Impact Investing News and Views from Toniic Community
Toniic and Community Response to Covid-19
Pandemics, Impact Investing and ESG Investing
Even those lucky enough to have escaped severe COVID-19 illness in themselves or a family member have been dramatically affected by the pandemic. The economic effects on the real economy are the severest of our lifetimes. The effects are global, and disproportionately…
Toniic Community Responds to Covid-19
Toniic members have been working hard to bring impact investments and philanthropic capital to communities hurt by Covid 19. This section is open to all Toniic members who wish to publicly share this work to catalyze further impact. Toniic members are responding…
Covid 19 is a lesson in why alternative investment structures are needed
Covid-19 is teaching us many lessons that take the form of “that thing we used to do, or that idea we used to feel safe thinking, turned out to not be that good an idea after all.” Covid 19 is teaching us…
Re-Thinking Corporate Governance in the context of COVID-19 and crisis bailouts
Corporate governance is the framework of rules and practices by which a board of directors ensures accountability, fairness, and transparency in a company’s relationships with all stakeholders (financiers, customers, management, employees, government, and the community. Corporate governance framework consists of (i) explicit…
R3 Coalition: Response, Recovery, and Resilience Investment Coalition in the face of COVID-19
Today Toniic joined with several other prominent impact investing networks and leading foundations in the R3 Coalition, an industry initiative accelerating impact investments to respond, recover, and build resilience in the face of COVID-19. The R3 Coalition aims to mobilize and coordinate…
Toniic Member-Led Rapid Philanthropy Response to COVID-19
Toniic Members Rebekah Helzel, Jennifer McFarlane and Sayuri Sharper led a rapid response Covid-19 philanthropic initiative to provide meaningful grants to up to two Bay Area nonprofits focused on addressing the greatest needs of the most vulnerable arising from COVID-19. The donor…