Cornerstone SDG Series: SDG 15 – Life on Land
SDG 15 aims to ensure and enhance the health of earth’s terrestrial ecosystems by encouraging sustainable land use and land protection. The past decades have seen a rise in challenges to this goal in…
Cornerstone SDG Series: SDG 17 – Partnerships for the Goals
SDG 17: Partnerships for the Goals recognizes the need to implement and revitalize global partnerships to support sustainable development. Robust partnerships between regulators, policymakers and the private sector are necessary to achieve each of…
Cornerstone SDG Series: SDG 16 – Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
SDG 16: Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions highlights the role of governments and institutions in promoting peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, providing access to justice for all, and building effective, accountable and inclusive…
Cornerstone SDG Series: SDG 9 – Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure
Investment in infrastructure and innovation are crucial drivers of economic growth and development, and are key to finding lasting solutions to both economic and environmental challenges. Promoting sustainable industries and investing in scientific research…
Cornerstone SDG Series: SDG 8 – Decent Work and Economic Growth
SDG 8 seeks to strengthen inclusive economic growth and promote decent, productive work for all. Even with current levels of growth, it is estimated that the number of unemployed globally will rise due to…
Cornerstone SDG Series: SDG 2 – Zero Hunger
Approximately 815 million people are undernourished worldwide, a figure that is expected to increase as the population grows and as climate change disrupts agricultural production. The impacts of hunger are both immediate and long…
Cornerstone SDG Series: SDG 14 – Life Below Water
SDG 14: Life Below Water focuses on the critical role played by oceans, along with coastal and marine resources, in contributing to human well-being as well as economic opportunity. The oceans provide food for…
Cornerstone SDG Series: SDG 10 – Reduced Inequalities
As progress is made to develop communities and economies, SDG 10 works to leave no one behind in the process. The share of the global population living in poverty has declined substantially in this…
Cornerstone SDG Series: SDG 7 – Affordable and Clean Energy
SDG 7 aims to ensure universal access to affordable, reliable and modern energy services, with an emphasis on renewable energy. Central to this goal is expanding the infrastructure and enhancing the technology for supplying…
Cornerstone SDG Series: SDG 6 – Clean Water and Sanitation
UN Sustainable Development Goal 6: Clean Water and Sanitation recognizes that access to clean water and sanitation can materially improve the living conditions of even the world’s poorest citizens while preventing millions of unnecessary deaths…
Cornerstone SDG Series: SDG 4 – Quality Education
SDG 4: Quality Education seeks to not only increase the number of children in school but to enhance the quality of education and boost learning outcomes. A good education is pivotal for successful lives…
Introducing Cornerstone’s Access Impact Framework
On May 20, we hosted a video webinar with Cornerstone's Katherine Pease and Craig Metrick , who provided an overview of our new impact measurement framework, the Access Impact Framework .…
Cornerstone SDG Series: SDG 1 – No Poverty
SDG 1: No Poverty highlights the manifestations of poverty: hunger and malnutrition, limited access to education and other basic services, social discrimination and exclusion as well as the lack of participation in decision-making. While…
Cornerstone SDG Series: SDG 3 – Good Health and Well-Being
UN Sustainable Development Goal 3: Good Health and Well-Being seeks to promote health and well-being for all. While the overall health of the world’s population has improved, many population groups have been left behind.…
Cornerstone SDG Series: SDG 12 – Responsible Consumption & Production
UN Sustainable Development Goal 12: Sustainable Consumption and Production is about promoting resource and energy efficiency, sustainable infrastructure, and providing access to basic services, green and decent jobs and a better quality of life for…
Cornerstone SDG Series: SDG 11 – Sustainable Cities & Communities
UN Sustainable Development Goal 11: Sustainable Cities & Communities encompasses both the challenges and opportunities presented by the increasing concentration of our global population both in urban centers and smaller but still heavily populated towns.…
Cornerstone SDG Series: SDG 13 – Climate Action
UN Sustainable Development Goal 13: Climate Action highlights the societal imperative to take urgent action to combat climate change and its devastating impacts through policy, awareness-raising, and adaptation and mitigation strategies. The effects of…
Cornerstone SDG Series: SDG 5 – Gender Equality
UN Sustainable Development Goal 5: Gender Equality targets the systemic barriers women face and aims to transform cycles of disempowerment into cycles of empowerment. Women are too often denied access to healthcare, education, financial…
Mobilizing Donor Advised Funds for Impact Investing
More than $23 billion [1] was contributed to donor advised funds (DAFs) in the United States in 2016, yet only a minor fraction of donor advised fund assets are invested for positive…
Considering ESG Factors in Fixed Income Investing: A guide for asset owners
Executive Summary Access our full report here . Much has been written about the strategies, theoretical and practical, that can be employed by asset managers to integrate Environmental, Social and…
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