TWIST: Investing for Systems Change

Our inaugural TWIST White Paper is live! Check out our TWIST website to learn more about TWIST, our community, our 42 case studies collected to date, the 10 core traits of investing for systems change identified, and more: https://lnkd.in/drFgVX9N We would love your reflections and feedback on this - through LinkedIn, our website, or by contacting us directly - so that we can further refine this piece of work. A special thank you to the case study contributors highlighted in this report: Kaj Lofgren (Regen Melbourne), Latimpacto (Fundación Arturo Sesana), Fumi Sugeno, Motoi Kawabata, Yuya Kato (Japan Social Innovation and Investment Foundation (SIIF)), Lisa Kleissner, Miwa Tamanaha, Keoni Lee (Hawaii Investment Ready), Alban Yau, Jason Jay (ReFED), Philipp Essl, James Burrows (Fair By Design), Lissy Smit (Aqua-Spark), Andrea Armeni (Transform Finance), Tania Rodriguez Riestra (CO_), James Foster (Gatsby Africa), Philipp Engelhorn, Jennifer Strachan (Cinereach) And of course the TWIST Team Alison Fort, Alexandra (Alie) Korijn, Danielle DeRose, (honorary member Anna Hutchinson), TWIST Steering Committee Karl "Charly" Kleissner, Tharald Nustad, Julie Engelhorn, Jason Jay, Joe Hsueh, Lisa Kleissner, Hanson Gong, Richard Azarnia, Molly Mayo, Philipp Essl, Nicolas Branas Michaelsen

We are hiring for two exciting roles at TWIST! We are looking for a Community, Events and Communications Manager, as well as a Technical Product Manager to join our growing team. For the Community, Events and Communications Manager, you can find the job description here: https://lnkd.in/euwGfhQC & the application form here: https://lnkd.in/dk5rP_n2 For the Technical Project Manager, you can find the job description here: https://lnkd.in/ezyTzqdN & the application form here: https://lnkd.in/dgwZes-q We look forward to hearing from you. Alison Fort, Danielle DeRose, Alexandra (Alie) Korijn, Karl "Charly" Kleissner, Tharald Nustad, Julie Engelhorn, Hanson Gong, Nicolas Branas Michaelsen, Lisa Kleissner, Molly Mayo, Philipp Essl, Joe Hsueh, Jason Jay #systemschange #investing #transformation #investingforsystemschange

Our friends at the Center for Sustainable Finance and Private Wealth (CSP) North America – in partnership with Katapult Foundation, Generation Pledge, Meridian Institute, MIT Sloan Sustainability Initiative, and FBN-The Family Business Network – are running a program on "Allocating Polycapital for Impact." The program is designed for private investors looking to learn from experts from leading impact organisations and gain insights from family business leaders and inspiring changemakers. 📅 October 23-25, 2024 📍 MIT Sloan, Cambridge, MA Learn more here: https://lnkd.in/eUqN9_3f Or reach out to Erin Duddy for more information.

It was a pleasure to spend some time with our partners at the TransCap Initiative and others building the field of investing for systems change. Looking forward to working together to address some of these opportunities and challenges. Better Society Capital Prime Coalition

A great overview of the levers for investing for systems change that Alban Yau identified in his research at the MIT Sloan Sustainability Initiative based on the first 26 TWIST: Investing for Systems Change case studies. We’d love to hear how these resonate with you. Which levers do you use in your work investing for systems change?

Katapult Foundation is thrilled to invite experienced impact investors looking to take their #investing strategies to the next level. After our last Katapult Foundation: In Conversation with TWIST, we are showcasing another initiative we have funded and supported a training program launched by Center for Sustainable Finance and Private Wealth (CSP) North America in partnership with Katapult Foundation, dedicated to Investing for Systems Change. 📅 Join us at Katapult Foundation In Conversation: CSP North America, Investing for Systems Change, July 3 16:30 - 17:30 (CEST) Erin Duddy, Director of Programming and Engagement at CSP North America will be in conversation with Evita Chiang Zanuso, Chief Operating Officer, Katapult Foundation and delve into the key learnings from the first Investing for Systems Change training program At this In Conversation, you'll gain: ✅ A deeper understanding of what these pioneering programs can offer ✅ Insight into how private investors are integrating systemic investing into their strategies ✅ The opportunity to ask questions directly to Erin Duddy, Director of Programming and Engagement at CSP North America 💡 Erin Duddy will share her expertise on the forefront of training private wealth holders in systemic investing, drawing from her experience collaborating with industry leaders such as TWIST: Investing for Systems Change, MIT Sloan Sustainability Initiative, TransCap Initiative, The ImPact, and Meridian Institute 🕯 As private wealth holders develop more advanced understandings of influencing systems for good, the impact investing ecosystem must evolve with them. This conversation is crucial for all impact ecosystem players, from curious private investors to wealth managers, who want to stay ahead of the curve in systemic investing. 🎁 Exclusive Offer for In Conversation Attendees As a special bonus, In Conversation attendees will receive a 20% discount on the upcoming Allocating Polycapital for Impact program, taking place from October 23-25 at MIT Sloan. This is an incredible opportunity to deepen your knowledge and practical skills related to systemic investing. Sign up here 👉 https://lnkd.in/ekcTuME2 Evita Chiang Zanuso Danielle DeRose Alison Fort Tharald Nustad Seth Fleisher Falko Paetzold Jess Hackett Francesca Spoerry Michelle Van Waveren Samuel Bonsey Mina Mansoor Rankel Nathalie Nebelius Adam Bendell Dr. Bryan Scheler David Dietz Linda Isabel Rincón

