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Social finance, the Glossary

Social finance is a category of financial services that aims to leverage private capital to address challenges in areas of social and environmental need.^[1]

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Alex Nicholls (academic)

Alex Nicholls (born 10 July 1964) is a Professor of Social Entrepreneurship at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford, a Fellow of Harris Manchester College and a member of the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship.

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Asset classes

In finance, an asset class is a group of financial instruments that have similar financial characteristics and behave similarly in the marketplace. Social finance and asset classes are investment.

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Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) is an American private foundation founded by Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates.

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Bill Maurer

William M. Maurer (born March 31, 1968) is an American academic scholar of legal and economic anthropology.

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Blended value

Blended Value refers to an emerging conceptual framework in which non-profit organizations, businesses, and investments are evaluated based on their ability to generate a blend of financial, social, and environmental value.

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Capacity building

Capacity building (or capacity development, capacity strengthening) is the improvement in an individual's or organization's facility (or capability) "to produce, perform or deploy".

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The Community Reinvestment Act (CRA, P.L. 95-128, 91 Stat. 1147, title VIII of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1977, et seq.) is a United States federal law designed to encourage commercial banks and savings associations to help meet the needs of borrowers in all segments of their communities, including low- and moderate-income neighborhoods.

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Competition regulator

A competition regulator is the institution that oversees the functioning of markets.

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Corporate governance

Corporate governance are mechanisms, processes and relations by which corporations are controlled and operated ("governed").

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Corporate social responsibility (CSR) or corporate social impact is a form of international private business self-regulation which aims to contribute to societal goals of a philanthropic, activist, or charitable nature by engaging in, with, or supporting professional service volunteering through pro bono programs, community development, administering monetary grants to non-profit organizations for the public benefit, or to conduct ethically oriented business and investment practices. Social finance and corporate social responsibility are economy and the environment.

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Counseling psychology

Counseling psychology is a psychological specialty that began with a focus on vocational counseling, but later moved its emphasis to adjustment counseling, and then expanded to cover all normal psychology psychotherapy.

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Creating shared value (CSV) is a business concept first introduced in a 2006 Harvard Business Review article, Strategy & Society: The Link between Competitive Advantage and Corporate Social Responsibility. Social finance and Creating shared value are corporate social responsibility.

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Deutsche Bank

Deutsche Bank AG is a German multinational investment bank and financial services company headquartered in Frankfurt, Germany, and dual-listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange and the New York Stock Exchange.

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Development finance institution

Development financial institution (DFI), also known as a Development bank, is a financial institution that provides risk capital for economic development projects on a non-commercial basis.

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European Investment Fund

The European Investment Fund (EIF), established in 1994, is a financial institution for the provision of finance to SMEs (small and medium-sized enterprises), headquartered in Luxembourg.

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Financial instrument

Financial instruments are monetary contracts between parties.

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A financial intermediary is an institution or individual that serves as a "middleman" among diverse parties in order to facilitate financial transactions.

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Financial services

Financial services are economic services tied to finance provided by financial institutions.

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Foundation (nonprofit)

A foundation (also referred to as a charitable foundation) is a type of nonprofit organization or charitable trust that usually provides funding and support to other charitable organizations through grants, while also potentially participating directly in charitable activities.

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Free market

In economics, a free market is an economic system in which the prices of goods and services are determined by supply and demand expressed by sellers and buyers.

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Goldman Sachs

The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. is an American multinational investment bank and financial services company.

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Health care

Health care, or healthcare, is the improvement of health via the prevention, diagnosis, treatment, amelioration or cure of disease, illness, injury, and other physical and mental impairments in people.

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High-net-worth individual

High-net-worth individual (HNWI) is a technical term used in the financial services industry for people who maintain liquid assets at or above a certain threshold.

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Immigration detention

Immigration detention is the policy of holding individuals suspected of visa violations, illegal entry or unauthorized arrival, as well as those subject to deportation and removal until a decision is made by immigration authorities to grant a visa and release them into the community, or to repatriate them to their country of departure.

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Impact investing

Impact investing refers to investments "made into companies, organizations, and funds with the intention to generate a measurable, beneficial social or environmental impact alongside a financial return". Social finance and impact investing are corporate social responsibility, economy and the environment and investment.

