Resources created and curated to support the growth of impact investing, for those new to the field and for experienced practitioners.
ImpactAssets Issue Briefs explore topics of interest to impact investors, wealth advisors and others active in the field of impact investing. They are offered as a resource to those seeking a deeper understanding of impact investing and of current issues being discussed by those active in the field.
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By Jed Emerson, Chief Impact Strategist and Lindsay Smalling, Director of Programming at Social Capital Markets
By Jed Emerson, Chief Impact Strategist and Lindsay Smalling, Strategic Initiatives Officer
By Lindsay Norcott, Strategic Initiatives Officer and Jed Emerson, Chief Impact Strategist
Adapted by Amy Bennett, Director of Marketing
The Purpose of Capital: Elements of Impact, Financial Flows and Personal Being
By Jed Emerson
The ImpactAssets Handbook for Investors: Generating Social and Environmental Value through Capital Investing
Edited by Jed Emerson
The Impact Investor: Lessons in Leadership and Strategy for Collaborative Capitalism by Cathy Clark, Jed Emerson & Ben Thornley
ImpactAssets has partnered with the Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship at Duke University and InSight at Pacific Community Ventures to build data-driven and practitioner-guided knowledge for the rapidly growing field of impact investing.
Impact Investing: Transforming How We Make Money While Making a Difference by Antony Bugg-Levine & Jed Emerson
Impact investing is tackling problems from poverty to global warming. Read about the changes investment dollars are helping to finance in communities worldwide.
View other organizations in the space and find research papers about impact investing.
Impact investments are investments made into organizations and funds that generate measurable social and environmental impact as well as financial returns.
