Podcasts about social impact bond

My guest today is Sir Ronald Cohen, often referred to as "the father of British venture capital" and "the father of impact investing." As Co-founder and President of GSG Impact, Sir Ronald is leading a revolution to transform how the financial world measures and reports a company's value by including its net impact on people and our planet. Early in his career, he co-founded Apax Partners, one of the oldest and largest international private equity firms. His ability to anticipate market shifts – a principle which he calls “the second bounce of the ball” – was key to his success.However, he saw his financial success was also increasing inequality, prompting him to create new tools like the Social Impact Bond, which ties investor returns to measurable social benefits.Through his latest initiative, the International Foundation for Valuing Impact (IFVI), Sir Ronald has established rules to standardize impact valuation in financial terms, akin to how GAAP standardizes financial disclosures for US publicly traded companies.IFVI is working to establish a global framework that quantifies social and environmental impact in monetary terms. The foundation provides open-source data, methodologies, and valuation metrics to ensure transparency and consistency in impact measurement across industries.IFVI is already gaining traction among major financial institutions, corporations, and regulators. By integrating impact into core business and investment strategies, IFVI aims to reshape markets – ensuring that companies reducing carbon emissions, improving labor conditions, and fostering social equity are rewarded not just ethically, but financially.This marks a fundamental shift in capitalism, one that aligns profit with purpose and empowers investors to accelerate the transition toward a more sustainable and equitable global economy.With over $40 trillion invested in ESG and impact funds today, he believes we are on the brink of a financial revolution – one where companies are no longer valued solely by net income as we do today but by the total financial value that their operations contribute to people and our planet.Tune in and meet the true visionary of impact investing!—Connect with SRI360°:PODCASTWEBSITEXFACEBOOKSign up for the free weekly email update—Key Takeaways:Intro (00:00)Sir Ronald's background (03:48)Discovering venture capital at Harvard (13:17)Founding Apax Partners and shaping the European VC landscape (19:28)Co-founding IFVI (33:16)The potential for impact accounting to drive innovation (45:41)The “brown-to-green” transition and the role of impact measurement (54:09)The challenges of aligning IFVI's methodology globally (01:04:23)Sir Ronald's advice for impact investors (01:09:05)Rapid Fire Questions (01:17:19)Contact info (01:20:22)—Additional Resources:Connect with Sir Ronald Cohen:

In this episode, Walter shares his experience going to prison, becoming a minister, and leaving the criminal justice system homeless and unable to get hired because of his criminal record. Walter was unhoused with the COVID-19 pandemic began, and ended up living in the Coliseum with 800 other men. It was there that the Colorado Coalition for the Homeless found Walter and enrolled him in the Social Impact Bond Program. The SIB Program supported Walter getting the healthcare he needed, and then stable housing. Walter talks about what it will take to help others like him and what it will take to solve homelessness. This episode was sponsored by Warren Village - Transforming Parents' Lives and Changing Children's Futures through transitional housing, wraparound services and early childhood education for single families in Denver. Learn more about the Social Impact Bond. Engage and follow along with the rest of our work: elevateddenver.co

India faces a vast skill mismatch with millions of jobs going unfilled if we do not solve the skills crisis. What are the exciting models for financing these skill gaps sustainably? Join Sridhar Krishna and Anupriya Mohta as they discuss career impact bonds - a model where training institutes can provide at-risk loans only to be paid back once the trainee gets a job earning above a certain income. Readings: Skill gaps affecting hiring across sectors | Jobs News,The Indian Express Career Impact Bonds? Financing upskilling to fill the world's vacancies Skill Impact Bond Check out Takshashila's courses: https://school.takshashila.org.in/ Do follow IVM Podcasts on social media. We are @ivmpodcasts on Facebook, Twitter, & Instagram. https://twitter.com/IVMPodcasts https://www.instagram.com/ivmpodcasts/?hl=en https://www.facebook.com/ivmpodcasts/ You can check out our website at https://shows.ivmpodcasts.com/featured Follow the show across platforms: Spotify, Google Podcasts, Apple Podcasts, JioSaavn, Gaana, Amazon Music Do share the word with your folks!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Money Matters is terug! En in een iets anders jasje. Met wisselende panelleden probeert Ruben Koekoek een prangende vraag over een actuele kwestie uit de impact economie te beantwoorden. In deze aflevering bespreekt hij met Bjorn Vennema de toekomst van de Social Impact Bond. Na een bezoek aan de jaarlijkse Social Outcomes Conference in Oxford zijn ze weer helemaal up-to-date op het gebied van resultaatfinanciering en de laatste stand van zaken rondom Social Impact Bonds in Europa. Zijn ze nog steeds zo enthousiast of worden ze toch wat kritischer? Shownotes: https://socfin.nl/podcast-money-matters/zit-er-toekomst-in-de-social-impact-bond/. Productie: Spraakmaker Media.

