Stanford Social Innovation Review : Informing and inspiring leaders of social change

A group of social innovation leaders from around the world discuss impact investing and how to make it more effective.

Impact Investing: Transforming How We Make Money While Making a Difference by Antony Bugg-Levine & Jed Emerson

Technologies that reduce costs and improve care for the underserved are often the most difficult to scale up. But a handful of strategies could turn things around.

Impact Investors at Toniic aim to create an ecosystem for investing in social entrepreneurs that mirrors the Silicon Valley way of doing deals.

Acumen Fund uses impact investing to tackle global poverty. It's approach has garnered attention, but does it change aid?

What are social marketers to do when their target audience couldn’t care less about the change they want to make? Here's how one group got everyday people to care about alternative energy.

Build Change is shaking up construction practices in earthquake-prone areas.

Recycla Chile, Latin America’s first e-waste recycling company, reclaims value from discarded electronics and marginalized people.

Over the past 17 years, the Forum for African Women Educationalists has delivered high-quality education to millions of girls across 35 African countries.

Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide by Sheryl WuDunn and Nicholas Kristof

We must invest in the financial literacy of social entrepreneurs and in the social literacy of investors.

There's only one bottom line. It ought to be impact.

In piloting social impact bonds, governments have already yielded some lessons from the field.

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.

An interview with Aleem Walji, practice manager for innovation at the World Bank Institute.

Thomas Barry, founder of the Zephyr Management investment firm, discusses widespread opportunities for private equity investment in Africa.

Thomas Gibian, Chairman of Emerging Capital Partners, discusses the success of his organization in investing in companies across the African continent through seven funds.