Week 3 Flashcards
(25 cards)
What is the importance of stakeholder engagement in impact investing?
Engaging stakeholders helps ensure that investments meet the needs of those affected and gain support from key partners.
What are some examples of social impact metrics?
Metrics include reduction in poverty, imporvements in education and health outcomes, and increases in employment.
What is the role of governance in impact investing?
Good governance ensures accountibility, transparency and effective management of impact investments.
How can impact investing address climate change?
By funding renewable energy projects, energy efficiency initiaives and other environmental sustainability effeorts.
What er blended finance models?
Blended finance models combine public, provate and philantrropic capital to fund impact investments.
What are green bonds?
Green bonds are fixed - income securities, designed to fund projects that have positive environmental benefits.
What is the GLobal Impact Investing Network (GIIN)?
GIIN is a global network of impact investors dedicated to increasing the scale and effectiveness of impact investing.
What are some challenges in scaling impact investments?
CHallenges include lack of standardized metrics, limited access to capital and difficulty in demonstrating impact.
What is the role of innovation in impact investing?
Innovation helps develop new solutions and approaches to social and environmental challenges.
What is an impact thesis?
An impact thesis outlines the expected social or environmental impact of an investment and the strategy for achieving it.
WHat is mission drift?
Mission drift occurs when an organization shifts its focus away from its original mission, often to pursue financial returns.
What is the importance of impact reporting?
Impact reporting provides transparency and accountability, helping investors and stakeholders track the effectiveness of investments.
WHat are social enterprises?
Social enterprises are businessess that prioritize social or environmental goals alongside financial performance.
What is patient capital?
Patient capital refers to investments that are willing to wait longer for returns in order to achieve greater social impact.
WHat are the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)?
THe SDGS are a set of 17 global goals established by the UN to adress major social and encironmental challenges by 2030.
WHat in ventur philanthrophy?
Venture philanthrophy applies the principles of venture capital to philanthropy, investing in social enterprises and nonprofits for aocial impact.
WHat is the difference between impact investing and ESG investing?
Impact investing focuses on generating measurable social impact, while ESG investing integrates environmental socal and governance factors into investment decisions.
What is catalytic capital?
Catalytic capital is capital that is deployed to address gaps in funding and support innovation in impact investing.
How can investors measure the social return on investment?
SROI measures the social environmental and economic value created by an investment relative to resources invested.
What is a social impact assessment?
A social impact assessment evaluates the social effects of a project or investment on communities and stakeholders.
What are impact funds?
Impact fundsare investment funds dedicated to impact investing,pooling capital into social and environmental porjects.
What is impact measurement?
Impact measurement involves assessing the social and env. outcomes of an investment to determine effectiveness.
What are community development financial institutions?
CDFIs provide financial services to underserved communities to promote economic developmnet and improve access to capital.
What is the role of public policy in impact investing?
It can provide funding, regulations to support growth of impact investing.
