You can see the rate of population growth, new cases of disease, injury, death, biodiversity loss, marriage and divorce…. It’s like a (rather depressing) impact dashboard for the Planet!

Savings as a group activity with a goal, through an application called Smartypig. Peer to peer finance continues to evolve (Bank bar camp event next Saturday, March 29th, in Berkeley.

What is it? SmartyPig is interest-bearing FDIC insured savings account with a specific goal can be shared with friends and family. Kind of like a 12 […]

Declan McCullough, a noted tech journalist, is one of the chorus who says businesses doing anything other than just watching out for shareholder value puts the whole economic system at risk. As to be expected, he cites the infamous Milton Friedman essay which laid out the gospel of ruthless capitalism with no regard for social […]

This from one of my heroes, John Thackara :My new year’s resolution is to stop writing sustainability to-do lists. I’m supposed to be an expert, but it still gives me a headache trying to keep track of: the Triple Bottom Line; the Three Main Components (and Four System Conditions) of The Natural Step; the Five […]

I’m having a conversation here about what to measure. I understand measurement as a way to make money flow more easily; pointing to value. Metrics that make giving feel like investing detract from the value received by giving; it’s similar to commodification and luxury goods in its dynamic. What to measure about social impact? […]

I’ve posted Jerr Boschee’s deja vu perspective on the SEEF to the SEblog. Thought Xigi readers might appreciate the perspective of someone who’s been involved in capitalizing and consulting to social enterprises for over 20 years. Jerr’s on his way to Paris to speak on social enterprise and new opportunities for social investors at the […]

Is investing in portfolios of socially responsible companies really doing good and doing well with your money? Lucy Bernholz and Jon Entine debate the pros and cons about SRI in this article. On the plus side, your money would be serving a dual purpose, going beyond mere charity dollars while still earning a return. On […]

With increasing reports of scandal and inefficiency within the nonprofit sector - a sector which now accounts for 8.5% of our national income - it is no wonder that donors, Congress, and the IRS are applying ever greater scrutiny to the practice and governance of nonprofit organizations, says an article in On Philanthropy.

Bloomberg gets down […]

The official launch of the B Corporation movement was Friday at the Balle Conference, and how their website is open for business.. They are getting a lot of attention, all of it deserved. Good Capital is a founding B Corporation. Because of the speed of their execution on their plan, it’s at this point the […]

The other month I received an emergency call from a friend. A major corporation was holding its annual shareholder meeting the following day, and a socially important shareholder resolution would be silenced unless a qualified shareholder could be produced to support it at the meeting. With one telephone call we found a sympathetic […]