Investing in Human Rights: Six Areas for Impact and a Database of Change

by Chris Lindquist | May 19, 2025 | Featured, Impact Investing, Publications

More than $13 trillion in investment capital is now aligned with human rights initiatives, representing the work of roughly 115 institutional investors collaborating through Principles of Responsible Investment (PRI). This elevates the issue beyond a feel-good...

Capricorn Investment Group

by Chris Lindquist | Jun 27, 2023 | Featured, Impact Investing, Publications

Supporting Innovation in Impact Investing For over 20 years, Capricorn Investment Group has acted on the theory that impact investing—investments made with an explicit intention to generate measurable positive social and environmental impacts—can also enhance...

How Private Credit Investors Can Get a Grip on Impact

by Bridgespan Social Impact | Nov 23, 2021 | Featured, Impact Investing, Publications

Michael Etzel, Greg Nantz, Emma Garcia-Canga, and Mike Belinsky   Private credit has generated some of the earliest innovations in impact investing – such as microfinance, which helped extend credit to previously unbanked individuals and served nearly 140 million...

How Value-Creation Plans Can Put More “Impact” in “Impact Investing”

by Bridgespan Social Impact | Nov 12, 2021 | Featured, Impact Investing, Publications

Take it with you! Download this article as a PDF. Impact investing has grown rapidly in the past few years— jumping from $502 billion in assets under management in 2019 to $715 billion in 2020. This reflects the rising desire among investors to direct more capital to...

Getting Money off the Sidelines: A Starting List to Invest for Racial Equity

by Bridgespan Social Impact | Nov 8, 2021 | Featured, Impact Investing, Publications

This work is a joint project of Bridgespan Social Impact, the Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN), PolicyLink, and CapEQ. Take it with you. Download a PDF of this article with the list of racial equity funds » Since the social unrest over racial injustice in the...

Why Mainstream Private Equity Firms Should Consider Launching an Impact Investing Vehicle

by Bridgespan Social Impact | Apr 21, 2021 | Featured, Impact Investing, Private Equity, Publications

Over the past five years, environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors have rapidly become “table stakes“ for private equity firms. Limited partners now effectively require their general partners to consider these factors, either to help manage risks or to...