Resources created and curated to support the growth of impact investing, for those new to the field and for experienced practitioners.
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Issue Briefs
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.
Issue Brief #15
By Jed Emerson, Chief Impact Strategist and Lindsay Smalling, Director of Programming at Social Capital Markets
Issue Brief #14
By Jed Emerson, Chief Impact Strategist and Lindsay Smalling, Strategic Initiatives Officer
Issue Brief #13
By Lindsay Norcott, Strategic Initiatives Officer and Jed Emerson, Chief Impact Strategist
Issue Brief #13 Adaptation
Adapted by Amy Bennett, Director of Marketing
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The Purpose of Capital
The Purpose of Capital: Elements of Impact, Financial Flows and Personal Being
By Jed Emerson
The ImpactAssets Handbook For Investors
The ImpactAssets Handbook for Investors: Generating Social and Environmental Value through Capital Investing
Edited by Jed Emerson
The Impact Investor
The Impact Investor: Lessons in Leadership and Strategy for Collaborative Capitalism by Cathy Clark, Jed Emerson & Ben Thornley
The Impact Investor Project
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
Impact Investing: Transforming How We Make Money While Making a Difference by Antony Bugg-Levine & Jed Emerson
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Impact investments are investments made into organizations and funds that generate measurable social and environmental impact as well as financial returns.