February 23, 2012
Forbes interviews Antony Bugg-Levine, CEO of the Nonprofit Finance Fund and GIIN Board Member, on the state and future of impact investing.
From original article:
"The growing awareness that business-as-usual approaches are not working for our societies or our planet are a powerful prod for people to reexamine their assumptions. That's crucial to level the playing field to make the case for impact investing. In the last few months, the sensibilities around the Occupy movement also spurred more people to reconsider their relationship with mainstream financial services institutions.
In the US, the "move your money" campaign led a reported 5.6 million people to open up accounts at community banks and cooperatives. We need to figure out how to harness this energy of critical reexamination to create space for impact investors. At the same time we need to fight the growing skepticism that any investment can be socially useful."