It seems that the world is a changing place.  Today, our new Prime Minister, David Cameron, has stressed and stressed again the importance of responsibility in our society.  This month has seen Standard Charter launch its new global brand promise, Here For Good.  Credit Suisse has identified sustainability as a "global megatrend" and JP Morgan is extending its Social Finance team to London and last week announced a $10million investment in to Leapfrog, a micro-insurance organisation.
Is this all a good thing?  Is it possible for such organisations to truly be "pro-poor"?  Does this all herald a new age?  I certainly hope so.  In the UK alone, over £3trillion of capital is invested without any thought or consideration to its social and environmental impact.  We can continue to focus on how much negative impact this causes or we can see it as a huge potential for change.  
At Investing for Good we believe that, unless we focus on the possible, the trap of the impossible will carry on constraining what we can achieve.