"The Impact Investor explains in unprescedended detail what the practice of impact investing entails through the experiences and proven practices of 15 of the worlds most successful impact investors. The book will provide financial professionals, students and business interests with the information they need to capitalize on the impact investing opportunity, including historical context, insights into investment and fundraising strategies, and deal-level intelligence. Organized into 10 chapters, the book focuses on the implementation of 'Big Ideas' in impact investing such as Policy Symbiosis, Mission First and Last, and Catalytic Capital. Each Big Idea is followed by the investment innovation used to successfully implement it, e.g. Public Private Partnership, Mission Lock and Innovation Clusters. The ideas and tools feature lessons learned from an in-depth two year research project undertaken by the authors with over half a million dollars in funding from the Omidyar Network, Deutsche Bank, the F.B. Heron Foundation, the Annie E. Casey Foundation and other private foundations. Includes a diagnostic for assessing key skills, styles of working and problem-solving required for impact work drawn from the authors' own cases. The diagnostic is based on a framework from a nationwide survey the authors conducted of professional development skills for the social sector and proprietary maps of the impact investing field developed by Cathy at CASE for students."
"Two leaders in the growing field of impact investing define this emerging industry for participants on all sides of the funding equation (investors, funders and social entrepreneurs), showcasing compelling examples of success as well as the potential to expand the field to address the most critical social and environmental issues of our day on a scale never seen before. This will be the first book to chart the catalytic path of this new industry, explaining how it is already and can be a positive disruptive force. It will show how impact investing is a transformational vehicle for delivering blended value throughout the investment spectrum giving a single name to a set of activities previously siloed in enclaves revealing how they are linked within what is becoming a new field of investing. The authors will show how various pioneers are already undertaking impact investments for multiple returns, reveal the power of this new industry and its wide-ranging applications as well as entrepreneurial opportunities it offers. The breakthrough of this book is that it does not take a normative approach to argue how investors should behave like an investment guide might. Instead, it sheds light on how entrepreneurial people and institutions are already offering an integrated alternative. Building on compelling examples, the book will also offer a clear guide to how readers can support the industrys growth and development."
