I just wanted to make a quick plug for a new magazine called Beyond Profit. They launched earlier this year, and you can find an online version of their inaugural issue here. Beyond Profit’s mission is to “bring you the most interesting and unique stories, people and ideas from the social enterprise sector. Learn about the individuals who are working to change the world through social entrepreneurship and find out how they are doing it.”
It seems like they’ve been doing a pretty good job so far, and I’d like to point out an article that was of great interest to me. If you flip to page 16 of the online magazine, you’ll find an article titled “Impact Investing: Harnessing Capital Markets to Drive Development at Scale.” It was written by Mr. Antony Bugg-Levine, who current leads the Impact Investing Initiative at Rockefeller Foundation and was kind enough to send me an email about my post on GIIN, which was led by his Rockefeller team. Antony discusses various aspects of impact investing, including its roots and what it will take to ensure that impact investing does succeed as an industry. It also mentions some organizations that are at the intersection of venture capital and social entrepreneurship, like Gray Ghost Ventures. A special thanks to Steve Hardgrave at GGV for introducing me to social venture funds during my senior year of college.
Much of my initial learning in this area was due to articles like these, and I’d venture to say that this one is one of the most informative (yet easy-to-read) analyses of impact investing. So if you’d like to find out more about impact investing but are not sure where to begin, flip to page 16 of Beyond Profit’s inaugural issue and get started!
