Impact Investing
Impact Investing 2.0 Launches!
Today marks the official launch of PCV InSight’s new report, “Impact Investing 2.0: The Way Forward – Insight from 12 Outstanding Funds”. This report, created in partnership with the Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship (CASE) at Duke University and Impact Assets, identifies twelve high-performing funds that have seen both financial and social returns […]
Jul 16, 2015 – Impact Consulting • Impact Investing •
The Question of Mainstreaming Impact Investing
This blog is writted by Director of PCV InSight, Ben Thornley. The process of mainstreaming impact investing is, quite literally, about asking the right questions, and having the right answers ready to provide. On the buy side, where the questions originate, investors including pension funds and other fiduciaries are wrestling with what it means to […]
Jul 16, 2015 – Impact Consulting • Impact Investing •
Check out Ben’s latest Huffington Post article!
Authors: Ben Thornley & Cathy Clark Co-authored with Jed Emerson of Impact Assets Earlier this month in the Stanford Social Innovation Review (SSIR), Paul Brest and Kelly Born wrote a very thoughtful piece about the difficulty of achieving real impact alongside financial returns for impact investors. Their thesis was so provocative that over 18 of […]
Jul 16, 2015 – Impact Investing •
The third time’s a charm!
The Impact Investing Policy Collaborative (IIPC) just wrapped up their third annual conference in the UK. For those who couldn’t join the IIPC across the pond, here’s a quick recap of the marathon set of events that took place! Event Recap From July 8-11 over 120 delegates representing nearly 30 different countries met in […]
Jul 16, 2015 – Impact Investing •
An Impact Investing Milestone: The London Principles
Blog Author: Ben Thornley, Director, PCV InSight The Impact Investing Policy Collaborative (IIPC) London Principles – a critical piece of market infrastructure – have just been launched at an international conference in the UK. The Principles are a statement of intent and integrity. Impact investing has emerged as one the most important new instruments for […]
Jul 16, 2015 – Impact Consulting • Impact Investing •
PCV Cheat Sheet: Breaking the Binary, Case Study #2
It’s time to look at another case study from Breaking the Binary: Policy Guide to Scaling Social Innovation! This time we’re heading to the UK (we are over there a lot lately – see what I mean here and here) looking at Big Society Capital (BSC). BSC was created in 2012 and deploys assets to […]
Jul 16, 2015 – Impact Consulting • Impact Investing •
PCV Cheat Sheet: Breaking the Binary, Case Study #1
Have you checked out Breaking the Binary: Policy Guide to Scaling Social Innovation? If not, it is the most recent report that PCV InSight published in collaboration with The World Economic Forum, The Schwab Foundation, the IRI at Harvard University and the SK Group. This report was launched at the first ever Social Innovation Summit […]
Jul 15, 2015 – Impact Investing •
The connection IS the connection
With the Pre-G8 Meeting behind us (check out this recap!), the PCV InSight team is gearing up for the 3rd annual Impact Investing Policy Collaborative (IIPC) Conference in the UK! Sarah Ritter, the PCVer temporarily working inside the UK Cabinet Office to help with the event, shared an interesting question that she keeps being asked: […]
Jul 15, 2015 – Impact Investing •
PCV InSight helps kick off G8 Summit
As you all know from this blog post, PCV InSight is our research and policy arm here at Pacific Community Ventures. Their work focuses heavily on impact investing, a field that is seeing a “surge of interest” according to PCV InSight Director Ben Thornley in his latest Huffington Post blog. There is so much interest, […]
Jul 15, 2015 – Impact Consulting • Impact Investing •
Join us May 7 at the Bay Area Impact Investing Initiative
The Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco will host the Bay Area Impact Investing Conference on Tuesday, May 7 to discuss how and why institutional investment pools can participate in Impact Investing activities in the Bay Area. These sorts of investment strategies are developed to focus on regional investments that first and foremost, meet our […]
Jul 15, 2015 – Impact Investing •
IIPC Announces Fellowship and Research Grant Award
The IIPC is pleased to announce the following recipients for the IIPC Fellowship and Research Grant Award selected in 2012. The awards are intended to enable researchers to explore new areas – both geographies and topics – to cultivate greater interest in the field and further expand the network of researchers and advocates considering impact […]
Jul 15, 2015 – Impact Investing •
Event Recap: Impact Investors Help Identify New Paths to Transit-Oriented Development
This post is written by Brenna McCallick, Project Coordinator on the PCV InSight team. Given the culture of learning at Pacific Community Ventures, it was fitting that I marked my one month anniversary here by attending a policy briefing at the San Francisco Federal Reserve. The topic of the day was “New Paths to Housing […]