The Market that invests in Good

Check out xigi.net, an endeavor of Calvert Foundation, GoodCapital, SVT Group, Collective Intelligence with funding from Lemelson Foundation, Omidyar Network, and RSF. Its open source, community driven, and a wonderful addition to the resources available to social enterprises, social investors, philanthropists, and all of us who care about ‘markets for good.’ A very cool feature [...]

More on aligned investing

Here are some more thoughts on Aligned Investing and foundations. Also, I received a note from Jed Emerson that the Chronicle of Philanthropy will be running an Op Ed from Jed and Mark Kramer on the topic. Check the coming issue. The following thoughts come from a senior foundation official who asked to remain anonymous [...]

Anonymous voting and aligned investing

There is an interesting back story happening with regard to the Poll on social investing. I have received a lot of email (not blog-posted) comments aboutthe poll on social investing. Many of them have noted individual’s reluctance to vote their own opinions because of the ways their employers (foundations) actually invest. Let me assure you [...]