Sir Fazle Hasan Abed of Bangladesh, founder and chair of BRAC, one of the world’s largest and most effective anti-poverty organizations, was honored as 2015 World Food Prize Laureate earlier this month. He built the success of BRAC on empowering women and girls.
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We need your help to raise $122,000 in order to restore land and change lives Maximpact is reaching out to its network to assist World Vision in raising the remaining $122,000 for the 2015 Beating Famine Conference in Africa. This is your opportunity to be part of a global movement In 2012 the first Beating […]
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Sustainability is a key concept for our times. For impact investors who want to put their capital behind better ways of doing business, it’s an important indicator of investability. But what exactly do we mean when we say “sustainability” or “sustainable”? This blog explores how the meaning of sustainability is changing and what that may mean for social investors.
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Conducting social and environmental due diligence may be good practice for investors with an eye on impact outcomes, but it certainly costs money and time—and does it really make business sense? Root Capital’s new briefing paper uncovers the business case for social and environmental due diligence, showing how the practice pays for itself—and then some.
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Pressures on our natural resources are getting bigger—and the consequences of depleting them are getting clearer—but a global movement for sustainability is now encouraging an explosion in the kind of responsible resource businesses that belong in our impact portfolios.
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The core message of the IPCC report on climate change was clear: climate change is real, its effects are measurable, and it is being caused by human activity. But what will this news mean for the impact investing sector?
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In this guest blog for sustainable forestry consultants OpenForests, Maximpact writer Marta Maretich gives pointers on how to find impact finance for any sustainable business model.
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Compost Prosperity: A new deal on the Maximpact platform offers opportunities for farm communities in rural Mali.
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The big corporations, governments and NGOs will continue to be active in agriculture, but there are still opportunities for impact investors.
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Mike McCreless,Root Capital’s director of strategy and impact, talks to Maximpact about the importance of agriculture, Root Capital’s impressive track record and what’s coming for agricultural impact investing in the future.
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Agriculture: With a global food crisis on the horizon, NGOs, development agencies and multinationals are all rushing to find ways to increase production.Yet impact investors still have a vital role to play in ensuring our future food security.
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