Term Paper on "Impact Investing"

Quoted Instructions for "Impact Investing" Assignment:

A “Briefing Note” is characteristically a succinct, informative, decisive and convincing document. It is an instrument used in business and policy to bring the target audience up to speed on the issue, describe the stakes involved with the issue for that specific audience, and usually offers some options or solutions for action. Briefing notes contain a mix of quantitative and qualitative data. Lastly, a briefing note should be written in a pithy style; this means shorter sentences, simple language so anyone regardless of their background can understand it, and cited facts. Visual representations of information (graphs, photos, tables, charts) can be an effective way of synthesizing data with the briefing note.

Note directed to: Public-Private Partnerships From the perspective of an impact investor, this note addresses a joint council of government and foundation executives interested in knowing how best to promote sustainable and effective public-private partnerships to expand impact investing. • Formatting, spelling/grammar, page numbers, and footnotes • Language is clear, easy to understand and coherent • Succinct, pithy, punchy • Informative, decisive and analytical • Convincing (mix of quantitative and qualitative data)

youagain writing on behalf of your Fund. This time, you’ve been asked to represent the Fund on the Joint Council on Impact Investing, which is made up of government and foundation representatives (some members include: UN Foundation, Gates, Omidya, Mastercard, Mo Ibrahim, Google, Rockefeller, Ford, etc.). The Council is meeting to draw up an important position statement on how to expand impact investing into the Base of the Pyramid (BOP = poorest communities in low-income countries). They are struggling with how to communicate to the public how impact investors work with social enterprises to define and measure the social impact of investments. They have invited your Fund (and you) onto the Council at this stage because of the well-known, innovative and groundbreaking work that you and your investment team have done on redefining what fully integrated (blended value) social impact metrics should look like. In addition to A) explaining your Fund’s thesis and track record, the Council has asked you to B) outline some very practical ways that the Council can educate mainstream investors about using social impact metrics to drive investment decision-making, and C) make several concrete suggestions for how governments and foundations can work together with the private sector to promote effective public-private partnerships and expand impact investing to reach the poorest of the poor.

To answer (B), you want to think about the set of economic and political arrangements that exist between different stakeholders and different investment instruments. Which social impact metrics and financial instruments would make the most dramatic, systemic shift in how governments and business think about their impacts on the lives of the poorest?

To answer (C), you may refer to new investment instruments like SIB and DIBS, but you also may want to suggest a focus on traditional investment vehicles (private equity and institutional investments: pension funds, endowments).The goal is to reach the poorest as quickly as possible, and you are suggesting the best ways to achieve that goal.

Finally, you should cite at least 3 of the assigned articles (and/or blog posts) from Module Three. In addition to these three, you are free to cite any outside sources.

please add additional figures such as graphs/tables/images that is related to the paper (along with the 1500 words)

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