|
Dear Colleagues and Friends
We are nearly half way through 2012, but don’t let that alarm you. We’ve seen incredible innovation and advancement just over the last few months, with many more exciting things to come.
In this edition of Impact Insights we look at two pinnacle innovations gaining momentum in 2012 and shaping the impact investing sphere; the Social Impact Bond and emerging legal structures. We question the power and potential of the Social Impact Bond, and gain insight into emerging legal structures with the help of Nexii advisory board member, Arthur Wood.
Also in this edition, we explore the climate of impact investing, and review Bugg-Levine and Emerson’s book, Impact Investing: Transforming How We Make Money While Making a Difference. To roundup this latest edition of Impact Insights, be sure to take part in Nexii’s legal structure survey.
We do hope you enjoy reading Nexii Impact Insights. For more on the latest impact investing and Nexii news, follow our blog and tweets or like us on Facebook. Feel free to comment on the articles, and email us if you have any suggestions or would like to contribute to Nexii Impact Insights. Thank you for reading.
The Nexii team
|
|
No longer the misfit: new legal structures create room for the social enterprise
|
|
The social enterprise is a misfit in the realm of legal structures, camped out in the middle ground hedged between for-profit and non-profit. Its founder, the social entrepreneur, is a unique character, too mission focussed to set up shop with the corporate boys, while too profit-focussed to dream with the NGOs.
Read More
|
|
|
Social Impact Bonds: a potential model for consideration
|
|
Since its unveiling, Social Impact Bonds have gained international attention among governments, investors and social entrepreneurs. With various pilot projects already underway, we explore another possible usage for the Social Impact Bond - renewable energy.
Read More
|
|
|
Impact insights: the climate of impact investing
|
|
The constellation of peoples, planet and profit, have endured cyclical patterns of instability and prosperity forever. It is part of the circle of life. Resilience and perseverance sustain societies during stretches of instability, until the fresh pioneering environmental, political, or economic alternatives are adopted by the mainstream. Just as perennials recover gradually in late winter before spring, innovative economic solutions globally are budding against the lingering frost of the extreme volatility of the past five years. Despite this sub-optimal climate, determined thought leaders continue to sow investment in positive impact entities, entities that place equivalent emphasis on profit maximization as well as the delivery of social and environmental impact as a viable future engine for economic growth and development.
Read More
|
|
|
Corporate structure survey - participation wanted!
|
|
The Impact Trust, Nexii’s founding public benefit organisation, has initiated a research project with the support of South African National Treasury and key advisors across the globe to consider whether and how alternative legal structures, policy frameworks and regulatory enablers might have application to South Africa and Africa more broadly. With the goal of drafting a White Paper to be submitted to Parliament in 2013, the Impact Trust is now engaging with social businesses, SMEs, investors and advisors globally to understand the experience and potential of appropriate structures that might inform this work.
For this work to be meaningful it is critical for us to understand the implications on existing social, small and growing businesses and their investors, and the regulatory landscape within which these businesses currently operate. To gain such an understanding, Nexii would like to invite you to participate in this research by completing our online survey.
The survey will take approximately 20 minutes to complete, and is available here.
|
|
|
Keys to unlocking the power of impact investing - a book review
|
|
Whether you’re new to the impact investing field or an experienced social entrepreneur or investor, Impact Investing: Transforming How We Make Money While Making a Difference (Impact Investing for short) offers an insightful look into the impact investing field.
Read More
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
About Nexii
|
|
Nexii builds the bridges to connect impact investors to high impact investment opportunities in world changing initiatives. We aim to make impact investing a reality at scale by improving the infrastructure, expanding intermediation networks and establishing the meeting places for investors and impact investments. Read more about our offerings.
|
|
|
|
|
Industry Tweets
|
|
Nexii - Interesting concept to tackle the cost of measuring impact- Creating A Moneyball Approach To Impact Investing http://t.co/G5PYWZN8 #impinv
Dom4good - A suitably upbeat view of the growing global social & impact investment market. entrepreneur.com
#ImpInv #SocEnt
Schwab Foundation - Entrepreneurs Talk Mission Drift, Social Impact and Preventing Burnouthuff.to/JgNSAL via @HuffPostImpact
AgoraPrtnerships - Can you make sense of the exploding #discussion around #impact#investing? bit.ly/JP6vON via @NextBillion #impinv #socent
Mattbish - Richard Branson interviewed by @mattbish on impact economy 1.usa.gov/Ix1vwy #impinv #socent #csr#philanthropy
|
|
|
|
|
Upcoming Events
|
|
SOCAP: Designing the Future
Malmo, Sweden
May 8th, 05:00PM - May 10th, 05:00PM
World Economic Forum on Africa 2012
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
May 9th, 09:00AM - May 11th, 07:15PM
Take Action! The Impact Investing Summit
San Francisco, United States
May 22nd, 08:00AM - May 22nd, 04:00PM
World Economic Forum on East Asia 2012
Bangkok, Thailand
May 30th, 08:00AM - Jun 1st, 07:15PM
|
|
|
|
|
