Essays
Essays & Reports from the Former Chairman
The Next Trillion (Monterey Country Weekly, September 2007) - Woody Tasch, Former Chairman
Slow Money (from Resurgence magazine, January/February 2007) - Woody Tasch, Former Chairman
Frog with a Baseball on its Tongue - Woody Tasch, Former Chairman
The Blue Dot - Woody Tasch, Former Chairman
The Pursuit of Zero [excerpts] - Woody Tasch, Former Chairman
Slow Money - Woody Tasch, Former Chairman
Mission-Related Investing: A report from IC's 2003 workshop for foundations - Sara Olsen & Woody Tasch (editor)
Mission-Related Investing: Strategies for Philanthropic Institutions (A Report for the Northwest Area Foundation) - Woody Tasch, Former Chairman & Brian Dunn, Former Director
Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation Essay - Woody Tasch, Former Chairman & Stephen Viederman
Essays & Reports from our Network
A Halo for Angel Investors - Steven Carden & 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, AretĂȘ 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