Key Terms In Social Capital
Key Terms In Social Capital
Overviews of Social Capital and Impact Investing:
A Short Guide to Impact Investing from the Case Foundation
The Money and Meaning podcast from SOCAP
Opportunity Zone Resources:
Opportunity Alabama’s Opportunity Zone Portal
Economic Innovation Group‘s Opportunity Zones Map
The December 23 2019 Opportunity Zone Regulation
Norvogradac & Company‘s Opportunity Zones Resource Center
Alternatives to Traditional VC Funding
We get asked “what are the alternatives to traditional venture capitalist funding?” a lot; here are the links we send to interested persons.
“Why (and how) more tech entrepreneurs are raising money outside the unicorn/VC model” by John Ramey
“VC Alternative Startup Financing Options” by David Cummings
“Investing without ‘Exits'” (Royalty-based financing)
A sample Shared Earnings Agreement
“Start-Ups Have an Unfamiliar Message for Venture Capitalists”
Builder Capitalist (website)
Global Corporate Venturing (webiste)
Intelligent Impact (website)
NYU School of Law’s Grunin Center for Law and Social Entrepreneurship (website)
Salesforce Ventures Launches Second $100 Million Impact Fund (article)
Artisans and Entrepreneurship
“Mobilizing all forms of capital for sustainable development” (article)
Community Equity Trust
“Growing Wealth in Opportunity Zones: A Proposal for Community Equity Trusts” (article)
Designing an Impact Investing Portfolio
(Ad)venture Finance: Creating an Epic Funding Journey that Blends Profit and Purpose (forthcoming book)
Common Future (organization)
“Hiding in Plain Sight Part 3: Getting It Done – Making the Allocation to Diverse Managers” (article)
Impact Investing Handbook
Impact Investing Handbook: Theory of Change Worksheet
Open Road Alliance (organization)
Stakeholder Capitalism (article)
“What Investors Need to Know to Embrace Catalytic Capital” (article)
Education/ Mental Health
“Finding Your Place: The Current State of K-12 Social Emotional Learning” (article)
Trauma-Informed Social Emotional Learning Toolkit
Equitable Development Work Group
Equitable Development Webinar Series: Resources & Links
Financial Impact of the Racial Wealth Gap
“The Economic Impact of Closing the Racial Wealth Gap” (article)
Impact Investing Is Not Enough
Black Venture Institute (fund)
Illumen Capital (fund)
“Impact Investing Won’t Save Capitalism” (article)
Prison Free Funds (resource)
Racial Justice Exclusion List (resource)
Investing Across the Returns Continuum:
The Next Step for Investors: Revenue-Based Financing (book)
Investing in Female Opportunities
Microloan Foundation USA (organization)
“Women’s Breakthrough Leadership Challenge” (workshop)
Measuring Impact
More than Measurement: A Practitioner’s Journey to Impact Management (article)
Great Expectations: Mission Preservation and Financial Performance in Impact Investing (article)
Selling Your Family on Impact Investing
“Sustainable Investing Capabilities of Private Banks” (article)
Understanding Impact Performance
“2020 Annual Impact Investor Survey” (article)
“Bridges Annual Impact Report” (article)
Small Giants Academy (fund)
Use for More Difficult Financial Enterprises
Acumen (fund)
The Miller Center for Social Entrepreneurism (fund/small business accelerator)
The Truss Fund (fund)
Using Impact Investing to Advance Social Equity and Build Resilience
“For Some Minority-Owned Businesses, Their Lenders Are Now Their Defenders” (article)
“Gathering of global leaders on ‘Digital Gender Equality’ creates new momentum for urgent action” (article)
“The Impact Investing Market in the COVID-19 Context: Advancing Social Equity to Build Resilience” (article)
“Netflix Commits $100 Million to Support Black Communities Thanks to Aaron Mitchell” (article)
Resources on and Definitions of Issues Related to Social Capital:
CDFI Community Development Funds
Concessionary Versus Non-Concessionary