Impact Entrepreneur Discusses Impact Investing and the Future for Students and Nonprofits
New York, NY (PRWEB) July 30, 2013 -- On July 30, Philippe van den Bossche, discusses how impact investing is fueling the future for today’s students and nonprofit organizations.
According to a July 24, 2013 article published on Forbes.com, entitled, “How Finance Fueled Students’ and Nonprofit’s Future,” in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, an alternative path to more equitable growth has begun to emerge: impact investing, which Forbes defines as, “the financing of enterprises tackling environmental and social causes.”
Philippe van den Bossche, an impact investor and advocate for sustainable agriculture, elaborates on the growing trend. “Impact investing is becoming more attractive to larger financial institutions, which are starting to see that these hybrid investments can produce both excellent financial and social/environmental returns. Moreover, they can often attract positive public relations benefits for the firms themselves, which can be an effective tool for recruitment.”
According to the article, finance giants are embracing impact investing to recover from steep losses and tarnished reputations. Another reason for impact investing’s growing popularity is that many students today want to do something meaningful with their careers. The article elaborates on how these students are “demanding to learn the principles of social impact, gain experiences through internships and case studies, and even embed impact investing in their universities’ endowment policies.”
DC Central Kitchen is a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit that benefits from impact investments. The organization provides culinary training to at-risk individuals using local recycled food in order to provide healthy school lunches for grade school students. RSF Social Finance, a San Francisco-based impact investment firm has enabled the organization to invest in equipment to better handle the nonprofit’s overwhelming growth.
“Impact investing allows amazing initiatives, like the DC Central Kitchen, to receive sufficient operational funding,” van den Bossche says. “It is a win-win-win situation. Nonprofits and their beneficiaries receive much-needed funding and services while those who invest are generating profits and making a good name for themselves.”
Philippe van den Bossche is an impact entrepreneur and investor and Chairman/ Owner of Advancing Eco Agriculture (AEA), a leading organic agricultural and horticultural consulting and manufacturing company located in Middlefield, Ohio. AEA provides consulting services and specialty nutritional materials to farms throughout the United States and Canada. Mr. van den Bossche is an advocate for organic farming and agriculture.
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