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Linkdin Dialog Laurie Lane-Zucker / TPB / others
Impact Investing
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| Laurie Lane-Zucker • 1st Founder & CEO at Impact Entrepreneur, an Impact Economy Company 3d • Impact Entrepreneur Development practitioners often view impact investing as an important tool for alleviating poverty. They tout the ability of impact investing to leverage private sector investment to complement limited public sector, foundation, or development assistance funds, as well as the potential to harness efficiencies of market-based approaches. With such a focus on attracting investment capital, research on impact investing is often conducted from the perspective of the investor, failing to account for the perspective of the impact entrepreneur on the ground. In particular, little primary research has concentrated on those who applied for impact investment funding but were turned down. The Demand Side of Impact Investing: Elevating the perspectives of local entrepreneurs in the impact sector | Oxfam Policy & Practice policy-practice.oxfam.org.uk Policy & Practice provides an insight into Oxfam’s advocacy, development and humanitarian programmes… Reactions 14 Peter Burgess Peter Burgess Founder/CEO at TrueValueMetrics.org developing True Value Impact Accounting Elsie Maio Elsie Maio 1st degree connection1st Founder of Humanity, Inc. and Creator of SoulBranding℠ Steve Rocco Steve Rocco 1st degree connection1st building impact capital markets Virginie Bonnell Virginie Bonnell 1st degree connection1st Corporate Sustainability - Project Manager chez AXA Stuart Williams Stuart Williams 1st degree connection1st I Help People Make Their Impact Dreams Come True Celena Green Celena Green 1st degree connection1st Impact Entrepreneur | Proptech | Urban Development Kiko Suarez, PhD Kiko Suarez, PhD 1st degree connection1st Inspiration is outside. Greatness is inside. Liam Brody Liam Brody 2nd degree connection2nd President, Sustainable Harvest Coffee Importers Paula Laurel Jackson, PhD Paula Laurel Jackson, PhD 2nd degree connection2nd Edtech Advisor, Founder at I SEE YOU Media Swadesh S. Swadesh S. 2nd degree connection2nd Business Development/Project Management Dialog content end. Laurie Lane-Zucker Laurie Lane-Zucker Founder & CEO at Impact Entrepreneur, an Impact Economy Company View full profile Laurie Lane-Zucker posted in Impact Entrepreneur Images Steve Rocco Steve Rocco 1st degree connection1st building impact capital markets 2d Laurie, Great piece. this is the Achilles heel of impact. It is so focused on investors that we forget that is is the entrepreneurs that create the impact not the investors. Yes, entrepreneurs need capital but they are one's usually taking real risk (it's their idea, money and energy) vs investor who are usually using someone else money. the whole impact investment business has been built backwards to legitimize it. There are no entrepreneurs at GIIN events....…see more Like Steve Rocco’s comment · 2 Likes 2 Likes on Steve Rocco’s comment Danyal Sattar Danyal Sattar 2nd degree connection2nd Chief Executive at Big Issue Invest 2d Thanks for sharing Like Danyal Sattar’s comment · 1 Like 1 Like on Danyal Sattar’s comment Peter BurgessStatus is online Peter Burgess You Founder/CEO at TrueValueMetrics.org developing True Value Impact Accounting 2d The flow of development investment and humanitarian assistance has been both insufficient and badly focused for a very long time. A better way of numbering social impact, environmental impact and economic return needs to be deployed. Most of the work in this space ignores the very powerful concept of balance sheet progress and profit and loss activity analysis that is the core of conventional accountancy. I argue these concepts need to remain, but for all the impacts on all the capitals to be embraced. Like Peter Burgess’ comment · 4 Likes 4 Likes on Peter Burgess’ comment · 1 Reply 1 Comment on Peter Burgess’ comment Elsie Maio