Giving Compass' Take:

• Eillie Anzilotti, writing for Fast Company, explains why impact investing funds should be focused on artists, designers, innovators, and storytellers. 

• How would impact investing practices look different in the art space?

• Read about how arts education can help train tomorrow's workforce. 

With an unmistakable need for more creative solutions to global problems, we should be looking to the artists, designers, innovators, and storytellers now more than ever.

We’re living in an era when everyone is seeking creative solutions to overwhelming global issues. The nonprofit XPrize is funding teams to tackle problems such as Alzheimer’s disease and air quality.

The MacArthur Foundation’s 100&Change competition will award $100 million to a single idea with the potential to create real, systems-level impact.

But there’s a voice missing from these conversations, says Laura Callanan, founder of Upstart Co-Lab and former deputy chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts.

There’s this pull for creativity as the way to address our challenges, and  who are the most creative people we know? They’re the artists, they’re the designers, they’re the makers. They’re working in fashion, they’re working in culinary, they’re working in art and design and entertainment. We need to get them in the mix and provide them with the attention, networks, and financial resources that they need to be successful.

And there’s also the fact that, as Callanan said, creative jobs “are the jobs robots can’t take.”

Through Bienville Capital, Meyercord has invested in initiatives like Artspace, which provides housing subsidies to creatives, and he nodded to Meow Wolf, an immersive installation in Santa Fe, New Mexico, which was developed through a collaboration among local artists, as a venture that could benefit from venture funding.

Read the full article about impact investing in creativity by Eillie Anzilotti at Fast Company.