As seen in Fortune Magazine Over the course of five days in August of 1965, five days of protests in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Watts gave way to violence. The upheaval gave vent to feelings of injustice, but also devastated many of that community’s small...
What impact measurement and management changes should your organization consider in response to the COVID-19 crisis? Last week, ANDE hosted a webinar highlighting the resources and changes organizations can implement to adapt impact measurement and management both during and potentially after the crisis. The call featured Dun Grover from ACDI/VOCA and Amreen Choda and Mishkah Jakoet from Genesis Analytics. “As we see...
In the latest series of CEED Global Leaders Talk, Riccardo Illy of illycaffè and Polo del Gusto answered the questions: what will a post-quarantine world look like and how can business leaders prepare? Use this opportunity to review your business strategy and operations Illy spoke about some...
Last week on Impact Alpha’s Agents of Impact call, industry experts shared insights on how emerging market investors are safeguarding impact during the COVID crisis. The panelists discussed the potential repercussions on impact investing and how investors are responding to the crisis thus far. Speakers...
Dear Friends, The events of the past several weeks have brought home all too painfully that the full promise of the Emancipation Proclamation, which was two and half years earlier than the actual end of slavery in the US on June 19, 1865, is still far...
This past week, the Impact Management Project (IMP) hosted an information session titled, “Incorporating the stakeholder’s voice into impact measurement and management practice,” to share insights and best practices from IMP and their partners. The speakers included Olivia Prentice, IMP COO and Head of Content,...
By Bert van der Vaart, SEAF co-founder and CEO While the COVID-19 crisis continues to spread on a scale never before seen, many in international development and impact investment should start thinking of what comes next. The economic consequences of the COVID-19 crisis for the emerging...
Dear friends and colleagues, We are into our 6th week of corona-inspired restrictions on normal life here in the Netherlands. Our Prime Minister has taken to styling our domestic corona approach as an ‘intelligent lockdown,’ driven more by trust than by compulsion. And the more I...
By Bert van der Vaart, SEAF Co-founder and CEO Many people have asked me about what they should invest in post-COVID-19. Elsewhere, I have provided some thoughts about what I expect the investment world will look like following this global crisis. Here, I endeavor to provide...
By David Mathewson, SEAF Senior Managing Director One advantage of investing in emerging markets for over thirty years is that we can safely say that we have worked our way through every conceivable crisis: multiple currency crises, civil wars, regional wars, financial panics, government changes, and...