Elsie Maio 1st degree connection1st Founder of Humanity, Inc. and Creator of SoulBranding℠ 4h Peter, agree with your conclusion. Where is this work being done/aggregated and consensus being built for the standard? Like Elsie Maio’s comment Status is online Peter Burgess You Founder/CEO at TrueValueMetrics.org developing True Value Impact Accounting 14s Elsie Maio ... you may well know more about this than I do. What I know is that there have been a lot of words written about standards by GRI, IR, SASB, GIIN/IRIS+, UN-PRI and others but any numbering for these concepts / standards seems to be almost exclusively behind some sort of proprietary non-transparent and most likely self-serving curtain. At the present time essentially all economic data is self reported in some form or another and likely to skewed to suit the entity reporting ... and much of these data flows from corporate entities with little of no validation. I sense there is a rapidly growing appetite for this to be changed, and I believe there is the technology to do it, but not yet the organization. I would love to be wrong about this. Something may be in play and I may be simply unaware of it. In the meantime I am working (rather slowly I am afraid) to define an effective framing for a coherent system of numbering. Best PeterB Stuart Williams Stuart Williams 1st degree connection1st I Help People Make Their Impact Dreams Come True 2d Great piece Laurie Lane-Zucker we spent two years taking a deep dive into global poverty and the results might stun you. Like Stuart Williams’ comment · 1 Like 1 Like on Stuart Williams’ comment Kiko Suarez, PhD Kiko Suarez, PhD 1st degree connection1st Inspiration is outside. Greatness is inside. 2d Very well said, Laurie. Like Kiko Suarez, PhD’S comment · 3 Replies 3 Replies on Kiko Suarez, PhD’S comment Load previous replies Load previous replies on Kiko Suarez, PhD’S comment Kiko Suarez, PhD Kiko Suarez, PhD 1st degree connection1st Inspiration is outside. Greatness is inside. 2d Laurie Lane-Zucker so very well highlighted! :) Like Kiko Suarez, PhD’S comment Laurie Lane-ZuckerStatus is reachable Laurie Lane-Zucker 1st degree connection1st Founder & CEO at Impact Entrepreneur, an Impact Economy Company 2d Kiko Suarez, PhD it’s a talent! Like Laurie Lane-Zucker’s comment · 1 Like 1 Like on Laurie Lane-Zucker’s comment Gillian Marcelle, PhD Gillian Marcelle, PhD 2nd degree connection2nd Founder and Managing Member Resilience Capital Ventures LLC 3d Very very important consideration especially because of issues of trust. Laurie Lane-Zucker thanks for sharing. Like Gillian Marcelle, PhD’S comment · 1 Like 1 Like on Gillian Marcelle, PhD’S comment Sara OlsenStatus is online Sara Olsen 1st degree connection1st Founding Partner at SVT Group 2d Laurie Lane-Zucker the link wasn't working for me, will you check and repost? Like Sara Olsen’s comment · 2 Replies 2 Replies on Sara Olsen’s comment Laurie Lane-ZuckerStatus is reachable Laurie Lane-Zucker 1st degree connection1st Founder & CEO at Impact Entrepreneur, an Impact Economy Company 2d Thanks for the heads up, Sara. It seems the doc was taken down from the page. Luckily, I downloaded the paper. I have just posted the document in another thread. See top of page. (edited) Like Laurie Lane-Zucker’s comment · 1 Like 1 Like on Laurie Lane-Zucker’s comment Sara OlsenStatus is online Sara Olsen 1st degree connection1st Founding Partner at SVT Group 2d got it Like Sara Olsen’s comment · 1 Like 4 Likes Elsie Maio Elsie Maio 1st degree connection1st Founder of Humanity, Inc. and Creator of SoulBranding℠ Laurie Lane-Zucker Laurie Lane-Zucker 1st degree connection1st Founder & CEO at Impact Entrepreneur, an Impact Economy Company Stuart Williams Stuart Williams 1st degree connection1st I Help People Make Their Impact Dreams Come True Reana Rossouw - Next Generation Reana Rossouw - Next Generation 1st degree connection1st Owner: Next Generation and Investment Impact Index™ Impact Management | Measurement | Analysis | Reporting | |||||||||