Assessing Impact Potential in Venture Capital Just over 10 years ago, JPMorgan and the Rockefeller Foundation, together with the Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN), published a report claiming that impact investment was an emerging asset class that would reach between $400 billion and $1 trillion in assets under management by…

Decision-making across identities relative to venture investment and fund performance Thank you Monica Roman and Robert Gottlieb for the brilliant feedback on this piece. Gradually over time, both men and women have challenged the traditional understanding of “rationality,” arguing that rational thinking should not be defined by sex or gender…

Thoughts and perspectives on the changing shapes of urban ecologies and cooperative efforts for balancing the tone of the city Cities are organisms in which we live — the crossing streets like hairs on our skin, water flowing underneath as veins of a living, always-functioning being. A sharp metaphor, cities…

In 1915, the South 9th Street Businessmen’s Association was formed in Philadelphia to promote the commercial development of 9th Street between Catherine and Federal Streets and its neighboring merchants on 8th and 10th Streets. During this time, the thought was to create an organization to support the merchants and facilitate…