AVPN 2020 | Scaling Impact Through Collaborative Philanthropy
While the benefits of collaboration for systemic change are well understood, there are also many impediments. Key stakeholders must clearly define their motivations and objectives before identifying possible collaborators and areas for collaboration.
AVPN 2020 | Special Highlight: Aeshnina A. Aqilani, Co-Captain, River Warrior, Indonesia
Plastic pollution is most visible in developing Asian nations, where waste collection systems are often inefficient or nonexistent.
AVPN 2020 | Strategically Leveraging Corporate Resources for Social Impact
Crises like COVID-19 represent an opportunity for systemic change. Panelists felt strongly that the time is ripe to build partnerships between the private sector, social actors and development agencies, based on mutual trust and pooled resources to address a wider range of social issues across sectors.
AVPN 2020 | Structuring Investment Products for Climate Action
This session provided a unique window into the real time interactions between impact funds and asset owners.
AVPN 2020 | The Challenges for Corporates in Navigating the COVID-19 Pandemic
The panelists shared how their companies were thinking beyond financial performance to focus on humanity during the COVID-19 crisis. Ong Ai Hua of J&J Pharmaceuticals shared how they are accelerating R&D for a vaccine despite the high risk and costs, while the others shared their efforts to increase community and employee support.
AVPN 2020 | The Challenges for Foundations in the Coming Decade
While it has been a challenging time as organisations are forced to respond rapidly and with more flexibility than ever before it has also proven that even legacy foundations can adapt.
AVPN 2020 | The Future of Impact and Sustainable Investing
Asia is the largest manufacturing base in the world which has resulted in high carbon emissions
AVPN 2020 | The Role of Angel Investing in Asia
Angel investors, while still nascent in Asia in comparison to the West, play an extremely important role to plug the gap for funding enterprises that do not qualify for traditional funding methods. When start-ups are in the very early stage
AVPN 2020 | Uncovering Hidden Pockets of Climate Finance
Experts shared ideas for where investment professionals and enabling organisations can focus to achieve full potential of climate finance.
AVPN 2020 | Using Collaboratives and Networks to Support Climate Solutions
Nancy Smith of Global Friends identified collaboration as critical for information sharing and uncovering gaps at an ecosystem level.
AVPN 2020 | Utilising the Social Enterprise Development Toolkit
This session focused on the best ways to overcome the common mismatch between investors’ and social entrepreneurs’ expectations, particularly highlighting AVPN’s Social Enterprise Development Toolkit as a helpful tool for navigating this process.
AVPN 2020 | What’s Next? An Action Plan Towards a Resilient Asia
The Indonesian Vice Minister for Tourism and Creative Economy underlined the attractiveness of Indonesia as the largest impact market in ASEAN. With a culturally diverse population of over 270 million people
AVPN 2020 | Why We Need to Keep Fighting for Women’s Economic Empowerment
Panelists shared how COVID-19 will disproportionately affect women because of their overrepresentation in hard-hit sectors and their designated roles as caregivers in the family
AVPN 2020 | Workshop: Gender-Responsive Climate Cost Benefit Analysis Tool
There is a growing demand from government policy makers and planners in Asia-Pacific for information on costs and benefits of proposed actions on climate change
AVPN APF May Webinar: How City Governments Mobilise Private Capital for Greater Impact: Seoul and Kobe City
Across Asia, policy makers and governments in different markets are looking for more effective ways to collaborate across sectors and mobilise more capital and innovation to solve some of the most challenging and intractable social issues. “Crowding in” private sector capital is challenging, when there is much field building work to do on creating awareness, establishing […]
AVPN April 2014 Webinar Recording: BoP Hub – Transforming Poverty into a Vibrant Marketplace at the Base of Pyramid
“Charity is not the solution. To get out of poverty you need an income. Philanthropy should focus on teaching a man to fish and not give him a fish.” – Jack Sim, Founder of World Toilet Organization and BoP Hub. We held a webinar with BoP Hub on 24th April 2014, 4pm Singapore time where we found out […]
AVPN April 2016 Webinar Recording: Investment Readiness- perspectives from both sides of the table
An authentic funder-investee relationship forms the basis of a good investment. When there is mutual respect and trust, both parties are set to gain the most from the partnership. However, in many occasions both parties have communication challenges, different expectations and understandings which set the relationship off on a wrong note. How can both parties […]
AVPN April Webinar: Role of Partnerships in Building Sustainable and Scalable Inclusive Businesses
Across Asia, people who belong to the low-income segment or live in poverty make up 60 percent of the population. Many of these people spend less than $3 a day on purchases. While governments have a vital role to play in creating pathways to fair, lasting and shared prosperity, it is increasingly the private sector […]
AVPN August 2014 Webinar: Poverty Eradication and Rural Community Development through Venture Philanthropy
Please find the webinar recording from 26th August 2014 and the powerpoint at the end of the post. South East Asia has experienced sustained economic growth over the past three years. However, negative spill overs such as widening income gap, inability of minority or marginalised participating in the growth and mismatched or limited growth in […]
AVPN August Webinar: Access to Energy, and Its Rippling Impact on the Other Sectors
The off-grid solar industry was born from the demand for energy access among the more than one billion people who lack access to electricity worldwide. Early innovators and investors in this space were impatient with government grid extension and saw off-grid solar technology as an opportunity to “leapfrog” business-as-usual electrification approaches. This access has influenced outcomes […]
AVPN August Webinar: Igniting the Ecosystem for Education Entrepreneurship in India
AVPN members, Deshpande Foundation and Village Capital, shared on how they are training and incubating more education enterprises.
