by Miriam Rose | Dec 6, 2018 | Impact Investing, Publications
Why Do We Care About Impact Investing? Solving our biggest social problems requires private capital: The United Nations estimates a need for $3.9 trillion a year between now and 2030 to meet the Sustainable Development Goals. Philanthropy and government funding is...
by Miriam Rose | Jan 28, 2018 | Effective Philanthropy, Impact Investing, Publications
Read this article on the Stanford Social Innovation Review website.
by Miriam Rose | Nov 10, 2015 | Impact Investing, Publications
Foundations are hard-wired for social purpose and would seem to be natural candidates for impact investing, but so far they are behind the curve. Today, foundations account for only 6 percent of the approximately $60 billion in total impact investments under...
by Miriam Rose | Apr 16, 2013 | Impact Investing, Publications
Sir Ronald Cohen, widely regarded as the father of British venture capital, caused a stir with a recent post on the HBR-Bridgespan Insight Center: “Social Impact Investing is the New Venture Capital.” The piece, co-authored with Harvard Business School’s William...
by Miriam Rose | May 24, 2012 | Effective Philanthropy, Impact Investing, Publications
The term impact investing—the practice of investing for financial return and social good—hit the mainstream press back in 2010. There has been significant excitement about the potential of impact investing, which some estimate to have a market size as large as $500...
