Impact Consulting
PCV Profiled in First Ever IRIS User Registry
PCV is excited to be one of the first organizations to be listed as a registered user on The Global Impact Investing Network’s Impact Reporting and Investment Standards (IRIS) User Registry. PCV utilizes IRIS metrics – a standard set of metrics that describe social, environmental, and financial performance – to measure the impact of its portfolio […]
Jul 14, 2015 – Impact Consulting • Impact Investing • PCV News •
PCV InSight at SOCAP
PCV InSight is a curator again at the SOCAP conference in San Francisco this year, the world’s largest annual gathering of social entrepreneurs and their supporters. PCV InSight will be joining research partners CASE at Duke University and ImpactAssets to host three sessions on October 3rd related to The Impact Investor – a research project […]
Jul 14, 2015 – Impact Consulting • PCV News •
Coca Cola: Guinea pig for measuring the social impact of Olympics sponsorships
In an age where you can’t search the web or even walk down the street without being overwhelmed by advertisements, we’re used to seeing brands being associated with something they’re, well, not associated with. Yet, sponsors of the London Olympics, such as Coca Cola, McDonalds and Cadbury, are being criticized for doing just that. Their […]
Jul 14, 2015 – Impact Consulting •
Piecing together impact investing, $4 billion at a time
Ben Thornley, PCV’s Director of InSight, responds to the critics that cite impact investing as being ill-defined and lacking integrity in his blog for the Huffington Post. Read the full post here! One of the great myths about impact investing is that the practice is ill-defined and therefore lacks integrity. In reality, the two clear-cut […]
Jul 14, 2015 – Impact Consulting • Impact Investing •
Five Findings from New InSight White Paper
This morning we’re excited to release a new white paper that sizes the social impact investing private equity market in the United States at $4 billion. While $4 billion represents a very small segment (.5%) of the broader private equity market in the U.S. ($1 trillion) our findings demonstrate that social impact private equity investing in […]
Jul 14, 2015 – Impact Consulting • Impact Investing •
A Big Brazilian Step Forward for Impact Investing
Reflecting on the launch Wednesday of the Impact Investing Policy Collaborative, at the Brazilian Development Bank (BNDES) in Rio, we were struck by just how far impact investing has come — particularly because, at first glance, the notion that private capital might be harnessed to create intentional, targeted social and environmental impacts is relatively threatening […]
Jul 14, 2015 – Impact Consulting • Impact Investing •
PCV Launches Impact Investing Policy Collaborative in Brazil
Today Beth Sirull, Ben Thornley, and Sarah Ritter of PCV and the Initiative for Responsible Investment launched the Impact Investing Policy Collaborative (IIPC) at the Brazilian Development Bank (BNDES) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Why Brazil? Well, this week PCV is playing host to a convening of researchers and policy makers from around the world for […]
Jul 14, 2015 – Impact Consulting • Impact Investing •
Impact Investing + Policy = Collaboration Needed
Ben Thornley, PCV’s Director of InSight, just wrote a fascinating article about Impact Investing and Public Policy for the Huffington Post. Read the full article below. “Utter the word “policy” in a crowd of impact investing types and watch the eyes roll. It’s understandable. The culture of impact investing is strongly influenced by the relentless […]
Jul 14, 2015 – Impact Consulting • Impact Investing •
Ben Thornley’s Huffington Post Blog – Tom Steyer: Impact Investing Icon
Ben Thornley, Director of PCV InSight, posted a new blog to the Huffington Post focusing on Tom Steyer of Farallon Capital. Read on for Ben’s take on Tom Steyer and his significance within the field of Impact Investing in his blog titled, “Tom Steyer: Impact Investing Icon” and follow Ben at www.twitter.com/ImpactInSight. Before the current […]
Jul 14, 2015 – Impact Consulting • Impact Investing •
A Special Announcement About Our GLE Project
Thanks to everyone who has supported the pilot of a Global Learning Exchange in 2014. This bold experiment has exceeded the expectations for what a multi-stakeholder exchange could contribute to the growth of the impact investing market when it was launched at the Social Impact Investment Forum in 2013. Unless core funding is secured for another stage […]
Jul 12, 2015 – Impact Consulting • Impact Investing • PCV News •
Ben Thornley, Director of PCV InSight, on Impact Investing for Huffington Post
PCV’s own Ben Thornley, Director of PCV InSight, posted a new blog called “The Really Truly Transformative Potential of Impact Investing” for the Huffington Post this week. Read on below for Ben’s thoughts on the incredible potential of impact investing and follow Ben at www.twitter.com/ImpactInSight. “Money managers pay attention: Impact investing — investment for financial […]
Jul 10, 2015 – Impact Consulting • Impact Investing •
Impact Investor – Video Recap (Part 2)
As promised in part 1, here is the second installment of InSight’s video highlights from our launch event of The Impact Investor. The event marked the beginning of a two-year project to build data-driven and practitioner-guided knowledge for the rapidly growing field of impact investing, which we are undertaking along with our partners CASE at […]