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 November 2015 Webinar Recording- Impact Investment Benchmarks
Cambridge Associates (CA), in partnership with the Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN), has developed and launched the Impact Investing Benchmark – the first comprehensive analysis of the financial performance of market rate private equity and venture capital impact investing funds. Despite the common perception that impact investing necessitates accepting concessionary returns, the Impact Investing Benchmark […]
ChangeFusion – Mutually building the mutual fund
ChangeFusion implemented solutions to locate and to pave the way for social enterprises thus elevating the entire Thai social enterprise eco-system.
Insights into Funding for Impact – Systemic Transformation in Education
At the AVPN India Summit 2017, “Investing for Impact in Education”, AVPN – in collaboration with Sattva – has curated a series of powerful conversations and narratives around social investment for education.
Hear from Education Secretary of India, Shri Anil Swarup, and social impact thought leaders like Aditya Natraj of Kaivalya Education Foundation and Prachi Windlass of MSDF.
Japan’s First Venture Philanthropy Fund Launched
Japan’s Social Investment Partners has launched a Japan Venture Philanthropy Fund (JVPF), Japan’s first full scale venture philanthropy fund, under the Nippon Foundation. The fund will provide financial and non-financial support to organisations in the country. Ken Ito, AVPN’s advisor in Japan and a member of the fund’s board, told AVPNews that the fund focuses […]
Social Impact Bonds: How Do We Avoid A Bubble?
By Paul Carttar Social impact bonds (SIB’s) are substantive innovations with distinctive potential to add meaningful value to our society. But, then, so were Dutch tulips, early railroad stocks and, of course, dot com startups. History counsels that genuine bubbles are identified not by their inflation but by their bursting. So it’s premature to pass […]
