Cathy Clark
RSF Social Finance’s Social Enterprise Lending Program
By Cathy Clark and Jorge Soriano RSF Social Finance (RSF) is an innovative public benefit financial services organization dedicated to transforming the way the world works with money. RSF offers investing, lending, and giving services to individuals and enterprises committed to improving society and the environment. Since 1984, RSF has given out more than $285 million […]
Essential Steps to Building a University Impact Investing Programme: The Case of Duke University
By Cathy Clark and Grace Webster The World Economic Forum asked CASE i3 to write an article about the role that universities can play in building the impact investing field to contribute to the WEF report entitled From Ideas to Practice, Pilots to Strategy II: Practical Solutions and Actionable Insights on How to Do Impact […]
The Impact Investor: Lessons in Leadership and Strategy for Collaborative Capitalism
By Cathy Clark, Jed Emerson and Ben Thornley The Impact Investor: Lessons in Leadership and Strategy for Collaborative Capitalism offers precise details on what, exactly, impact investing entails, embodied in the experiences and best and proven practices of some of the world’s most successful impact investors, across asset classes, geographies and areas of impact. The […]
Accelerating Impact Enterprises: How to Lock, Stock and Anchor Impact Enterprises for Maximum Impact
By Cathy Clark, Matthew H. Allen, Bonny Moellenbrock and Chinwe Onyeagoro As a potential extension of its pioneering work on impact investing, the Rockefeller Foundation commissioned us to be part of a global research consortium aiming to understand the needs of impact enterprises around the globe. One of the foundation’s initial questions was, if impact […]
Environmental Impact Bonds
By David Nicola and Cathy Clark This paper serves as the environmental response to a McKinsey & Company paper on Social Impact Bonds (SIBs) issued in May 2012. SIBs are the “hot topic” in the world of impact investing, yet few are discussing the possibility of applying the SIB model to environmental causes. This paper […]
Toniic E-Guide: Early-Stage Global Impact Investing
The goal of this e- guide is to help those with an interest in investing in early-stage impact enterprises learn how this work is being done by their peers from wherever they are in the world. Using “The 7-Step Framework”, this guide aims to help investors, especially those exploring how impact investing compares to their […]
Elevar Equity: Unitus Equity Fund and Elevar Equity Fund II
Elevar Equity is a thesis based investor focused on generating outstanding investment returns by delivering essential services to disconnected communities underserved by global networks. We back entrepreneurs who deliver innovative market-based solutions that provide valued services to millions of customers. Our entrepreneurs have clear vision, deep customer knowledge and know how to harness market forces […]
Impact Investing 2.0: The Way Forward – Insight from 12 Outstanding Funds
This report, released on November 7, 2013, was created in partnership with InSight at Pacific Community Ventures and Impact Assets, and identifies twelve high-performing funds that have seen both financial and social returns on their investments, making an evidence-based case for a new 2.0 era of impact investing. Pacific Community Ventures, Impact Assets, The Fuqua […]
Accelerating Impact Enterprises (Presentation)
Goal: Understand better the evolution, potential, and needs of domestic impact enterprises and to identify philanthropic, private, and public investment opportunities to increase the likelihood of success among impact enterprises and the emerging “impact economy” in the US. By Cathy Clark, Matthew Allen, Bonny Moellenbrock and Chinwe Onyeagoro 2013 Presentation_Clark_AcceleratingImpactEntrepreneurs_2013
Scaling Social Impact: A Literature Toolkit for Funders
By Cathy Clark, Cynthia W. Massarsky, Tamara Schweitzer Raben and Erin Worsham With support from Grantmakers for Effective Organizations (GEO), the authors set out to document and analyze the currently available literature on scaling, in order to both highlight the best set of resources available that are useful to funders actively pursuing grantmaking strategies around […]