Demystifying Social Finance and Social Investment by Mark Salway

Demystifying Social Finance and Social Investment by Mark Salway

In the past, charity finance focused on two main forms of funding: grants and donations. With the recent reduction in grants, the move towards more service delivery contracts and the greater level of competition for donations, charities are struggling to maintain their impact and scale of work at best. At worst, we are seeing the fall off in the financial sustainability of charities. The question is 'How will the sector evolve to maintain its 'impact' and the scope and scale of its work?' This is where social investment has a role to play. Borrowing and debt finance is part of this mix, and a potential way of funding the sector to maintain future impact. However, it is not appropriate for all charities and relies on income generation and social enterprise to pay back investment finance, but it could be a 'game-changer' for the sector. The Editors of this book look at all facets of social investment and help readers to understand the complexity of different issues. They provide comprehensive technical knowledge, a diagnostic tool to consider an organisation's state of readiness for social investment and present case studies to take the reader on a journey around all aspects of this subject. They will also explore the culture issues at the heart of current debate around social investment. Peter Palmer, Paul Grant and Mark Salway will help you understand how a small amount of borrowing, or a different business model focused away from grants and donations, could be transformational for the non-profit sector.

Mark Salway FCA is a Chartered Accountant with over 20 years of finance experience in the charity sector. He has been Finance Director at several large charities, and also worked as a management consultant at both commercial and non-profit organisations – such as the UN, Age UK, the Wellcome Trust, and WSUP (Water and Sanitation for the Urban Poor) – and with the government.

Mark was invited into Cass Business School, Centre for Charity Effectiveness (Cass CCE), to start its fledgling work

on social investment and social finance. He led this successfully for five years. This eventually changed into focusing on financial sustainability and nonprofit business models. Mark currently runs the consulting services to charities at Moore Kingston Smith, a major UK accounting and advisory firm. He also runs several MSc modules at Cass Business School, where he is continuing his research work.

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ISBN 13	9780367556280
ISBN 10	0367556286
Title	Demystifying Social Finance and Social Investment
Author	Mark Salway
Series	Charity And Non-Profit Studies
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Taylor & Francis Ltd
Year published	2020-10-29
Number of pages	326
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