Greg Spencer
CEO & Co-founder at Common Good Marketplace
Greensboro, North Carolina
Summary
Builds market-based infrastructure to channel capital to verified social outcomes. commongoodmarketplace+2
Hands-on social enterprise operator with deep last-mile experience in East Africa focused on clean energy distribution. huffpost+2
Public-facing thought leader on impact finance and ESG who authors and speaks about paying for verified results. reuters+2
Founder-executive who has transitioned from operating social enterprises to building platform-level solutions that scale impact via partnerships and product development. commongoodmarketplace+2
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Comment: How companies can help alleviate global poverty, and meet their ESG targets
October 1, 2024Opinion piece co-authored for Reuters arguing that businesses can help fill development funding gaps by purchasing verified impact and using market-based approaches to fund proven outcomes aligned with the SDGs.
A New Marketplace for the Common Good (Common Good Marketplace Whitepaper)
June 1, 2021Whitepaper laying out the Common Good Marketplace concept, technical framework, and rationale for tradable Verified Impact Assets to channel capital toward measurable social and environmental outcomes.