As we collectively build and deepen the field of investing for systems change, we invite you to join us. Our community of practice is a home for those already using an investing for systems change approach in their own work. Are you using an investing for systems change strategy in your portfolio and/or work? Are you working with stakeholders to develop a collective understanding of the system and the desired change? Are you aligning capital (financial, social, intellectual, cultural, spiritual) type and allocation with system needs? Are you shifting stakeholder power to create systems change? Are you creating the conditions for inner transformation as you work to create outer change? Are you interested in joining our global collective of investors, practitioners, and facilitators, who are actively deploying capital and enabling processes for positive systems change? We invite you to share your case study with the TWIST: Investing for Systems Change community of practice. https://lnkd.in/ehV4mgMh Our inspiration group is a peer to peer learning environment for those at the beginning of their journeys investing for systems change. Curious about how to implement this approach into your own work? Keen to learn from others sharing their experience of investing for systems change in practice? We invite you to join us as an inspiration group member to learn from the collective. https://lnkd.in/e5DCP6PJ We also invite funders of this emerging field to support our work. Please reach out for more information.

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Exactly two years since TWIST: Investing for Systems Change was born at Katapult Future Fest – a gathering of changemakers, investors, entrepreneurs, artists, and researchers – members of the community of practice came together again in Oslo. It was powerful to reflect on how our collective has grown and contributed to the field of investing for systems change. We kicked off the week collaborating with the Center for Sustainable Finance and Private Wealth (CSP) North America on their new capacity building programme, Investing for Systems Change, with partners TransCap Initiative, MIT Sloan Sustainability Initiative, Meridian Institute, The ImPact, and Tara Health Foundation. We then spent time together as a community of practice at The Conduit Oslo where we heard from Alban Yau on the findings from his research at the MIT Sloan Sustainability Initiative using the first 26 case studies from the TWIST: Investing for Systems Change community of practice. Daniel Almagor and Kaj Lofgren from Small Giants Academy and Regen Melbourne shared learnings and wisdom of what it can look like to invest for systems change in practice. We finished our time together with a powerful reflection on the inner work that accompanies the outer work from TWIST: Investing for Systems Change steering committee members Lisa Kleissner, Nicolas Branas Michaelsen, Karl "Charly" Kleissner, and Philipp Essl. TWIST: Investing for Systems Change Managing Director and Katapult Foundation CEO, Alison Fort opened Investor Day and welcomed us into the room highlighting the importance of an investing for systems change approach as we face the polycrisis. She was joined onstage by Jason Jay, Director of the MIT Sloan Sustainability Initiative and TWIST: Investing for Systems Change Steering Committee member, for a panel on "Transformative Investment Strategies: Redefining Impact Beyond Investing and Singular Solutions" with Cilia Holmes Indahl, Paul Ziesche, and Wietse Van Der Werf. In the afternoon, Alison Fort, Alban Yau and Jason Jay led a workshop called "Twists and Turns: The Systemic Revolution in Finance." Participants were invited to share their work with each other using a systems change canvas identifying their system boundaries, stakeholders, leverage points, and polycapital strategies. With a huge turnout and deep engagement from the room, we came out energised by the traction and interest in the practice of investing for systems change. As we reflect on our time together, we are deeply grateful to everyone who engaged and shared. We move forward, together, with energy and commitment for investing for systems change. What’s next? Follow along for more information about TWIST: Investing for Systems Change and the ways you can get involved. Photo Credit: Jan Khür / Studio Abrakadabra

What a week at Katapult Future Fest! Thank you to everyone who has joined us here in Oslo to share their work and learn more about the field of investing for systems change. It has been a pleasure to reconnect with friends and meet new ones. We have so many reflections and stories we’d like to share — and many more individual thank yous. Stay tuned! We invite you to follow along here and join us as we collectively facilitate processes and deploy capital to enable positive systems change.