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Our Pursuit of Deeper Impact
In a recent report, In Pursuit of Deeper Impact, social impact advisor Katherine Pease of KP Advisors challenges the status quo of impact investing
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Sonen Capital Closes Its First Global Sustainable Real Assets Fund at Over $75 Million
Sonen Capital announced the final close of its Global Sustainable Real Assets Fund, a $75 million private global real assets impact investment fund.
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Next Up for Impact Investing: ‘Solve for Market Demand, Not Investor Preferences’
I did not attend the Global Impact Investing Network’s first global forum in 2013 in London. But from what I understand, that inaugural event was typical for the still-nascent field. There were lots of questions about how to proceed, how to develop products that ultimately benefit people and the planet, how to measure their impact and how to make some coin while doing it.
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Impact Investing Deals Start to Flow in Central America and the Caribbean
Antigua, Guatemala was the place last month to take stock of the impact investing ecosystem in Central America and the Caribbean. More than 350 investors, entrepreneurs and other participants from 34 countries gathered at the Latin American Impact Investment Forum for Central America and the Caribbean.
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Assessing the Impact of Social Enterprises Using the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals and IRIS
Social entrepreneurship is increasingly recognized as a means of addressing the world’s most pressing social and environmental problems. However, assessing the impact of social enterprises continues to be challenging. Part of the challenge is to find a shared language of impact in the myriad approaches used by social entrepreneurs, impact investors, and development agencies to code, classify, and interpret impact.
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From Burning Man to Socap
We recently returned from a week in the desert at this year’s Burning Man festival. It was a profound journey, something we will remember for the rest of our lives. Burning Man is a unique and fascinating place. The breadth and scale of it is quite extraordinary, something that can only be experienced to comprehend. We met many incredible people, experienced moving art projects, danced until the early morning, and genuinely had a really amazing time.
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US Investors Ploughing Billions into Palm Oil, Claims Report
Some of the US’ leading institutional investors, including pension funds, are potentially fuelling environmental and social harm by ploughing billions of dollars into the palm oil industry through opaque financial arrangements, a new report claims.
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Impact Investing Takes Hold on College Campuses
Danielle Reed was already an impact investor when she stepped onto the campus of the University of California-Berkeley Haas School of Business in 2013 — though her family didn’t know it.
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Why I Couldn’t Let the Sexist ‘Lady CFO’ Comment About Ruth Porat Slide
Fortune Magazine, June 12, 2016
Danielle Ginach, Impact Manager at Sonen Capital, reflects on why she couldn’t let the sexist “Lady CFO” Comment about Ruth Porat slide. In this thoughtful piece for Fortune Magazine, Danielle calls out unconscious gender bias in the workplace. She speaks up because she envisions a workplace where we are identified by our achievements alone and not our gender, race and sexual orientation.
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Alphabet shareholder calls Ruth Porat ‘lady CFO’
USA TODAY, June 8, 2016
The Internet giant has positioned itself as a leader in unconscious bias training, instructing employees to call out colleagues for sexism or racism. Yet the sexist slight went mostly unacknowledged, at least by the executives on stage. However Danielle Ginach, associate director and impact manager at Sonen Capital, spoke up and said into the mic: “I am sorry to put another shareholder on the spot. But Ms. Porat is the CFO, not the lady CFO.”
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