Impact Consulting
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 […]
Jul 10, 2015 – Impact Consulting • Impact Investing •
Impact Investor – Video Recap (Part 1)
Here at InSight we’re still sorting through all the incredible conversation from the launch of our new project – The Impact Investor. The launch took place in Oxford, UK before the Skoll World Forum, where over 80 impact investors participated in the dialogue that will inform and shape much of our research. We are undertaking […]
Jul 10, 2015 – Impact Consulting • Impact Investing •
InSight at PCV Launches Global Research Initiative on Impact Investing
Last week at the Skoll World Forum in Oxford, InSight, along with CASE at Duke University and ImpactAssests, launched their new global research initiative, “The Impact Investor: People and Practices Delivering Exceptional Financial and Social Returns”. The project, which has attracted generous funding from the Omidyar Network, The Annie E. Casey Foundation and RS Group […]
Jul 10, 2015 – Impact Consulting • Impact Investing • PCV News •
A Note From Our Executive Director…
Okay, it’s been three months since I last contributed to this blog. I have no excuse, but I’ll offer one anyway. When last I wrote, I was heading off to India for three weeks. It was a fascinating trip—a true reminder of the challenges we face when people living in corrugated huts with no windows […]
Jul 10, 2015 – Impact Consulting • PCV News •
Video Highlights – InSight Report Launch Events
To celebrate the launch of their most recent report, Impact at Scale: Policy Innovation for Institutional Investment with Social and Environmental Benefit, InSight at PCV and the Institute of Responsible Investing at Harvard held three events around the country in New York, Washington, DC and Sacramento, CA. All three events demonstrated the growing excitement around […]
Jul 10, 2015 – Impact Consulting •
What Would Impact Investing At Scale Look Like? $20 Trillion for Good
Forbes’ Rahim Kanani interviews PCV’s Ben Thornley: Recently, I interviewed Ben Thornley of InSight and author of a new study on impact investing, which demonstrates that institutional investors, such as pension funds and endowments that invest for social and environmental outcomes are also earning a competitive rate of financial return. Launched a few weeks ago […]
Jul 10, 2015 – Impact Consulting • Impact Investing •
Hot Off The Press: InSight Launches New Report
Are Institutional Investors investing in markets that provide social and environmental, as well as financial, impact? According to InSight’s recently released report, Impact at Scale: Policy Innovation for Institutional Investment with Social and Environmental Benefit, Institutional Investors are already making socially and environmentally responsible investments, but a lot more still needs to be done. Read […]