The Center for Community Development Investments (http://www.frbsf.org/cdinvestments/) at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco has just published a new issue of its journal, the Community Development Investment Review(the Review) – and our own Director of InSight at PCV is a featured author.
This issue of the Review centers around the proceedings of the conference Advancing Social Impact Investments through Measurement (http://www.frbsf.org/cdinvestments/conferences/social-impact-investments/), held at the Federal Reserve Board of Governors on March 21, 2011. The conference brought the community development finance and impact investing communities together to share recent developments and innovations in social metrics collection and analysis and to think more deeply about how the government could play a role in promoting more and better measurement of social and environmental outcomes.
Link to Ben’s article, Solidifying the Business Case for CDFI Nonfinancial Performance Measurement
Link to New Issue
In addition to the proceedings, authored by David Erickson at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, this issue of the Review includes a series of thoughtful essays written by several conference participants including: Sarah Burd-Sharps, Patrick Guyer, and Kristen Lewis, American Human Development Project; Margaret Grieve and Deborah Visser, Success Measures, NeighborWorks America; Lester Salamon, Johns Hopkins University; Mark Pinsky, Opportunity Finance Network; Ben Thornley, Pacific Community Ventures; Laura Sparks, Citi Community Development and Citi Foundation; and Sara Olsen, SVT Group.
Enjoy! And Congrats, Ben.
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