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The power of pensions – how pension funds can invest with impact
Category: NewsRead more about this: The power of pensions – how pension funds can invest with impactThe world is changing, with new challenges relating to people and the planet. Pension money is vulnerable to these challenges, but it also possesses the power to contribute to solutions for the most pressing environmental and social issues of our time.
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Update: Looking inward and ahead
Category: NewsRead more about this: Update: Looking inward and aheadThe last two months have been very productive ones for the Institute. We have been making progress on several different workstreams, including the compatibility of pension trustees’ fiduciary duty and impact investing, impact measurement, management and reporting in the social housing sector.
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Investing in a resilient future – microfinance as a pathway
Category: NewsRead more about this: Investing in a resilient future – microfinance as a pathwayIn my first blogpost of the international series, I suggested that “resilience” should be our new North Star as impact-minded investors – the guiding principle to ensure that we build sufficient resource capacity to absorb adversity and avoid a slide into economic, social and health despair.
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The global impact investing community is coming together to respond to coronavirus
Category: NewsRead more about this: The global impact investing community is coming together to respond to coronavirusThe coronavirus pandemic has raised important questions for the global impact investing community. How can we, as impact investors and advocates, be most helpful in supporting communities respond, recover, and build resilience to future crises?
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Update: Building back better after coronavirus
Category: NewsRead more about this: Update: Building back better after coronavirusIt has been a couple of weeks since we first updated you about our response to the coronavirus crisis, our activities since our launch in November and our plans for the coming months.
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Investing in a resilient future – impact investing offers a pathway
Category: NewsRead more about this: Investing in a resilient future – impact investing offers a pathwayWith the social and economic repercussions of COVID-19 affecting every corner of the globe, impact investing offers a pathway to building a more resilient future for us all. Resilience is our new north star – the guiding principle that will ensure that we build sufficient resource capacity to absorb adversity and avoid a slide into…
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How investors should build back better after coronavirus
Category: NewsRead more about this: How investors should build back better after coronavirusWe all have pictures and voices in our minds from the last few weeks. For me, the most persistent image is of the migrant workers forced to leave Delhi after lockdown was imposed and walk hundreds of miles back to their home towns, often with no money and nothing to eat.
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Coronavirus resources: Where to look for funding opportunities and more?
Category: NewsRead more about this: Coronavirus resources: Where to look for funding opportunities and more?Small businesses, social enterprises, and charities are vital to our communities. They are also hit hardest by the current coronavirus pandemic and are struggling to access much needed emergency finance to survive this crisis.
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Press Release: £100 million response announced to help social sector organisations through the coronavirus crisis
Category: NewsRead more about this: Press Release: £100 million response announced to help social sector organisations through the coronavirus crisisAn ambitious £100 million programme of loans and investment is announced today to help get much-needed emergency funding to social enterprises, charities and small businesses in disadvantaged areas affected by the coronavirus pandemic.
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Update: Responding to coronavirus and looking ahead
Category: NewsRead more about this: Update: Responding to coronavirus and looking aheadIt is four months since the Impact Investing Institute had its official launch in Sheffield and London, and like everyone else, we are responding to the coronavirus pandemic and its devastating human and economic costs on communities around the world.