Arts and Impact Investing

Around the world organisation are using the Arts as a way to create change and economic development. Andrea Nemtin, CEO, Inspirit Foundation and Oksana Oracheva, General Director, Vladimir Potanin Fellowship discuss their programmes. Arts and Impact Investing has a long history and increasingly funders and investors are understanding it can bridge finance, policy and social change. Andrea Nemtin discusses how Inspirit, through public and private co-investing, undertakes real estate projects that provide cooperative and affordable living and working arrangements for artists in Canada. Oksana Oracheva discusses how the Vladamir Potantin Fellowship supports museums that spearhead new social enterprises and new business development models across Russia, inspiring a new generation of critical and creative thinkers.