RESOURCE SUMMARY from SOCAP 2020 State of the Field Discussion

 

RESOURCE SUMMARY from SOCAP 2020 State of the Field Discussion among:

Monique Aiken, Mission Investors’ Exchange

Cathy Clark, CASE at Duke

Fran Seegull, US Alliance for Impact Investing

Below are resource links mentioned by panelists or participants in the October 20, 2020 session held by #SOCAPVirtual on the current state of the impact investing field. They are loosely organized by theme. The panelists wish to thank the SOCAP organizers and all participants for such a rich discussion!

 

IMPACT ENTREPRENEURS AND THEIR CUSTOMERS DURING THE PANDEMIC

Impact Alpha Deal coverage examples of investing in basic needs and alt industries:

• • https://impactalpha.com/beyond-leather-closes-e1-1-million-for-apple-based-leather/
  • https://impactalpha.com/green-monday-raises-70-million-to-ramp-up-alt-protein-in-asia/
  • https://impactalpha.com/remittance-fintechs-meet-the-covid-moment/

WEF Response Alliance for Social Ents

60 decibels covid19 dashboard

CASE’s covid19 Scaling Through Mass Disruption video series

Covidcap.com database of cash relief for entrepreneurs everywhere

 

RACIAL EQUITY

Black-Owned firms launch $100M publicly traded REIT for affordable housing

Systemic Racism meets Systemic Risk, an Impact Alpha Call featuring  TIIP and Living Cities

Global protests against racism sparked by George Floyd

• • https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/07/03/us/george-floyd-protests-crowd-size.html
  • https://www.axios.com/george-floyd-death-sparks-global-protests-photos-790f29a4-588f-4ce1-b66d-e4dc86bfaafd.html

Investor Pledges to Racial Action

Request for Business Leaders to Support Ending Qualified Immunity (includes Ben & Jerry’s ,Virgin Unite, and Policy Link)

Citibank analysis of the cost of racism in US

Guides for how to address racial equity:

• • CEO Blueprint from PolicyLink: https://www.policylink.org/resources-tools/ceo-blueprint-for-racial-equity
  • Frontlines Solutions’ “Equity Footprint” for Philanthropy: https://www.frontlinesol.com/equity-footprint
  • MIE Racial Equity Library: https://missioninvestors.org/racial-equity-impact-investing

 

ACCOUNTABILITY

Impact Weighted Accounting

 SDG Impact Standards

• • Private Equity
  • Bonds
  • Enterprises (open for review)

Tideline Blue Mark

 

STAKEHOLDER CAPITALISM

Stakeholder Capitalism measurement (from Naoko Felder)

BRT statement on the purpose of a corporation re stakeholder capitalism from August 2019 and the lack of follow-through or accountability

Strong Opposition to Proposal Limiting ESG in retirement

B Lab’s From Shareholder Primacy to Stakeholder Capitalism: A Policy Agenda for Systems Change (from Andy Fyfe)

David Bonbright, Keystone Accountability (from David Berge)

Humanistic Corporate Governance  (from Alex Todd)

Heron work to empower community decision making on capital allocations

Stanford Center for Deliberative Democracy has shown how stakeholder tradeoffs have been managed through decades of deliberative democracy theory and practice (from Robert Fishkin)

INVESTING FOR SYSTEM CHANGE AND ROLE OF POLICY

TIIP: From ESG integration to managing systemic risks

TIIP: on systems change

WRI – Structuring an Endowment to Align with Paris Agreement Goals: Insights from WRI’s Climate Change Investment Efforts.

Emergent Strategy,  by Adrienne Maree

Imperative 21 RESET campaign

U.S. Impact Investing Alliance – “Private Capital, Public Good – Updating the Impact Investing Public Policy Agenda”: http://impinvalliance.org/news-updates/2020/10/20/xmaslpl94kr2s0zwc1yhhd1eck067b

OTHER

About “Impact On” from Impact Alpha: https://impactalpha.com/impact-on-impact-investings-confident-and-compelling-new-narrative/

X4Impact is your free market intelligence platform for social innovation: https://x4i.org/ (from Davion Ziere)