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Global Supply Chains: It's Time to Decide on the Way Forward

By Dr. Maximilian Martin  As we start using our new holiday gifts this year, it is too easy to ignore the miraculous supply networks that allow us to enjoy the products of human labor and ingenuity around the world. Sustainability is increasingly viewed as a strategy for enduring in a world of scarce resources and unlimited needs; but we seem to be locked in an endless cycle of merely reacting to deep-seated economic and social problems. It is now time to decide on the way forward: do we want to make supply chain upgrading happen across the board and reap the benefits, or continue using

10 Reason For Impact Investors To Be Cheerful About 2013

by Marta Maretich This has been an amazing year for impact investing. Here we round up some of the top reasons why the sector has the right to feel cheerful about 2013—and look forward optimistically to 2014.  1. THE IMPACT G8If it needed confirming, June’s Impact G8 was the sign that impact investing has officially arrived. It was UK Prime Minister David Cameron’s own idea to host this high-level social investing pow-wow—and the leaders of the world’s eight largest economies were eager to attend. That tells us something 

Impactful Empowerment: UnitedSucces

Guest contribution by Yvonne Finch, Director of UnitedSucces  When exploring the words “impact” and “empowerment” it is easy to overlook the true depth of meaning behind the potential for the words when you combine them! Exploring how women throughout the world can be positively affected so that they feel the true benefit of impactful empowerment it is important to explore why women don’t succeed or don’t proceed as fast as expected. In business it remains a fact that there are not enough women on Boards, that access to finance for a woman to grow her

Sustainable Luxury Heroines

Guest contribution by Milena Cvijanovich Women are undoubtedly the leaders of the fabulously successful new Sustainable Luxury business model. They show us through their amazing results how cool, glamorous, sophisticated AND essentially powerful Luxury can be when it has the mission to respect our planet and life of its inhabitants. High-profile individuals such as Livia Firth  with her Green Carpet Challenge  and Francine LeFrak ,

Making the Most of Women Professionals in Impact Investing

7 Steps Toward Strengthening Female Leadership and Career Development Across the Sectorby Marta Maretich Women are breaking ground in the field of impact investing. The prominence of female leaders such as Jacqueline Novgoratz, Hazel Henderson  and Judith Rodin suggests that the field of impact investing will be more gender-balanced than was the case with traditional, male-dominated finance. A recent study demonstrates the value of “multilingual”

Empowering Women Through Impact Reaching a Helping Hand Across the "Pioneer Gap"

by Marta Maretich, Chief Writer, Maximpact.com    Women’s financial empowerment has been a hot topic in recent months. There’s a definite (deserved) buzz  around gender-lens investing and its potential to make more of impact capital. Yet, while the gender lens approach is an exciting step forward for women’s financial empowerment, it isn’t the whole story. Impact investing isn’t an island anymore;

From Philanthropy to Impact Investing: The Role of Women Investors in Asia

By Weina Li  There is a historical gender-bias in investment and finance, with women often considered “too soft” and “not enough returns-focused”, whereas their comparative strengths in leadership positions and their importance as key consumer is often overlooked. This explains the extremely low proportion of women investors across the globe, and especially in Asia. However, the trend is changing. This is in part due to the increasing number of female high net worth individuals; they are high breadwinners, entrepreneurs but also heirs of a considerable proportion of Asia’s wealth.

Impact Investing 2.0 and the Rise of Multilingual Teams: An Interview with Jed Emerson

By Marta Maretich, Chief Writer, Maximpact.com    Maximpact: At SOCAP13 you took turns with Cathy Clark, ofCASE  and Ben Thornley, of Pacific Community Ventures ,  to introduce different findings of your joint Impact Investing 2.0 report. You presented the part about “multilingual teams”.Why are multilingual teams so important to impact investing funds and why are they so interesting to you? Jed Emerson: This

The Role of Impact Investing in the

By Virginie Issumo The new style of philanthropy sits at the crossroads of entrepreneurship, finance and public interest. Its growing status in economic, social and financial activities becomes more and more evident. The size  of some of today’s philanthropic contributions –sometimes higher than the budgets of whole countries – coupled with the increasing number of high-net-worth individual philanthropists in India, China, the Middle East and Latin America, demonstrates

