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Paul Brest discusses impact investing
Social impact investing takes many forms these days. Investors can bring capital to worthy causes that otherwise wouldn’t be funded by investing in privately held businesses, or engage with other shareholders to put pressure on less socially motivated companies. They, too, can make so-called “sacrificial” investments in innovative social enterprises by accepting below-market, risk-adjusted returns as the price for doing...
Paul Brest teaches online course
Essentials of Nonprofit Strategy to be offered this fall.
PACS scholars on effective altruism
Reich, Brest, and Saunders-Hastings weigh in for a Boston Review special.
Tocqueville for today’s world
Emma Saunders-Hastings on Tocqueville and philanthropy in the current economy
PACS cohosts Growing the Impact Economy summit
Executive Director Kim Meredith spoke at the Presidio Institute summit.