AVPN’s Webinars on Gender Lens Investment, Impact Investing Benchmark and Innovative Designing for Social Good Rounds up 2015
AVPN’s webinars on Gender Lens investment, Impact Investing benchmark and innovative designing for social good.
Axis Bank Foundation – Third party Midterm impact assessment
ABF’s approach to impact assessment illustrates how an organization gets started with a broad sense of outcome to be achieved.
Bridges Ventures: Impact as an investment lens
Highlights on how Bridges Ventures sets the strategy for its portfolio and how it manages impact.
Building Humanitarian Impact Bonds in Developing Countries
Outlined the value proposition, pointing out key stakeholders and their responsibilities and flow of funds on the Humanitarian Impact Bond (HIB).
Europe Learns About Asian VP Scene at the 2015 EVPA Conference
Europe learns about Asian VP scene at the 2015 EVPA conference for further collaboration to provide globally relevant insights on venture philanthropy.
Impact Investing in Conservation in Asia
20 AVPN members and friends joined May’s Friday lunch meetup to know more about a new fund – The Conservation Enterprise Development Fund, initiated by AVPN member, Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS). Impact investing has become a growing asset class that has the potential to change both the way companies do business and the way financial […]
Insights from Helping Funders Build Capacity Across Asia
AVPN developed in-depth expertise in capacity building and on this basis launched workshops in capacity building with funders across India and in Taiwan.
Lok’s customized approach using external parties and internal observations
Lok Capital and its affiliate bodies take a “comprehensive and structured” approach to impact measurement, perceiving these evaluations as opportunities.
New Member Highlight – ToolBox India!
Since our conference in April, AVPN has gained 13 new members and we would like to highlight some of them to you. Please welcome them into the AVPN community! In this issue, we will be introducing Toolbox India Foundation. ToolBox India Foundation (“Toolbox”) is a nonprofit organisation whose mission is to help socially relevant non-profits […]
Sharing Value Asia Summit
Region’s leading forum to encourage profit-focused shared value partnership between business, civil society and government.
The Rockefeller Foundation and Yunus Social Business introduce the Social Success Note
Following the Social and Development Impact Bonds, EVPA members Rockefeller Foundation and Yunus Social Business are introducing a new results based instrument to fund social business, where payments are made by a foundation upon the reach of predefined outcomes. The Social Success note allows capital to flow into underfunded sectors deemed traditionally too risky or unprofitable for […]
What Does “Good” Look Like?
AVPN and National Volunteer and Philanthropy Center (NVPC) hosted an expert roundtable on assessing non-profit quality titled “What does ‘good’ look like?”
Why Providing Non-Financial Support to Social Organisations Is Key for Asian Market
Recommendations on the best ways to engage investees with non-financial support to accelerate their progress towards producing effective social outcomes.
