Oct 04 2012
Speeches
Thank you, John. Good morning everyone, and welcome to this forum on scaling capital markets for impact. I’m delighted to join so many investing pioneers and leaders, to kick off what …
Oct 03 2012
Press Releases
Omidyar Network, The Rockefeller Foundation, and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) announced today a collaboration to promote impact investing by supporting research, outreach, and other field-building activities …
Sep 04 2012
Based on the premise that international aid and public spending will never be enough to adequately fund and scale solutions to the world’s most pressing problems, the Rockefeller Foundation has, since 2008, …
Innovative Finance Technology and Innovation
Aug 27 2012
Press Releases
NEW YORK—The Rockefeller Foundation through its impact investing initiative is funding research in five sub-Saharan African countries which will contribute to two overarching goals: understanding the policy barriers and enabling …
Jul 07 2012
Accelerating Impact, a report prepared by E.T. Jackson and Associates and commissioned by The Rockefeller Foundation as part of a third-party evaluation of our Impact Investing initiative, provides one of …
Innovative Finance Technology and Innovation
Jun 17 2012
Press Releases
NEW YORK—A new Framework for Action launched today offers investors, large corporations and governments a valuable resource for engaging with and supporting an escalating global business trend—the rising number of …
Mar 01 2012
Impact investing involves "investors seeking to generate both financial return and social and/or environmental value—while at a minimum returning capital, and, in many cases, offering market rate returns or better." …
Innovative Finance Technology and Innovation
Feb 21 2012
Press Releases
The field of impact investing took a significant stride forward today as InSight at Pacific Community Ventures and the Initiative for Responsible Investment (IRI) at Harvard University were granted $1 …
Feb 21 2012
Impact at Scale: Policy Innovation for Institutional Investment with Social and Environmental Benefit, a collaboration between InSight at Pacific Community Ventures and the Initiative for Responsible Investment at Harvard University and funded …
Innovative Finance Technology and Innovation
Feb 21 2012
Press Releases
A new report released today by InSight at Pacific Community Ventures and the Initiative for Responsible Investment at Harvard University, and funded by The Rockefeller Foundation, examines the practices of …