Moving Ahead Together:
Implications of Blended Value
For the Future of Our Work
Parts of a Common Journey…
Social Enterprise Sustainable Development Philanthropy (Venture Philanthropy, Strategic Philanthropy, etc.)Social Investing Corporate Social Responsibility Value Maximization Traditional For-Profit Companies
+1 -1 +1 -1 Financial Investments & Numeric Returns Social Capital Investments & Social Returns A Zero-Sum Dissonance:
The Traditional Value Proposition
Quad A Quad B
Quad D Quad C
Economic Value
Michael Porter:
In this corporate competitive context, the
company s social initiatives or its
philanthropy can have great impact. Not only
for the company, but also for the local society I used to see this area of corporate social
performance as the last thing on my agenda ten years ago, but now I agree that social and
economic issues are intertwined
Social Environmental Values & Systems Economic External driving forces Internal driving forces
A strong commitment to Business Principles and SD Renewable Business $0.5b Carbon costing H2 Business Texaco Wind Malampaya DJSI Financial roadmap Solar growth Shell Report GHG targets Brent Spar Re-used Child Labour Award Shell Foundation $250m ISO Cert. K11 Community developme nt in Nigeria C.Chair Diversity Target Venting Target Diversity target Flaring Target 1995 2000 2005 2010 +
Implications For How We Think About:
n The Nature of The Firm n Capital Investment
(Market-rate, Concessionary, Philanthropic)
n Tracking Performance
n Development and Dissemination of IC
The Nature of The Firm
n From Value Creation perspective, there is no
difference between FP + NP.
n Currently, NPs under-perform economically;
FPs under-perform socially/environmentally.
n Focus must be upon form, function and
leveraged relationships that maximize total value—not issues of corporate structure.
Capital Investment
(Market-rate, Concessionary, Philanthropic) n “Objective” economic capital market
process viewed as lodged within social and environmental context.
n Capital Markets will seek “highest and
best use” of capital…
n But in pursuit of full, blended value.
n Diverse Investors take complimentary
positions in pursuit of multiple returns and generation of full, blended value.
Core Elements of Foundation Asset Management
1. Asset Alignment
2. Strategic Grantmaking Practice
3. Engagement, Transparency, Accountability
to Relevant Stakeholders
4. Development/Dissemination of IC
5. Active Education, Policy Development and
Advocacy
Unified Investment Strategy Capital Allocation Grant (Program) Available Capital Grant (Infrastructure) Grant (Research and Development, Seed Funding) Recoverable Grants + PRIs
FROI Risk Boundary
Risk Free Rate Treasury Note 6% FROI Traditional Diversified Investment portfolio Equity Linked Zero Coupon Bond With SRI Index Options VC Fund Or Angel Investing Private Equity Investing Socially Responsible Angel and Social Venture Capital Fund Investing
SROI Risk Boundary
Tracking Performance
n Financial return analysis, “evaluation” of
nonprofit social impacts, and double/triple bottom-line frameworks are all needed to explore various components of capital
performance and value creation—
but there is one bottom-line, a bottom-line reflecting a single, non-divisible blended value proposition.
Tracking Performance
n Documentation of non-financial
performance will migrate from “external reporting” to internal, integrated MIS.
n Organizations (whether firms or investor
groups) that are “built to last” view New
Metrics as critical to firm management and maximizing value of both the venture itself and strategic partnerships.
Development and Dissemination of IC
n Future Knowledge will emerge from between the
silos and not within.
n Knowledge will develop based out of practice
informed by reflection and history.
n Academic institutions will increasingly cultivate
Intellectual Capital driven by a commitment to intellectual curiosity and academic inquiry—
How We Organize Our Work and “Field(s)”
n The emergence of Value Networks will drive the
organization of our work and structure our fields of practice.
n These Networks will be both spontaneous and
facilitated—but they will be driven by mutual pursuit of common challenges in structuring
capital, advancing New Metrics and leveraging diverse resources to assure maximum impact.
Blended Value Process
Overview of Blended Value Map
Practitioners (CEO s, Managers, Social Entrepreneurs,) Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Social Enterprise Investors Strategic/Effective Philanthropy Social Investing Socially Responsible Investing (SRI) Social Investing Community & Double Bottom Line Investing
Topics Resource Organizations Initiatives Leadership Examples Areas to Explore Organizational Capacity Capital Questions Sustainable Development Regulatory, Policy and Tax
Code Resources (Books, Articles, Websites) Issues Under Discussion Cross-Cutting Issues Measurement and Metrics (Non-profits & CSR) Implications Infrastructure Creation of Value Networks to Leverage Cross-Silo Collaboration
Blended Value Process
Theory of Change Overview Value networking
across the silos of:
Corporate Social Responsibility Social Enterprise Social Investing Strategic/Effective Philanthropy Sustainable Development
Around the cross-cutting issues of:
Capital Metrics Leadership & Organizational Capacity Government Policy/Regulation/ Tax Code Increased economic return and social/ environmental impacts far beyond the potential of incremental efforts of existing organizations. Emerging Blended Value Practices Lead to: Supporting Government Policy/Regulation/Tax Code Improved Leadership and Organization al Development
Increased Capital into Blended Value Organizations and Increased Effectiveness of that Capital Evolution and Application of More Effective New Metrics More Efficient Social
Interim Points Toward the Future…
n An Expanded Vision Grounded in Pursuit
of Total, Blended Value for Both Individual Investor and Shared Community Benefit
n A Commitment to Working Together
Through Value Networks That Build
Connections and Leverage Total Assets
n A Dynamic Platform of Support for the
A Final Thought…
"Every company has a diagram of the
universe in which they're the center. That's never true. We're all a node in a mesh."
And Two Final Perspectives on
The Way Ahead…
For more information…
n Please see The Blended Value Map:
Tracking the Intersects and Opportunities of Economic, Social and Environmental Value Creation as well as the supporting
annotated bibliography and other documents available at
Graphic credits
n The graphic of a fractal is taken from a web site maintained by Uwe
Krueger: http://i30www.ira.uka.de/~ukrueger/fractals/html/b5a.html
and I would like to thank him for posting it for public use.
n Fractals may be thought of as graphic representations of
mathematical formulas which have “high degrees of self-similarity.” They are “finite areas bounded by infinite lines”…For more on this,
please see: http://www.jracademy.com/~jtucek/math/fractals.html
n The graphic of a photo taken from the Hubble Space Telescope is
from the NASA web site.
n Other graphics in this presentation are from reports, articles and
presentations made by Jed Emerson and the staff of the Blended Value Map Process.