WASIC Goal: Social Impact Investing
Impact investing refers to investments "made into companies, organizations, and funds with the intention to generate a measurable, beneficial social or environmental impact alongside a financial return.”
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Climate - What’s Gender Got To Do With It? (December 3, 2020)
Paths to Impact Investing - in Partnership with the Wharton Club of Chicago (November 12, 2020)
Join Natural Capital Partners for a virtual tour of WASIC Ambassador Philip Wilson's Ecofiltro and meet the social entrepreneur on a mission to bring purified water to rural Guatemala. (September 22, 2020 )
A Solution to Rural Poverty in West Africa? - The Impact of Value Chain Services to Smallholder Growers. Adventura Investment Partners (Photo courtesy of Aventura Investment Partners - November 20, 2019)
Impact, Social Impact Investing, and Philanthropy. CARE Enterprises, Impact Marketplace, and Wharton Social Impact Initiative (Photo courtesy of Marshall Foster - April 19, 2018)
ESG Investing, Direct Impact Investing, Impact Portfolio Construction (Photo courtesy of Cornerstone - April 18, 2018)
Social Impact Versus Nonprofit. National Philanthropic Trust, The Barra Foundation and New Day Chester (Photo courtesy of New Day Chester - November 9, 2017)
How has business become a force for good in development? Or has it? (November 4, 2017)