Acumen Fund, The Annie E. Casey Foundation, The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Calvert Foundation, Capricorn Investment Group, Citigroup, Deutsche Bank, Equilibrium Capital, Generation Investment Management, Gray Ghost Ventures, IGNIA, J.P. Morgan, Lundin for Africa, Lunt Family Office (Armonia), Omidyar Network, Prudential, The Rockefeller Foundation, Root Capital, Shorebank/NCIF, Trans-Century, Triodos Investment Management, and Wolfensohn & Company.

November announcement

Joining the GIIN Investors' Council is SNS Asset Management.

In the coming months we will be looking to add a broader set of active impact investors to the Investors' Council.

Financial innovation and the poor: A place in society
Profile in the Economist
The Global Impact Investing Network and several members are profiled in this week's Economist magazine. The subtitle reads, "You might suppose that financial innovation had done enough damage. But bankers, investors and philanthropists believe it can help the world's poor."

Brace for Impact

In FTAdvisor.com, Investing for Good CEO Geoff Burnard writes "The new industry of impact investment has the potential to become the best way of addressing global challenges"

Steady Returns With Social Impact

In this Forbes.com article Emerson writes, "While the rest of the market has seen losses, impact investing has outperformed." GIIN Investors' Council members Calvert Foundation and Shorebank are profiled.

This report examines impact investing and how leaders could accelerate the industry's evolution and increase its ultimate impact in the world. It explores how impact investing has emerged and how it might evolve, including profiles of a wide range of impact investors. The report also provides a blueprint of initiatives to catalyze the industry.

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