Investing to Advance Racial Equity: A Conversation
We recently hosted a live video webinar to discuss ways in which investors can contribute to the narrowing of economic disparities through a dedicated emphasis on investing in underserved minority communities. Our panel, moderated…
Forced Labor: A Risk Investors Shouldn’t Ignore
In today’s economy, the goods we consume are often produced far from where they are purchased, successively changing hands along complex and opaque corporate supply chains. The International Labour Organization estimates that across these…
Robotics, Automation and Artificial Intelligence: Panel at the New York Stock Exchange
On October 17, 2018, ROBO Global, LLC (ROBO) hosted a panel on robotics, automation and artificial intelligence (AI) at the New York Stock Exchange prior to ringing the closing bell. ROBO is an index,…
Creativity & The Arts: An Emerging Impact Investing Theme
When we at Cornerstone Capital Group first discussed the idea of exploring arts and creativity as an impact investing theme, our greatest challenge was narrowing the scope. To our thinking, creativity fuels every successful…
Investing to Sustain Innovation
Do we invest enough in creativity? The question may seem absurd in an era dominated by the “knowledge economy,” in which companies create value through ingenuity and expertise, while many of our most important emerging…
A Creativity Lens for Impact Investing: Upstart Co-Lab
The creative economy is large and growing. But until now impact investing has not focused on the creative economy in a significant way. Defining the Creative Economy The term creative economy was introduced…
From “The Arts” to “Creative Enterprise”: Perspective from the Philanthropic Sector
I have been thinking about and working in and around the role of capital in arts and creative enterprise for over 40 years. I have watched the rise of the terms creative economy…
Creating a Seat at the Table: Exponential Creativity Ventures
Media consumption is passive. At least, that’s been the dominant paradigm for the last century or more. Under this unidirectional model, a small number of people control both production and distribution, deciding in…
The Creativity Lens in Practice: LISC’s NYC Inclusive Creative Economy Fund
LISC’s newly launched NYC Inclusive Creative Economy Fund marks both a bold, new direction for our organization and a natural extension of our long track record of bringing technical and financing resources to low- and…
Artists, Cultural Enterprises and the Affordability Crisis
One of the most significant legacies of the housing collapse, which triggered the Great Recession of 2008-11, was the undermining of confidence Americans had in the venerable single-family home. For generations, owning a single-family…
Public/Private Partnerships Fueling a Renaissance: The Newark Community Economic Development Corp.
Newark is the largest and most populous city in the most densely populated state in the U. S. It has a rich history dating to colonial days, a highly diverse population that has fostered…
Unlocking Embedded Community Assets: CultureBank
The heart of CultureBank is this: Communities that have been traditionally understood as “poor” are not. They hold assets of value, opportunity, and inspiration. Undeveloped assets in marginalized communities—assets like music, dance, cultural tradition,…
An Exceptional Model: The Bell Artspace Campus
A New Orleans second line parade—led by the Free Agents Brass Band and including masked Mardi Gras Indians from the Washitaw Nation and Creole Wild West tribes—looped and twisted their way through a crowd of…
Investing for Good: A Creative Land Trust for London
The availability of affordable creative workspace has been declining sharply in London. A 2014 study forecast a loss of 30% of artists’ workspace —up to 3,500 studios—in just a five-year period to 2019.…
Everyone Together, All Forward: Meow Wolf
Meow Wolf… Meow, What? Meow Wolf ! Meow Wolf is one of the fastest-growing companies in the burgeoning field of immersive entertainment movement. The company is also a B Corp doing phenomenal triple bottom line work…
Gaming on a Mission: E-Line Media
Across the planet, every day, we spend billions of hours playing commercial video games. A key question for those interested in investing in the arts, culture and media: Can some of these immersive, ‘lean-forward’…
Make Local Work: The Story of an Artist Entrepreneur
I am Mary Stuart Masterson. I am an actress, a filmmaker, a mom and now an entrepreneur. I was born into a show business family. As a child, I spent my weekends backstage…
Why & How Impact Investing in The Creative Economy Fosters Innovation
“Creativity and innovation are the keys to developing the potential of individuals, organizations, and nations. ” — World Economic Forum, 1999 Annual Meeting, Davos, Switzerland For the past 40 years, I’ve been absorbed in many…
How Consciousness and Creativity Amplify Impact
I teach Self Mastery—honing the power of one’s mind and heart in order to dynamically enrich the experience of living. In my work I witness how unity, consciousness and creativity effectively amplify one’s ability…
Creativity & The Arts: Integral to Impact
“Creativity & The Arts” is a relatively new theme for impact investors to consider, despite being embedded in every cultural and technological advancement that has occurred since the dawn of civilization. As illustrated in…
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