The pioneer gap has not been filled. How might we invest in early stage nonprofits, for-profits, and everything in between in a way that truly aligns incentives for investors and entrepreneurs? Deconstruct and reconstruct the seed stage investment agreement with us. We’ll hack into 3 unique impact …
Curious to understand how Pay for Success initiatives work in addressing the issues that plague developing countries? This session will walk through the process of designing and implementing the first-ever Development Impact Bond, focused on increasing school enrollment and learning of girls in India, partnering the NGO …
Increasingly nonprofits, especially those with earned income, are wondering whether they could have a greater and more sustainable impact as a for-profit. Benefit corporations allow a social enterprise to keep their mission central to the organization, while allowing for a for-profit business model. The stability provided by …
As the impact investing field grows, lack of investment-ready social enterprises and challenges in assessing new hybrid business models are recurring themes. In order to ensure successful outcomes from impact investing, what can be done to make social enterprises more investment-ready? In this session, we will discuss …
A key question with impact investing and venture philanthropy is how to more fully capture the social impact of investments, including indirect innovation and influence effects. These can include the development of related technologies, the acceleration of new funders into the field, and the creation of new …