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Impact investment--the support of social and environmental projects with a financial return--has become a hot topic on the global stage; poised to eclipse traditional aid by ten times in the next decade. But the field is at a tipping point: Will impact investment empower millions of people worldwide, or will it replicate the same mistakes that have plagued both aid and finance?Morgan Simon is an investment professional who works at the nexus of social finance and social justice. In Real Impact, she teaches us how to get it right, leveraging the world's resources to truly transform the economy. Over the past seventeen years, Simon has influenced over $150 billion from endowments, families, and foundations. In Real Impact, Simon shares her experience as both investor and activist to offer clear strategies for investors, community leaders, and entrepreneurs alike.
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Morgan has been instrumental in the founding of three leading organizations in the field:· She is co-founder of Toniic, an educational non-profit devoted to social impact where she also served as founding CEO from 2010-2013. · She is a co-founder and Chair of Transform Finance, a non-profit organization raising awareness about social justice issues within the impact investor community. · As the founding Executive Director of the Responsible Endowments Coalition, Morgan provided social investment education to over 100 colleges and universities across the country. Morgan is a very active board member for several organizations. She is on the board of The Working World, and co-chair of ROC United, a non-profit worker center supporting over 25,000 restaurant workers nationwide. Previously, Morgan worked with grassroots organizations and the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) in Mexico, Honduras and Sierra Leone, in corporate reform with ForestEthics, and in domestic microfinance with Women's Initiative for Self Employment in Oakland, California, where she currently resides. She received a B.A with High Honors in Economics and Political Science from Swarthmore College, and serves as an Adjunct Professor in the Graduate Program at Middlebury College, teaching impact investment and social enterprise.
