Investing Beyond Exit
An important question that social entrepreneurs should also be thinking about when dealing with impact investing.
An important question that social entrepreneurs should also be thinking about when dealing with impact investing.
What social entrepreneurs need to be thinking about when approaching impact investors and making the pitch for investment capital.
As entrepreneurs create more for-profit businesses with strong social missions, the opportunity for socially minded investors to invest in them grows.
In order to succeed, philanthropies, like baseball teams, must rely on both objective and subjective analysis.
The nonprofit sector wastes an insane amount of time implementing best practices that have painfully low return on investment.
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Nine of the ten largest US nonprofits are networks, with multiple affiliates across the country striving for significant impact.
Insight into the process of forming productive relationships with social investors, and whether receiving an investment is the right growth approach for each social enterprise.
It comes down to this: We’re all operating in a dysfunctional market for impact.
The notion of L3Cs is that they’re a vehicle for doing well by doing good and therefore an improvement over the typical nonprofit structure.
New mobile-based payment systems may offer a more affordable, and faster alternative to distributing cash to countries such as Haiti.