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Mission Meld: A Case Study on Alignment in Impact Investing

How do impact investment fund managers balance the needs of their investors with the needs of their investees/borrowers? RSF Social Finance’s answer: through radical transparency. How would the world be different if the financial system were open and transparent? What …

Congratulations are in order!

“Chapter of the Year” – that has a nice ring to it, doesn’t it? Well, that is what Fuqua’s Net Impact Club can now call themselves!  From amongst the more than 300 Net Impact chapters around the world, Fuqua was selected as …

The Impact Investor at SOCAP12

This post was originally published on the PCV blog. It was posted by Sarah Ritter, Program Coordinator of Insight at Pacific Community Ventures, with recaps provided by InSight’s Associate Director Colby Dailey. This week at SOCAP12 InSight, CASE at Duke …

The Impact of Impatient Optimism

This post was written by second year student, Carla Hickman. Carla spent her summer interning with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in Seattle, Washington. I have always worked in the education sector, and arriving at Fuqua, it was a …

Global leaders start at home

This post was written by second year student, Mark Hiew. Mark and fellow second year, Dawn Arthur, were the leads for the 9th annual Day in Durham, an annual event that introduces incoming Fuqua students to the social entrepreneurship community …

Six Dynamics Describe How Impact Investing is Unique

As dozens of new impact investing funds are created explicitly to tackle the world’s most intractable social and environmental problems, including over 60 globally in 2011, best practices that lead to impact investing performance are more needed than ever. A new …

Education Reform for the Summer

This post was written by second year, Ambika Ahuja.  Ambika interned this summer with the Houston Independent School District through an Education Pioneers fellowship.  Ambika’s internship was supported by CASE’s Summer Internship Fund (learn more about SIF at the bottom …

From Fuqua to Rwanda: Global Health in Action

This post was written by second year student, Liz Charles. Liz interned this summer with the International Partnership for Innovative Healthcare Delivery (IPIHD) with the support of CASE’s Summer Internship Fund (learn more about SIF at the bottom on this …

Learning to Lend with Social Impact

This post was written by second year student, Jacqueline Westley.  Jacqueline interned this summer at RSF Social Finance with the support of CASE’s Summer Internship Fund (learn more about SIF at the bottom on this post!). RSF is a non-profit …

I could not have hoped for anything better…

This post was written by second year student, Julia Houlihan.  Julia interned this summer at Teach for America through an Education Pioneers fellowship. Julia’s internship was made possible with the support of CASE’s Summer Internship Fund (learn more about SIF …