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Got Health Insurance?
In March of last year, after much cajoling and arm-twisting, the president signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act into law. OK, so, what now? One intention of the legislation is to expand health coverage to millions of Americans via the small businesses that employ so many of them. You might wonder if there’s […]
Jul 08, 2015 – Impact Consulting •
PCV Inverviews Tides Foundation Founder
Check out this video of PCV’s own Ben Thornley as he interviews Tides Foundation and new member of the Equilibrium Capital Group team, Drummond Pike:
Jul 08, 2015 – Impact Consulting •
PCV Takes to the International Stage… In Bellagio!
A few weeks back, PCV had its debut on the international stage. With funding from The Rockefeller Foundation, PCV’s InSight team hosted a meeting of about 30 policymakers, advocates, and researchers from ten countries – from USA and Canada to Ghana, India and South Africa, quite a bunch! – to talk about the ways that […]
Jul 08, 2015 – Impact Consulting • PCV News •
Five Takeaways: The G8 and Social Impact Investing
by Ben Thornley, Director, InSight at Pacific Community Ventures The UK government planted the Union Jack squarely at the center of social impact investing at the dedicated G8 meeting June 6 – hosted by Prime Minister David Cameron in concert with Cabinet visionary Nick Hurd, Minister for Civil Society, and Sir Ronald Cohen, who in […]
Nov 12, 2013 – Impact Consulting • Impact Investing •
Impact Investing 2.0 — What $3 Billion Tells Us About the Next $300 Billion
Co-authored with Ben Thornley of Pacific Community Ventures and 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 […]
Sep 05, 2013 – Impact Consulting • Impact Investing •
The New Era of Public Innovation: Part One
post by Ben Thornley The Schwab Foundation Social Innovation Summit, held last week in Lima, Peru, was a breakthrough moment. As the first international, ministerial-level convening focused on the role of government in enabling and growing social enterprise, it ushered in a new era of public innovation. There is broad agreement, in Latin America and […]