Peter Brill, a retired professional, is introducing impact investing to the West Coast. Impact investing focuses on ensuring resources are invested in groups, companies or businesses meant to result in a positive social return in addition to a financial return. In order to educate the area, Brill scheduled a conference for May 20 at Antioch University. The speakers are both highly successful individuals in the area of impact investing both cofounders of successful non profits.
Developing a strategy and deciding how to invest resources can be a huge challenge, and determining how to effectively measure positive social change. The time has come to carefully consider socially guided investments and to influence some positive social change. The conference is open to all, for more information please visit sustainablechangealliance.org/impact-investing.
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Ganesh Natarajan is the Founder and Chairman of 5FWorld, a new platform for funding and developing start-ups, social enterprises and the skills eco-system in India. In the past two decades, he has built two of India’s high-growth software services companies – Aptech and Zensar – almost from scratch to global success.