This episode is with Nick Temple, the Chief Executive of the Social investment Business. I haven't had anyone from the social investment space on the podcast – so I thought it was high time I did! Social Investment can play an important enabling role in public services and there are some important new ideas in the Levelling Up White Paper e.g. around enabling the use of government pension funds for impact investing - so it's important for us all to have an understanding. As well as a general discussion about the work of the Social Investment Business and the state of the social investment sector, we talk about how social investment can be structured (social investment can unlock other funding) and I ask what exactly a Social Impact Bond is and how can it support the delivery of public services. I am particularly interested in how we can encourage radical ideas in public services, so Nick and I get into some detail on how social investors can support new ideas and the role of government in encouraging (and funding) the early stages of the innovation journey. I hope you enjoy it. NB - In the pod, Nick mentions that one of their investors is a social enterprise - its Fusion21 (www.fusion21.co.uk) and they do a lot of interesting stuff.

In a meeting hosted by the Rockefeller Foundation in Italy in 2007, the term impact investing was coined. Yet seven years prior to that, in 2001, Sir Ronald Cohen (just Ronald Cohen at the time) was requested by the UK Treasury to establish the Social Investment Task Force (SITF). The SITF was tasked with exploring the ways in which the UK could create wealth, spur economic growth, and improve the lives of its most vulnerable people at the same time. It was his work here where he and his colleagues developed much of their thinking on impact investing. Only a year after establishing the SITF, Ronnie (as he prefers to be called) would become Sir Ronnie, not for his work in impact investing but for his three decades of work essentially bringing venture capital to the UK. Ronnie was only 26 years old when he co-founded Apax Partners, a private equity firm that would grow to manage $50B in assets with offices across the globe. By 2013, then Prime Minister David Cameron asked Ronnie to lead the G8 Social Investment Task Force (G8T) in order to "catalyze a global market in social impact investment." Not long after that he was then asked by the British Government to lead an effort to expand the G8T further globally and resulted in him establishing The Global Steering Group for Impact Investment (GSG) in 2015. During this time, Sir Ronnie also contributed to creating the world's first Social Impact Bond which aimed to reduce recidivism rates at the Peterborough Penitentiary in the UK. He and his colleague's findings on SIBs were articulated in a now-famous report "Impact Investment: The Invisible Heart of the Markets" which kicked off a movement to spread the idea of impact investing across the world. All of that amounts to one hell of an impressive career by any standard but especially for a refugee who fled Egypt as a result of the Suez Crisis in the 1950s. At 11 yrs old, Ronnie and his parents arrived in the UK with just a single suitcase each and Ronnie clutching his precious stamp collection in his arms. Therefore, it is my great honour to welcome Sir Ronald Cohen to the podcast. Show Notes: Sir Ronald Cohen, Impact: Reshaping Capitalism to Drive Real Change (Ebury Press, November 3, 2020) Harvard's Impact-Weighted Accounts Initiative Yuka mobile app (deciphers product labels and analyzes the health impact of food products & cosmetics) Episode 5 of this podcast where we discuss: "Following the birth of the Social Impact Bonds" *** Enter our giveaway to win a $500 impact investing prize pack by visiting www.davidoleary.ca/giveaway ***

In deze aflevering spreken Ruben Koekoek en co-host Sandra Ballij met journalisten Menno Bosma en Hans van de Veen. Zij schreven het boek ‘De belofte van de Social Impact Bond'. Is de Social Impact Bond hét financieringsinstrument voor maatschappelijke initiatieven? En waarom is er zo weinig transparantie bij de aanpak? Shownotes: https://socfin.nl/podcast-money-matters/social-impact-bonds-onder-de-loep/.Productie: Daniël van de Poppe.  

