Pangaea Impact Investments

In the Stanford Social Innovation Review in 2012, Kevin Starr from the Mulago Foundation highlighted some of the problems or challenges associated with Impact Investing. It is a short, but insightful, article. It led us to wonder: has anything changed in 4 years? The frame of reference for the article is important. Mulago Foundation "finds and funds high-performance organizations that tackle the basic needs of the very poor". According to Starr, Mulago Foundation also expects

So, what's the difference between crowd funding and impact investing? At a family lunch recently, I was asked this very question. I fumbled a response and thought it warranted a better explanation. So, here goes... Crowd funding is defined as "a collective resource-pooling practice used to finance individuals, companies, organizations, funds, projects, products or groups" (Toniic, 2013). Crowd funding is predominantly facilitated by online marketplaces, which aggregate the sm