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Alliance Magazine
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Alliance Magazine provides news and analysis of the latest developments in philanthropy and social investment worldwide.
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Financial Planners as Catalysts for Social Investment (2012)
Report
Nesta
This report is focused on understanding how social investment opportunities may be considered by the segment of the UK wealth management sector that provides regulated investment advice to retail clients...
The UK Social Investment Market: The Current Landscape and a Framework for Investor Decision Making (2012)
Report
Cambridge Associates
While the UK market is often considered a leader in the social investment space, UK institutional investors often struggle to define the context in which to evaluate and move forward...
The World That Changes the World: How Philanthropy, Innovation and Entrepreneurship are Transforming the Social Ecosystem (2010)
Book
By:
Cheng, Willie and Sharifah Mohamed
An Asian viewpoint on philanthropy and innovation.
The First Billion: a forecast of social investment demand (2012)
Report
Big Society Capital
The UK’s social investment market could be worth £1bn by 2016, according to a Big Society Capital report The First Billion: a forecast of social investment demand. It says that...
Impact Investments - An Emerging Asset Class (2010)
Report
JP Morgan, Rockefeller Foundation, Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN)
Impact investing offers a new alternative for channeling large-scale private capital for social benefit. With increasing numbers of investors rejecting the notion that they face a binary choice between investing...
Evaluation of the School for Social Entrepreneurs 1997-2007 (pub 2007)
Book List
This report contains the findings of a thorough and public evaluation into the efficacy of the first decade of work undertaken by the School for Social Entrepreneurs (SSE).
Integrating Environmental, Social and Governance Issues into Institutional Investment: a Handbook for Colleges and Universities (2007)
Book List
The purpose of this handbook is to assist colleges and universities in implementing investment policies that consider environmental, social, and governance (ESG) issues. It discusses the four principal ESG strategies: shareholder advocacy, community investing, positive and negative social screening, and...
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 application of learning & research to the practice of philanthropy (2009)
Report
European Philanthropy Research And Teaching Initiative
The report outlines the current state of philanthropy research and teaching within Europe, and suggests a stronger and more effective framework could be built to ‘close the gap’ between learning...

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