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Listen to State of the Field and Practice of Impact Investing: Episode 68 of Money + Meaning
The third edition of the “State of the Field” session for SOCAP22 delves into how attendees and others in the SOCAP community can help broaden awareness of impact management and stakeholder benefit among investors and business leaders. In this conversation, Monique Aiken, Managing Director, The Investment Integration Project (TIIP), and Co-Founder, Make Justice Normal; Fran Seegull, President, U.S. Impact Read more about Listen to State of the Field and Practice of Impact Investing: Episode 68 of Money + Meaning[…]
UNDP and CASE at Duke Launch Free Course on Impact Measurement and Management
How can businesses and investors help fill the multi-trillion gap needed for sustainable development? Simply put, by getting better at measuring and managing impacts on people and planet. Through our new online course, anyone can learn to improve their organization’s practice of impact management, and how to align their ESG or impact activities and reporting Read more about UNDP and CASE at Duke Launch Free Course on Impact Measurement and Management[…]
The ABCs (and SDGs) of classification for impact investing strategies
This post is an excerpt from “The ABCs (and SDGs) of classification for impact investing strategies,” an article written by Cathy Clark, faculty director of CASE i3, and Ben Thornley, co-founder and managing partner at Tideline, posted in ImpactAlpha on December 15, 2020. Click here to read the full article. Five years ago, we co-led Read more about The ABCs (and SDGs) of classification for impact investing strategies[…]
CASE releases resources related to angel networks in emerging markets
In 2018, USAID’s Partnering to Accelerate Entrepreneurship (PACE) Initiative engaged CASE to investigate angel network models to analyze strategies and best practices, as well as make recommendations for how development institutions can leverage angel networks to reach their economic development goals. CASE was happy to partner with Millbrook Impact and the Bertha Centre for Social Innovation and Read more about CASE releases resources related to angel networks in emerging markets[…]
CASE Announces New Online Training Course in Impact Measurement and Management with UNDP
In June 2020, the Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship (CASE) at Duke University, with funding from the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) SDG Impact, began developing a new online global course to teach investors and enterprises how to apply impact management practices to demonstrate their alignment with, and contribution to, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Developed Read more about CASE Announces New Online Training Course in Impact Measurement and Management with UNDP[…]
CASE Smart Impact Capital Highlight: The Four Impact Basics
As part of the application process for the Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship’s (CASE) F. M. Kirby Impact Prize, a new annual prize of $100,000 USD in unrestricted funds that will be awarded to one scaling impact enterprise each year, we want to provide all applicants with access to CASE’s award-winning resources and learning Read more about CASE Smart Impact Capital Highlight: The Four Impact Basics[…]
CASE 2019-2020 Annual Report
We had another exciting year of impact at CASE and CASE i3! Read our 2019-2020 annual report to learn more about our accomplishments in our next-gen, scaling, and impact investing portfolios, as well as what we are looking forward to working on in the 2020-2021 academic year. Thank you to all of the donors, partners, Read more about CASE 2019-2020 Annual Report[…]
Managing Impact Investment Fundraising During COVID19
As part of our rapid response effort to support social entrepreneurs during the COVID19 pandemic, CASE at Duke held a free webinar on April 16, 2020 on managing capital raising during the crisis. The webinar was attended by over 400 people from over 50 countries, who listened to CASE’s Cathy Clark, Caroline Bressan from Open Read more about Managing Impact Investment Fundraising During COVID19[…]
Cultivating the Next Generation of Social Impact Leaders
Posted on January 22, 2020 by Tara Schoenborn Nathan Hixson with three other CASE Scholars in his cohort (left to right: Utkarsha Bhardwaj, Patrick Pierson-Prah and Ineza Mutimura) On a sweltering hot southern day in October 2019, Nathan Hixson, a Center for the Advancement for Social Entrepreneurship (CASE) Scholar and first-year Daytime MBA student at Duke University’s Read more about Cultivating the Next Generation of Social Impact Leaders[…]
CASE Executive Speaker Series: Three Takeaways on Impact Investing from Prudential Financial
Posted on February 11, 2020 by Tara Schoenborn Ommeed Sathe & Cathy Clark at the CASE Executive Speaker Series When Ommeed Sathe, Vice President of Impact Investments at Prudential Financial, joined the Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship (CASE) at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business on January 28 as part of the CASE Executive Speaker Series, the Read more about CASE Executive Speaker Series: Three Takeaways on Impact Investing from Prudential Financial[…]