I recently had the privilege to speak with Antony Bugg-Levine, Managing Director of the Rockefeller Foundation, Board member of the Global Impact Investing Network and one of the thought leaders and influencers in impact investing. He leads the Foundation’s impact investing team that works to harness the capital and expertise of investors making “impact investments” that generate a social and financial return. This in an insider interview to his book, Impact Investing: Transforming How We Make Money While Making a Difference. In our conversation, he shared key highlights in, as well his hopes for, the book.

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A social innovation gaining prominence, Social Impact Bonds are being termed as a vehicle to fund social-purpose organizations in an operationally efficient manner by tying returns to predefined social indicators. The return on investment would effectively be contingent upon the ability to generate cost savings by deploying capital in an effective manner. In theory it is a reasonable proposition, which involves the private sector, makes the sovereign accountable, and inculcates a sense of societal ownership in the private sector. However, the attractiveness of these bonds in actually making a difference would be contingent upon their relative attractiveness to investors and the control that the private sector can exercise over the service providers (in which they have deployed their capital).

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SocialFinance.ca produces a weekly round up featuring social finance related news, insights, job openings, and events. We source the content for these round ups from Twitter, an RSS reader, and directly from our community of social finance practitioners. Below is our round up for the week of August 2, 2011.

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SocialFinance.ca produces a weekly round up featuring social finance related news, insights, job openings, and events. We source the content for these round ups from Twitter, an RSS reader, and directly from our community of social finance practitioners. Below is our round up for the week of July 25, 2011. Note: Since this Monday's Round Up was dedicated to Canadian news, here's a selection of the best on the web around social finance in the last week.

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Global Agents for Change is excited to launch the 2011 Global Catalyst Initiative (GCI), continuing our search for some of the world's most promising early stage, market-oriented ventures tackling global poverty. Our goal is to help take high-potential projects from pilot to proof of concept, working with entrepreneurs to improve their models and dramatically increase their ability to garner further support. More information at the bottom for how you or an organization you know may be eligible for one of two $40,000 partnerships to accelerate your idea.

While this entry is mostly about a great opportunity for early stage entrepreneurs tackling global poverty, I wanted to take a moment to discuss the broader problem it serves, and why we think this is important.

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