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How impact investing communities become echo chambers

Every impact investing conference I attend is full of people congratulating each other for caring while the problems we claim to address keep getting worse outside the hotel ballroom.

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The insular nature of impact investing culture can create the appearance of progress while substituting conversation for action and networking for results.

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