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Delphi Economic Forum Report: 2021 The International Year of Creative Economy
Delphi Economic Forum is a non-profit, non-partisan organisation working in close co-operation with civil society, public organisations, business and individuals. This report is a summary of the discussions on the creative economy that place in Delphi Economic Forum VI on Wednesday 12 May 2021.
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Launching a new report from Nesta’s Arts & Culture Finance, Fundación Compromiso and Upstart Co-Lab shines spotlight on a global creative economy responding to Covid
Creativity, Culture and Capital volume 2 published 13 September at creativityculturecapital.org, in English and Spanish Image: Ranwas School project,...
Impact Assets: Impact Investing in the Creative Economy
Join creative economy advocates, impact investors and entrepreneurs for a timely discussion on Impact Investing in the Creative Economy.
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Next Billion: Why Impact Investors Should Recognize the Untapped Potential of the Global Creative Economy
Impact investors have been missing a large swath of the global economy — one driven by women, youth, indigenous peoples and other workers and entrepreneurs who are often overlooked and underestimated: the creative economy.
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Gender-Smart Investing: Is Impact Investing Repeating The Mistakes Of Investing? The Solution Is A Creative One.
While visionary women and diverse leaders have been part of the global impact investing conversation over the past 15 years, the key decision-makers at the largest impact funds are white men.
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Americans for the Arts: How America’s Arts Organizations Can Invest Their Values
America’s museums, libraries, art schools, performing art centers, and other cultural institutions steward more than $58 billion in financial assets through their endowments. This means investment policies and practices offer a meaningful way for cultural institutions to signal their values of diversity, equity, inclusion and access (DEIA).
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Arts Professional: Invest in making an impact
Fran Sanderson says building back better means looking beyond what – and who – we know in funding to demonstrate the irrepressible worth of human creativity.
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Geoff Mulgan: Impact investment, arts and culture: a field – at last – comes of age
Impact investing in the creative economy is now, at last, coming of age, mainstreaming the idea that investment tools can be used to support the arts.
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Pioneers Post: Global coalition explores ideas for new impact investment fund to back creative enterprises
Nesta, Upstart Co-Lab and Fundación Compromiso are exploring the potential for a new global investment fund dedicated to creative enterprise as they launch project at start of UN International Year of Creative Economy for Sustainable Development.
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National Endowment for the Arts podcast – Creativity, Culture Capital
Laura Callanan, founding partner of Upstart Co-Lab and Sheoyki Jones from Invest Atlanta talk to the NEA about investing in the creative economy.
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