Suggested Reading: Essays

Newest Reports

• 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
• Local Foods, a Guide for Investors and Philanthropists - Amy Dickie, January 2010
• Investing for Social and Environmental Impact - Monitor Institute, January 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