{"id":14065,"date":"2021-01-28T09:22:09","date_gmt":"2021-01-28T09:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.openbusinesscouncil.org\/?p=14065"},"modified":"2022-05-04T21:37:25","modified_gmt":"2022-05-04T21:37:25","slug":"creativity-culture-and-capital-impact-investing-in-the-global-creative-economy-white-paper-launched-by-nesta-fundacion-compromiso-and-upstart-co-lab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.footballthink.com\/creativity-culture-and-capital-impact-investing-in-the-global-creative-economy-white-paper-launched-by-nesta-fundacion-compromiso-and-upstart-co-lab\/","title":{"rendered":"Creativity, Culture and Capital: Impact Investing In The Global Creative Economy White Paper Launched By Nesta, Fundacion Compromiso and Upstart Co-Lab"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"
Creativity, Culture and Capital: Impact Investing In The Global Creative Economy White Paper Launched By Nesta, Fundacion Compromiso and Upstart Co-Lab<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Contributors to initial essay collection include Sir Ronald Cohen, Yo-Yo Ma, Sir Nicholas Serota, president emerita of Brooklyn Academy of Music Karen Brooks Hopkins, director of digital development at Royal Shakespeare Company Sarah Ellis, and George Gachara, managing partner of East Africa\u2019s creative industries investment facility, HEVA Fund LLP, along with arts and impact investing leaders from Brazil, Chile, Egypt, Ghana, Kenya, Mexico<\/strong><\/p>\n

Nesta, the UK based innovation foundation, announces the publication of a new collection of essays from around the globe illustrating the need and opportunity for impact investment to maintain and sustain the creative economy.<\/p>\n

Creativity, Culture and Capital: Impact Investing in the global creative economy <\/em>has been created in partnership with US-based impact investment field-builder Upstart Co-Lab and LATAM based Fundacion Compromiso. The female-led initiative marks the start of the UN\u2019s International Year of Creative Economy for Sustainable Development and recognises the creative sector as a key driver of inclusive and sustainable growth as the world recovers from the effects of the pandemic.<\/p>\n

The collection highlights the need and opportunity for impact investment to support renewed substantial sector growth, alongside continued government funding, philanthropic support and profit-maximising investment, and marks a moment when arts organisations and the creative industries \u2013 including fashion, food, film, music and design – are considering what kind of funding will enable them to \u2018build back better\u2019 following Covid-19.<\/p>\n

The essays within the collection explore two broad themes: Creativity at Work, which shows how art, design, culture, heritage and creativity are benefiting people, communities and the planet; and Connecting Impact Capital, which illustrates how impact investment is already transforming and stimulating creative economic activity delivering financial returns as well as social and environmental impact. Highlights include:<\/p>\n