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🌟 Nominations are now OPEN for the 2024 Who's Who in Impact Investing, in partnership with the Denver Business Journal! 🏆🎉 We're celebrating the leaders and innovators driving change in the impact investing space. Nominate individuals and organizations making a difference today! ⏰ Nominations are due by October 4th, so don't wait—submit yours now! 👉 Interested in Sponsorship Opportunities? (see comments) We have exclusive sponsorship packages for this prestigious event, offering your company the chance to gain valuable exposure and align with top leaders in the field. This includes speaking opportunities at the celebration event during CO Impact Days and premier brand marketing in the Denver Business Journal. Don’t miss out! 📢💼 🎟️ CO Impact Days Tickets Now Available! (see comments) Join us November 12-13 in Denver for this unique event where investors, entrepreneurs, and changemakers come together to shape the future of impact investing. 🌱 Be part of the conversation and connect with a community of impact-driven professionals. Learn more and get your tickets by visiting our event page here: CO Impact Days Event Page 🌍💡 📅 Upcoming Webinar: Building the Future of Impact Investing To help you make the most of CO Impact Days and the Who's Who, we're hosting a webinar in early October! Stay tuned for details on engaging with top impact investment advisors, attorneys, accountants, and other experts. Together with our Trustworthy Impact initiative, these efforts will transform the landscape of impact investing. 🚀📈 ✨ Learn more and submit your nomination today

🌍💼 Unveiling the Potential of Impact Investing: A Strategic Approach to Sustainable Growth What is Impact Investing? At its core, Impact Investing is about aligning financial investments with global efforts to address social and environmental issues. It represents a shift from traditional investment models, focusing on: 1️⃣ Financial Returns: Seeking competitive returns on capital. 2️⃣ Positive Impact: Contributing to tangible improvements in societal and environmental outcomes. Your Role in Impact Investing Whether you're an individual investor, a corporate entity, or a governmental body, there's a role for you in shaping a sustainable future through impact investing. The journey towards integrating impact into investment strategies requires collaboration, knowledge sharing, and a commitment to redefining success in financial terms. 🔗 Connect & Collaborate We invite you to share your insights, experiences, or questions about integrating impact strategies into your investment decisions. How are you navigating the complexities of Impact Investing? Let's foster a dialogue that propels us towards a more sustainable and equitable world. #ImpactInvesting #SustainableGrowth #FinancialInnovation #CorporateResponsibility

We've seen a boom in #ImpactInvesting, with assets now exceeding $1 trillion as interest soars in generating both financial + social returns. But are these investments truly driving the societal impact investors expect? If you're curious, then BiGS recommends checking out important new research out of Harvard Business School led by Shawn Cole, Leslie Jeng, Josh Lerner, Natalia Rigol, and Benjamin Roth. Their research is explained in a new article by HBS Working Knowledge. See links to the article and the full, 73-page paper below. A few insights that you may -- or may not -- find surprising: ✅ Over 50% of funding rounds involving impact investors also feature co-investment from traditional, profit-driven investors. ✅ Impact investors are likely to invest in disadvantaged areas and emerging industries, and take more risks as traditional investors. ✅ Employee satisfaction falls twice as much following an impact investment vs. a traditional investment. ✅ No truly comprehensive #database existed until this research team created one -- and it took them a year to build it. The researchers say that their "paper is the first to use a newly created data set, which we believe is the most comprehensive data set on impact investors and their portfolio companies." How did they do it? They gathered #data by leveraging workforce intelligence firm Revelio Labs, which provides an overview of companies’ workforce information such as compensation, benefits, diversity, work-life balance, culture and so forth, gathered from sources including LinkedIn and Glassdoor, the paper says. Here's the link to the full research paper titled, "What Do Impact Investors Do Differently?" ▶ chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://lnkd.in/da-4UR42 Have thoughts? Share them with us here or via a direct message! #ImpactInvesting #Risk #Impact #Strategy #SocialChange #VentureCapital #PrivateEquity #Business #BusinessEthics Bain Capital BlackRock TPG

✨ NESsT has been selected to the ImpactAssets 50™ (IA 50) as an Emerging Impact Manager for the third consecutive year! 📣 The IA 50, now in its 13th year, is designed to offer a simple way to identify experienced and emerging impact investment firms and explore the landscape of potential investment opportunities across diverse impact areas, maturity levels, and geographies. “We are thrilled to be selected to the IA 50 for our work investing in SMEs that are pioneering business-based solutions to the planet’s most pressing challenges,” commented Kirsten Dueck, NESsT CEO. “This is the third consecutive year that NESsT has been included in ImpactAssets’ list as an Emerging Impact Manager. We are honored for this recognition, and remain committed to our mission of catalyzing social enterprises with business acceleration and patient financing to help them reach the next level of impact,” she added. “As we celebrate the 13th anniversary of the IA 50, we are witnessing a pivotal shift in finance more broadly: Impact investing is catalyzing a fundamental reorientation of capital that is attuned to the urgent social and environmental challenges we face globally.” – Jed Emerson, ImpactAssets Senior Fellow, IA 50 Review Committee Chair, and Chief Impact Officer at AlTi Global. ▶ Read more on our blog: https://lnkd.in/gSsd4seB ▶ View NESsT’s profile in the ImpactAssets database:  https://lnkd.in/gac-g3PG 

