What Makes a Good Impact Investment?

References: 

• Impact Investing Today and Tomorrow, a series of articles in SSIR with insights on the growing field of impact investing from members of the Impact & Sustainable Finance Faculty Consortium, which Megan Kashner leads
• Five Dimensions of Impact from Impact Frontiers
• Alpha in Impact: Strengthening Outcomes from Impact Capital Managers
• GINN’s State of the Market 2025: Trends, Performance and Allocations

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Additional Resources: 

• GivingUSA: 2025 Charitable Giving Stats
• DAF Research Collaborative: Annual DAF Report 2025
• Impact Capital Managers: Alpha in Impact - Strengthening Outcomes
• Roots of Impact
• Social Finance
• Third Sector
• Mission Investors Exchange
• Impact Assets
• Mission-Driven Finance
• Impact Alpha

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