Those pushing impact investing need to address three key questions if it is to fulfil its potential. In the first of a three-part series, our contributor asks: is the current swell of mainstream interest in impact investing helpful or harmful?
VIDEO: What does investing for impact actually mean? How does such an investor behave, and what principles do they live by? Watch this 5-minute introduction to EVPA's new Charter of Investors for Impact.
What happens when a philanthropic foundation starts offering repayable finance? Anything from stronger relationships with investees to “awful situations”, as we heard recently. Pioneers Post digs a little deeper.
This year we've covered everything from a transgender beauty salon in Pakistan, to Ethiopia's first domestic drone manufacturer. Get up to speed with our most popular social enterprise and impact investment stories of the year.
As the Impact Investing Institute officially launches today, CEO Sarah Gordon speaks to Pioneers Post about her vision to tap into current “momentum and energy” for doing things differently.
Social investors and venture philanthropists agree that taking risks should be core to the DNA of those investing for impact – but are they clear about who’s shouldering those risks?
The Berlin-based co-founder of Yunus Social Business on a lightbulb moment in Bangladesh that showed how social enterprises can adapt their business models to the needs of the poorest.
The end of free money, nudging environmental action and networked learning: some of the great ideas for impact investors that Pioneers Post picked up at this week’s EVPA conference.
At the EVPA annual conference in The Hague, attended by the Queen of the Netherlands, the membership organisation marked its 15th anniversary with a call to "investors for impact" to commit to 10 principles guiding their actions.
