Impact Investing
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 the beginning of a two-year project to build data-driven and practitioner-guided knowledge for the rapidly growing field of impact investing, which we are undertaking along with our partners CASE at […]
Jul 10, 2015 – Impact Consulting • Impact Investing •
Impact Investor – Video Recap (Part 1)
Here at InSight we’re still sorting through all the incredible conversation from the launch of our new project – The Impact Investor. The launch took place in Oxford, UK before the Skoll World Forum, where over 80 impact investors participated in the dialogue that will inform and shape much of our research. We are undertaking […]
Jul 10, 2015 – Impact Consulting • Impact Investing •
InSight at PCV Launches Global Research Initiative on Impact Investing
Last week at the Skoll World Forum in Oxford, InSight, along with CASE at Duke University and ImpactAssests, launched their new global research initiative, “The Impact Investor: People and Practices Delivering Exceptional Financial and Social Returns”. The project, which has attracted generous funding from the Omidyar Network, The Annie E. Casey Foundation and RS Group […]
Jul 10, 2015 – Impact Consulting • Impact Investing • PCV News •
What Would Impact Investing At Scale Look Like? $20 Trillion for Good
Forbes’ Rahim Kanani interviews PCV’s Ben Thornley: Recently, I interviewed Ben Thornley of InSight and author of a new study on impact investing, which demonstrates that institutional investors, such as pension funds and endowments that invest for social and environmental outcomes are also earning a competitive rate of financial return. Launched a few weeks ago […]
Jul 10, 2015 – Impact Consulting • Impact Investing •
PCV’s Ben Thornley: ‘Now Is The Time To Bring Institutions Into Impact Investing’
Written by Noah Flower on Thursday, January 26th, 2012 Interview: now is the time to bring institutions into impact investing I had the opportunity on Tuesday to sit down with Ben Thornley of Pacific Community Ventures, who has published a series of forward-looking reports on impact investing as head of their InSight program. After a […]
Jul 10, 2015 – Impact Consulting • Impact Investing •
PCV’s Ben Thornley: Advancing Social Impact Investments Through Measurement
The Center for Community Development Investments (http://www.frbsf.org/cdinvestments/) at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco has just published a new issue of its journal, the Community Development Investment Review(the Review) – and our own Director of InSight at PCV is a featured author. This issue of the Review centers around the proceedings of the conference […]
Jul 10, 2015 – Impact Consulting • Impact Investing •
Impact Investing in California: A Forbes Interview with Ben Thornley of PCV’s InSight
Recently, I interviewed Ben Thornley, Director of InSight – the thought leadership practice in high-impact investing at Pacific Community Ventures (PCV). PCV is a preeminent San Francisco-based Community Development Financial Institution and growth equity manager deploying $60 million in three funds with the aim of creating quality jobs in low-income areas of California. Ben is responsible […]
Jul 08, 2015 – Impact Consulting • Impact Investing •
Five Takeaways: The G8 and Social Impact Investing
by Ben Thornley, Director, InSight at Pacific Community Ventures The UK government planted the Union Jack squarely at the center of social impact investing at the dedicated G8 meeting June 6 – hosted by Prime Minister David Cameron in concert with Cabinet visionary Nick Hurd, Minister for Civil Society, and Sir Ronald Cohen, who in […]
Nov 12, 2013 – Impact Consulting • Impact Investing •
Impact Investing 2.0 — What $3 Billion Tells Us About the Next $300 Billion
Co-authored with Ben Thornley of Pacific Community Ventures and Jed Emerson of Impact Assets Earlier this month in the Stanford Social Innovation Review (SSIR), Paul Brest and Kelly Born wrote a very thoughtful piece about the difficulty of achieving real impact alongside financial returns for impact investors. Their thesis was so provocative that over 18 […]
Sep 05, 2013 – Impact Consulting • Impact Investing •
A Big Idea for Job Creation
The California Organized Insurance Network (COIN) CDFI Tax Credit program (the Program), administered by the California Department of Insurance, has a track record of creating jobs in some of California’s most underserved communities. Drawing on a well-designed policy framework, an efficient and dedicated team of public officials responsible for COIN, and an effective statewide infrastructure […]
May 17, 2013 – Blog and News • Good Jobs • Impact Investing •
The New Era of Public Innovation: Part One
post by Ben Thornley The Schwab Foundation Social Innovation Summit, held last week in Lima, Peru, was a breakthrough moment. As the first international, ministerial-level convening focused on the role of government in enabling and growing social enterprise, it ushered in a new era of public innovation. There is broad agreement, in Latin America and […]