Impact Principles

We are hiring! 📣 The Impact Principles Secretariat seeks an Associate to help us continue to grow as the global standard for impact practice, enabling the impact investing industry to scale with integrity, rigor and transparency. We are looking for a highly motivated early-career professional to support our Signatory engagement, events, and communications and promote operational excellence to advance our strategic priorities. Our ideal candidate is passionate about creating positive change in the world and excited by the opportunity to do meaningful work in an engaging and creative environment. See below for more information and the link to apply, and please share this listing with others who may be interested! #impactprinciples #impactinvesting #impactjobs

Welcoming Rally Assets as a Signatory to the Impact Principles! A Canadian impact investment firm, Rally Assets targets positive social and environmental impact through investment portfolios that help to meet the Sustainable Development Goals. The firm builds custom impact portfolios for clients, manages two of its own impact funds, and is a fund-of-funds manager for the Government of Canada’s Social Finance Fund through its joint venture Realize Capital Partners. #impactinvesting #impactprinciples

Looking forward to moderating conversation with stellar panelists tomorrow at New Private Markets Impact & Transition Summit: North America 2024. We will be discussing scalable models, market infrastructure and paradigm shifts needed to address inequality and social justice. Growing inequality is a systemic risk and opportunity that all investors and beyond need to tackle together, and I look forward exploring and learning with this panel who will bring diverse expertise and vantage points - as asset managers, asset owners and philanthropic system-level funder. If you are at the Summit, reach out to connect! Jacob Haar Liz Roberts Jessie Duncan Iraz Soyalp, PHD Sheena Strawter-Anthony Boris Petrovic https://lnkd.in/emPxkFgx #ImpactSummit24 #ImpactInvestment #PrivateMarkets

We were thrilled to visit Singapore for the New Private Markets Responsible Investment Forum: Asia and a special Impact Principles Cocktail Reception hosted by Japanese Signatory and Asia Regional Commitee Chair NSSK (日本産業推進機構) at the end of October. At the Forum, Head of Secretariat Joohee Rand moderated a Fireside Chat centered on the motivations driving investors to go beyond ESG to invest for impact and how aligning with global standards like the Impact Principles can benefit both individual investors and broader market development. NSSK's CEO Jun Tsusaka discussed how the Impact Principles have provided both a clear roadmap and a competitive advantage as an asset manager adopting an impact focus. UBS Global Wealth Management’s Shu Hui Lim brought asset owner insights to the discussion, sharing what LPs look for when investing with an impact lens, as well as how a rigorous and standardized impact practice facilitates a consistent cross-portfolio approach to impact and establishes shared expectations when communicating with GPs. The Impact Principles Cocktail Reception brought together Signatories and valued ecosystem partners working to scale the Asian impact investing market grounded in impact integrity and best practices. Asia is the fastest-growing region for the Impact Principles' Signatory base, and it was inspiring to connect with this community in-person as we collaborate to further support the growth and advancement of the regional impact investing market. As impact investing scales in Asia, we are proud to support such a dedicated community of partners working together to elevate impact practice and align around global standards and best practices so that capital can be mobilized in and for the region in a way that prioritizes impact integrity and ultimate outcomes. A huge thank you to New Private Markets and NSSK for inviting us to the conference, to NSSK for hosting this special event, and to all the Signatories and guests who join us. We look forward to making more frequent visits and supporting a strong Signatory community and impact ecosystem in Asia! Rob Kaplan, Silky Raheja, Clarissa Loh, Charles Gould, Boris Petrovic, Henry Vehslage #impactinvesting #impactprinciples

