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PCV 2012 Annual Report
In 2012, PCV supported entrepreneurs who were building businesses and creating jobs in neighborhoods that needed it most. Even as PCV has actively rebuilt local economies in California, we have also gained recognition nationally and internationally as a thought leader responsible for advancing policies that drive investment to disadvantaged communities around the world. Learn about […]
Jul 28, 2015 – Blog and News •
Breaking the Binary: Policy Guide to Scaling Social Innovation
Breaking the Binary: Policy Guide to Scaling Social Innovation is intended to add a perspective to the global conversation already under way about how we move beyond binary choices in crafting responses to social, economic, and environmental challenges. Fundamentally, it is about leveraging private enterprise and capital for public benefit. We refer to this as […]
Jul 28, 2015 – Blog and News • Impact Consulting • Impact Investing •
Capital Markets for Impact at Scale
On October 1, 2012, The Rockefeller Foundation and the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco co-hosted Capital Markets for Impact at Scale, an event curated by InSight at Pacific Community Ventures and Equilibrium Capital. The event gathered leaders in impact investing – including many active in community development finance – as well as leaders in […]
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The Impact Investor – A Market Emerges: The Six Dynamics of Impact Investing
The Impact Investor is a project to build data-driven and practitioner-guided knowledge for the rapidly growing field of impact investing. It is a partnership between InSight, the Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship at Duke University, and ImpactAssets. It is supported by the Omidyar Network, the Annie E.Casey Foundation, the RS Group (Hong Kong), […]
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CalPERS for California 2011
A first of its kind report highlighting the California Public Employees Retirement System’s $19 billion of investments in California as of June 30, 2011. The report provides an examination of the broad ancillary benefits of all CalPERS investments in California across asset classes.
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CalPERS California Initiative 2011 – Creating Opportunities in California’s Underserved Markets
The objective of the California Initiative is to generate attractive financial returns. As an ancillary benefit, the California Initiative was designed to create jobs and promote economic opportunity in California. To determine the extent of the ancillary benefits, CalPERS measures the impact of the California Initiative by examining portfolio companies that: Traditionally have had limited access to institutional […]
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Market for Social Impact Investing by Private Equity Funds Stands at $4 Billion in the United States
In one of the first efforts to characterize the landscape of social impact investing through private equity in the United States, PCV InSight valued total assets managed by U.S. private equity managers with the goal of achieving both financial returns and intentional social benefits at approximately $4 billion. The market includes 69 General Partners (GPs) that meet stringent qualifications […]
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PCV Annual Report 2011
With your support, in 2011 PCV stepped up our efforts to get people working again. And not just working, but prospering. To prosper means to flourish; to grow strong and healthy. Prosperity shouldn’t be for just a select few. With good jobs – those offering benefits and living wages – doors to prosperity can open […]
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The Impact Investor: The Need for Evidence and Engagement
The Impact Investor is a project to build data-driven and practitioner-guided knowledge for the rapidly growing field of impact investing. It is a partnership between InSight, the Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship at Duke University, and ImpactAssets. It is supported by the Omidyar Network, the Annie E.Casey Foundation, the RS Group (Hong Kong), […]
Jul 28, 2015 – Blog and News • Impact Consulting • Impact Investing •
Impact at Scale: Policy Innovation for Institutional Investment with Social & Environmental Benefit
We examine investments with the intent to create measurable social or environmental benefit in addition to financial return. Policymakers are drawn to this by the promise of leveraging private capital to support public purpose and the opportunity to make better use of scarce resources to support social benefits. Executive Summary Full Report
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Solidifying the Business Case for CDFI Nonfinancial Performance Measurement
In this article I contribute a number of additional questions and next steps to the conversation about measurement that started well over a decade ago—a conversation that led to the development of CARS, the Community Investment Impact System (CIIS) at the CDFI Fund, and the CDFI Data Project, among other innovations. Colby Dailey and I […]
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Building Scale in Community Impact Investing through Nonfinancial Performance Measurement
The measurement of nonfinancial performance is becoming increasingly important in the impact investing industry, where individuals and institutions actively deploy capital for intentional social and environmental benefit, including in low-income domestic markets. This paper, co-authored by InSight Director Ben Thornley, discusses the limited practice and future direction of nonfinancial performance measurement.