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#32 All Investing Is Impact Investing: Fran Seegull, CIO Impact Assets Broadmic Startup Shortcuts

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Even the Pope is talking about it, but what exactly is impact investing? Meet Fran Seegull, Executive Director of the U.S Impact Investing Alliance, a project of the Ford Foundation and Omidyar Network. Fran is also an Adjunct Professor at the Lloyd Greif Center for Entrepreneurial Studies and Senior Fellow at the Brittingham Social Enterprise Lab, both at USC’s Marshall School of Business. Kelly Hoey and Fran chat about impact investing, the drivers behind this growing market, and how social entrepreneurs can find investors.



Show Notes



The Impact Economy: An Open Letter to the 2016 Presidential Candidates by Fran Seegull



Beyond Tradeoffs: The Rise of the Impact Unicorns by Fran Seegull



Darren Walker, President, Ford Foundation



Two Years After White House Commitments: $1 Billion Deployed for Impact by US Investors



In 2014 29 Orgs Committed $1.5 Billion to Impact Investing. Where’s the Money after 18 Months?



socialimpactinvestment.org



"Impact Investing: What Will It Take to Get to Scale?" Conscious Company Magazine, January/February 2016



"Impact Investing for the Rest of Us," Conscious Company Magazine, Spring 2015



Online video interview, “Is Impact Investing A Solution To Global Problems?” Forbes, July 13, 2016



Online video interview, “An Eventful Year in Impact Investing – An Interview with ImpactAssets’ Fran Seegull,” Next Billion, January 14, 2016



Online video interview, “Impact Investing No Longer Reserved for Country Club Crowd,” The Street, April 2015



Impact Investing With Fran Seegull of ImpactAssets by Charley Wright, DailyAlts



The Landscape of Social Impact Investment Research: Trends and Opportunities University of Oxford



Introducing the Impact Investing Benchmark Cambridge Associates



The Diana Project



F.B. Heron Foundation Is Going 'All In' by Anne Fields, Forbes



How Etsy's IPO Could Spark Investor Interest in B Corps by Dennis Price, Entrepreneur



Toms Shoes Is Investing In Companies That Actually Care About The World by Alexander Kaufman, Huffington Post



Honest Tea: It Ain’t Easy Being Mission-Based by Leon Kaye, Triple Pundit



Ben & Jerry’s CEO: How to Get Your Social Impact Game On by Renee Faris, Triple Pundit



Guest bios & transcripts are available on www.broadmic.com.

Even the Pope is talking about it, but what exactly is impact investing? Meet Fran Seegull, Executive Director of the U.S Impact Investing Alliance, a project of the Ford Foundation and Omidyar Network. Fran is also an Adjunct Professor at the Lloyd Greif Center for Entrepreneurial Studies and Senior Fellow at the Brittingham Social Enterprise Lab, both at USC’s Marshall School of Business. Kelly Hoey and Fran chat about impact investing, the drivers behind this growing market, and how social entrepreneurs can find investors.



Show Notes



The Impact Economy: An Open Letter to the 2016 Presidential Candidates by Fran Seegull



Beyond Tradeoffs: The Rise of the Impact Unicorns by Fran Seegull



Darren Walker, President, Ford Foundation



Two Years After White House Commitments: $1 Billion Deployed for Impact by US Investors



In 2014 29 Orgs Committed $1.5 Billion to Impact Investing. Where’s the Money after 18 Months?



socialimpactinvestment.org



"Impact Investing: What Will It Take to Get to Scale?" Conscious Company Magazine, January/February 2016



"Impact Investing for the Rest of Us," Conscious Company Magazine, Spring 2015



Online video interview, “Is Impact Investing A Solution To Global Problems?” Forbes, July 13, 2016



Online video interview, “An Eventful Year in Impact Investing – An Interview with ImpactAssets’ Fran Seegull,” Next Billion, January 14, 2016



Online video interview, “Impact Investing No Longer Reserved for Country Club Crowd,” The Street, April 2015



Impact Investing With Fran Seegull of ImpactAssets by Charley Wright, DailyAlts



The Landscape of Social Impact Investment Research: Trends and Opportunities University of Oxford



Introducing the Impact Investing Benchmark Cambridge Associates



The Diana Project



F.B. Heron Foundation Is Going 'All In' by Anne Fields, Forbes



How Etsy's IPO Could Spark Investor Interest in B Corps by Dennis Price, Entrepreneur



Toms Shoes Is Investing In Companies That Actually Care About The World by Alexander Kaufman, Huffington Post



Honest Tea: It Ain’t Easy Being Mission-Based by Leon Kaye, Triple Pundit



Ben & Jerry’s CEO: How to Get Your Social Impact Game On by Renee Faris, Triple Pundit



Guest bios & transcripts are available on www.broadmic.com.

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