News snapshot
- Outlook India provides a snapshot of impact investing on the ground in India in its article, Look For The Bare Necessities
- Aaron Ausland of Staying for Tea questions the motivations of impact investors in his article, The Trouble With Impact Investor’s Brains
- In Philanthropy’s data dilemma, Bradford Smith, President of the Foundation Center, suggests ways in which philanthropy can begin to embrace data
- Will Big Society Capital become “a victim of its own pioneering status”? Social Enterprise takes a critical look at social investment in the UK in The fate of social investment as Big Society Capital turns two
- Caroline Fiennes, Director of Giving Evidence, highlights things philanthropy can learn from Olympic athletes in her article for Alliance Magazine, Faster, higher, stronger: Olympic lessons for philanthropy
- Is it worth taking action today? Aaron Hurst, President of Taproot Foundation, explains how to calculate the value of a social investment made now as opposed to in the future
- The adoption of Social Impact Bonds in the US spreads as another state, Massachusetts, pursues this type of bond to help fund organisations that provide solutions to social ills
- Goldman Sachs to invest $10 million in Social Impact Bond test, funding a programme that aims to reduce recidivism in New York City jails
- Report back from the Social Innovation Summit - how education, technology and leadership can usher in social change
- Echoing Green’s Senior Vice President talks about its new pilot programme and the social enterprise space in Echoing Green: Creating an Ecosystem for Social Enterprises
Weekend reads
- Impact Assets releases three new briefings: Unifying an Investment Portfolio within a Donor Advised Fund, Private Equity in Emerging Markets, and Increasing Impact and Enhancing Returns