
In the last few years, foundations have been discovering that they can create social good beyond the comfort of just nonprofit grantmaking, and investors have been developing strategies to generate significant financial and social impact.
Thus, the term impact investing was launched into the financial and social innovation sectors.
Essentially, impact investing describes an emerging asset class focused on channeling large-scale private funding to social entrepreneurs and social enterprises dedicated to solving the world’s biggest problems.
Echoing Green has partnered with The Rockefeller Foundation to explore key challenges in routing capital to early-stage social ventures serving the needs of poor or vulnerable populations around the world. With better and more robust data and insights, we believe that Echoing Green can contribute to overcoming structural barriers in this critical sector and help to significantly increase the rate of expansion of the overall marketplace and the corresponding social impact.
We’re excited about this emerging trend, and the feed below features our recent thinking (like the rise of hybrid social enterprises) and ideas (like recoverable grants) around the impact investing marketplace. What do you think?
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May 17, 2013 at 01:35 PM
Big Bold Benefit 2013: Celebrating Twenty-Five Years more Blog »
May 17, 2013 at 12:10 PM
echoinggreen: In the poor margins of #Paris, @Adive_ is supporting local #entrepreneurs where many others are not: http://t.co/9c7BDFKXJP #socent @NYTimes more Twitter »
April 15, 2013 at 04:30 PM
How can a sustainable start up be a "lean start-up," too? more Q & A »
May 17, 2013 at 01:19 PM
Celebrating Twenty-Five Years of Pioneering Social Change: http://www.echoinggre... more Facebook »









