Several reports and networks have provided helpful context, rationale, and challenges around impact integrity. While these frame the issues well, they have not moved attention and action significantly forward beyond what regulation has been able to offer.
How can impact investing scale with integrity?
Now that over $1 trillion of impact capital has been mobilized, and impact investing is increasingly mainstreaming, the next challenge is making sure this leads to actual positive outcomes for people and the planet.
Community Building
We will convene diverse perspectives through virtual and in-person channels
Conceptual Framework
Co-design a impact integrity conceptual framework and rubrics to assess actions and results
Practice Toolkit
Compile an Impact Integrity toolkit including principles, practices, examples, and enablers
Networks & Events
We will facilitate knowledge exchange through networking and learning events
Why This, Why Now?
Scaling impact investing, with integrity.
Need
Ongoing concerns about impact washing within and beyond impact investing, including the need to boost impact transparency and accountability for outcomes.
Driver
The global market is now over $1 trillion and growing rapidly – with significant interest in impact performance from philanthropy and blended finance.
Vision
Move impact integrity to the mainstream by establishing consistent fundamentals, shared tools and platforms, and collective action through aligned incentives.
Audience
Those who recognize that the next challenge is not simply mobilizing more impact capital, but making sure this leads to positive outcomes for people and planet.
Our Approach
We are inspired by the model of time-bound practitioner dialogue and community norms-building pioneered by the IMP.
Clarify
Foundational principles, definitions and boundaries for impact integrity - building on industry practice and research.
Align
Conceptual framework and roadmap to strengthening impact integrity across regions, themes, and audiences.
Navigate
A set of tools and practices to spur collective action, build new capabilities, and incentivize impact integrity.
Interested? Join Us
There are several ways to participate in the Project, whether you are an experienced IMM practitioner, or just getting started.
Join a virtual or in-person learning event
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Founding Team
We Are Field Builders
We’ve been at the forefront of developing impact measurement & management norms, standards, frameworks, and practices.
Over the last decade we’ve worked closely with those setting up the IMM architecture – from the Rockefeller Foundation to the IMP.
Our track record in building collaborative movements to solve for social issues is strong – for example place-based impact investing.
We Are Practitioners
Together, we’ve worked with over 200 organisations to help them measure and manage impact across all stages.
This represents over $30 billion in assets across the impact economy – from institutional capital, impact intermediaries, membership networks, and social enterprises.
Our work has led to practical toolkits that have received wide uptake – for example, the Ventures at the Helm IMM Guide.
Collaboration, Knowledge, and Funding Partners - Coming Soon
