Tag Archives: impact investing

What it takes to build dreams – Part 2

Posted on March 18, 2013 by

Paula Goldman, Omidyar Network’s Director of Knowledge & Advocacy and co-author of the excellent “Priming the Pump” blog series made a very helpful and clarifying comment on the last post (emphasis added): Sasha, excellent post. I agree with you that … Continue reading →

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What it takes to build dreams

Posted on March 13, 2013 by

I keep on bumping into the same parallel conversations around the future of the impact investing sector. With those in the trenches, what I hear continuously is that it is a long, hard slog.  That companies take a long time … Continue reading →

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Two sigmoid curves

Posted on November 20, 2012 by

At this year’s opening keynote at the SOCAP conference, Katherine Fulton, President of the Monitor Institute, discussed the evolution of the impact investing sector since her last SOCAP keynote in 2007.  If five years ago the sector was all promise … Continue reading →

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Your chance to shape a sector

Posted on July 25, 2012 by

Kevin Starr, who among other things runs the Mulago Foundation, penned a provocative, must-read series of posts on Stanford Social Innovation Review titled “The Problem with Impact investing (Pt. 1, Pt. 2, and Pt. 3). He leads off his last … Continue reading →

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Dowser 2011 Year in Review interview

Posted on January 5, 2012 by

[This interview first appeared on Dowser.org] This is the 1st part of our Year in Review Series, in which we reconnect with our group of experts about the trends they forecasted for social entrepreneurship in 2011 and look forward to … Continue reading →

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Fast Company Interview

Posted on August 30, 2011 by

I was excited to be profiled by Lydia Dishman in her Innovation Agents column in Fast Company. Here’s the full copy of the piece. Innovation Agents – Sasha Dichter, Director of Business Development, Acumen Fund BY Lydia Dishman  Fri Aug … Continue reading →

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FastCompany thinks social impact investing is a crock (with a long aside on cellphones)

Posted on August 12, 2011 by

In case you missed it (thanks @beckystraw for sharing it), Anya Kamenetz at FastCompany recently wrote a piece titled “Why Social Investing is a Crock.” It’s a pity that in the effort to grab attention, Ms. Kamenetz crossed the line … Continue reading →

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If investing = sexy…

Posted on August 10, 2011 by

If investing = sexy, and if sexy = better = innovative = how we’re going to solve all the world’s problems…well then, Houston, we have a problem. There’s huge momentum around using investing capital to solve social problems.  The question … Continue reading →

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Is ______ an impact investor?

Posted on June 15, 2011 by

On Monday I had the chance to speak at the iiSummit on Impact Investing,  organized by Kellogg and the Chicago Booth School.  It is exciting to see the level of interest in impact investing growing everywhere (beyond the obvious hotbeds … Continue reading →

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The future of impact investing

Posted on January 25, 2011 by

I’ve now spent four years in the impact investing space, and nearly three years as a blogger on philanthropy, generosity and social change.  The landscape looks radically different than it did just a few years ago. On the upside, JP … Continue reading →

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