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So I’m slightly late to getting around to some thoughts on this review from @peoplesbiz & the Blended Finance partnership with @SASCapital & @KeyFund 👇🏻
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Conflicts out of the way - I helped set up and run both for @peoplesbiz and am at @KeyFund - so hardly an objective view! - *BUT* these partnerships have a lot of indications of the role blended finance can have for community businesses
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.@peoplesbiz supported two waves of investments with the @KeyFund
24 deals agreed between, including £1.8 million in lending from Key Fund’s existing funds, alongside £1 million in grants provided by Power to Change (or quite a bit of leverage, if you prefer)
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24 deals agreed between, including £1.8 million in lending from Key Fund’s existing funds, alongside £1 million in grants provided by Power to Change (or quite a bit of leverage, if you prefer)
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1/ With financial innovations such as #sustainablefinance and #impactinvesting increasingly viewed as key to the solution of current social and environmental crises, let’s take a look at how we got here, what might be problematic about that and what to do about it. 👇
2/ This is a thread about the empirical part of my book that traces the history of #socinv in the UK. I’ll leave the theoretical argument based on Fligstein & McAdam’s strategic action field theory & pragmatist action theory for another time.
springer.com/gp/book/978303…
springer.com/gp/book/978303…
A provocative but important @PioneersPost blog from @richardlitch on the role of @BigSocietyCap : "The problem is that healthier orgs will find #socinv rates uncompetitive... while those who cannot access mainstream £ will struggle with affordability": pioneerspost.com/news-views/201…
@PioneersPost @richardlitch @BigSocietyCap This is thoughtful and well argued piece that I'd like to respond to at greater length but will probably not get time to - so just going to give a few broad reflections...
@PioneersPost @richardlitch @BigSocietyCap (i) Whether cost of capital is the biggest factor in whether a #socent will choose to take on #socinv or not will vary a lot based (in particular) on the size of the social enterprise but also the sector they're operating in. It's definitely a factor for some social enterprises..