Exploring the True Impact of Impact Investing Recent research from Harvard Business School reveals intriguing insights into the world of impact investing, which now exceeds $1 trillion in assets. While impact investors are more likely to invest in disadvantaged areas and emerging industries, the study suggests that the majority of their funds go to companies that could also secure traditional capital. Key findings include: Co-Investment Trends: Over half of impact investment rounds involve traditional investors. Investment Focus: Impact investors target regions with lower economic output and prioritize sectors like consumer staples and energy. Employee Satisfaction: A notable decline in employee satisfaction post-impact investment warrants further investigation. The study raises important questions about the additionality and genuine social benefits of impact investments. #ImpactInvesting #SocialChange #HarvardBusinessSchool #InvestmentTrends

Why Impact Investors are embracing Systems Change! 1. Impact Investing Few decades ago, impact investing existed mainly on the fringes. Now it is a global market estimated at 30.3 trillion. 2.Limitations Impact investing focuses mainly on supporting technologies or companies individually, which created an isolated impact 3.Systemic investing What's needed is systemic investing- a new approach that embraces systems transformations, deploys capital with a broader intent, and replaces a project-by-project mentality with new technologies, structures, capabilities and decision-making frameworks. 4.Levers a. Solution Experimentation Innovation comes with uncertainty and the emerging field of catalytic capital has been critical in trying to fill that gap. b.Solution Scaling In addition to funding innovation, investors should continue to use their funds to help scale proven solutions c.Orchestration and Network Another way to drive impact is by initiating coalition-building within a designated network. d.Data and Knowledge Investors can partner with research institutions to develop publicly available open-source resources that other stakeholders can use to take action. e.Human Capital Consider supporting human talent by funding programs that help students, policymakers, or those working at nonprofits develop the necessary mindset and skills for the future. f.Physical infrastructure Sound infrastructure goes a long way toward improving the likelihood that businesses and investors will back a project because it reduces operational risks and enhaces market accessibility. g.Established Company Behavior Large, established companies play a big role in systems change because of their significant scale. h.Social Norms and Public Awareness Investors can fund in campaigns to change social norms because a shift in norms and awareness can create a movement in consumers and businesses, mobilize more resources, and generate the political will to trigger institutional change. i.Policy and Regulation These can most effectively drive systems change. Investor can often partner with campaigns to advocate for regulation to get success. 5.Mental Model Archetypes a.Scale the superstar solution b.Create evidence to challenge the rules c.Build an inclusive stakeholder ecosystem d.Organize a disruptor club Read this article by Betsy Vereckey for MIT Sloan Schhool of Management here: https://lnkd.in/d7ApNpGu #innovation #impact #impactinvesting #systems #systemsthinking #sustainability

[Social incentives of responsible investing 2/4] How are industry-level trends created and adopted in impact investing? Lisa Hehenberger, Johanna Mair, and Ashley Metz explore how specific ideas become dominant in impact investing while others are marginalised and the role of systemic power in this process. Their article « The Assembly of a Field Ideology: An Idea-Centric Perspective on Systemic Power in Impact Investing » presents a meso-level analytical tool based on dichotomies that helps detect latent forms of conflict that often remain unnoticed. It shows that: 👉🏼 The dominance of certain ideas in #impact investing, such as « measuring impact » over « telling stories,» is not necessarily due to their inherent superiority but rather to systemic power dynamics that favour certain narratives. 👉🏼 Suppression is identified as a critical mechanism perpetuating systemic power in the field by actively marginalising alternative ideas and restricting the range of valuable or legitimate options, like « big audacious goals » trumping « small fountains of hope ». 👉🏼 The study uncovers latent #conflicts between competing ideas, such as « standardised » versus « customised » approaches, highlighting how these conflicts shape the field's evolution. 👉🏼 Ideas evolve, compete, and sometimes get suppressed, revealing alternative paths not taken, as illustrated by the ongoing tension between « top-down/heroic leaders » and « participatory/community » approaches. The study highlights potential negative consequences of prioritising certain ideas, such as the #risk of focusing on easily measurable impacts at the expense of more complex, long-term issues. The study may be criticised for its focus on systemic power and suppression, which can be seen as overly deterministic and potentially underestimating the agency of individual actors within the field. ValueCo

I recently came across an insightful article from MIT Sloan discussing the evolution of impact investing into something even more expansive: systemic investing. Instead of focusing on individual organizations or projects, systemic investing aims to transform entire systems by deploying capital across multiple levers–from solution experimentation to policy and regulation. 🔧 The article outlines nine critical levers that systemic investors can use to drive systems-level change: 1. Solution experimentation 2. Solution scaling 3. Orchestration and network 4. Data and knowledge 5. Human capital 6. Physical infrastructure 7. Established company behavior 8. Social norms and public awareness 9. Policy and regulation The idea is that driving systems-level change requires more than isolated solutions—it calls for a coordinated, collaborative effort across different stakeholders and asset classes. 💬 What do you think? Could systemic investing be the future of impact investing? What challenges or opportunities do you see? https://lnkd.in/gn5z-m-w

"Impact investing is an approach that seeks to balance financial returns with positive social or environmental impact. Over the past 10 to 15 years, the impact investment field has gained much traction, producing successful companies that deliver financial gains while simultaneously adding value to the ecosystems they exist in." Learn More: https://zurl.co/9nzc #PositivelyPeople #Communication #HealthyWorkplace #FamilyBusiness #FamilyBiz

"Impact investing is an approach that seeks to balance financial returns with positive social or environmental impact. Over the past 10 to 15 years, the impact investment field has gained much traction, producing successful companies that deliver financial gains while simultaneously adding value to the ecosystems they exist in." Learn More: https://zurl.co/9nzc #PositivelyPeople #Communication #HealthyWorkplace #FamilyBusiness #FamilyBiz