Resources — Intelligent Impact

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Don’t know where to start? Here is a quick guide. If you are:

A social entrepreneur raising capital. Please see my suggestions here. If you are a South African female founder raising less than R500k, please visit the Dazzle Angels website for our funding criteria.
Find out about possible funding tools using the Capital Explorer. This tool helps other Entrepreneur Support Organizations (ESOs) facilitate sessions around fundraising – bringing transparency and context about different funding options and better equipping founders to chart their path forward – whether it’s with VC or other types of capital.

It outlines the factors and key questions they must consider to develop a sound financing strategy that leads to success. The tool was co-developed using content from Adventure Finance with Village Capital

Someone interested in getting into the impact investing space as a career. Check out these tips.
Wanting to learn more about impact investing, I'd suggest this online course: Future Learn: Impact Investing. Also ImpactAlpha, GIIN & IMP are all excellent places to start. You'll find more suggestions here below as well. Short courses that I teach on include: Oxford Impact Investing Program (March), UCT Impact Investing in Africa (September), Oxford Social Finance Program (November). We'll also be hosting the GSG Impact Summit in Joburg in September - sign up here to join 800+ global delegates to engage around impact investing.
Wanting to learn more about Innovative Financing. Definitely sign up for my MOOC: Hacking Finance to Change the World. You can find more resources here and clips of interviews and podcasts here. I'm also teaching workshops in CT & JHB in February. You can sign up for my newsletter here.
Interested in booking me for a workshop. You'll find the workshops that I can conduct here, I'm afraid I have very little capacity in 2020, but if you put information in an e-mail regarding location and timing, I'll get back to you with availability.
Interested in inviting me to speak. Thanks for thinking of me! I also have very little capacity for speaking engagements, but I promise I will get back to you, if you put details in a mail.

Other resource suggestions:

The Impact Alpha daily mailer is the best way to stay on top of all the impact investing news. Subscribe here. For a live database of impact investors and deals: ImpactSpace.com and ImpactBase.com

The CASE i3 Top Reads is a collection of the top 100 resources, reports and books about the impact investing industry. This collection has all you need to know to get started and their Short Guide to Impact Investing is great

The GIIN keeps a knowledge centre that is excellent. Check out: What do you need to know about impact investing?

One of the best sets of information about impact measurement can be found here: Evaluating Impact Investing

The Impact has put out several recent publications directed towards HNW families including Frameworks for Families

Omidyar Network recently released Frontier Capital, a great read for Impact Investing in Emerging Markets

Wharton's Social Impact Initiative's work on PE exits is one of the most rigorous data projects in the space

Check out a brand new resource on emerging technologies for impact finance that I collaborated on with Peter Vanderwal (Stratigos) & Tori Hellrung (CDC). “This report analyses the existing landscape of emerging technologies deployed in use cases relevant to results-based financing structures, including Remote Imagery, Distributed Ledger Technologies, Artificial Intelligence, and the Internet of Things1 to assess whether these technologies can play a role in making Impact Bonds more robust, cost-effective, efficient and transparent.”