Research
InSight is the thought leadership practice at Pacific Community Ventures – providing non-financial performance evaluation and policy research to some of the most prominent investment and philanthropic institutions in the United States. InSight’s analysis includes research on impact investing and small business needs and development, and evaluation of non-financial impacts.
Policy and Best Practices
Research on policy and best practices in impact investing and small business development.
Latest News and Publications
May 09, 2012
Ben Thornley, Director of PCV InSight, on Impact Investing for Huffington Post
PCV’s own Ben Thornley, Director of PCV InSight, posted a new blog called “The Really Truly Transformative Potential of Impact Investing” for the Huffington Post this week. Read on below for Ben’s thoughts on...
April 24, 2012
Impact Investor - Video Recap (Part 2)
As promised in part 1, here is the second installment of InSight’s video highlights from our launch event of The Impact Investor. The event marked...
April 18, 2012
Investing for More Than Just Profits
Congratulations to Eduardo Rallo and the PCV Fund for their article in the Wall Street Journal! Read on...
March 16, 2012
The Impact Investor: Best Practices in Impact Investing
The Impact Investor is a project to build data-driven and practitioner-guided knowledge for the rapidly growing field of impact investing. It is a partnership between...
February 10, 2012
Impact at Scale: Policy Innovation for Institutional Investment with Social & Environmental Benefit
The Global Impact Investing Policy Project is a collaboration between InSight and the Initiative for Responsible Investment at Harvard University, funded by The Rockefeller Foundation,...
January 06, 2012
Solidifying the Business Case for CDFI Nonfinancial Performance Measurement
In this article I contribute a number of additional questions and next steps to the conversation about measurement that started well over a decade ago...Video
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The Global Impact Investing Policy Project is a collaboration between InSight and the Initiative for Responsible Investment at Harvard University, funded by The Rockefeller Foundation, exploring the role of public policy in impact investing. The objective of the project is to support stakeholders from the government, research, investment and related communities in designing policies that lead to more robust and effective impact investing markets.