scholarly journals Inquiry into social impact investment for housing and homelessness outcomes

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristy Muir ◽  
Fabienne Michaux ◽  
Andrea Sharam ◽  
Paul Flatau ◽  
Ariella Meltzer ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Impact ◽  
Social Enterprises ◽  
Housing Supply ◽  
Financial Returns ◽  
Goods And Services ◽  
Social Impact Bonds ◽  
Social Impact Investment

This research investigated Social impact investment (SII), which aims to generate and actively measure social and financial returns. There are several promising SII models—including housing supply bonds, property funds, funding social enterprises, social impact bonds and social impact loans. Effective SII requires suppliers of goods and services, intermediaries, suppliers of capital, government and beneficiaries to work together.

Financing Social Enterprises

2019 ◽  
pp. 126-150 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chen Liu
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Social Impact ◽  
Systematic Approach ◽  
Social Enterprises ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Government Grants ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Venture ◽  
Social Impact Bonds ◽  
Social Venture Capital

This chapter discusses funding and financing issues of small and micro social enterprises (SEs) following a systematic approach. It conducts a systematic review of the SE financing literature and proposes a systematic model to examine the SE financing ecosystem. Specifically, the chapter discusses some traditional financing sources of SEs, including internal money, donations, government grants, and conventional debt and equity and examines SEs' advantage and challenges in securing financing using these traditional ways. To address the challenges of SE financing, this chapter proposes a systematic approach of solution and discusses some new and innovative sources of financing for SEs, such as the social impact bonds and the social venture capital. It then discusses crowdfunding and its best use for various types and stages of SEs. The chapter also suggests a list of future research ideas.

Social Risk and Financial Returns: Evidences from Social Impact Bonds

2018 ◽  
pp. 47-68
Author(s):  
Elisabetta Scognamiglio ◽  
Alessandro Rizzello ◽  
Helen Chiappini
Keyword(s):  
Social Impact ◽  
Social Risk ◽  
Financial Returns ◽  
Social Impact Bonds

Investigation into Funding Strategies of Social Enterprises

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 34-61
Author(s):  
Shengfen Zheng
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Social Enterprise ◽  
Social Impact ◽  
Development Stage ◽  
Social Enterprises ◽  
Venture Philanthropy ◽  
Sustainable Business ◽  
The People ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Impact Bonds

Abstract It has been attracting growing attention of all sectors of society to support social enterprises with social investment. This article focuses on the four much-discussed funding strategies of venture philanthropy, social impact investment, social impact bonds and crowdfunding. For the research, a total of 186 questionnaires were distributed and 92 of them were returned and found valid, with the rate of recovery standing at 49.5%. It is found that among the four strategies, the more heard of, the clearer, but that a strategy is clear does not mean it is readily accepted by the people; and among the companies with the registered name including the wording of social enterprise and those logging in as social enterprises, there is no significant statistical difference in the funding strategy. The result manifests the social enterprises in Taiwan are in the start-up stage, and goes in line with this article’s observation of the funding strategies, i.e., the funding strategy of the social enterprise has a lot to do with its life cycle. On this account, this article holds that we should pay attention to the life cycle of the social enterprises, adopt appropriate funding strategies based on their development stage and build sustainable business modes.

Social Impact Bonds as a Tool for Social Impact Investment

2021 ◽  
pp. 158-175
Author(s):  
Esen Kara
Keyword(s):  
Social Impact ◽  
Social Spending ◽  
Cross Contamination ◽  
Budget Cuts ◽  
Financial Return ◽  
Finance Industry ◽  
Alternative Funding ◽  
Creating Shared Value ◽  
Social Impact Bonds ◽  
Social Impact Investment

Despite the rapid economic and technological transformations experienced today, all countries are faced with many social and environmental problems. With financial globalization, temporary or permanent crises in an economy affect other economies through cross-contamination and push governments to make serious budget cuts in the field of social spending. In this context, it is inevitable for governments to reconsider the way of financing social policies. The important role the finance industry plays in sustainable development and creating shared value for society has developed innovative and alternative funding approaches. In this context, social impact investments are a new concept that aims to integrate the positive social or environmental impact into the financial return of capital. One of the new techniques used in financing social impact investment is social impact bond programs. This chapter aims to provide information about social impact bonds and discuss the potential application of SIBs in Turkey.

Payment by Results and Social Impact Bonds

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
KEVIN ALBERTSON ◽  
CHRIS FOX ◽  
CHRIS O’LEARY ◽  
GARY PAINTER ◽  
KIMBERLY BAILEY ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Impact ◽  
Social Impact Bonds

scholarly journals Rediscovering the Cooperative Enterprise: A Systematic Review of Current Topics and Avenues for Future Research

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andres Felipe Camargo Benavides ◽  
Michel Ehrenhard
Keyword(s):  
Social Impact ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Social Enterprises ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Generation Process ◽  
Managerial Practices ◽  
Organizational Perspective ◽  
Multilevel Studies ◽  
Cooperative Enterprise ◽  
Organizational Literature

AbstractFor decades, the cooperative enterprise (CE) produces market goods and/or provides services in the interest to its members, such as communities, customers, and suppliers. The upsurge of interest in social enterprises, and their balancing of social and economic interests, has also led to a renewed interest in CEs, often seen as a specific type of social enterprise. However, from an organizational perspective, this renewed interest has been both limited and scattered over a variety of fields. In this paper, we systematically review papers on CE in the mainstream organizational literature, defined as literature in the fields of economics, business, management and sociology. Our review integrates and synthesizes the current topics in the mainstream organizational literature and provides a number of avenues for future research. In addition, we compare our findings in the organizational literature to the social issues literature as these appeared to be quite complimentary. We found multilevel studies, determination of social impact—in particular measurable impact, managerial practices for sustainable (organisational) development, and the entrepreneurial opportunity generation process as the four key avenues for future research.

Social enterprises and community wellbeing in regional Australia

2021 ◽  
pp. 144078332110358
Author(s):  
Katharine McKinnon ◽  
Melissa Kennedy ◽  
Tracy De Cotta
Keyword(s):  
Social Enterprises ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Goods And Services ◽  
Community Wellbeing ◽  
Community Economy ◽  
Supported Work ◽  
Regional Australia ◽  
Study Offer

This article reflects on a research project that has mapped the ways in which social enterprises in regional Australian cities produce wellbeing for their employees. The majority of enterprises in this study offer supported work opportunities to people with a disability while also running commercially viable enterprises delivering goods and services to regional communities. These enterprises demonstrate the challenges and the potential for organisations in regional settings to contribute in meaningful ways, not only to the wellbeing of the workers they support, but to the wellbeing of the broader community. This article considers how social enterprises are understood to be contributing to regional communities and situates them as key actors in a community economy that contributes to wider community wellbeing as distinct from individual wellbeing.

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