Download or read book Social Return on Investment Analysis written by Volker Then and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-03-13 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book introduces and explains how to conduct a Social Return on Investment (SROI) analysis. It discusses the various advantages and disadvantages of different research strategies and designs, and explores the different ways in which SROI analysis results can be used for communication, outreach, and strategic decision-making. It provides insights into how and to what extent SROI analyses can help to meet different expectations, and presents different social impact research designs and methods. It presents an analytical framework for the identification of a proper SROI analysis, and shows readers how to establish an impact model, introducing a stakeholder-based approach.
Download or read book Global Handbook of Impact Investing written by Elsa De Morais Sarmento and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2020-12-30 with total page 1331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover how to invest your capital to achieve a powerful, lasting impact on the world. The Global Handbook of Impact Investing: Solving Global Problems Via Smarter Capital Markets Towards A More Sustainable Society is an insightful guide to the growing world-wide movement of Impact Investing. Impact investors seek to realize lasting, beneficial improvements in society by allocating capital to sources of impactful and sustainable profit. This Handbook is a how-to guide for institutional investors, including family offices, foundations, endowments, governments, and international organizations, as well as academics, students, and everyday investors globally. The Handbook´s wide-ranging contributions from around the world make a powerful case for positive impact and profit to fund substantive, lasting solutions that solve critical problems across the world. Edited by two experienced and distinguished professionals in the sustainable investing arena and authored by two dozen renowned experts from finance, academia, and multilateral organizations from around the world, the Global Handbook of Impact Investing educates, inspires, and spurs action towards more responsible investing across all asset classes, resulting in smarter capital markets, including how to: · Realize positive impact and profit · Integrate impact into investment decision-making and portfolio · Allocate impactful investments across all asset classes · Apply unique Impact Investing frameworks · Measure, evaluate and report on impact · Learn from case examples around the globe · Pursue Best Practices in Impact Investing and impact reporting While other resources may take a local or limited approach to the subject, this Handbook gathers global knowledge and results from public and private institutions spanning five continents. The authors also make a powerful case for the ability of Impact Investing to lead to substantive and lasting change that addresses critical problems across the world.
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Download or read book Unmistakable Impact written by Jim Knight and published by Corwin Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes in simple terms exactly how schools should align and organize professional learning to ensure significant positive change in teaching and student learning. The author's partnership principles-a humanizing approach to professional learning-apply to workshops, intensive learning teams (a focused form of professional learning communities), and instructional coaching. This is the first in a two volume series that is designed to provide a simple (not simplistic) framework and a set of tools for improving teaching in schools. (The second volume, The Big Four, was proposed last year.)
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- Author : United Nations Development Programme Istanbul International Center for Private Sector in Development (UNDP IICPSD)
- Publisher : United Nations Development Programme Istanbul International Center for Private Sector in Development (UNDP IICPSD)
- Release : 2016-01-07
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- Pages : 27 pages
Download or read book Islamic Finance and Impact Investing written by United Nations Development Programme Istanbul International Center for Private Sector in Development (UNDP IICPSD) and published by United Nations Development Programme Istanbul International Center for Private Sector in Development (UNDP IICPSD). This book was released on 2016-01-07 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The worlds of Islamic finance and impact investing are growing daily, and rapidly. This report attempts to provide a brief and indicative overview of both universes: conventional impact investing and Islamic financing. The report focuses on relevant topics to provide context for recommendations for ways in which the IICPSD is well-suited to act as leader. For the purposes of this report, emphasis was placed on the IICPSD’s goals of fostering private sector development. The overall strategy for this scope of work involves 4 main parts, divided into 8 sections. In section 4, indicative recommendations are made for IICPSD to consider to promote and grow the area of convergence to create dialogue around Islamic impact investing. These four main parts include: • Background on and outlining the universe of impact investing • Providing context for Sharia investments • Identifying areas of current overlap • Devising strategies to grow the area of overlap.
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