Month: March 2023

By Steve Scheier Whether you’re an executive director, board member, funder, staff member or even a volunteer in a nonprofit, chances are you feel frustrated with the inefficiency of your organization’s decision-making processes. “Our fear of failure hampers our decision-making and results,” I’ve heard many people at nonprofits say. Or, “We take a long time to mull over decisions, and we constantl...[Read More]

By 2050 the global population is expected to reach nine billion, the world’s current food systems and agricultural technologies may not be enough to feed the world.   Combine population growth with climate change and global water shortages, the outcome may have the potential to cause wars over food shortages, and the lack of food security for both developed and under developed countries. Biodivers...[Read More]

Devastation on the Caribbean island of Dominica after Hurricane Maria, November 19, 2017 (Photo by Tanya Holden/DFID) Creative Commons license via Flickr By Sunny Lewis BONN, Germany, December 4, 2017 (Maximpact.com  News) – The German government has just contributed €110 million (US$125 million) to bring affordable insurance against climate and other natural disasters to 400 million vulnerable pe...[Read More]

Ask yourself, “What would be the perfect job?”  How about a doctor, a lawyer, a banker, a social worker, a business owner or even an entrepreneur? However the question is answered, not many individuals answer “the perfect job would be a social entrepreneur”? Why? Is it because no one wants to be a social entrepreneur or is it that the concept of Social Entrepreneurship is not fully understood? As ...[Read More]

By Tom Holland, Founder and CEO of Maximpact The impact investing sector is reaching a critical moment in its evolution. It’s expanded hugely in the 18 months since Maximpact came on the scene, attracting attention from world leaders, governments and mainstream investors. New funds are launching almost daily while more mature funds are developing sophisticated investment philosophies, models and m...[Read More]

By Marta Maretich @maximpactdotcom Here’s a riddle: Investors are demanding them. The global business community is boosting them. Companies large and small are trying to figure out how to produce them. What are they? You guessed it: Extra-financial performance results—the environmental, social and governance (ESG) metrics that demonstrate that a company is acting responsibly as it conducts its bus...[Read More]

Actor and activist Danai Gurira, left; Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, Executive Director of UN Women, center; and actor and activist Reese Witherspoon take part in the celebration of International Women’s Day at UN Headquarters in New York, March 8, 2018 (Photo courtesy United Nations) By Sunny Lewis NEW YORK, New York, March 13, 2018 (Maximpact.com News) – “Women are fighting to take steps that change t...[Read More]

Biogas plants and cogeneration power plants at CornTec, Meppen, Germany. BG Biogas Service GmbH operates a biogas plant in the Alb-Danube region in both Langenau and Seligweiler, each with a cogeneration power plant and a satellite cogeneration power plant. The simultaneous production of electricity and heat, both of which are used, is fueled with biogas from the digestion of energy plants such as...[Read More]

Graphic representation of wireless communication between vehicles and their environment using digital means of communication. February 19, 2020 (Illustration by Hans-J. Brehm) Creative Commons licence via Wikipedia LONDON, UK, January 25, 2023 (Maximpact.com Sustainability News) – Trials started this week for Inflexion, a Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X) bidirectional charging program built by a UK ene...[Read More]

A new method of converting low-density plastic waste to fuel and raw materials promises to help close the carbon cycle. 2023 (Artwork by Melanie Hess-Robinson / Pacific Northwest National Laboratory) Public domain RICHLAND, Washington, February 25, 2023 (Maximpact.com Sustainability News) – Petroleum-based plastic waste is an untapped resource that can serve as the starting material for useful dur...[Read More]

By George Watson, Head of Finance for SEFA Two recent articles in the Stanford Social Innovation Review and the Huffington Post concerning the value of impact investment have brought to the surface the often-dormant debate as to the true outcome of impact investment. Having spent many years at the sharp end of impact investing, here are some thoughts: The impact goes beyond the investment For me a...[Read More]

Josias heads the committee of refugees from the Central African Republic living at the Dilingala site, one of the many sites on the southern border of Chad where about 100,000 refugees are hosted. June 25, 2018 (Photo by Dominique Catton courtesy EU Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid) Creative Commons license via Flickr By Sunny Lewis for Maximpact ROTTERDAM, The Netherlands, October 7, 2021 (M...[Read More]