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Global Impact Summit

Creativity, Culture & Capital:
Opportunities for impact investing
in the global creative economy

At this year’s GSG Global Impact Summit, Upstart Co-Lab, Nesta’s Arts & Culture Finance, and Fundación Compromiso brought together fund managers and entrepreneurs in the creative economy to discuss how the creative sector delivers social and environmental impact, and how impact investors can back a more just and sustainable global creative economy.

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Read Creativity, Culture, Capital: Impact investing in the global creative economy with essays written by 96 experts from 24 countries including Sir Ronald Cohen, Yo-Yo Ma, Marta Minujín and Darren Walker.

Edited by Upstart Co-Lab, Nesta’s Arts & Culture Finance, and Fundación Compromiso.

Upstart Co-Lab is grateful to our Creativity, Culture & Capital partners:

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Hyperallergic: It’s Time for US Museums to Divest From Immoral Industries

American Alliance of Museums: Museums Discover Impact Investing

ImpactAlpha: Impact investments are beginning to show up in the endowments of U.S. art museums

Philanthropy News Digest: Cultural Capital: The state of museums and their investing

TheNonProfitTimes: Museums Late To Impact Investing Party

Fin News: Museums With Long Road To Reach Impact Investment Adoption Of E&Fs: Survey

artnet: Just a Third of Museums Are Investing Their Endowments in Socially Responsible Ways, a Study Found. Here’s How They Can Do Better

The New York Times: How Museums Invest

Barron’s: Most Museums Don’t Put Their Money Where Their Values Are

Worth Magazine: Museum Boards And Donors Need To Examine Where Endowments Are Invested

Americans for the Arts: How America’s Arts Organizations Can Invest Their Values

The Art Newspaper: How museums can ethically invest their money

American Alliance of Museums: Investing for Values and Mission

The Art Newspaper: ethical investment options should come easy

Financial Times: Museums should lead in socially responsible investing

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