Hervé Duteil, Head of Corporate Social Responsibility & Sustainable Finance, BNP Paribas Hervé P. Duteil has spent most of his career with BNP Paribas in New York. For over 20 years, he specialized in trading derivatives and managing capital market activities, spanning across commodity, currency, fixed income and electronic markets. In 2014, he was appointed Regional Coordinator for Corporate Social Responsibility & Sustainable Finance in the Americas, bringing a strong focus on promoting client dialogue around sustainability issues and developing tailored financing solutions or responsible investment products. In 2016, Mr. Duteil led BNP Paribas' efforts to close its first Social Impact Bond and regularly spoke on behalf of the Bank on a variety of sustainable products, including vanilla and equity-linked green bonds. Mr. Duteil holds a Master in Business Administration with distinction from the Harvard Business School, a Master of Science from the University of Cambridge, and a Bachelor in Mathematics & Physics from the University of Paris. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/toby-usnik/support

Co-direttore di Ashoka Italia è stato CEO di Human Foundation. Esperto di valutazione e progettazione sociale, fundraising e Corporate Social Responsibility.Modera: Dario Carrera

Social Impact Bonds Help Nonprofits Help Others:This article announces the Social Impact Bond for a Grand Rapids based federal Healthy Start program, Strong Beginnings, in "addressing social challenges at the front end to avoid significant problems down the road."https://www.freep.com/story/money/business/columnists/carol-cain/2019/10/26/social-impact-bonds-help-nonprofits-help-others-heres-how/4090113002/ New Law Brings Overdue Changes to Nonprofit Tax Filings:The Taxpayer First Act is signed into law, mandating the electronic filing of nonprofit tax returns by 2021.https://www.aspeninstitute.org/blog-posts/new-law-brings-overdue-changes-to-nonprofit-tax-filings-form-990/ Meet the top performing B Corps creating impact through their business:This article showcases the honorees of B Corporations featured on the Best for the World lists for Overall, Community, Environment, Workers, Governance and Customers.https://medium.com/reinventing-business/meet-the-top-performing-b-corps-creating-impact-through-their-business-8ef4674501a1 New Website brings easy to use impact measurement to small and medium charities: New website helping charities understand and increase their impact.https://www.inspiringimpact.org/about-us/our-blog/press-release-new-website-brings-easy-to-use-impact-measurement-to-small-and-medium-charities/ Charter Schools Are an Opportunity for Impact Investors:This article highlights the opportunity for impact investors to have a spot in the Charter School space.https://www.wsj.com/articles/charter-schools-are-an-opportunity-for-impact-investors-11572209068 As Investors Try To Be More Ethical, Some Find No Escape From Businesses They Detest:An article about how investors are both looking and agreeing on the measuring stick for what is a truly sustainable impact investment.https://www.npr.org/2019/10/26/771323268/as-investors-try-to-be-more-ethical-some-find-no-escape-from-businesses-they-det

Why a Social Enterprise is Much More than a For-Profit Venture: This article discusses the concept of social entrepreneurship as it continues to evolve and become mainstream, and how the aim of a social entrepreneur is beyond just profit.https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/341238 National Philanthropic Trust Introduces Four Proprietary Impact Investment Options: What we learn from this article is that one of the biggest independent sponsors of donor-advised funds is now giving people an option to actually get a return on that money that's invested.https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20191022005242/en/National-Philanthropic-Trust-Introduces-Proprietary-Impact-Investment Businesses Need to be Mindful of Social Impact Going Forward: This article discusses the notion that businesses need to be mindful of social and environmental impact moving forward.https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/341070 We Need a New Capitalism: This article discusses how our current system has led to profound inequality and to fix it we need businesses and executives to value purpose alongside profit.https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/14/opinion/benioff-salesforce-capitalism.html Nonprofit Quarterly: Hidden Cost of Social Impact Bonds:In this article we learn a little bit more about what some of the risks and hidden costs are of social impact bonds.https://nonprofitquarterly.org/the-hidden-costs-of-social-impact-bonds/

