That is the notion of investment.

There's brass in boots, Mrs. Hepworth.

Venture Philanthropy Partners in Washington,

Your 401 just got nailed.

Euvin Naidoo on investing in Africa

Your 401(k) just got nailed.

Why are they doing that? Because they expect investment to follow.

Geoff Mulgan Post crash, investing in a better world

Can you imagine?

This investment in Africa over the last 30 years.

But we have to figure out what I'm going to get in exchange for investing in your company.

It has as well investments in the stock market in 25 countries.

It will keep paying off.

I mean, first of all, can you give a sense of what scale of investment this is?

It includes things like the structures, the buildings and, and so for all of this, in the economic sense, and this is why it's easier to count for this, for the most part, is done by the firms, and it also includes the one thing that households do, which is build construction of new homes.

If you can't invest in your own thing, why should I invest in it?

but that the ownership of this capital, the way the capitalization happens, is radically distributed.

Barack Obama That's why we had to invest in clean coal technologies.

Can you imagine? Well, you should invest in my company because it's really good.

Words like philanthrocapitalism, and natural capitalism, and philanthroentrepreneur, and venture philanthropy.

This is from the household. Households.

George W. Bush We must continue investing in new methods of producing ethanol.

And so, on a micro level, there's a real role for this combination of investment and philanthropy.

Both of them are about investing in entrepreneurs who are committed to service, and who really know the markets.

But you could say, Invest in Africa in over 1,000 languages, and it wouldn't make a difference.

What I want to do in this video is compare investment to consumption and we're going to think about it in two contexts.

And you're focused on me and why I'm such a great guy, and why you want to invest in me.

I hope you invested if you can't invest in your own thing, why should I?

What else can I do with my money, comparing this investment to other possible investments, you compared to the past.

And that's the kind of thing the investment in the young that makes us great, allows us to contribute.

She said the only way to help Sudan is to invest in the women, educating them, educating the children, so that they could come and create a revolution in this complex society.

These funds are to philanthropy what venture capital, private equity, and eventually mutual funds are to investing, but with a twist because often a community forms around these funds, as it has at Acumen and other places.

I just want to highlight one key feature of this system, which is the role of investment.

South African investment banker Euvin Naidoo explains why investing in Africa can make great business sense.

There is no way we can talk about the building of stability if we don't start investing in women and girls.

And the venture capital world, it's kind of separated into different people who invest in different stages.

That leaves the final category, social investing, which is really, anyway, the biggest of them all, represented here by Xigi.net.

But watching a movie, that would also be consumption.

Investment, at the end of the day, you are investing so that you can get future benefit that could lead to consumption, because at the end of the day, consumption is one of the things that might make your life a little bit better off.

I have I left the country, I have a meeting with George Soros, trying for the third time to convince him that his foundation should invest in something that should operate like a media bank.

Also, I can imagine many design manufacturers will have to retool their own business plans and maybe invest in this Kinko's store. But it really is a big change.

This is something that happened without foreign investment, without government aid, and actually, it happened against all odds, in one of the most difficult moments in Nigerian economy.

We now recognize that getting markets right is about not just price incentives, but also investing in the right infrastructure and the appropriate and necessary institutions to create the conditions to unleash the power of innovation in the market.

Also, I can imagine many design manufacturers will have to retool their own business plans and maybe invest in this Kinko's store.

Then you come back to me you're focused on me, why I'm such a great guy, why you want to invest, why this all makes sense.