It was meaningful to participate in this year’s #GIINForum2024 in my new(-ish) role as Head of Secretariat for the Impact Principles. In addition to our Signatory Luncheon and DFI discussion, I had the privilege to moderate the IMM ("Impact Measurement and Management") Success Stories session with several Signatories leading the way on impact management best practices. Bringing together impact practice, performance, and data, our panelists laid out how they integrate impact across their entire investment lifecycles, leveraging global standards and tools like the Impact Principles, IRIS+, and the GIIN’s Impact Performance Benchmarks. We also facilitated an interactive exercise, focusing on the state of IMM practice and the specific steps the industry must, should, could, and should not take to promote the scaling of the market and achievement of impact outcomes. What is success in IMM?   Beyond being impressed by the growing appetite for and expertise in IMM, I had a few takeaways from our panelists and audience participants: 🔄 Impact management and measurement needs to be an end-to-end system starting with a clear evidence-based strategy/Theory of Change, supported by standardized ex-ante and ex-post frameworks to bring consistency in screening, target-setting, measuring and monitoring impact across the portfolio, and managed for learning and improvement of results. The Impact Principles can provide a roadmap!   ⭐ IMM  practice alone is insufficient if it does not drive impact performance and ultimate real world outcomes, and we still have work to do in this direction. Market alignment around global standards and common frameworks and metrics lay the necessary foundation for the field to compare impact practice and performances and generate more specific and deeper insights into what practices drive impact outcomes.   🙌 Collaboration and sharing of both impact data and best practices are key as the impact investing mainstreams, both to promote the advancement of the practice with collective field knowledge and capacity, and to help new entrants develop and improve their impact approaches.   💡 While we should celebrate our successes, it is important to maintain a sense of humility around impact attribution (be conservative rather than overclaim!), center beneficiaries as key stakeholders and contributors, and cultivate an environment of self-review and deep learning to continue driving this field and impact forward.  Impact data tells you “what” but not “how”. Thank you to Signatory panelists Shade Duffy, Maria Teresa Zappia, and Milena Bertram, all the Facilitator volunteers, and the GIIN’s very own JuliaPaige Joseph for all their work to make this session a success story in its own right.  And thank you to all the IMM professionals out there for helping make sure that the accelerating impact investing capital will result in equally impressive real-world outcomes, especially where it is needed the most. #IMM, #ImpactPrinciples

Reflecting on the #GIINForum2024 last month in Amsterdam, we are energized by the many thought-provoking sessions and conversations we had with Signatories and other ecosystem stakeholders against the backdrop of the impact investing market now reaching over $1.5 trillion. We were thrilled to host our annual Signatory Luncheon and a peer conversation for DFIs and MDBs during the Forum. At our Signatory Luncheon, Head of Secretariat Joohee Rand shared updates and reflections about the Signatory community and our strategic priorities, then we held a fireside chat with our current and previous Advisory Board convenors, Danielle Brassel of Zurich Insurance and Maria Teresa Zappia of BlueOrchard Finance Ltd, as well Sapna Shah, President of our host organization the The Global Impact Investing Network. Led by Pablo Fajnzylber of IFC - International Finance Corporation, our DFI discussion featured Rob Davies of British International Investment, Alessandro Maffioli of IDB Invest, and Barberousse Guillaume of Proparco as discussants, with interactive peer conversations about the role of DFIs in promoting the Impact Principles and impact management best practices as a form of market building in emerging markets. Here are some key takeaways: 🌱 As the market continues to mainstream and scale, this is a pivotal time for the evolving global impact investing market to elevate impact practice and transparency and ensure that we are mobilizing capital in a way that prioritizes impact integrity and ultimate outcomes. 📣 Asset owners and allocators (from DFIs to family offices to institutional asset owners like pensions and insurance companies) play a critical role in shaping impact markets and determining the priorities of the asset managers in whom they invest. By signaling and demonstrating discernment for impact integrity and placing a premium on strong impact practice, they can have an outsized role in contributing to effective global impact capital deployment and outcomes. ⭐ Impact management to what end? While elevating impact practice, it’s also time for the impact investing field to better understand the connection between impact practice and performance and what practices drive scale and impact outcomes. This is a challenge today, but it is necessary for capital markets to truly be a force for solving global challenges at scale. As a global standard, the Impact Principles are building the critical market infrastructure necessary to scale impact with integrity. The common thread binding these takeaways is that this must be a collective effort of the global impact investing community. Thank you to everyone who joined us in the conversation. We look forward to building on this moment of promise and continuing to partner with dedicated impact leaders worldwide to create a community, ecosystem, and ultimately global impact investing market centered on impact integrity, rigor and transparency as drivers for scale and impact outcomes.

