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Impact Water, a social business based in Uganda that provides affordable water-purification systems to schools. As of 2022, Impact Water has installed water-purification systems at 32,517 schools, reaching 14.3 million students. [6] Impact Water entered YSB's portfolio in 2015. Impact Water paid off its loan and left the YSB portfolio in 2022.
Corporate social responsibility (CSR) or corporate social impact is a form of international private business self-regulation [1] which aims to contribute to societal goals of a philanthropic, activist, or charitable nature by engaging in, with, or supporting professional service volunteering through pro bono programs, community development ...
Profits realized by the business are reinvested in the business itself (or used to start other social businesses), with the aim of increasing social impact, for example expanding the company’s reach, improving the products or services or in other ways subsidizing the social mission.
When it comes to social impact, companies "need metrics and data to show that it's working, but you also can't pull out before things actually take hold," says Discovery Education's Amy Nakamoto.
Examples of MRIs include loans to mission-aligned non-profit organizations (e.g., charter schools, hospitals or research centers) that are expected to pay back loans with interest, as well as investments in for-profit social impact companies, social impact funds, socially responsible fixed income (bond) funds, impact-oriented private equity ...
Historically, corporate social impact has been driven from the inside out: a company and its leaders seeking to give back to their community and leave a legacy of which they could be proud.
The Nonprofit Executive Alliance is a social impact coalition of CEOs that advances leadership, strengthens local communities and provides a unified voice for the sector. The expansion of impact ...
Social venture capital is a form of investment funding that is usually funded by a group of social venture capitalists [1] or an impact investor [2] to provide seed-funding investment, usually in a for-profit social enterprise, in return to achieve an outsized gain in financial return while delivering social impact to the world.