In today's episode, you'll learn about impact investing and how it aligns a company's financial activities with their social mission. We explore real-world examples of how corporations are using things like pension funds, cash reserves, and more to drive meaningful change through their investments. Annie Seelaus, CEO of Seelaus, shares innovative ways businesses are putting impact investing on their radar, including money market funds that donate revenue to nonprofits and short-duration portfolios funding analyst training programs.

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0:44 - What is impact investing? Philosophy at Seelaus
2:27 - What are the different types of impact investing
4:38 - Is there any fallout from the polarization of ESG or DEI on impact investing?
8:06 - How would you know impact investing is actually working? 13:47 - How can a CSR team member promote impact investing and engage other departments in its exploration?
16:28 - How CSR teams can get buy-in for impact investing
18:45 - Where do you start if you want to learn more about Impact Investing?

Learn more about Seelaus Investing: https://www.rseelaus.com/investment-services/

Connect with Annie Seelaus:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/annie-seelaus-bb042717/

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In today's episode, you'll learn about the current state of social impact measurement and how to connect your social impact goals with company goals. We chat with Carole Cone, who is the Founder of EpiQ and a pioneer in the social impact industry for 40 years. We explore what are employee expectation of purpose and how purpose should be measured by its impact on employees.

Timestamp of our conversation:

0:48 - Current State of Social Impact Measurement
4:21 - How do you connect social impact goals to business goals? 11:36 - The evolution of social impact measurement
14:11 - Set measurement at the beginning of the work
17:47 - Reality vs expectation: Employee expectation on purpose 24:26 - How should purpose be measured as it impact employees 25:30 - EPIQ: Employee Purpose IQ
29:08 - The Power of "And"
31:35 - EPIQ: Employee Purpose IQ

Connect with Carole Cone and learn more about EpiQ carol@caroleconeonpurpose.com carolconeonpurpose.com/podcast

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In today's episode, you'll learn how to create social impact outside of the conventional means through corporate gifting. We chat with Peter Dietz, Co-founder of Unwrap It and a B Corp entrepreneur, who shares his guiding principle for creating social impact and how it can be applied in various business decisions. Peter also discusses how Unwrap It helps companies identify hidden opportunities for creating social impact and how it aids in reducing carbon emissions.

Timestamp of our discussion:
0:59 - Guiding principle that inspires social impact creation
2:27 - Bringing social impact goals and business goals together 3:20 - About Peter Dietz
4:26 - Examples of companies making decisions that are the right answer to multiple questions
6:35 - Identifying hidden opportunities for creating social impact 7:59 - About Unwrapit
11:33 - How Unwrapit helps companies expand their social impact programs outside conventional means
14:22 - Shift towards digital gifting by the current upcoming workforce
16:33 - Does Unwrapit circle back to clients to share the outcomes of digital gifts?
20:25 - Going beyond corporate giving

Connect with Peter Dietz:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/peterdeitz/
Peter@unwrapit.com

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