We are delighted to be in Singapore this week to connect with the regional Signatory and impact investing community! Asia boasts a dynamic and burgeoning impact ecosystem and is the fastest-growing region for the Impact Principles' Signatory base. We look forward to engaging with this important market and introducing the Impact Principles to a wider global audience. Following this week’s New Private Markets Responsible Investment Forum: Asia conference, our Asia and Oceania Regional Committee chair NSSK (日本産業推進機構) will host a private cocktail reception to bring together current and prospective Impact Principles Signatories, asset owners and allocators, and regional and global ecosystem partners. We anticipate an inspiring evening full of meaningful conversations about how we can further scale the Asian impact investing market together, grounded in impact integrity and best practices.   Thank you to New Private Markets and NSSK for inviting us to the conference, and to NSSK for hosting this special event! To learn more, reach out to secretariat@impactprinciples.org #impactinvesting #RIFAsia #impactprinciples

On Thursday of this week’s #GIINForum2024, our Head of Secretariat Joohee Rand will be moderating an IMM Success Stories session with Signatory and GIIN member representatives Maria Teresa Zappia of BlueOrchard Finance Ltd, Milena Bertram of Finance in Motion, and Shade Duffy of AXA Investment Managers! Through a panel discussion and interactive breakout activity, we will explore the evolving impact measurement and management standards, tools, and frameworks that leading impact investors use throughout the investment lifecycle to establish a robust impact practice with real results. Hear how investors connect impact practice, performance and data by leveraging the Impact Principles, GIIN Impact Performance benchmarking, and IRIS+ metrics. It will also be an opportunity to collaborate with peers and engage in dynamic conversations about how we can improve the impact practice as a field to drive the best impact outcomes at scale with greater capital invested for impact. The session will take place on Thursday, October 24, from 2:00 to 3:15 PM, and it is open to all Impact Forum attendees. We hope to see you there! #impactprinciples #IMM #impactmanagement

The Impact Principles are excited to be in Amsterdam for the #GIINForum2024! We look forward to hosting two events at the Forum specifically for Impact Principles Signatories and invited guests, including prospective Signatories and asset owners and allocators. 🍽️ SIGNATORY LUNCHEON  At our annual Signatory Luncheon, the Secretariat will share updates and invite collective reflections on the Impact Principles’ future direction, including through an intimate fireside chat with Danielle Brassel of Zurich Insurance (our future Advisory Board convenor), Maria Teresa Zappia of BlueOrchard Finance Ltd (our former convenor), and Sapna Shah of The Global Impact Investing Network (our host). Often the biggest gathering of Signatories every year, the Signatory Luncheon is an excellent opportunity to experience the Impact Principles community and connect with like-minded peers committed to shaping the growing impact investing market with best practices in impact management. 💡 DFI IMPACT ROUNDTABLE  We also look forward to hosting an interactive peer conversation at the end of the Impact Forum’s first day specifically for our DFI and MDB Signatories, led by IFC - International Finance Corporation and featuring discussants from British International Investment, IDB Invest, and Proparco. Through their market development and capacity-building roles to mobilize private capital flows in frontier and emerging markets, DFIs are essential partners in helping the Impact Principles grow as the global standard for impact management. This discussion will explore the active role DFIs can play in supporting the awareness, rapid adoption, and implementation of the Impact Principles and impact management best practices by investors, including private sector asset owners and allocators. To learn more, please visit impactprinciples.org or reach out to us at secretariat@impactprinciples.org #impactprinciples #impactinvesting #impactmananagement #IMM Pablo Fajnzylber, Rob Davies, Barberousse Guillaume, Joohee Rand

Welcoming Schneider Electric as a Signatory to the Impact Principles!   A French multinational focused on energy management and industrial automation, Schneider Electric is an innovator in corporate impact investing. Since 2009, Schneider Electric has been strengthening its impact investing practice, launching with like-minded partners and managing investment vehicles (SEEA and SEEAA) and co-investing for impact as an anchor LP in others. Schneider Electric targets social and environmental impact for a just energy transition globally - across topics like decarbonization, clean energy access and adoption, and inclusive economy. We are delighted to welcome Schneider Electric as an Impact Principles Signatory, our first among non-financial corporate impact investors, and we look forward to working together to further engage this significant and growing sector of the impact market. #impactinvesting #impactprinciples