Sara Johnson, a Village Capital program associate, has provided all who want an introduction, guide and overview to Impact Investing a great service by selecting the 17 best articles she discovered in her own exploration of the field.
As she wrote in her introduction, “I decided to share some of the truly insightful pieces that I’ve come across. Here is some of the literature that I’ve found to be invaluable in processing the depth and breadth of the industry. Sure, this list is not complete. But literature surrounding a nascent field never is. Nor should it be – because unfinished literature means that the field is still evolving, and that people are still thinking critically about how to better the industry.”
1. Impact Investing: Transforming How We Make Money While Making a Difference by Antony Bugg-Levine and Jed Emerson
2. The Responsible Hand: Overcoming the Shortcomings of Impact Investing by Alex Hamilton Chan
3. Pursuing Profits with Principles: The Case for Impact Investing Today by Robert Balentine
4. What’s Impact Investing’s Bottom Line? by Jeff Schlegel
5. Investing with Intent for Impact by Luther Ragin and Katy Lankester
6. The State and Future of Impact Investing by Rahim Kanani
7. Impact at Scale by the Rockefeller Foundation
8. Insight Into the Impact Investment Market by J.P. Morgan and GIIN
9. Investing for Impact by Credit Suisse
10. Investing for Social & Environmental Impact by Monitor Institute
11. The Impact Investor by Insight, Impact Assets, and CASE at Duke
12. Creating Social Value by Philip Auerswald
13. Impact Investing: Happy Returns by the Economist
14. Impact Investments: An Emerging Asset Class by J.P. Morgan and the Rockefeller Foundation
15. Solutions for Impact Investors: From Strategy to Implementation by the Rockefeller Foundation
16. Innovations: SoCap ’11 – Impact Investing Special Edition by MIT Press
17. From Blueprint to Scale by Harvey Koh, Ashish Karamchandani and Robert Katz