Suggested Reading: Essays

Newest Reports

• Total Portfolio Activation - Trillium, Tides & Tellus
• Need for Evidence & Engagement - The Impact Investor (Pacific Community Ventures, ImpactAssets, & Case i3), 2012
• GIIRS Quarterly Analytics Report - GIIRS, Q1 2012
• Impact At Scale: Policy Innovation for Institution Investment with Social & Environmental Benefit - Pacific Community Ventures, 2012
• 2011 Halo Report: Angel Group Year in Review - Angel Resource Institute, Silicon Valley Bank, & CB Insights, 2012
• Sustainable Capitalism - Generation Investment Management, 2012
• Investing for Impact - Credit Suisse Research Institute, 2012
• Insights into the Impact Investing Market - J.P. Morgan and Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN), 2011
• Sustainability Trends in US Alternative Investments - US SIF Foundation, 2011
• Social Investment Manual - The Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship, 2011
• Employees Matter: Maximizing Company Value Through Workforce Engagement - Anne Claire Broughton, SJF Institute, 2011
• A New Foundation for Portfolio Management - Leslie Christian, Presented by RSF, 2011
• Money for Good - Hope Consulting, 2010
• Local Foods, a Guide for Investors and Philanthropists - Amy Dickie, 2010
• Investing for Social and Environmental Impact - Monitor Institute, 2009

Essays & Reports by Woody Tasch, Chairman Emeritus

• The Next Trillion - Woody Tasch, Monterey Country Weekly, September 2007
• Slow Money - Woody Tasch, Resurgence Magazine, January/February 2007

• Frog with a Baseball on its Tongue - Woody Tasch
• The Blue Dot - Woody Tasch
• The Pursuit of Zero [excerpts] - Woody Tasch
• Slow Money - Woody Tasch
• Mission-Related Investing: A report from IC's 2003 workshop for foundations - Sara Olsen and Woody Tasch (editor)
• Mission-Related Investing: Strategies for Philanthropic Institutions - Woody Tasch and Brian Dunn, A Report for the Northwest Area Foundation
• Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation Essay - Woody Tasch and Stephen Viederman

Essays & Reports from our Network

• A Halo for Angel Investors - Steven Carden and Olive Darragh - McKinsey Quarterly 2004 (a write up of the study assessing the IRR of IC companies from 1992-2003)
• RISE Capital Market Report: The Double Bottom Line Private Equity Landscape in 2002/2003 - The Research Initiative on Social Entrepreneurship (RISE) & Cathy Clark (RISE Director)
• Sustainability and Venture Capital - Phillip Dignan and Stacey McKittrick, Appian Venture Partners
• DBL Media Finance Report - Ford Foundation, Investors' Circle
• DBL Media Finance Report Executive Summary - Ford Foundation, Investors' Circle
• The Nature of Returns - Jed Emerson, Bloomberg Senior Research Fellow, Harvard Business School
• An Example of Social Return on Investment: Rubicon Bakery - Roberts Enterprise Development Fund
• Investing in Sustainable Energy Systems - Robert Shaw, President, Aretê Corporation
• The Dividing Lines between Philanthropy and Investment - Caroline Williams, former President, Grey Seal Capital
• A Due Diligence Template - Larry Waddell, Managing Director, SJF Ventures