Tag Archives: Ben Thornley

This review was written by Jem Hudson, founder of the Caldy Group. To read the original post and other insights, subscribe to the Caldy Group blog here. “The stakes are high. If impact investing spurs the socialization and growth in Collaborative …

Hot off the press! We’re excited to announce the launch of: The Impact Investor: Lessons in Leadership and Strategy for Collaborative Capitalism, co-authored by CASE i3 Director Cathy Clark, Jed Emerson, and Ben Thornley. The Impact Investor is born out of …

This article was originally posted on the Huffington Post. Click here to read the original post.  September 15, 2014, will be remembered for the release of a seminal report on impact investing, care of an international taskforce backed by eight country advisory …

This post was originally published on the SOCAP14 blog. To visit the original post, click here. Last year at SOCAP, we had the privilege of sharing the high-level findings from our Impact Investing 2.0 research project, which included a dozen case studies …

Impact investing presents something of an existential challenge for foundations. Convention dictates that investors manage a corpus to maximize risk-adjusted financial returns, in the hopes it will underwrite philanthropic giving for social impact into perpetuity. By seeking to deliver a …

This article was first published in the Huffington Post Blog. Click here to read the original post.  One of the interesting and important recent developments in wealth management has been the emergence of a group of clients committed to investing …

This article was originally published on the Huffington Post. Impact investing has not been growing as quickly as many practitioners might have hoped. Knowledge of what does and does not work in impact investing remains closely held. And because impact …

This post was co-authored by Cathy Clark and Ben Thornley, and originally posted on the Huffington Post blog. The surge of interest in impact investing is a relatively recent phenomenon, although the practice of deploying capital with the intent to create …

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 …