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Scaling Pathways
Through the Scaling Pathways series, CASE partners with the Skoll Foundation, USAID, and Mercy Corps Ventures to share lessons, insights, and analysis from transformative social enterprises in driving impact at scale. The series includes in-depth case studies, cross-cutting theme papers on key challenges and opportunities related to scale, snapshots of scaling organizations, and more.
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Angel Networks in Emerging Markets
The U.S. Agency for International Development’s (USAID) Partnership to Advance Entrepreneurship Initiative (PACE) funded CASE to research opportunities for development institutions to support angel networks to drive private sector investment in entrepreneurship in Latin America, Middle East/North Africa, and Sub-Saharan Africa.
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SEAD: Social Entrepreneurship Accelerator at Duke
The Social Entrepreneurship Accelerator at Duke (SEAD) was a five-year accelerator program in partnership with the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and the USAID Higher Education Solutions Network (HESN). Through the accelerator program the SEAD team has captured lessons learned and policy implications to ensure that our work impacts both entrepreneurs on the ground and the broader development community.
Impact Investing 2.0: The Way Forward – Insight from 12 Outstanding Funds
By Cathy Clark, Jed Emerson and Ben Thornley This report, released on November 7, 2013, was created in partnership with InSight at Pacific Community Ventures and Impact Assets, and identifies twelve high-performing funds that have seen both financial and social …
Accelerating Impact Enterprises: How to Lock, Stock and Anchor Impact Enterprises for Maximum Impact (Report)
By Cathy Clark, Matthew H. Allen, Bonny Moellenbrock and Chinwe Onyeagoro As a potential extension of its pioneering work on impact investing, the Rockefeller Foundation commissioned us to be part of a global research consortium aiming to understand the needs …
From Money to Meaning and Three Themes in Between
By Erin Worsham At the Social Capital Markets conference, SOCAP13, nearly 2000 social entrepreneurs, investors, foundations, corporate and government representatives gathered to discuss the latest trends in impact investing and how to “build this market at the intersection of money …
Accelerating Impact Enterprises (Presentation)
By Cathy Clark, Matthew Allen, Bonny Moellenbrock and Chinwe Onyeagoro Goal: understand better the evolution, potential and needs of domestic IEs and to identify philanthropic, private and public investment opportunities to increase the likelihood of success among IEs and the …
MicroVest Capital Management: Microvest LLP
By Daniel Brett, Christopher Cox and Ben Thornley MicroVest Capital Management, LLC is a private, for-profit investment adviser dedicated to reducing global poverty by applying a commercial framework to investing. We seek sustainable solutions to poverty by facilitating the flow …
Huntington Capital Fund II, L.P.
By Brenna McCallick and Ben Thornley Huntington Capital seeks to be the best-of-class mezzanine fund serving the lower middle market in California and the southwestern United States. This is measured first by return to investors and second by contributions by …
Elevar Equity: Unitus Equity Fund and Elevar Equity Fund II
By Cathy Clark and Ben Thornley Elevar Equity is a thesis based investor focused on generating outstanding investment returns by delivering essential services to disconnected communities underserved by global networks. We back entrepreneurs who deliver innovative market-based solutions that provide …
Deutsche Bank Commercial Microfinance Consortium 1
By Ben Thornley and Daniel Brett About Deutsche Bank and the Global Commercial Microfinance Consortium: The Global Commercial Microfinance Consortium was a $80.6 million fund that served as a platform to combine high risk catalytic development agency resources with the …
Toniic E-Guide: Early-Stage Global Impact Investing
By Cathy Clark, Lisa Kleissner, Simon Morgan, Stephanie Rupp and Bonny Moellenbrock The goal of this e- guide is to help those with an interest in investing in early-stage impact enterprises learn how this work is being done by their …
Environmental Impact Bonds
By David Nicola and Cathy Clark This paper serves as the environmental response to a McKinsey & Company paper on Social Impact Bonds (SIBs) issued in May 2012. SIBs are the “hot topic” in the world of impact investing, yet …