Day: February 8, 2022

Tuesday, 8 February 2022

Covid cases continue to soar by the thousands every day. From just slightly below 2k cases just a month ago, the numbers have spiked to almost 14k today and is expected to continue rising in the midst of an Omnicron wave.

Cass’ high school shot out a notice to announce that in view of the current Covid situation, only SPM 2021 students need to be present in school for the SPM exam and all other students will attend online classes for the entire month of February 2022.

This morning I didn’t hear my phone alarm ring at 5.15 am. Someone defied me last night and made me burning mad just before bed time, resulting in me having insomnia until almost 1 a.m. I must have slept so deeply when my phone alarm buzzed at 5.15 a.m. and only woke up 1.5 hours later when I heard birds chirping outside. Being an ultra light sleeper, this is the first time that I didn’t hear my phone alarm ring! Thankfully hubs didn’t have to leave the house early for his central kitchen today and could drive Sherilyn to school. She was slightly late for her exam 😞

Haru caused a shitty mess in her litter box early this morning. The poop splattered onto the wall and everywhere else in the cage! I spent almost an hour wiping down the wall and cage with Sol-U-Guard and discarded the cotton sheets lining the cage. Last night Sherilyn fed Haru with quite a bit of chicken soup and it must have caused the poop to be slightly loose.

Haru still reeks of poop despite me wiping her down 100x with wet wipes. We don’t have the time to give her a bath yet.

I felt so shitty in the morning and still pissed with someone. But it got better after I had a long walk outdoor and then went to the supermarket to get groceries. A long walk or run outdoor always defuses a bad day and palliates the gravity of a situation for me.

Our dinner from last night – Miso Tori Paitan Ramen (Creamy Chicken Broth Ramen). This recipe is not for the time-strapped as it involves a LOT of work.

Ramen in chicken paitan broth (Tori Paitan Dashi), topped with spinach, mushrooms, sauteed minced pork and raw leeks. Even the fried shallots are homemade.

The ramen was made from scratch last month and frozen. The chicken broth involves multiple onerous steps from boiling to blending the chicken and veggies in the Thermomix and then sieving it. The result is a very rich, emulsified and nutritious chicken broth.

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Impact investments are being made by investors all around the world to harness the power of finance for good. Continue reading to understand impact investing’s basic characteristics, who makes impact investments, the outcomes these investments can produce, and more.

What Is Impact Investing

The phrase “impact investing” was coined in 2007, but the practice has existed for many years before that. One of the primary goals of impact investing is to assist in reducing the negative consequences of economic activity on society. As a result, impact investing is sometimes regarded as a form of philanthropy.

Before investing in a firm, investors that utilize impact investing as a strategy assess the company’s commitment to corporate social responsibility (CSR), or the sense of obligation to positively assist society as a whole. The type of impact that investing can have varies by industry and by a company within that industry. For example, Social Impact Capital is a venture capital business situated in New York that was founded in 2016. Minority seed and early-stage impact investments are the firm’s goal. The company prefers to invest in businesses that deal with energy, water, food, health, the environment, housing, social justice, education, and other consumer goods and services.

3 Characteristics Of Impact Investing

Intentionality

A conscious desire to contribute to a demonstrable social or environmental benefit of the impact investment. The goal of impact investors is to fix issues and capitalize on opportunities. This is what sets impact investing apart from other investment strategies that may take into account social and environmental factors.

Manage Impact Performance

Impact investing has a specific goal in mind, and it necessitates that investments be managed to achieve that goal. This includes putting in place feedback loops and communicating performance data to help others in the investment chain manage toward impact.

Contribute to the Growth of the Industry

For describing their impact plans, goals, and results, investors with credible impact investing practices employ common industry vocabulary, conventions, and metrics. They also share lessons learned whenever feasible so that others can benefit from their knowledge of what leads to social and environmental benefits.

These Core Characteristics of Impact Investing add to the Social Impact Capital existing definition of effective investing, which is defined as investments undertaken with the goal of generating a positive, measurable social and environmental impact in addition to a financial return. Ask and find out more on the Sarah Cone Twitter page

Benefits Of Impact Investing

Impact investing has a number of advantages, some of which are quantifiable and concrete, while others are less so but nonetheless significant. Here are a few of the advantages of impact investing: 

  • Corporate practices that are important to you, such as fair labor practices or environmental sustainability, should be promoted and encouraged. 
  • Use more of your resources to support topics that are important to you, in addition to what you pay to charity. 
  • Support long-term solutions to social problems that aren’t entirely reliant on philanthropy donations. 
  • Make your money last longer. Returns on impact investments can be recycled to have a greater social impact.

It’s also worth noting that investing in social effects doesn’t always imply sacrificing financial benefits. Several studies have looked at the performance of impact investments and found that they frequently meet, if not always exceed, the performance of standard investments.

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