessâ€educated families suffered the largest wealth losses during the economic crisis. They use data from the Federal Reserve’s triennial…
The Case Foundation announced today that Sean Greene has joined the organization as Entrepreneur in Residence. Having spent more than 20 years as an entrepreneur and investor, Mr. Greene most recently served as Associate Administrator for Investment and Special Advisor…
CB Insights has released their Q2 2012 venture capital activity report. To read the report, visit the CB Insights website at www.cbinsights.com/blog/venture-capital/q2-2012-quarterly-report