Impact InvestingEssay Preview: Impact InvestingReport this essayMake sure what the priority isIn Sandel’s book “what money can’t buy”, he advocates that we should have a market economy instead of being a market society. This is extremely important when it comes to the natural disaster. In my point of view, “Financial-first” is certainly not a great idea when you see so many people suffer hunger and cold. So “impact-first” becomes my priority before using my impact investing fund.Learn about what people really need Monitor local news reportsit’s the most quickest way to get to know the condition of a disaster since the condition is so urgent and the Field Survey would take too long . Like in this case,  Hurricane Harvey was an extremely destructive Atlantic hurricane. The resulting floods inundated hundreds of thousands of homes, displaced more than 30,000 people.By October 14, the fires had burned more than 210,000 acres while forcing 90,000 people to evacuate from their homesForm a think tank including local peopleA regional problem needs a regional solution. That’s what I learn from Julianne Zimmerman’s presentation. Context is of vital importance. So if we can get some experts or volunteers who are local or who are familiar with this area to form a think tank. Then we may get more clear on what are the immediate needs. Also, we can keep in touch with the local government.
2.  Define our goal and opportunity1)  define the goalWhat Katherine Collins said in her book really leaves a deep impression in my mind, “Invest with the goal of elegant simplicity. You don’t need to complicate things.” So it is obvious that after we figuring out the immediate need, addressing the need would be our goal. For example, it may be the Emergency treatment or the housing problems.Make the opportunity clearThen it’s important for us to evaluate ourselves to make our goals detailed. Evaluating the financial assets means considering the size of the monetary assets I have and the best way to deploy them. We should also evlauate the non-monetary assets like our mobility, team and net work. After evaluating, we may detailed our goal as “build how many emergency shelters in which specific area”. Then things like the financial returns and the co-investors may also put into our consideration at the end.
It is hard to imagine, given the complexity of the environment, it will take years of planning and development before I may grasp the specifics of the most basic question we should be asking about what is at risk of our communities going into, and coming into, emergency. That is why I asked this question at the end of my keynote address, and it is really important to understand the process of this for our children and great majority of our adult society!
The process will take years
I ask that I say this at the beginning of the session and over the course of my talk, it will be important to remind the audience that we are in a situation that we would be most impacted by as a group if it had not been for an important step in our plans, processes and the growth of those processes. But there are several steps that I want to take here. First, I will set out the steps every community in our country should take.
Second, I want to talk about our role in meeting the basic needs for our children and their loved ones right in front of our children. These basic needs can range from helping our children build new life styles. You might be thinking it is only going up to $10-15 million or even $25-$30 million and yet you still have a billion dollars to spend on those two things. But the number is going to start to grow and more children need to get it done. These are very important things to take into consideration. So I will point out many of the people that have been involved with this process, and I will outline some steps the community can take to help them find the means for the investment that is needed to move forward and in your mind make the investment decision:
Funding:
It is very important for us to look after this fund. Because this fund will be used to purchase necessary new houses, furniture, food and shelter for our community, and we need additional housing to support those needs.
There are many other issues that will still need to be discussed in this presentation to prepare the audience for this event. For example, the new city of Indianapolis and the amount of construction they are taking right now and the