Your Mark On The World
#223: Wealthy Entrepreneur Focused On Impact Investing
- Author: Vários
- Narrator: Vários
- Publisher: Podcast
- Duration: 0:20:00
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February 25, 2015 - Read the full Forbes article and watch the interview here: http://onforb.es/1GsagF8. Subscribe to this podcast on iTunes by clicking here: http://bit.ly/ymotwitunes or on Stitcher by clicking here: http://bit.ly/ymotwstitcher. James Lee Sorenson, whose late father was listed among Forbes’ billionaires and left his fortune to charity, has focused his significant personal wealth accumulated through his own entrepreneurship on driving impact around the world, by “building a comprehensive impact ecosystem that has the appropriate tools whether that is a philanthropic grant, a social impact bond, or an equity investment to address different societal challenges and create sustainable scalable impact.” At present, Sorenson, via the Sorenson Impact Foundation, is working on three separate but closely related projects, including the Sorenson Global Impact Investment Center (commonly known as the SGII Center), pay for success financing and an impact investing fund. Of the SGII Center, he says, “