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Connecticut, Norway
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All opinions are my own (or those with whom I agree!) Impact Investing and Entreshp Thought Leader/Practitioner Promoting Social/Financial Innovation Globally
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Courageous Capital: Impact investing in an age of autocracy

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By Dimitry Gershenson, Jed Emerson
| ImpactAlpha Verified
Democratic backsliding rarely arrives as a coup. It comes through the slow consolidation of economic and institutional power – the narrowing of who can access resources, whose voices shape systems, and which communities can build durable futures. The current US political trajectory offers a vivid, live case study in this pattern. As autocracy takes hold and public institutions are dismantled, our communities have been left with a massive gap in funding and resource access.
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Letter from Jed: Standing up to the new American authoritarianism

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By Jed Emerson
| ImpactAlpha Verified
(Editor’s note: Jed Emerson is an “OG” of impact investing, having coined the concept of blended value more than three decades ago. He is the author, most recently, of “The Purpose of Capital.” He currently serves as a senior advisor at AlTi Tiedemann Global, a multi-family office, a senior fellow at Impact Assets, a board advisor of Happiness Capital in Hong Kong and a board member of Katapult Foundation in Oslo.
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Impact Investing | Most Popular Articles

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By James Dudfield, Sara Olsen, Aaron Mallett, Jed Emerson
| Stanford Social Innovation Review Verified
Socially responsible investing that produces both financial and social returns (more) Impact Investing Can Venture Capital Be Optimized for Happiness? By , , , & 1 Venture capitalists have profited handsomely from innovative ventures, but value hasn’t always been shared with other stakeholders. What if we developed a new model for measuring the impact of investments?
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