Abigail
Noble, the Associate Director and Head of Impact Investing initiatives and Drexler, Senior Director and Head of Investors Industries, will join me live on Tuesday, September 24, 2013 at 1:00 PM Eastern to discuss the report, its conclusions and significance for mainstream investors and social entrepreneurs.
Chris Harvey of Deloitte also contributed to the report but was unable to join us for the interview.
The report notes that while impact investing has been called "a hype," a discussion at the Davos Conference in January 2012 among mainstream investors, impact investors and social entrepreneurs concluded that "bringing it into the mainstream was too important an opportunity not to pursue."
The preface to the report also notes:
Impact Investing is a multistakeholder issue. It engages governments as impact investments offer opportunities for more efficient delivery of public services. It engages civil society, from the non-profits that design and implement projects to individual recipients of social programmes. And it involves businesses, ranging from entrepreneurs and lawyers to consultants and investors. Clearly, for impact investing to reach its potential, it must be considered from the perspective of all stakeholders. The focus of this report is the mainstream investor angle, which offers the biggest opportunity to scale the sector at this stage.
Watch the video to above to learn more about the report and its implications for investors and social entrepreneurs.
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