Позитивные изменения. Том 2, № 2 (2022). Positive changes. Volume 2, Issue 2 (2022)

A number of publications appeared by mid-2022, dedicated in one way or another to the issue of impact investing. Numerous articles, literature reviews and case studies attempt to identify the current status of the social investing sector and review the past experience — in other words, trying to figure out "where we are".

Elizaveta Zakharova

PhD student at the HSE Faculty of Social Sciences

Researchers are recording a rapid expansion of the social investment market, and although it is still notably small, there are many new contexts and problem areas waiting to be explored. Publications highlight the emerging phenomenon of impact washing, engagement of impact investing into women’s philanthropy and gender issues, and papers appear describing studies of local markets as well as studies of government intervention and political initiatives.

These and other topics are covered in our regular digest of impact investing publications for the first half of 2022.

NEW TRENDS IN WOMEN'S PHILANTHROPY

2022, Generosity and Gender. Palgrave Macmillan, Lois A. Buntz

As fundraisers and organizations across the globe continue to work in the field of women’s philanthropic initiatives, new trends, innovations and exciting connections happen every day. Some of these are emerging in existing nonprofits, others are collaborations with for-profit partners, HNW philanthropists and women’s foundations. Several areas of emerging trends will be explored in this chapter, including Impact and Gender Lens investing, LLCs as alternatives to family foundations, and the Maverick Collective, Emerson Collective, Blue Meridian and the Audacious Project.

https://clck.ru/iZYjo

THE IMPACT OF SOCIAL INVESTING ON CHARITABLE DONATIONS

2022, Management Science. lake An, Donnel Briley, Shai Danziger, Shai Levi

We examine the impact of social investing on charitable donations using a unique data set consisting of investment behaviors and donation transactions for more than 10,000 customers of an investment app platform. We find that investors switching to a recently introduced social fund reduced their donations, mainly in charities supporting causes similar to those of the social fund. However, 79 % of the investors that switched to the social fund did not donate before switching, so the social fund attracted more people to fund social causes. Still, because of the substitution effect, we estimate social funds have a positive effect on society only if their annual contributions to social causes are greater than 3.2 % of the balance invested.

https://clck.ru/iZ94m

IMPACT INVESTING AND NEW SOCIAL FUNDING, CHAPTER IN THE BOOK "ORGANIZING FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT: ADDRESSING THE GRAND CHALLENGES"

2022, Routledge. Federica Angeli, Ashley Metz, Jorg Raab

This chapter introduces readers to the idea of impact investing and how its definition has evolved in the literature. It also introduces the organizational actors involved and the instruments they use. Asset owners, such as retail investors, private foundations or sovereign wealth funds, hold the capital and decide about its allocation along the impact capital chain, thus deciding the impact orientation of the capital. All the actors belong to an ecosystem, where each member plays a critical role in trying to mitigate the risk of impact investments and expand the pipeline of investable opportunities. The analysis of the business model is, thus, a driving factor in understanding the organizational actors targeted by impact investing capital providers and in differentiating them in respect to those targeted by other types of social finance. The chapter concludes with a discussion of delivering on the promise of impact investing.

https://clck.ru/iYiM8

SOCIAL INVESTMENT PROJECTS: REGION-SPECIFIC RISKS

2022, Creative Economy. T. V. Bart, V. H. Martyniuk