Investing for Social Impact, Economic Justice, and Racial Equity

Social impact investing generates a positive social and environmental impact on the underserved. To provide valuable guidance, this resource educates lawyers and other professionals on community stakeholders' needs and lawyers' roles in impact investment deals, while providing practice tips for a range of legal issues in developing and executing diverse investment strategies.

Leading experts discuss the current moment's charge to stem the economic losses in communities and build new, equitable economic systems. Comprehensive and accessible, this book:

• explores international lessons and models
• integrates a brief history of the CED movement and the rise of impact investing
• discusses current CED and impact investing tools that utilize public - private partnerships
• discusses the purpose and structure of Social Impact Bonds (SIBs)
• highlights state and local government policies to support directing capital to meet needs of underserved communities
• addresses the importance of community-driven financing tools, the role of individual investors in shaping strong local communities, and the SEC's laws and regulations governing community capital raising
• illuminates the importance of people-powered local interventions
• describes strategies for community ownership that shift governance and ownership to low-income communities and communities of color
• provides concrete recommendations to investors and their lawyers to accelerate transformative finance work
• and more!

This book was published on 02/22/2023.