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Breaking the Binary: Policy Guide to Scaling Social Innovation

Breaking the Binary: Policy Guide to Scaling Social Innovation is intended to add a perspective to the global conversation already under way about how we move beyond binary choices in crafting responses to social, economic, and environmental challenges. Fundamentally, it is about leveraging private enterprise and capital for public benefit. We refer to this as […]

Jul 28, 2015 – Blog and News • Impact Consulting • Impact Investing •

Impact at Scale: Policy Innovation for Institutional Investment with Social & Environmental Benefit

We examine investments with the intent to create measurable social or environmental benefit in addition to financial return. Policymakers are drawn to this by the promise of leveraging private capital to support public purpose and the opportunity to make better use of scarce resources to support social benefits. Executive Summary Full Report  

Jul 28, 2015 – Blog and News • Impact Consulting • Impact Investing •

Healthcare and Small Business: Understanding Healthcare Decision Making in California

InSight completed the final study and report, “Health Care and Small Business: Understanding Health Care Decision Making in California” (October 2011), which describes small business owner behavior and decision making processes when offering and purchasing health insurance benefits for their employees. The report details the demographics of small business owners in California, how and why […]

Jul 28, 2015 – Blog and News •

A New Way to Talk About Small Business: The Time Has Come for a Common Language

There is a steady call for policies and programs to help small business lead the charge in hiring more workers and helping to restore prosperity to areas that have been hurt by the recession. To be successful, however, it is time for academics, policymakers, investors, community leaders, and business owners to have a more fruitful […]

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The Challenges and Opportunities of Investing in Low-Income Communities

In the last twenty years, the United States has lost over 3 million manufacturing jobs — 56,000 in June 2003 alone. For those workers who still have jobs, many are not being paid enough to live. The value of the current minimum wage, $5.15, is 21% less than it was in 1979. In the context […]

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