The Rise of Social Entrepreneurship & Impact Investing 

GEORGE TOWN UNIVERSITY  resources for the topic 

¡ Georgetown Entrepreneurship Alliance 

¡ Georgetown Entrepreneurship Initiative 

¡ Global Social Enterprise Initiative 

Impact Investing 

 Impact investments are investments made into companies, organizations,
and funds with the intention to generate measurable social and environmental 
]impact alongside a financial return. 

They can be made in both emerging and developed markets, 
and target a range of returns from below market to market rate, 
depending upon the circumstances. 

Social Entrepreneurship 

 Social entrepreneurs play the role of change agents in the 
social sector, by: 

¡ Adopting a mission to create and sustain social value (not just private 
value), 

¡ Recognizing and relentlessly pursuing new opportunities to serve 
that mission, 

¡ Engaging in a process of continuous innovation, adaptation, and 
learning, 

¡ Acting boldly without being limited by resources currently in hand, 
and 

¡ Exhibiting heightened accountability to the constituencies served 
and for the outcomes created. 

Pre-Conditions for Social Capital Markets 

 US Consumers spend over $220B annually on goods and services 
related to health, environment, social justice and sustainable goods 
 $32B spent annually on environmental sustainability 

 260 Socially Screened Mutual Funds with assets over $200B 
 Total of $2.71T invested in funds, pensions, trusts and other vehicles 
using the three core SRI strategies: screening, shareholder advocacy 
and community investing 

 Community investing – underserved communities as investment 
strategy – has grown over 500% to $25+B in assets 

Five Key Drivers of Impact Investing Sector 

 Increasing demand from institutional investors 

 Further mainstreaming of ESG into traditional financial 

services 

 External pressure from nonprofits and media 

 Growing interest from individuals, particularly the 

wealthy 

 Institutionalization and legislation of new organizational 

structures (e.g. B Corp, LC3) 

.--------------30--------------

This BLOG  looks at pensions and their impact on what are called Public Private Partnerships or P3’s these are not really about private funding at all but about two streams of public funding, pensions and government with private capital a third partner.

We will also deal with other pension matters, such as Defined Contribution Plans (DC) vs Defined Benefit (DB) PLANS, the weakness in private plans, the need for pension reform in public pensions to have shareholder rights, directorships and ethical investment directives and policies. 

Finally taking the long view we will show how these funds are forms of evolving social capital that is dominating private capital as we evolve into socialization of capital. 

Click HERE to read more....