In this issue we focus on social impact investment (SII), which blends enterprise, capitalism and philanthropy to create a new stream of capital that some say will ‘transform’ the social sector.
In this issue we focus on social impact investment (SII), which blends enterprise with social imperatives to create a new stream of capital that some say will ‘transform’ the social...
Social impact investment (SII) brings together two unlikely bed-fellows: social good and financial return. This catalytic blend of capitalism and philanthropy could, say some, give rise to a whole new...
Do philanthropists have a special role to play in social impact investing(SII)? Many think so and here CAF Venturesome’s Paul Cheng explains why a propensity to ‘give’ rather than ‘invest’...
What drives a wealthy person to socially invest? According to recent research from NESTA ’ [1] the major driver is being able to achieve social impact over the desire for financial return.
Philanthropists are increasingly being asked to make social investments. They are being encouraged to see social investment as a new asset class: neither a grant, where the money is never...
Having decided it was “ more important to invest positively than to focus on the negative ,” in 2007, Friends Provident Foundation made its first impact investment, a £250,000 subordinated...
Cool2Care , a social enterprise and Community Interest Company (CIC) which supports families with disabled children and young people, received £500,000 of investment to expand its services in May. The...
Billed as a ‘game-changing’ moment in social impact investment, last month’s £3m plus deal structured by social lender Fair Finance will allow it to help 100,000 financially excluded Londoners over...
Social Impact Bonds (SIB) are a form of outcomes-based contract in which public sector commissioners commit to pay for significant improvement in social outcomes (such as a reduction in offending...
Last month (May) the Big Society Bank, that will act as a wholesale investor for social investment and champion the sector to the public, stakeholders and investors, took a ‘momentous...
Daniela Barone Soares, chief executive of Impetus Trust, answers our quick Q&A What is venture philanthropy? Venture philanthropy is an active approach to philanthropy, which involves giving skills as well...
Bernie Morgan, outgoing chief executive of the Community Development Finance Association (cdfa), the membership association for Community Development Finance Institutions (CDFIs), answers our quick Q&A.
Social impact investment has added a tranche of new terms to the philanthropy vocabulary. Here we offer some definitions from leading sector organisations.
If one follows the press and ongoing debates, it becomes clear that the world of philanthropy and social investment is changing. Foundations and wealthy individuals are increasingly investigating new forms...
As America prepares to celebrate its 235 th year of independence from Great Britain on July 4 th , there’s one growing phenomenon which continues to inspire philanthropists on both...
I have always remembered a Talmudic story my father once told me of an old man planting a carob tree whilst a passer-by looked on. The passerby knowingly asked the...
In each newsletter, Philanthropy UK invites an influential person from the philanthropy sector to tell us what books have most inspired and shaped their approach to philanthropy. Our ‘influential reader’...
Thomas J. Tierney and Joel L. Fleishman New York: Public Affairs, April 2011. 257pp. Hardcover. ISBN 978-1-58648-895-6. £12.99 www.publicaffairsbooks.com
Iona Joy, Lucy de Las Casas and Benedict Rickey London: New Philanthropy Capital in association with NESTA, April 2011. 53pp. Free to download at http://www.philanthropycapital.org/download/default.aspx?id=1143
Matthew van Poortvliet, Lucy de Las Casas and Padraic Brick London: New Philanthropy Capital, March 2011. 33pp Free to download at http://www.philanthropycapital.org/publications/improving_the_sector/grantmaking/knowledge_sharing.aspx
Sarah Hedley, Tris Lumley and Hannah Pavey London: New Philanthropy Capital, March 2011. 22pp. Free to download at http://www.philanthropycapital.org/publications/improving_the_sector/grantmaking/helping_grantees_focus_on_impact.aspx
Colin Rochester, George Campbell Gosling, Alison Penn & Meta Zimmeck (Eds) Brighton: Sussex Academic Press, March 2011. 206pp. Softcover. ISBN 9-781845-194246. £25.00 http://www.sussex-academic.co.uk/sa/titles/CulturalSocialStudies/rochester.htm