AVPN August Webinar: Sustainable Finance Initiative and Robeco’s Active Ownership
As inequality increases across the world and crisis after crisis envelops the financial sector, the financial system reveals a systemic market failure, which prevents the needs of the social economy to be served holistically. Nonetheless, this is not irreparable. Ultimately, the financial system is only a tool, and it is up to us to harness it […]
AVPN Consultation on G20 Principles for Scaling-up Private & Blended Finance in Developing Countries, Least Developed Countries (LDCs) & Small Island Developing States (SIDS)
The financed gap in the implementation of the 2030 SDG Agenda in developed countries is estimated at USD 3.7 trillion by the OECD in 2020 and we are less than a decade away. There is a lot to be done in every dimension, be it policy, financed, or technology. Extensive efforts need to be undertaken […]
AVPN COVID-19 Webinar Series: Philanthropy’s response to COVID-19 across North Asia
AVPN COVID-19 Webinar Series Philanthropy’s response to COVID-19 across North Asia COVID-19 started its spread in Asia as we entered into the new decade. Since then, it has become a global pandemic. In response to the constantly evolving situation, grantmakers have been collectively scaling innovative and impactful solutions to mitigate the impact of the virus. […]
AVPN December 2015 Webinar recording- Maximizing Social Impact: Grant Making with a Gender Lens
Men and women are often impacted differently and disproportionately by social issues such as poverty, health, domestic violence or education. Gender lies at the heart of these differences. Funders aiming to maximize the impact of their grant making must consider the impact of gender on their target population in the context of the issues being […]
AVPN December Webinar Recording: Landscape of Education and Technology in Asia
EdTech Asia provided an overview of major edtech trends and core issues in Asia, and reviewed the work and products of a few regional organisations.
AVPN February 2015 Webinar Recording: Shell Foundation’s approach to Venture Philanthropy
Practicing venture philanthropy involves using a set of engaged practices to support the selected organization with funding as well as a combination of skills and resources towards achieving a social purpose.How do funders select their projects? What are some of the key indicators that they look for? What are some best practices for venture philanthropy? […]
AVPN February 2015 Webinar: How to set up an impact finance fund of $100 mn and more from donors, foundations, pension funds, DFIs and HNWIs?
Structured impact investment vehicles provide for increased efficiency and greater impact. Over the last 10 years, more than $5 bn has been raised from impact investors through 25+ structured investment vehicles. By mixing different risk-return profiles in flexible, public-private-partnership structures, these vehicles allow to leverage donor funding thanks to the catalytic role of first-loss capital […]
AVPN February 2016 Webinar Recording- Maximizing Impact: Selecting Effective Organizations
Making decisions about which non-profits or social enterprises to support can sometimes be complex. What criteria should be used to select the organization? What are some of the KPIs that should be used to measure their impact? Funders and resource providers often have a hard time selecting which organizations to support. Epic Foundation will be […]
AVPN February Webinar: FSG Inclusive Markets and its Program to Improve Private Preschool Education (PIPE)
FSG shared some of their insights on the ECE market on the state of the early childhood education system in India.
AVPN February Webinar: Strengthening the Institutional Capacity of Social Purpose Organizations
Despite the billions of dollars that have been invested in the development sector, India still has a long way to go to raise health, education and nutrition indicators to reasonable levels. Being home to nearly a fifth of the world’s population, India needs solutions that have the potential to reach millions. The consensus that funders and […]
AVPN Fireside Chat: Are Farm Ponds the Key to Rural Youth Empowerment in India?
As India continues to grapple with the pandemic that has sent millions of migrant workers back to rural villages, extreme poverty and inequality threaten an entire generation. Can rural entrepreneurship be the key to resilience in rural India? Can smallholder agriculture be made profitable enough to stop rural migrants from returning to the cities for their livelihoods?
AVPN Impact Fund Webinar Series: Integrating a Gender Lens into an Investment Strategy
The first webinar in the 2020 Impact Fund series will be looking at Gender Lens Investing (GLI), a practice of investing that intends to address gender issues or promote gender equity by investing in women-led businesses, businesses that address the needs of women and girls through their products and services, businesses that support women in the workplace and businesses that include women in the value chain.
AVPN January 2014 Webinar: Myanmar in Context: Internal Dynamics and the Contest for the Nation
How can we get involved in Myanmar? Whether you are from a foundation, impact investor or social enterprise, we tried to cover the different angles for participation in this country that is slowly opening its doors to the outside world. The speakers for the previous 2 webinars include Nicholas Lazos from Insitor Management, Allison Morris […]
AVPN January Webinar Recording: Lessons learnt about Impact Investing
Capria and B-Current shared with us their thoughts and advice on key items to prepare in setting up an impact investment fund.
AVPN January Webinar: Transforming Low-Cost Private Education in India through Innovative Solutions and Policy Reforms
Affordable Private Schools (APS) have emerged as a vital response to the rising demand among the country’s poorest for an education of their choosing. The proliferation of these low-fee schools has indicated a marked disillusionment amongst parents with public delivery, an increasingly aspirational lower and middle income class, and a sustained perception of private schools […]
