Impact Investing — Considerations When Selling to a Financial Buyer

The Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN), a non-profit organization focused on increasing the scale and effectiveness of impact investing with the intention of generating a measurable social and environmental impact alongside financial returns, recently launched an impact measurement tool by the name of IRIS+ .

"Awesome" Capitalism

At a time when big business and trade are getting a bad rap, a group of 220 chief executives gathered at a luxury resort here last week to assure one another that capitalism is “awesome.”

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Yahoo Finance Visits Conscious Capitalism

We are happy to share a fantastic video presented by Yahoo Finance entitled "How ‘conscious’ capitalism can be profitable and positive for the community" where Kip Tindell and Brittnay Merrill Underwood speak of the benefits of a conscious mindset in both business and social enterprises.

B Corps Come With a Purpose, Result in Profits

As more than one million fans gather in our great city to celebrate the Cavs victory, we celebrate the teams victory, the cities progress, and the state's social enterprise movement! After several years of study, the Ohio State Bar Association endorsed legislation that would create a new form of corporate entity in Ohio — the benefit corporation.

A Company's Values Are Becoming Its Brand

During the 2016 Social Innovation Summit, David Rittberg, senior program officer at the Schusterman Foundation, who moderated a panel on changing corporate values cited a ProInspire Report, which shared that for Millennials PURPOSE IS PARAMOUNT. And that this generation is socially conscious and purpose-driven, which has profoundly impacted expectations of their career.

Conscious Capital Goes Prime Time

Just like the writer of an article in Conscious Company Magazine entitled “How the “Sharks” are Missing the Blue Ocean of Conscious Capitalism, the show “Shark Tank” peaks the interest of most in the investment banking world, as it shows an elementary snapshot of what we do to the world.

Impact Investing on the Rise

BlackRock has launched a global impact equity fund shows how impact investing, or investments made into companies with the intention to generate a measurable, beneficial social or environmental impact alongside a financial return, is growing demand and momentum from investors who think it's possible to do good and still do well.