Sustainability, systems and investing for impact: Roles for evaluators

IF 1.5 4区社会学 Q2 SOCIAL SCIENCES, INTERDISCIPLINARY

Evaluation and Program Planning Pub Date : 2025-03-29 DOI:10.1016/j.evalprogplan.2025.102593

Jane Linda Reisman , John E. Sherman

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Abstract

Sustainably addressing the greatest social and environmental threats of our time requires a systemic approach employing a variety of policy and financial strategies including social finance. Emerging over the past few decades, numerous social finance strategies have grown to become an intentional part of the global equation. This paper illustrates an approach to evaluating social finance strategies for advancing social and environmental sustainability that embraces complexity and therefore incorporates systemic factors inextricably tied to sustainable impact (both social and financial). It showcases an evaluation of a social finance fund intended to increase the flow of capital into low-income communities in the United States and to reduce the barriers to creating equitable wealth for businesses led by people of color and women.

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Evaluation and Program Planning SOCIAL SCIENCES, INTERDISCIPLINARY-

CiteScore

3.10

自引率

6.20%

发文量

112

期刊介绍： Evaluation and Program Planning is based on the principle that the techniques and methods of evaluation and planning transcend the boundaries of specific fields and that relevant contributions to these areas come from people representing many different positions, intellectual traditions, and interests. In order to further the development of evaluation and planning, we publish articles from the private and public sectors in a wide range of areas: organizational development and behavior, training, planning, human resource development, health and mental, social services, mental retardation, corrections, substance abuse, and education.