Social innovation is the practice of solving social problems with new methodology to achieve economically sustainable, scalable and measurable social impact for the target groups suffering social problems. The Social Innovation Podcast seeks to demystify and give you an insider’s perspective on social innovation as it is developing in Sweden and Scandinavia. Overarching questions What is happening to the Scandinavian social contract in response to social innovation? Where, how and by whom is the real impact being generated and scaled? What will be the roles for public, private and non-profit sectors as social innovation develops? Where are the opportunities developing, what sectors, social problems and actors are leading the charge? What are the best practices developing for entrepreneurs and innovators in innovating, realizing and scaling social innovations? I'm your host, Henrik Storm Dyrssen, and I've spent the last 5 years building the sector for social impact investment in Sweden. I built Leksell Social Ventures, the first social impact investment firm in the market and leading the work on the first "social impact bond"/"social outcomes contract" in Norrkoping Municipality. With us on this journey we have Lekell Social Ventures, the sponsors of this season, and Hugo Morse, Head of LSV since January 2019 to add colour and commentary to the dialogue in this podcast. Sectors and social problems in focus Education, digitization, individualization Mental health, identification, early intervention, digitization Socioeconomic integration of migrants, language, education, labour market entry Themes and questions discussed Social impact investment, investors, investment structures, trends, angels, venture capital, philanthropy, ESG commercial finance, grantmaking, public sector support Trends in cross sector collaboration, public private and non-profit Impact methodology, measurement, managing for impact and innovating on root causes. Social investments public sector early intervention in social problems and the need for collaboration and innovation. Example interviews Johan Oljeqvist - CEO Fryshuset non-profit Lars Stjernkvist, Chairman municipal council Norrköping, public social investments Kristian Ranta - CEO MERU health, mental health digitization Hampus Jacobsson - Angel investor, tech4good Andreas Konig - CEO Just Arrived, labour market integration Karin Bjerde - Head of Strategic Growth, Kognity, Edtech Lars Mac Kay - Head of sustainable bonds, Danske Bank Fredrik Björk - Researcher Malmö University Erik Fernholm - CEO 29k, democratizing and digitizing personal development Tove Larsson - CIO Norrsken Foundation, tech4good investing Martin Stiltberg - Sana Labs, AI and Machine Learning for language education Annica Johansson - Global Head of Impact, Reach for Change, impact measurement

JOHANNESBURG — Futuregrowth Asset Management, acting on behalf of client funds, recently concluded an investment in the Impact Bond Innovation Fund (IBIF), a South African outcome-based financing mechanism that seeks to improve early childhood learning and development (ECD) outcomes in the Western Cape. The IBIF, a social impact bond, is the first ECD-focused transaction of its type in the Global South. The transaction has been structured and led through an intermediary partnership between mothers2mothers (m2m), an international nonprofit organisation, and Volta Capital - an international impact investment structuring specialist. In this interview, Michelle Green, who is an Investment Analyst at Futuregrowth Asset Management, and David Torres, who is the Senior Advisor to the CEO at mothers2mothers, explain more about the transaction. - Gareth van Zyl

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A Social Impact Bond (SIB) uses private funds – from philanthropy or other investors — to pay for a social, educational, or health programs. Importantly, the government only repays investors, plus a return, if pre-specified results are achieved. A new report by Gordon Berlin, the president of the nonprofit social policy research firm MDRC (@MDRC_News), reflects on the […] The post Lessons from the nation’s first Social Impact Bond, aimed at reducing recidivism among adolescent offenders at Rikers Island: An interview with Gordon Berlin, President, MDRC – Episode #120 appeared first on Gov Innovator podcast.

How can a Pay for Success approach — also known as a Social Impact Bond — be used to finance evidence-based early-childhood programs? And what lessons have been learned so far about doing that? To gain insights, we’re joined by Janis Dubno, a senior policy analyst at the nonprofit Voices for Utah Children. A former investment banker, […] The post Using Pay for Success to fund early-childhood programs: An interview with Janis Dubno, Voices for Utah Children – Episode #86 appeared first on Gov Innovator podcast.

The first Pay for Success initiative (aka Social Impact Bond) focused on early childhood education in the U.S. was launched in 2013 in Salt Lake County, Utah. The initiative involves a $7 million investment in private capital to fund the expansion of the early education for at-risk children. The goal is to increase school readiness and […] The post The nation’s first Pay for Success initiative for early education: An interview with Ben McAdams, Mayor, Salt Lake County – Episode #80 appeared first on Gov Innovator podcast.