SI3 Recommended Readings

Check out the readings below as a primer to the field of Social Impact, Innovation, and Investment:

• Social Finance, Oxford Publications, Edited by Alex Nicholls, Rob Paton, and Jed Emerson

• The Impact Investor, Lessons in Leadership and Strategy for Collaborative Capitalism, Jossey-Bass, Cathy Clark, Jed Emerson, Ben Thornley

• The Power of Impact Investing, Putting Markets to Work for Profit and Global Good, Wharton, Judith Rodin, Margot Brandenburg

• Philanthrocapitalism, How Giving Can Save the World, Bloomsbury Press, Matthew Bishop, Michael Green 

• Impact Investing: Transforming How We Make Money While Making a Difference, Jossey-Bass, Antony Bugg-Levine, Jed Emerson

• Money Well Spent A Strategic Plan for Smart Philanthropy, Paul Brest and Hal Harvey

• Measuring and Improving Social Impacts, Marc Epstein and Kristi Yuthas

• GIIN Annual Impact Investor Survey 2020

• IFC Growing Impact: New Insights into the Practice of Impact Investing

• W.K. Kellogg Foundation: The Business Case for Racial Equity

• RPA: Impact Investing Handbook: An Implementation Guide for Practitioners

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Podcasts

• ESG Now (MSCI ESG Research): Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) news and investment research brought to you weekly covering major market trends and new research insights. 

• Impact Alpha's Podcast: Impact investing focused podcast released every Friday. 

• Deep Impact Investing (Horizons Sustainable Financial Services):  A podcast focused on impact investing, answering questions and discussing the latest trends.

 

Newsletters

Click the links below to subscribe to a range of newsletters covering impact investing to social entrepreneurship and beyond:

• NYU Net Impact

• NYU Stern Impact Investing

• US SIF- The Forum for Sustainable and Responsible Investment (note: must apply for membership)

• Intentional Endowments Network

• The GIIN

• Impact Alpha

• As You Sow

• Green Biz

• Mission Investors Exchange

• Reconsidered Newsletter

• New Day Investing

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Job Boards

Below you will find an array of job boards for different areas of a social innovation and investment career path: 

• The GIIN

• Next Billion Career Center

• PCDN Global

• BWork

• Net Impact

• Social Enterprise Alliance

• 80,000 hours

• Design Gigs for Good

• Amani Institute

• SKOLL World Forum Job

• Philanthropy New York

•  Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs 

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Other Resources

• The NYU Entrepreneurial Institute

• The Social Innovation and Investment Initiative

• NYU's Impact Investment Fund

• NYU Stern's Center for Sustainable Business

• Chief Executives for Corporate Purpose (CECP)

• The Stanford Social Innovation Review

• Certified B Corporations

• NYC's Center for Social Innovation

• Responsible Investor

• UN Global Compact

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