Tag Archives: Cathy Clark

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 …

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 …

As the social sector evolves, one thing that is becoming increasingly clear is the critical role that knowledge plays in helping advance progress towards social solutions. Practitioners struggle with finding the best approaches to scale and accessing capital for scaling. …

This post was written by first year MBA student Ian Cain.  Ian reflects on a recent visit from Ron D. Cordes, co-chairman of Genworth Financial Wealth Management and founder of ImpactAssets.  Cordes came to Fuqua as part of the CASE i3 speaker series on impact investing.  …

This post originally appeared on the Social Edge.  Join the conversation there! When Greg Dees and I started our blog over six months ago, it was to get feedback on some of the patterns and trends we had been seeing in our research on business …

This post originally appeared on the Social Edge.  Join the conversation there! Antony Bugg-Levine and Jed Emerson recently released their new book, Impact Investing: Transforming How We Make Money While Making a Difference. It explores a wide range of issues essential to …

This post originally appeared on the Social Edge.  Join the conversation there! The one true thing that we seem to be able to say about business models in social entrepreneurship these days is that by necessity, they must continually adapt and …

We’re pleased to announce that CASE is formally launching a new program focused on impact investing, CASE i3, the CASE Initiative on Impact Investing. This will be the first comprehensive global program at a top 10 business school in the US to blend …

This post originally appeared on the Social Edge and builds on an earlier CASE blog post, “Cathy Clark Heads to the White House“. We’ve all heard the impressive numbers – JP Morgan reports a potential market for impact investing of up to $1 …

Two weeks ago, CASE co-hosted (along with the Growth Philanthropy Network and Duke’s Center for Strategic Philanthropy & Civil Society) our annual Social Impact Exchange conference in New York. Over 375 funders, entrepreneurs and thought leaders came together for two …