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SSIR Blog: What Investors Need to Know to Embrace Catalytic Capital

In a post on Stanford Social Innovation Review, FSG's Harvey Koh writes about how the catalytic capital questions of development finance institutions, private foundations, and other types of investors must be answered... Read more

Reflections on Impact Investing from the GIIN Forum

What are currently hot topics in impact investing? After attending the recent GIIN conference this year, I see a new focus on the people... Read more

Impact Investing for Institutional Investors

Impact investing is here to stay and going mainstream: Recent impact investing conferences like the Impact Summit Europe and the GIIN that feature the who’s who of the financial services industry don’t leave any doubt about that. A good set of investment managers have an experienced head start... Read more

Moving Beyond Trade-offs in Impact Investing

In the fast-growing impact investing sector, a contentious debate has been brewing. Does genuine impact always require a sacrifice of financial returns? Or should impact investing always seek market-rate returns, accepting activist-musician Bono’s... Read more

6 Reflections on Impact Evaluation

6 Reflections on Impact Evaluation

In a recent blog post, Tara Murphy Forde, Director of Fund Performance at ... Read more

How to Secure Funding for Your Backbone Organization

“Sounds great, how can I get this funded?”

“We’re doing really exciting work in my region, but we’re concerned about sustainability.”

“The backbone just doesn’t seem as exciting to fund as the programmatic interventions.”

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In the past couple weeks, I’ve... Read more

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