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Social Impact Bonds - Opportunities and Challenges in the Netherlands
Report
ABN AMRO
The Dutch market for social impact bonds (SIBs) is still in its infancy, but its potential to grow into a key public sector funding instrument prompted ABN AMRO to investigate...
A practical guide to planning and managing an impactful exit
Practical Guide to Planning and Managing an Impactful Exit
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Effective exit planning is crucial to sustain social impact in a project.

This EVPA guide proposes some guidance on how organisations can think ahead of time to plan an exit strategy from their investments, while best maintaining the social impact originally planned. An exit of funders in this field presents risks different and complex than the traditional field of investment and in its worst case, could threaten the survival of some social partners. 

The Reality of Impact Investing: Stories from the Field
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Is Impact Investing really the miracle cure for societal problems? Can it really allow private sponsors and individuals to make money and save the world at the same time?

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Strategies for Foundations, When, Why and How to Use Venture Philanthropy (2010)
Report
EVPA
This paper investigates the venture philanthropy strategies of foundations. We identified six strategies of foundations engaging in venture philanthropy and explain them through case studies of four foundations based in...
Your Chance to Change the World: The no-fibbing guide to social entrepreneurship (2008)
Book List
The author, a successful and award-winning social entrepreneur, says this is the book that he wishes had been available when he embarked on his first social enterprise. It draws on the experience of 25 social entrepreneurs and provides inspiration and...
The Blue Sweater Bridging the gap between rich and poor in an interconnected world (2009)
September 2010
Book Review
This book, written by the founder of the trailblazing venture philanthropy Acumen Fund, is categorised by its publishers as a ‘Memoir’ and marketed as “part coming-of-age stor

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