轉寄︰ Updates from the GIIN - Jobs, News, and Information from the Impact Investing Field

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主題︰ Updates from the GIIN - Jobs, News, and Information from the Impact Investing Field

Email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser. IMPACT INVESTING NEWS & EVENTS Press Highlights Visit the press clips resource page of the GIIN website for a more complete index of impact investing news coverage. GenWorth Chairman and ImpactAssets Founder Ron Cordes discusses his career in financial advising and his current interest in impact investing with Forbes. Read more > Financial Planning magazine highlights the growing impact investing industry, and how financial planners are learning to accommodate a growing interest in impact investing among wealthy clients. Read more > The Huffington Post marks the launch of the Global Impact Investing Rating System, which uses IRIS-aligned survey questions to generate company and fund ratings based on social and environmental performance. Read more > The launch of Big Society Capital, a financing fund run by the U.K. government to support organizations that provide social good, was covered by the Financial Times, Reuters, and the London Evening Standard. Read Financial Times > Read Reuters > Read London Evening Standard > Upcoming Events Visit the events resource page of the GIIN website for an updated list of industry events. SOCAP11 September 6-9, San Francisco, CA, USA Making Finance Work For Africa 2011 Partnership Forum September 15-16, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Impact Investing Summit September 20-21, Washington, D.C., USA Data Analysis & Reporting for Green Investment Return September 22, New York City, New York, USA New Ventures Investor Forum: Colombia September 22-23, Bogota, Colombia Impact Investing 2011 September 30, London, England SRI in the Rockies: The Future of Investing October 5-6, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA Slow Money National Gathering October 12-14, San Francisco, California, USA Opportunity Collaboration October 17-20, Ixtapa, Mexico The Tipping Point: A UNEP FI Global Roundtable October 19-20, Washington, D.C., USA Investors’ Circle Fall Venture Fair October 26-28, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA Net Impact Conference October 27-29, Portland, Oregon, USA Social Venture Network Fall Conference October 27-30, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA GIIN Releases the First IRIS Performance Data Report The GIIN released today Data Driven: A Performance Analysis for the Impact Investing Industry, the first performance data report of its Impact Reporting and Investment Standards (IRIS) initiative. IRIS is a universal language for social, environmental, and financial performance reporting. It was developed as a tool for the impact investing industry to improve transparency, increase the credibility of social and environmental performance data, and facilitate investment comparability and performance benchmarking. The report presents early findings from 2,394 organizations – including 1,931 microfinance institutions and 463 other mission-driven organizations – that work with leading impact investment intermediaries. In addition to presenting early aggregated performance data, this report’s objective is to increase adoption of IRIS and to encourage impact investors, funds, and mission-driven organizations to strengthen future market intelligence by voluntarily contributing data for analysis to the IRIS initiative. Download Data Driven > Read the press release > How Standards Emerge: A Discussion of IRIS in Innovations Journal The GIIN contributed an article about developing and establishing the IRIS reporting standards for the emerging impact investing industry to the current issue of MIT’s Innovations journal. The article makes note of the instrumental role investors and network associations are playing by demonstrating their own use of social, environmental, and financial performance metrics to help establish best practices. Financial reporting standards have only become universal after decades and longer, and in this article, the GIIN discusses its goal to accelerate the establishment of common social and environmental performance reporting practices with the support of the impact investing community. Read the article from the GIIN and download the current issue of Innovations> GIIN Board Chairman Antony Bugg-Levine Co-Authors Book on Impact Investing Launching this week at SOCAP11, Impact Investing: Transforming How We Make Money While Making a Difference charts the catalytic path of this new industry, explaining how it is and can be a positive disruptive force. It shows how impact investing is a transformational vehicle for delivering "blended value" throughout the investment spectrum, giving a single name to a set of activities previously siloed in enclaves, revealing how they are linked within what is becoming a new field of investing. Written by GIIN Board Chairman Antony Bugg-Levine and Jed Emerson, two leaders in the growing field of impact investing, the book defines this emerging industry for participants on all sides of the funding equation, including investors, funders, and social entrepreneurs. Link to publisher's page for Impact Investing > New Jobs Posted to the GIIN Career Center New job openings in Boston, Hyderabad, Hong Kong, Edinburgh and other global locations have been posted on the GIIN Career Center. Omidyar Network, Intellecap, and Social Finance U.S. are among the organizations looking for qualified impact investment professionals. Post a job opening > Visit the GIIN Career Center > You are receiving this email as a friend of the Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN). Unsubscribe incubator.hou@gmail.com from this list. Our mailing address is: Global Impact Investing Network 420 5th Avenue, 22nd floor New York, NY 10018 Add us to your address book Copyright (C) 2011 Global Impact Investing Network All rights reserved. Forward this email to a friend Update your profile