Tagged - impact investment

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Global social innovation round-up #29

Two new social impact bonds have been launched in the states of South Carolina and Connecticut in the US, students prepare to mobilise for social causes in the UK and USAID backs the Miller Centre for Social Entrepreneurship. 

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The impact investing illusion

Former president of the Social Enterprise Alliance Kevin Lynch explains why he's worried the work of true social enterprises "will be overshadowed and ignored" as hype around impact investment and B Corps increases.

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Treading the tightrope between risk and return

An informed attitude to risk could prove highly advantageous to enterprising charities willing to consider the potential impact social finance could create, argues Eddie Finch from UK chartered accountants Buzzacott.

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Global social innovation round-up #18

A new study has revealed that high net worth individuals are put off impact investments due to concerns about complexity and a Cambodian social enterprise circus heads to the US.

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Kevin Doyle Jones: No More Heroes Anymore

The hero model is dead, long live collective impact. Co-founder of the SOCAP conference and long time disrupter Kevin Doyle Jones talks to Ellie Ward about hero worshipping, market taming and impact investment trends and challenges.