The growth and success of green and inclusive business models with high impact potential is central to the challenges many emerging economies are facing. These enterprises not only spur development and market growth, but also ensure the preservation of the very base of our global economy – environmental and social resources. Thus, these small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) may just …
Impact Investors And Extending The Impact Of Philanthropy and Grantmaking
A guide for impact investors. Impact investing, which promises both financial returns and intentional, measurable impact, is attracting more and more attention – most of it from private investors. And although foundations, social investors, venture philanthropists, donors and grantmakers are hard-wired for social purpose and would seem to be natural candidates for impact investing, so far in Africa, they are …
The Importance of Impact Due Diligence In Impact Investment
Impact due diligence is crucial in impact investing. While the practice of impact measurement and management (IMM) has become increasingly sophisticated and widespread in recent years, most investors focus primarily on what happens after, not before, investments are made. This diminishes the potential value of IMM because the social and environmental performance reported by companies after receiving investments has, in …
Effective Impact Management and Measurement Reimagined
Impact management practices that are better going forward, we envision this as well as greater investment effectiveness. “If we want to seize this turbulent moment, we need to be bold, and we need to be big. The time is now, to change our relationship to money, to change what it means to invest truthfully, time to change capitalism, for better …
The mutually beneficial relationship between philanthropy and impact investment
Neither philanthropic donations nor impact investment will alone solve the world’s problems. We look at the relationship between philanthropy & impact investing
Reimagining The Future of Impact Management, Measurement & Evaluation
A pandemic is affecting our professional and personal lives. We reimagine the future of impact management, measurement & evaluation (M&I) and impact assessment.
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