At a time when news about Africa has been dominated by Ebola, it’s worth observing that a highly encouraging change has been quietly spreading across the continent.
Part four of a five-part series: How do we build collective intelligence through networks and engage emerging markets—like those in Southeast Asia—in a global impact investing conversation?
Want to show investors that there is a measurable positive impact on a community as a result of business? Founder and CEO of a social and environmental accounting firm introduces two standard tests for impact investments and the necessary tools to measure impact.
Part three of a five-part series: As investors have developed specialties within asset classes, sector-based investors have created ways for enterprises reaching specific impact objectives to better scale in competitive markets.
Part two of a five part series: explaining why we need to build impact investing as an approach, not an asset class, by developing communities of practice applying the impact lens to specific asset classes.
We constantly see social networking apps being funded in the news, but what real social and economic progress have we seen from social media and what industries are going to drive this progress in the future?