Tag Archives: RSF Social Finance

Mission-Driven Returns

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 …

RSF Social Finance’s Social Enterprise Lending Program

By Cathy Clark and Jorge Soriano RSF Social Finance (RSF) is an innovative public benefit financial services organization dedicated to transforming the way the world works with money. RSF offers investing, lending, and giving services to individuals and enterprises committed to …

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 …

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 …