Social impact bonds and pay for success financing are generating a great deal of interest around the globe, and the US and Australia have been at the centre of much of it since the turn of the new year, as this post describes. In this short clip, Les Hems, Director of Research at the Centre for Social Impact in Australia, provides an overview of what's happening Down Under.
Sam Goldman, co-founder of Honest Tea, a social enterprise that produces natural fruit and tea beverages says, “We sold to Coca Cola last year.”
A collective gasp escapes from the audience. Thoughts of Ben and Jerry’s selling to Unilever creep in and the nearly instantaneous conclusion that this must be a “sell-out” ripples through the socially minded business audience of 150. The conclusion is wrong.
Welcome to the Net Impact Conference 2011 in Portland, Oregon; two and a half days of absolutely exhilarating conversation about business and the progress of the world.
With the recent news that the SJF Institute was merging with the Investors' Circle, and the launch of the Global Catalyst Initiative, what better time to share a video featuring the work of the Investors' Circle? This San Francisco-based network of nearly 150 angel investors has been investing into early-stage enterprises addressing social and environmental issues since 1992. Take a look at their Investment Statistics here.
As Shawn Smith described yesterday, seed stage funding is a critical bottleneck in impact investing at the moment. The Global Catalyst Initiative addresses that challenge to an extent; the Investors' Circle has been doing it for nearly two decades. This video gives an overview of their work and impact.
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 June 13, 2011.
Portfolio 21 is a unique investment management firm based in Portland, Oregon. I recently wrote a book chapter reviewing their business practices for the upcoming book "Investing in a Changing World", to be published by Wiley in late 2011. It is such a fascinating approach to investing that wanted to share some excerpts from my interview with Portfolio 21 Director and Co-Founder, Carsten Henningsen. What sets Portfolio 21 apart from many investment managers that I’ve come across is that they apply the principles of The Natural Step and The Global Footprint Network to their investment process. As a result, Portfolio 21 does not invest in any mining, oil or gas stocks. Not one. And it still performed relatively well compared to its benchmarks.
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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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