You might not know it, but NGOs have been involved in impact investing for about a decade. Today we look at what they’ve learned.
Methods vary — from investing their own money, like Heifer International, to partnering with existing funds, such as NatureVest’s work on standards for investment manager ThirdWay Partners. Save the Children Global Ventures invested in ThinkMD, for instance, which helps community health workers with technology to diagnose patients.
The idea is that NGOs’ large global networks, with expertise and relationships on the ground, can help companies scale. Still, that has not happened as often as NGOs may have hoped, as my colleague Adva Saldinger writes.
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Vince Chadwick is a contributing reporter at Devex. A law graduate from Melbourne, Australia, he was social affairs reporter for The Age newspaper, before covering breaking news, the arts, and public policy across Europe, including as a reporter and editor at POLITICO Europe. He was long-listed for International Journalist of the Year at the 2023 One World Media Awards.
