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Tuesday, March 11, 2025
Can an Office for the Impact Economy happen in the US? American attorney Marc J. Lane makes a strong case in favor, writing in a recent article that “there’s no reason the nation as a whole shouldn’t systematically pursue the same multi-sectoral impact agenda” as put forward in the UK.
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Thursday, March 6, 2025
There are about 80,000 nonprofits in Illinois that, in total, employ one million people. And on Chicago’s West Side, nonprofits make up about 25% of the economy.
But those numbers could change as the recently created United States Department of Government Efficiency has laid off thousands of government employees, claimed over $50 billion in budget...
Monday, September 11, 2023
The ideal of socially responsible corporations has gained a real following in the past few years, but it is Marc J. Lane, the Chicago attorney who serves as president and chairman of Social Enterprise Chicago, who actually pioneered the idea two decades ago. He's been a tireless promoter: At age 76, he is the author of 36 books, many devoted to showing both for-profits and nonprofits how to address social and environmental concerns in their everyday practices.
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Monday, January 25, 2021
The future of philanthropy
by pgk
On 5th May 2009, with the world still reeling from the effects of the global financial crisis, a secret gathering of billionaires took place at the elegant but discrete President’s House within the grounds of New York’s Rockefeller University. This event – a dinner arranged by Bill & Melinda...
Wednesday, April 1, 2020
Coronavirus, Economic Meltdown And The World Of Impact: Insights From Marc J. Lane, Attorney And Social Enterprise Advocate
Anne Field, Contributor
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What do the Coronavirus pandemic and economic crisis mean for social enterprise and impact investing? Not Only for Profit is talking to a variety of key...
Thursday, March 15, 2018
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CHICAGO — A new Cook County ordinance will give preference on bidding to vendors who the county believes are set up to serve the public benefit.
“To qualify, a venture must be an Illinois benefit corporation—a business corporation which by law and charter seeks to create a general public benefit,”...
Friday, February 23, 2018
Chicago skyline (Photo By Raymond Boyd/Getty Images)
Cook County, where Chicago is situated, just handed social enterprises an official leg up. The second largest county in the U.S. recently enacted an ordinance giving impact ventures a preference in government procurement of goods and services. The rule, which took effect in October, was just published....
Thursday, September 28, 2017
Dan Swinney, CEO of Manufacturing Renaissance, one of four nonprofits leading the Chicago Ownership Conversion Project.
As many as 2,000 small local manufacturing firms could be up for sale in the next decade. Four local nonprofits want minority and female entrepreneurs to buy them.
The Chicago Ownership Conversion Project aims to correct a...
Friday, February 17, 2017
Illinois is becoming a hub for companies that want to change the world and make a profit at the same time, said Marc J. Lane, an attorney and economic development expert at an event hosted Feb. 8 by the Great Cities Institute at University of Illinois-Chicago.
Imagine a “Shark Tank” television show where non-profit charities bring their needs...
Tuesday, June 21, 2016
For social entrepreneurs in Chicagoland, there’s a new resource, one that could be a model for other cities.
It’s an initiative called the Commission on Social Innovation. Recently formed by the Cook County Board, the Commission aims to help meet the needs of the area’s struggling underprivileged population, in part, by encouraging the...
Thursday, December 31, 2015
Earlier this year, hedge-fund billionaire Paul Tudor Jones II announced his plans to rate 1,000 publicly traded companies on how just they are–that is, how well they treat other stakeholders, like employees, society and the environment. To that end, along with such celebrities as Deepak Chopra, he started a nonprofit called JUST Capital Foundation. I...
Friday, October 30, 2015
Impact investing just took another big step towards becoming mainstream, with the help of the Department of Labor (DOL). And all the hard work investors have been doing to build reliable ways to measure results seems to be a contributing factor. Specifically, the DOL recently posted guidance about what it calls economically targeted investments (ETIs) made...
Thursday, September 24, 2015
Representing Corporate Officers, Directors, Managers, and Trustees, Second Edition
By Marc J. Lane
Now Comprehensively Supplemented!
Representing Corporate Officers, Directors, Managers, and Trustees, Second Edition is a guide to the practical aspects of corporate governance for attorneys, officers, directors, managers, and trustees. The introduction of...
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