Impact Investing

Jean Case, CEO of the Case Foundation and Chairman of the National Geographic Society, joined the 2017 Sustainable Business and Social Impact (SBSI) conference for a fireside chat with Professor Cathy Clark. Jean and Cathy discuss trends in the impact investing field, how the Case Foundation is working to make impact investing mainstream, the importance […]

By Cathy Clark and Carrie Gonnella Academic institutions can help build the impact investing field by teaching students a fuller suite of skills, clarifying the range of career paths open to them, and developing a better theoretical and practical knowledge base. https://ssir.org/articles/entry/three_lessons_for_impact_investing_education_programs

NAB-Infographic I got the call from the White House, in May 2014. “We’re going to have some major new commitments of impact investment capital at the meeting in June. Would you be interested in helping us track how the money is spent?” What do you say to a call like that when you run an […]

The Annie E. Casey Foundation, a private foundation dedicated to improving the lives of America’s children and families, engaged InSight at Pacific Community Ventures — with research support from CASE at Duke University — to conduct the first comprehensive third-party evaluation of its Social Investment Program, a $125 million allocation from its endowment dedicated to mission […]

Cathy Clark, Director of the CASE Initiative on Impact Investing and Co-Author of The Impact Investor: Lessons in Leadership and Strategy for Collaborative Capitalism, discusses how investors, foundations, public officials, students and others can engage and succeed in the dynamic and fast-growing field of impact investing. The conversation is moderated by MacArthur’s Director of Impact […]

Catalyzing Impact through Investment How can an innovative investment intermediary work with funds, governments, and enterprises to catalyze the impact investment market across a country? Nick O’Donohoe, former Global Head of Research at JP Morgan, spoke in 2015 about the foundation of Big Society Capital and its work dedicated to the development of social impact […]

In June 2015, Duke University’s CASE released the Impact Investment Clean Energy and Climate Solutions 2015 Sector Highlights Report to describe progress on commitments to invest in clean energy and climate solutions made at the June 2014 White House Roundtable on Impact Investing. From the $1.5 billion committed to new impact investments last June, more […]

This is a recording of a April 2015 live Fuqua Faculty Conversation, Impact Investing and Tri-Sector Leadership, with Cathy Clark, Adjunct Professor and Faculty Director of CASE and CASE i3.

A collaboration between CASE, IPIHD, Calvert Foundation, and Investors’ Circle, produced as part of the Social Entrepreneurship Accelerator at Duke with funding from USAID,  this project set out to understand the landscape of current sources of debt and equity financing for global health enterprises in India and East Africa. Interviews with investors revealed two main […]

Michael Dorsey, co-founder of Bay Area Equity Fund and Bay Area Growth Fund and former partner of the Westly Group visited campus in 2014 and shared his deep experience on how venture capital can be used to achieve significant financial and environmental returns. A Silicon Valley insider, Dorsey turned from his 20 year tenure as […]