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Institutional investor

An institutional investor is an entity that pools money to purchase securities, real property, and other investment assets or originate loans. Social finance and institutional investor are investment.

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Institutionalisation

In sociology, institutionalisation (or institutionalization) is the process of embedding some conception (for example a belief, norm, social role, particular value or mode of behavior) within an organization, social system, or society as a whole.

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An intermediary, also known as a middleman or go-between, is defined differently by context.

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Investor

An investor is a person who allocates financial capital with the expectation of a future return (profit) or to gain an advantage (interest).

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Law reform

Law reform or legal reform is the process of examining existing laws, and advocating and implementing change in a legal system, usually with the aim of enhancing justice or efficiency.

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Microfinance

Microfinance is a of financial services targeting individuals and small businesses who lack access to conventional banking and related services.

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Neoliberalism

Neoliberalism, also neo-liberalism, is both a political philosophy and a term used to signify the late-20th-century political reappearance of 19th-century ideas associated with free-market capitalism.

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Nonprofit organization

A nonprofit organization (NPO), also known as a nonbusiness entity, nonprofit institution, or simply a nonprofit (using the adjective as a noun), is a legal entity organized and operated for a collective, public or social benefit, as opposed to an entity that operates as a business aiming to generate a profit for its owners.

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Pay-for-performance (Investment)

A pay-for-performance fee structure, in relation to the investment industry, describes a management fee that is paid to a financial adviser or investment manager when their performance returns exceed those of their designated benchmark. Social finance and pay-for-performance (Investment) are investment.

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Pension fund

A pension fund, also known as a superannuation fund in some countries, is any program, fund, or scheme which provides retirement income.

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Private foundation

A private foundation is a tax-exempt organization that does not rely on broad public support and generally claims to serve humanitarian purposes.

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Regulatory reform

Regulatory reform concerns improvements to the quality of government regulation.

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Return on capital

Return on capital (ROC), or return on invested capital (ROIC), is a ratio used in finance, valuation and accounting, as a measure of the profitability and value-creating potential of companies relative to the amount of capital invested by shareholders and other debtholders.

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Service provider

A service provider (SP) is an organization that provides services, such as consulting, legal, real estate, communications, storage, and processing services, to other organizations.

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Social capital is "the networks of relationships among people who live and work in a particular society, enabling that society to function effectively".

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A social enterprise is an organization that applies commercial strategies to maximize improvements in financial, social and environmental well-being.

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Social enterprise lending is a form of social finance which refers to the practice of offering loans and other financing vehicles below current market rates to social enterprises and other organisations pursuing social goals.

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A social fund (sometimes also called Social Investment Fund, Social Fund for Development, Social Action Fund, National Solidarity Fund or Social Development Agency) is an institution, typically in a developing country, that provides financing (usually grants) for small-scale public investments targeted at meeting the needs of poor and vulnerable communities.

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A social impact bond (SIB), also known as pay-for-success financing, pay-for-success bond (US), social benefit bond (Australia), pay-for-benefit bond (Australia), social outcomes contract (UK), social impact partnership (Europe), social impact contract (Europe), or simply a social bond, is a form of outcomes-based contracting.

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Social return on investment (SROI) is a principles-based method for measuring extra-financial value (such as environmental or social value) not otherwise reflected or involved in conventional financial accounts.

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Socially responsible investing (SRI) is any investment strategy which seeks to consider financial return alongside ethical, social or environmental goals. Social finance and Socially responsible investing are corporate social responsibility and economy and the environment.

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Sustainable business

A sustainable business, or a green business, is an enterprise that has a minimal negative impact or potentially a positive effect on the global or local environment, community, society, or economy—a business that attempts to meet the triple bottom line. Social finance and sustainable business are corporate social responsibility.

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Sustainable finance

Sustainable finance is the set of practices, standards, norms, regulations and products that pursue financial returns alongside environmental and/or social objectives. Social finance and Sustainable finance are corporate social responsibility and economy and the environment.

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_finance

Also known as Social financing.

, 2007–2008 financial crisis.

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