In my last post “Measuring The Impact of Social Investing”, I talked a lot about the history of PULSE, the software designed to help track the impact of social investments. Since Acumen Fund first introduced it in 2006, we have seen a constant and increasing need for support, services and even entire organizations to help the impact investing community operate more efficiently and achieve greater success.
There is a systemic issue in impact investing that constantly resurfaces, from research papers to goals of foundations in the realm of impact investing: lack of infrastructure to help people identify and function as a part of the impact industry.
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 May 14, 2012.
The NYU School of Law organized a Series on Impact Investing during the Spring Semester 2012. This Series offered "a forum for students, scholars and practitioners interested in the field of impact investing to exchange perspectives, develop ideas, and dialogue with thought leaders and experts in the field."
There is an increasing interest in the use of community bonds to help nonprofits achieve their financial goals. Community bonds can be used to finance a range of projects, from program development to capital expansion projects where the 'first-in' dollars are hard to find. For people in the nonprofit sector, they are a form of investment that clearly shows what the investor is interested in - you.
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SocialFinance.ca hosts an online guide that helps social entrepreneurs learn how to attract financing for their social ventures.
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