2013 SIAA conference: is impact measurement the highway to hell?
The annual conference of the Social Impact Analyst Association (SIAA) took place in Paris on 10 December. SIAA was founded in 2011 to ‘build an active international community of social impact...
View ArticleImpact - not organizations – first
Monitor Deloitte’s recent Beyond the Pioneer report highlights some of the critical challenges investees face when delivering on the promise of scale. Placing the firm at the centre of its analysis,...
View ArticleGreasing the wheels
As the term ‘impact investing’ has gained prominence over the last five years, many have assumed that it describes a new approach to investing. In fact, some investors have long sought to generate...
View ArticleImpact investing in a democracy: A response to the Alliance special feature...
When I first started out in social impact investing, it was hard to find anyone writing or talking about it (apart from my boss at Venturesome, John Kingston). But the tables have turned, and in the...
View ArticleFive ways for private philanthropists to achieve greater impact
For the last ten years UBS has been advising ultra high net worth (UHNW) individuals and families all around the world on how to realize their philanthropic aspirations. Philanthropy is increasing –...
View ArticleWhy we need a fair price for social value
Impact investing has come a long way towards being a recognized investment option. Although no uniform impact metrics standard has emerged yet (and possibly never will), there is increasing consensus...
View ArticleTime for a total-sector perspective on impact investing
Can the longer-term, holistically minded capital that impact investors provide create wider impact in catalytic industries that affect millions of people, and in countries whose success in modernizing...
View ArticleThe Power of Impact Investing: Putting markets to work for profit and global...
This is the book I wish I could have read when I first started out in impact investing, over a decade ago. I started reading it on a flight back from New York to Mumbai. It is a testament to it that...
View ArticlePhilanthropy and Education: Strategies for impact Ekkehard Thümler, Nicole...
This academic and research-focused title adds a different perspective to philanthropy, but reading it was like climbing a high mountain: the way up is rather bumpy and the reader has to take a couple...
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