Impact Voices
View from Seattle: Nine ways to create a bigger tent for impact investing in 2018
SOCAP365 hits the road to dig up local insights from long-time impact investors
Impact Voices is an occasional series sharing the opinions of impact investing practitioners and leaders with ImpactAlpha readers. The views expressed in Impact Voices are the writers’ own, not ImpactAlpha’s.
With all the buzz about impact investing (see BlackRock’s letter), it’s no surprise that Social Capital Markets’ new SOCAP 365 impact investing conference in Seattle was sold out.
Investors, venture capitalists, family foundations and more joined to network, learn and make commitments in furthering the growth of the impact investing field. The day was filled with the realities of the impact investing industry, and what it would take to make its big promise of global change a reality.
Here are nine insights from Seattle to drive impact investing in 2018:
1. Think global, local and everywhere in between. Impact Investing first gained in popularity for its work in emerging economies and more underserved areas as a complement to philanthropy. But impact investing is as relevant locally in the US as it is internationally.