Impact Library

HIR aggregates resources for investors, social entrepreneurs, nonprofits, and philanthropists in our Impact Library. As we build this library, please let us know if there is anything you would like to see or learn.

Impact Investing

Impact Terms. A free curated library of innovations in impact investing terms and investment structures, available to entrepreneurs, investors and impact professionals. Read here.

Global Impact Investing Network. Global pioneers in terming impact investing global Intentionality and thought leadership. Read here.

Impact Investing – the Toniic Approach. Toniic is a global community of active impact investors who envision a world in which all investments honor the planet and its inhabitants. Their mission is to catalyze deeper positive net impact across the spectrum of capital. Read here.

Social Capital Markets Impact Investing Articles. SOCAP convenes impact investors, social entrepreneurs, and organizations dedicated to catalyzing world change through market-based solutions. Read here.

Toniic Impact Investing Resource Center. Toniic is a global action community of impact investors, both individuals and institutions. Their vision is a global financial ecosystem creating positive social and environmental impact. Their mission is to empower impact investors. Read here.

T100 Focus Report: Foundations on the Road to 100%. A research briefing focused on how foundations are deploying their capital toward deeper positive net impact across all asset classes. Read here.

RSF Integrated Capital Institute. Financial activists leveraging capital as a tool for positive change. Read blog posts here.

Palladium Group. Systems Change: An Emerging Practice in Impact Investing. Documents how investors have mapped systems to inform investment strategies. Read here.

Capital Institute. Finance for a Regenerative World. The Regenerative Finance Framework and paper in four acts. What would Finance look like if it were to operate genuinely in service of healthy human communities, and without undermining the long-term health of the planet in the process? Read here.

Impact Assets: ImpactAssets 50. This annually updated list is a gateway into the world of impact investing for investors and their financial advisors, offering an easy way to identify experienced impact investment firms and explore the landscape of potential investment options. Read here.

Global Steering Group for Impact Investment (GSG). Catalysing an Impact Investment Ecosystem: A Policymaker’s Toolkit. Understand the role of government in the impact investment ecosystem and how policy making can be catalytic. Read here.

Hawaiʻi Capital Scan (HCS). The Hawaiʻi Capital Scan (HCS) project will provide a map of government, private sector and philanthropic capital in Hawaiʻi. The inaugural mapping is focusing on Hawaiʻi’s Food Systems. Read more here.

The Fourth Sector Group. We’ve heard about the government, business, and nonprofit sectors, but there’s one more! The fourth sector of the economy combines the market-based approaches of the private sector with the social and environmental aims of the public and nonprofit sectors to address pressing problems. More here.

The Just Economy Institute supports financial activists who are shifting the flow of capital and power to solve social and environmental problems. Learn more.

Social Entrepreneurship

Y Combinator Startup Library. 15 years of video, podcast and essay resources aggregated for startup founders. Read here.

Democracy Fund: Six Models for Understanding Impact. Each reflects a particular type of status quo, and potential trajectory of change. Read here.

Elemental Excelerator: 2020 Pipeline Report. Insights and excitements including high-level data and the trends shaping the future of energy, mobility, water, food, and the circular economy. Read here.

One Troy: Clocks and Clouds. Emergent Issues Require Emergent Thinking. Read here.

Two Loops Model: Berkana Institute’s Theory of Change. Watch here. Using Emergence to Take Social Innovation to Scale. Read here.

World Economic Forum: Strategic Intelligence. Strategic insights and contextual intelligence. Explore and monitor the issues and forces driving transformational change across economies, industries, and global issues. Read here.

HIR Webinars

Impact Potential of Philanthropic Balance Sheets

Reconstructing our society and economy post COVID-19 is going to require significant investment and innovative approaches to maximize our available financial resources. How might we better leverage our existing assets to drive more impact?

Financing Our Food Systems’ Recovery & Resilience

What will it take to move Hawaiʻi’s food systems from niche to mainstream? From crisis to resilience post-COVID?

CDFIs – “Superheroes” for Economic Recovery

Demystify CDFIs: Critical role in economic recovery, Funding/Capitalizing CDFIs as part of COVID economic recovery policy, Products or services available in response to COVID-19