Fw: March Updates from the Global Impact Investing Network

"When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world." George Washington Carver What is Social Entrepreneurship? Statement of Faith You can find other "Market with Meaning" but you definitely want to see "Profit with Purpose". I personally "Believe in Kingdom Transformation" because I know there is only ONE "Life for Significant". 社會企業家的事業 my facebook  &  my twitter  &  my blog --- 2010年3月25日 星期四，GIIN <info@globalimpactinvestingnetwork.org> 寫道﹕ 寄件人: GIIN <info@globalimpactinvestingnetwork.org> 主題: March Updates from the Global Impact Investing Network 收件人: incubator.hou@gmail.com 日期: 2010年3月25日,星期四,上午12:50 Email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser. Impact Investing News Visit the press clips resource page of the GIIN website for a more complete list of impact investing news coverage. Some highlights are below. In a recent Financial Times column, former Gates Foundation CFO Alexander Friedman describes opportunities for foundations, banks, and governments to increase the flow of capital to the social sector. > Read more The Wall Street Journal reports that the balance between social impact and financial return has become an important topic for discussion, as the microfinance sector attracts more commercial capital. > Read more The Gaurdian, the Financial Times, and the Economist all report on the creation of an innovative social impact bond which will help fund education and support for ex-offenders. > Read more from the Gaurdian > Read more from the Financial Times > Read more from the Economist The world’s leading philanthropists write in the Wall Street Journal about the need to use philanthropic dollars to leverage greater private investment in global solutions. > Read more Investor Spotlight: Beartooth Capital Each month, an impact investor discusses with the GIIN their motivations, their impact investment strategy, and challenges they face in this growing industry.  This month, we spoke to Carl Palmer, the co-founder of Beartooth Capital Partners, a private equity firm that invests in ranch land in the western United States. With a strong mission of land and wildlife conservation, Beartooth’s business model relies on restoration of the ecological and agricultural value of their properties. > Read more from Beartooth’s Carl Palmer GIIN Investors' Council News The GIIN welcomes Sarona Asset Management to the Investors' Council. Sarona Asset Management Inc, founded in 1953 as an impact investment firm, creates and manages private investment vehicles for impact investment in developing countries, with over $200 million in assets currently in its Sarona and MicroVest funds. Sarona Asset Management makes primarily small private equity investments in micro, small and medium enterprise markets. Click here for a full list of Investors' Council members. Recent Events The past few weeks have been filled with discussion about the growing impact investing industry. The GIIN co-hosted a cross-sector Global Forum on Impact Investing with Dutch development organization SNV, The Royal Netherlands Embassy, The Rockefeller Foundation, the Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs, and the Small Enterprise Assistance Fund. Rockefeller Foundation Managing Director and GIIN Board Chairman Antony Bugg-Levine shared the stage with Ambassador Elizabeth Bagley, the US State Department Special Representative for Global Partnerships. At the Harvard Social Enterprise Conference, GIIN Director of Strategy and Development Amit Bouri moderated a panel with four impact investors who discussed as practitioners the realities of investing to achieve both social or environmental impact and financial returns. With the Rockefeller Foundation, the GIIN co-hosted a panel discussion and reception to mark the release of two new important reports about impact investing: Solutions for Impact Investors: From Strategy to Implementation by Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, and Investing for Impact: Case Studies Across Asset Classes by Bridges Ventures and The Parthenon Group. Both reports are available for download from the research resource page of the GIIN website. Last week, GIIN Director of Programs and Operations Camilla Seth moderated a panel about using impact investments to finance small and medium enterprises at the Social Venture Capital/Social Enterprise Conference in Miami. Current and Upcoming Events The GIIN will also participate in discussions at these current and upcoming events: 2010 Aspen Network for Development Entrepreneurs Latin America Conference Panel: Introduction to Impact Reporting and Investment Standards March 23-26, Grenada, Nicaragua Women’s World Banking Capital Markets Conference Panel: Positioning Microfinance in the Impact Investing Market March 23-24, New York City 2010 Skoll World Forum April 14-16, Oxford, England Sankalp Investment Forum May 4-5, Mumbai, India For more information about upcoming events, visit the events resource page of the GIIN website. You are on this as a friend of the GIIN. Unsubscribe incubator.hou@gmail.com from this list. Our mailing address is: 420 Fifth Avenue, 19th floor New York City, New York 10018 Copyright (C) Global Impact Investing Network, a project of Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors. All rights reserved. Forward this email to a friend Update your profile

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