Sustainability: Select Sources& References
The following is a list of SOME of the organizations, engaged in sustainability, and literature/research on sustainability that UVC has consulted in developing it’s sustainable community planning methodology.
Sustainable community planners/practitioners may find it helpful to consult some of these sources.
IMPACT INVESTING
PRIVATE CAPITAL,PUBLIC GOOD: How Smart Federal Policy Can Galvanize Impact Investing — and Why It’s Urgent,US NATIONAL ADVISORY BOARD ON IMPACT INVESTING JUNE 2014
http://www.nabimpactinvesting.org/
When Measuring Social Impact, We Need To Move Beyond Counting (Chain of Impact)
Mike McCreless is Director of Strategy and Impact at Root Capital.
Impact at Scale: Policy Innovation for Institutional Investment with Social and Environmental Benefit
Impact Investing: A Framework for Policy Design and Analysis
Jan 15, 2011 · Ben Thornley, David Wood, Katie Grace
The Strategic Plan is Dead. Long Live Strategy.
In today’s fast-changing world, why freeze your strategic thinking in a five-year plan?
By Dana O’Donovan & Noah Rimland Flower | 43 | Jan. 10, 2013
http://www.ssireview.org/blog/entry/the_strategic_plan_is_dead._long_live_strategy
Strategic Philanthropy for a Complex World
By John Kania, Mark Kramer, & Patty Russell | 1 | Summer 2014
http://www.ssireview.org/up_for_debate/article/strategic_philanthropy
Interrogating the theory of change: evaluating impact investing where it matters most, Edward T. Jackson∗
Journal of Sustainable Finance & Investment, 2013
Vol. 3, No. 2, 95– 110, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/20430795.2013.776257
http://www.theoryofchange.org/wp-content/uploads/toco_library/pdf/Interrogatingthetheoryofchange.pdf
Philanthropy and the Social Economy: BLUEPRINT 2013
The Annual Industry Forecast by Lucy Bernholz
Philanthropy and the Social Economy: BLUEPRINT 2014
The Annual Industry Forecast by Lucy Bernholz
http://lcfconference.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/LCF-Notebook-File-I-Blueprint-2014.pdf
Impact Investing: Transforming How We Make Money While Making a Difference. John Wiley and Sons Inc., 2011. Bugg-Levine, Antony, and Emerson, Jed.
Impact Investment& Grantmaking: Measuring Impacts & Outcomes
April 16, 2014 -Jessica Margolin
Impact Investments: An Emerging Asset Class. J.P. Morgan, The Rockefeller Foundation and the GIIN, Nov 2010
http://www.thegiin.org/cgi-bin/iowa/download?row=334&field=gated_download_1;
Smarter Philanthropy for Greater Impact
This special supplement includes eleven perspectives on “scaling what works”—what it means, what it takes to do it right, and what needs to happen to increase the impact of successful solutions to social challenge
http://www.ssireview.org/supplement/smarter_philanthropy_for_greater_impact
Insight into the Impact Investment Market: An in-depth analysis of investor perspectives. JP Morgan and the GIIN; Social Finance Research; 14 December 2011.
http://www.thegiin.org/cgi-bin/iowa/download?row=334&field=gated_download_1;
Perspectives on Progress: The Impact Investor Survey, J.P. Morgan and the Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN) 7th January 2013,
http://www.thegiin.org/cgi-bin/iowa/download?row=489&field=gated_download_1;
Spotlight on the Market: The Impact Investor Survey, J.P. Morgan and the Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN) May 2014,
From Blueprint to Scale: The Case for Philanthropy in. Impact Investing. Harvey Koh, Ashish Karamchandani, Robert Katz
http://www.mim.monitor.com/downloads/Blueprint_To_Scale/From%20Blueprint%20to%20Scale%20-%20Case%20for%20 Philanthropy%20in%20Impact%20Investing_Full%20report.pdf
Accelerating Impact:Achievements, Challenges and What’s Next in Building the Impact Investing Industry.” Prepared for The Rockefeller Foundation, New York, July 2012
Harji, Karim and Edward T. Jackson.
http://www.rockefellerfoundation.org//uploads/images/fda23ba9-ab7e-4c83-9218-24fdd79289cc.pdf
When Can Impact Investing Create Real Impact?
Although it is possible for impact investors to achieve social impact along with market rate returns, it’s not easy to do and doesn’t happen nearly as often as many boosters would have you believe.
By Paul Brest & Kelly Born | 8 | Fall 2013
http://www.ssireview.org/articles/entry/impact_investing
B Corporations, Benefit Corporations and Social Purpose Corporations: Launching a New Era of Impact-Driven Companies
A white paper by Network for Business Innovation &Sustainability 2012 NBIS. (www.NBIS.org)
http://nbis.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/ImpactDrivenCompanies_NBIS_Whitepaper_Oct2012.pdf
Evaluation’s Next Generation
A look at characteristics and approaches that represent the evolution of traditional evaluation.
By Srik Gopalakrishnan | 2 | Oct. 2, 2013
http://www.ssireview.org/blog/entry/evaluations_next_generation
Proving that every impact investment goes beyond what mainstream investors bring is unrealistic.
http://www.ssireview.org/up_for_debate/impact_investing/amit_bouri
Response to “When Can Impact Investing Create Real Impact?”
To achieve social impact, investors and entrepreneurs must broaden beyond the enterprise.
By Antony Bugg-Levine | 25 | Fall 2013
http://www.ssireview.org/up_for_debate/impact_investing/antony_bugg_levine
To avoid creating a Potemkin village, impact investors must collect better social impact data
By Sasha Dichter | 8 | Fall 2013
http://www.ssireview.org/up_for_debate/impact_investing/sasha_dichter
Investors can have social impact by investing in underserved geographic areas.
By Brian Trelstad | 8 | Fall 2013
http://www.ssireview.org/up_for_debate/impact_investing/brian_trelstad
Impact investors should not be burdened with proving social impact.
