Greetings Friends,

Professor Edward T. Jackson from Carleton University is one of the founders of both the Global Alliance for Community Engaged Research and Community Based Research Canada.  He was a founder of the pioneering Participatory Research Group of Toronto, Canada in the 1970s.

Ted has had a remarkable research career in evaluation, international development, local and regional development and the social economy.

Living as we do with a global economic system that creates poverty as fast as it promotes greed, many of us are increasingly looking for approaches to understanding the economy that have more just distributive potential.

Impact Investing, the placement of capital with intent to generate positive social impact beyond financial return, is a growing area of promising economic innovation.  The Rockefeller Foundation in the USA has had a programme to support these initiatives on a global scale for some time.

Ted and his colleagues have completed an in-depth study of impact investing around the world.  Rajesh and I think that this is a tour de force even for those who do not usually read on the economic side of the literature.

Meanwhile we hope you are all well and moving your own work forward!

Budd L Hall and Rajesh Tandon

Co-Chairs

UNESCO Chair for Community Based Research and Social Responsibility in Higher Education

Accelerating Impact - New Report Released 

Dear colleague:

We’re very pleased to provide you with links to the report, Accelerating Impact:  Achievements, Challenges and What’s Next in Building the Impact Investing Industry, which was recently released by the Rockefeller Foundation.  

Accelerating Impact:  Full Report

http://www.rockefellerfoundation.org//uploads/images/fda23ba9-ab7e-4c83-9218-24fdd79289cc.pdf

Accelerating Impact:  Executive Summary

http://www.rockefellerfoundation.org//uploads/files/06545100-ed46-4406-8c6f-580639b1bc0f.pdf

This report is a key output of the strategic assessment of the Foundation’s global Impact Investing Initiative that E. T. Jackson and Associates has undertaken over the past year.  

The Evaluation Office of the Rockefeller Foundation is committed to disseminating the results of the studies it commissions.  We hope you find this document useful and that you will share it widely.

Please direct any inquiries and comments on this report to [email protected] and to [email protected].