The Role of Evidence in Impact Investing

by Miriam Rose | Apr 9, 2020 | Impact Investing, Publications

EverFi, a decade-old social enterprise providing online education and training, experienced the rigors of evidence-based impact investing firsthand when it received an equity investment from The Rise Fund. A $2-billion impact fund created by private equity firm TPG,...

Three Ways for Impact Investors to Respond to the Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic

by Miriam Rose | Mar 27, 2020 | Impact Investing, Publications

The unfolding human and economic toll from COVID-19 poses an enormous challenge to all businesses, large and small. A recent Dun & Bradstreet report found 94 percent of Fortune 1,000 companies are experiencing supply chain delays. Around the world, small...

The Rise Fund: TPG Bets Big on Impact – Harvard Business School Case

by Miriam Rose | Feb 10, 2019 | Impact Investing, Publications

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Calculating the Value of Impact Investing

by Bridgespan Social Impact | Jan 2, 2019 | Featured, Impact Investing, Publications

How TPG’s Rise Fund underwrites impact to guide its global investments

by Bridgespan Social Impact | Dec 18, 2018 | Impact Investing, Publications

Better Understanding the Impact in Impact Investing

by Chris Lindquist | Dec 18, 2018 | Impact Investing, Publications

Good intentions among fund managers and investees don’t make up for the sometimes confusing and wide variety of standards and frameworks for impact measurement. Such uncertainty opens the door to both selling the concept of impact investing without delivering on...