World Vision Projects Ready for Investment

Are you looking to put your investment dollars towards improving the lives of children and communities? If so, this recent addition to the Maximpact deal-listing  portfolio may be of interest to you.   World Vision  is an international humanitarian aid, development, and advocacy organization currently seeking investment with its handful of different projects. The organization is dedicated to the sustained wellbeing of children, especially the most vulnerable. By working with

The IPCC Summary Report on Climate Change: What it Means for Impact Investing

On 27 September 2013, the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) published the first of three volumes of its fifth Assessment Report (AR5). The long-awaited report summary emerged amid a flurry of media coverage and a volley of commentary, both pro and contra. Its main conclusions were clear, however: climate change is real, its effects are already measurable, and it is being caused by human activity. AR5 Summary Highlights · Human influence on the climate system is clear. This is evident in most regions of the globe. · Warming in the climate system is

Calling all Impact Investing and Sustainability Experts: Register Now!

Maximpact invites experts and consultants from all industries, positions and geographical regions  to register now as members of our exciting new project development area, Maximpact Eco. We are building a worldwide network of experts and consultants focused on delivering specialized services and online resources for impact and sustainable enterprises and projects. At the moment we are in the process of collecting early registrations, 

Better Names for Impact Investing (And Other Insights from Hazel Henderson)

by Marta Maretich Hazel Henderson has never really liked the term “impact investing”.  “All investments have impacts,” she told us. “I pointed this out to the authors of the original paper published by the Rockefeller Foundation . Some of these impacts include blowing the tops off mountains and spilling oil in the Gulf of Mexico!” Not mincing words is one of the characteristics that has made Henderson a thought leader in the ethical investing movement. Futurist, evolutionary economist, worldwide syndicated

Building Bridges Between Impact Investors and Sustainable Forestry

By Alexander Watson, CEO OpenForests My name is Alexander Watson, I am a forestry scientist with a background in Social Banking and Social Finance and founder of OpenForests , a consulting company with the mission to finance and develop social and biodiverse forestry projects.  THE CHALLENGE The annual worldwide deforestation is about 13 million hectares, predominantly in the tropics. We believe that reforestation is one opportunity to counter deforestation. At the same

Saving our Forests from the Effects of Climate Change

By Ana LaRue Most people are still navigating through the data of the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report , but it’s overall message is clear: anthropogenic (or human-made) climate change is already taking its toll on the life on this planet. In a series of blogposts, Maximpact will be looking at what the IPCC’s findings mean for different parts of the impact investing sector. In the first of the series, we focus on

How to FInd Impact Investors to Finance Your Sustainable Business

By Marta Maretich Originally posted on the OpenForests  blog. OpenForests is a consultancy specializing in sustainable forestry projects. So, you’ve written the business plan. Congratulations! (And thanks to OpenForests  for their usefulguide to writing a business plan  for a sustainable forestry enterprise.) Now you’re ready to look past the trees and focus on the forest—the wide world of impact investment. It’s time to go out and raise

Big Investors, Small Investors, All investors

by Marta Maretich A handful of visionary investors, social thought leaders, philanthropic organizations and foundations gave impact investing its start. These were typical early adopters, open to new ideas and confidant enough to take the risks necessary to find out if they worked. Now impact investing is beginning to prove its worth. Its reach is extending to include smaller investors on the one hand and large, mainstream investors on the other. Recent work by The World Economic Forum  Investors Industries and ImpactAssets 

Weekly Deals: Investing in Communities

What do a youth start-up acceleration program, a book distributor serving children at the base of the economic pyramid and a rural village educational program focusing on sanitation have in common?  One: their initiatives provide alternatives to national and global corporate and government programs. Two: all three deals are listing on Maximpact  today.  Deal D000474:  This entrepreneur is organizing support for young entrepreneurs in Belgium. Their three month acceleration

Where are the Opportunities for Impact in Agriculture?

The big corporations, governments and NGOs will continue to be active in agriculture, but there are still opportunities for impact investors. SCALING UP EXISTING MODELS Impact investing already has a track record of success in agriculture. Over years of experience organizations like Root Capital have developed models that have proved their effectiveness in providing impact finance to key rural smallholder communities. Now these methods are ready to be brought to scale, applied to new parts of the world and extended to new crops and new markets. GEXSI , Toniic (

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