Blogs

The 2010 SoCap Conference focused on seed investing, metrics, and transparency, transparency, transparency. And, as expected, many of these discussions focused on the tradeoff between financial and social, and the need to measure impact.

[This blog is part of  the "Impact Investing is a Verb?" blog series.]  In recent years, interest has grown in the investment community about the opportunity to invest in education products and services in developing countries.

[This blog is part of  the "Innovate to Educate" blog series.]

[This blog is part of  the "Innovate to Educate" blog series.]  Upon first arriving at my school I took stock of what was in front of me:  passionate, friendly teachers that were generally not educated past 12th standard; s

Welcome to the "Policy Potluck" Blog Series! We have gathered some of the industry's brightest minds to provide persuasive critiques, enlightenment and discussion on quality education is a social issue extending beyond classroom walls

  You must have read Genia’s write up about mission investing. The piece examines transition from philanthropic approaches to investing for impact at the bottom of the pyramid, and the value that can be had from it. Wonderful, and very

  “If we are together nothing is impossible. If we are divided all will fail.” –Winston Churchill  The Affordable Private School sector can’t do it alone. And neither can the government.

The PACT session on school financing at the Enterprising Schools Symposium 2010 held in Hyderabad, India, last month discussed the school funding and financing challenge that low-cost private schools across the world face. Low-cost schools have eme

I’m so excited.  Earlier this week I received an email from the More for Mission Campaign stating that they had reached 87 foundations representing over US$31 billion in total assets. The More for Mission Campaign is

Someone asked me the other day: Is APS the next microfinance? I’m not too sure what aspect of microfinance’s performance that person was asking about, but one point remained in my mind: microfinance, with its reach to millions of women