“My experience with eBay demonstrated that you can do well by doing good. Impact Investing explores this important idea and provides many examples of the social impact that a for-profit business can ignite.—Pierre Omidyar, founder and chairman, eBay; founding partner, Omidyar Network, USA.

For more information, visit Impact Investing: Transforming How We Make Money While Making a Difference, by Antony Bugg-Levine and Jed Emerson, Jossey-Bass 2011.