Return in personal satisfaction

Elena Travaini is an Italian dancer who launched the ‘Blindly Dancing,’ movement in 2013, a powerful ‘dancing in the dark’ experience that has caught the imagination and interest of thousands of international followers. Elena’s personal story is nothing short of miraculous. Elena was born with a rare retina cancer, known as ‘bilateral Retinoblastoma,’ a type of cancer that can be deadly if not arrested. Despite all the odds she has developed a great passion for dancing who has brought abut the Blindly Dancing project. The ‘Blindly Dancing’ project encourages participants to dance with blindfolds on so that they can be in touch with their own emotional, introspective, and sensorial feelings.

Sunday March 10th, The 2019 Barcelona Marathon, Race start: 8:30 am, in Avinguda María Cristina.... Making the final decision to run a marathon is quite a big deal, running a marathon is a serious personal challenge. You need to constantly find the motivation to keep going when others will probably recommend you give up. Running a marathon is hard and the training sometimes is even harder.For most non-professional runners, like me, a marathon means months and months of preparation which require meticulous planning progressively longer runs. If you have a busy agenda it will become increasingly complex to find the time of training within your daily activities. I have learned that if you do not have a passion for what you are doing it's very hard to keep motivation high over time. Running a marathon is a nice exercise to learn to break down what you need to do to overcome the obstacle into small steps. Literally, you can focus on one step at a time. Once I got going, I grew to love it. It has been very nice to run in various cities around the world.

About 10 years have passed since JP Morgan and the Rockefeller Foundation coined the term, Impact Investing. Since then, impact investments have taken a long and important journey. Today, they represent an effective tool to improve the socio-economic conditions of the communities, playing an important role in the collaboration between the public and private sectors. From this point of view, Impact Investing can be considered a new frontier of sustainable finance and a real factor of change for the future of the world economy. A new model of economy driven by a more harmonious logic of redistribution of wealth within the economic and social systems. To better understand what we talk about when we talk about Impact Investing, it is good to refer to the definition Cambridge Associates and GIIN (Global Impact Investing Network) give of it: "They are investments made in companies, organizations and funds with the aim of generating a social or environmental impact that is measurable and favorable alongside, or in place of, a financial return." The change of perspective is clear. No more searching for profit for its own sake or for generating other profitable activities. Rather, having a positive impact on the living conditions of a community.