Impact Investing
A Market Emerges: The Six Dynamics of Impact Investing
By Cathy Clark, Jed Emerson and Ben Thornley Impact investing is taking shape as a distinct activity, with its own unique stakeholder relationships and operational strategies. As dozens of new funds are created explicitly to tackle the world’s most intractable social and environmental problems, including over 60 globally in 2011, the diverse practices of impact […]
The Impact Investor: People and Practices Delivering Exceptional Financial and Social Returns: The Need for Evidence and Engagement
By Cathy Clark, Jed Emerson and Ben Thornley Impact investing is at an inflection point, building off the rich histories of community finance in the United States and other countries, microfinance, international development, and the integration of ESG factors (Environmental, Social and Governance) in institutional portfolios more broadly. For over 30 years, these practices have […]
Speaker: Ron Cordes, ImpactAssets
Creating Financial Markets: Lessons from a Finance Pioneer Ron Cordes, Co-Chairman of Genworth Financial Wealth Management and Founder of ImpactAssets, spoke at Duke University in 2012.
Speaker: Lisa Hall, Calvert Foundation
How to Earn a Return While Lifting Communities Out of Poverty In 2012, CASE hosted Lisa Hall, then President and CEO of the Calvert Foundation. Lisa spoke about her work at Calvert Foundation (now Calvert Impact), the largest US-based nonprofit impact investing fund, managing investment products for individual, non-accredited investors. Both a certified CDFI (community […]
2011 CASE Leadership in Social Entrepreneurship Award: Antony Bugg-Levine
2011 Leadership in Social Entrepreneurship Award presentation to Antony Bugg-Levine, CEO of the Nonprofit Finance Fund Antony Bugg-Levine, CEO ofCASE is proud to announce the winner of our 2011 Leadership in Social Entrepreneurship Award: Antony Bugg-Levine, a leading figure in the emerging field of global impact investing. Antony Bugg-Levine, CEO of the Nonprofit Finance Fund […]
RISE Capital Market Report: The Double Bottom Line Private Equity Landscape in 2002/2003
By Cathy Clark and Josie Taylor Gaillard This snapshot of the emerging DBL investor landscape reveals a colorful cadre of investors going about their work in myriad ways. Our research shows that the group of DBL funds is broader in industry scope and deeper in each social or environmental focus than either we, or our […]