It feels like “Sir Ronald Cohen Day” here at SIB News as he and his task force at last manages a clean sweep of all three key stories…
New UK Study Looks To Turbo-Charge Social Impact Investment
Oliver Balch – The Guardian
The Social Impact Investment Taskforce, led by Apax Partners founder and “father of British venture capital” Sir Ronald Cohen, released a report which marks the most ambitious attempt to date to set out a pathway for catapulting social impact investing into the mainstream.
Acceptance of the notion that doing good and doing well need not necessarily be incompatible has been growing slowly over recent years. Add to that a desire among many to reconnect work with purpose and money to meaning, and the seeds of social impact investing are sown.
Yet the impact investment sector, valued at less than $40bn globally, remains a fledgling alongside the momentous juggernaut that is mainstream finance. That could be about to change.
Social Impact Investing: Making Money Make A Difference (Video)
Bloomberg
Ronald Cohen, chairman at Social Impact Investment Taskforce, explains the process of social impact investing, offering funding to people and businesses who aim to improve society and offers his thoughts on this week’s Scottish independence vote. He speaks with Guy Johnson on “The Pulse.”
Social Impact Investment – Turn Your Money Into Real Change (Video)
G8 Taskforce on Social Impact Investment