We talked with Jake Harris ’19, a principal at the impact investing firm DBL Partners, about the challenges of measuring the ...

Renu runs one of the millions of mom-and-pop stores, known as kiranas, located all over India. She wanted to expand her business, but as a cash-only operation, couldn’t show banks that she was a ...

Much like the long-running debate in the nonprofit world about how to measure a charity’s performance, a movement is under way to figure out how to evaluate whether investments that seek both ...

The Spectrum of Impact (figure above) describes the full array of organizations that can—and should—create positive social and environmental impact. This includes four types of organizations, all of ...

Large companies around the world disclose sustainability information in their ESG reports. Much of the content is climate-related, but many companies also report on social impacts — the “S” in ESG.

Springpod, a leading education technology platform, is excited to announce a strategic partnership with GIST Impact, a pioneer in impact data and intelligence. This collaboration will transform how ...

The Durability Collective is a global community of funders, practitioners, and researchers who are building our collective capability to measure social impact and create change that lasts. Contrary to ...

The impact investing sector has grown substantially since the term was first coined in 2007. The practice refers to investing in companies -- directly or indirectly through funds -- with the intent to ...

Thirty years ago, people were calling environmentalists “tree huggers.” Today, there is rarely a conversation on Wall Street that doesn’t mention sustainability or climate. If environmental outcomes ...

Perpetual Revolution: The Image and Social Change, a complicated, dense, and ambitious exhibition at the International Center of Photography (ICP), endeavors to tackle the relationship between new ...