Fellows Spotlight: Lessons in Impact Investing
Every year, the Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs (ANDE) holds a conference focused on addressing the challenges of measuring and reporting the impact of investments in small and growing businesses in the developing world. In my role as an Impact Investing Fellow at Aga Khan Foundation (AKF), I was fortunate to attend this year’s conference […]
Improving Healthcare in Pakistan through Impact Investing
In South and Central Asia, where access to healthcare remains a perpetual challenge for most people, the Aga Khan University Hospital (AKUH) in Karachi provides exemplary treatment. Since its establishment in 1983, the hospital has served as a hub of research and innovation. AKUH is the first hospital in Pakistan to receive the U.S. Joint […]
Aga Khan University and the Overseas Private Investment Corporation Sign Agreement for Hospital Expansion in Pakistan
KARACHI, PAKISTAN, JULY 18, 2013 – The Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC), the U.S. Government’s development finance institution, today signed a Loan Agreement with the Aga Khan Hospital and Medical College Foundation for the expansion of the Aga Khan University Hospital. The agreement was signed by OPIC President and CEO Elizabeth L. Littlefield and Aga Khan […]
Speeding Forward: Canada and Impact Investment
Evan Gill is Manager, Impact Investing, Aga Khan Foundation U.S.A. This post also appears on the blog ofwww.socialfinance.ca. Surprise, excitement, admiration – I felt all these emotions listening to Edward Jackson and Karim Harji speak last month about impact investment in the Canadian context. Being entirely immersed in this sector in the U.S. and Europe, […]
CEO Notes: Creating an Atmosphere for Investing in Social Good
Several events, including the publication of excellent reports by the Monitor Group (From Blueprint to Scale) and the Omidyar Network (Priming the Pump) and the recent Social Capital Markets conference (SOCAP12, noted in an earlier blog), prompt a few reflections. Last year I was fortunate enough to spend a week at the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Center, where a […]
SOCAP12 and a New Market for Social Investment
Just weeks after the collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008 and as trillions of dollars disappeared from global capital markets, the makings of a new social capital market began to take shape. The Social Capital Markets(SOCAP) conference series, which began in September 2008 in San Francisco, has grown into perhaps the largest and best respected platform […]
A Relationship Blooms at the Social Capital Markets Conference
The Aga Khan Foundation U.S.A. (AKF USA) is proud to be a Community Partner for this year’s SOCAP12 Conference in San Francisco, October 1-4. The Social Capital Markets (SOCAP) annual conference connects leading global innovators — investors, foundations, and social entrepreneurs — to build market systems for social impact at the intersection of money and […]
Measuring Impact for Investment in Social Development: Can Metrics Help Alleviate Poverty?
Last month two members of the Aga Khan Foundation U.S.A. (AKF USA)’s Impact Investment team attended theAspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs’ (ANDE) fourth annual Metrics Conference in Washington DC. ANDE’s overall mission is to promote prosperity in the developing world through entrepreneurship and small and growing businesses (SGBs) by helping investors realize the power of […]
Impact Investing
The Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN) has decades of experience in mobilizing investment capital with long-term social impact − what is known as Impact Investing. For more than 50 years the Aga Khan Development Network has financed critical economic infrastructure across the developing world including banks, airlines, agro-processing plants, and media enterprises. The profits from these social […]