Social Finance Quotes

Introducing a social investment tax relief will make investment even more appealing and accessible.

The moment you say microfinance everybody wants to help you.

I want to open up investment even further so over the summer we'll launch a consultation on indirect investments in social enterprises - including exploring the possibility of a new scheme based on the success of venture capital trusts which will enable investors to pool their funds to support a variety of social enterprises.

I think we need to rethink a lot of business skills. In finance, for example, social impact bonds are potentially a way of providing capital for investments that save the public money in a context in which government often doesn't invest in things that would save it money.

We need to reverse three centuries of walling the for-profit and non-profit sectors off from one another. When you think for-profit and non-profit, you most often think of entities with either zero social return or zero return on capital and zero social return. Clearly, there's some opportunity in the spectrum between those extremes. What's missing is the for-profit finance industry coming in to that area. Look at the enormous diversity of the for-profit financial industry as opposed to monolithic nature of the non-profit world; it's quite astonishing.

I would like philanthropists to take more risks and invest more in risk capital.

Everyone says you've got to do a foundation and legal structure to finance social change. What nonsense!

If private-sector capital can be harnessed for social good, the potential to scale humanitarian solutions is vast.

A social impact bond is a new way of bringing financing into social and environmental support issues.