Resources for Impact Investment
EBAN has compiled an essential list of resources targeted to impact investors:
2014

Status of the Social Impact Investing Market: A Primer
The market for social impact investments – investments made with the intention to generate measurable social and environmental impact alongside a financial return – holds great promise as a tool to grow the economy and fund the provision of public goods. The practice of social impact investing has grown into a USD 36 billion market.
Click on the following link in order to access the full report on the social impact investment market written by Dr Maximilian Martin, Impact Economy, in June 2013.
The report first describes the landscape of social impact investing and defines the term. It then places social impact investing in the broader context of three mega-trends identified through the research, and at the end it gives a look at the role different groups of investors play in the market.
http://www.impacteconomy.com/papers/IE_PRIMER_JUNE2013_EN

European Venture Philanthropy and Social Investment 2012/2013
The EVPA relased the results of their survey about the European Venture Philanthropy and Social Investment 2012/2013.
Authors:
Dr. Lisa Hehenberger, Research and Policy Director
Anna-Marie Harling, Senior Research Associate
The purpose of this report is to provide independent data and raise awareness about European Venture Philanthropy and Social Investment. As long as this data collection has been run for three years, it is possible to star identifying trends and to analyse the evolution.
EVPA-Survey-European-VP-SI-2012-2013
This publication is the result of an agreement signed between EBAN and HBAN with the purpose of serving the organisations’ mutual goals of increasing the quantity, quality and success of angel investments in Europe, thus creating a better understanding of angel investment for potential new angel investors and entrepreneurs.
This guide has been prepared to demystify investing in private companies for private investors (known as business angel investors). Investing in private companies is very different to investing in other asset classes and whilst high risk, can be rewarding and worthwhile with positive financial and non-financial outcomes.
The current document is an adaptation of the original version with the same title which was initially targeted to the Irish market. The reproduction and/or adaptation of this guide by other parties is subject to approval of EBAN and HBAN.