Impact investing is unlocking significant sums of private investment capital to complement public resources and philanthropy in addressing pressing global challenges. The GIIN is proud to play a leading role, alongside others committed to growing this marketplace. Join the GIIN and hundreds of impact investors who are engaged in this movement to redefine the role of capital and channel its full power to create a better world.
Thank you to those who joined us at the GIIN Investor Forum 2018 in Paris! We invite you to please save the date to join us for the next GIIN Investor Forum in Amsterdam on 2-3 October 2019. Register your interest here.
Investors around the world are unleashing the power of capital to have a positive impact on the world. How? Impact investing.
The GIIN works with hundreds of impact investors to help advance their practices, including ways to:
Learn more about the GIIN’s work to support the meaningful participation of institutional asset owners in the impact investing market. If you are a large-scale investor, join this growing community of practice and access the latest GIIN education resources and performance research.
Access the GIIN’s growing repository of resources and tools developed to help investors deepen their practice of impact measurement and management.
Read our latest opinions on key topics within the impact investing industry, including mainstreaming, impact investing definitions, and the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
On 30-31 October 2018, more than 1,200 investors from around the globe convened in Paris for the Global Impact Investing Network Investor Forum. The event brought together the worlds leading impact investors, as well as those who were exploring the practice, to learn from each other and explore how impact investing can reshape the future of the financial markets.
To learn more about the 2019 GIIN Investor Forum, which will take place 2-3 October in Amsterdam, register your interest.
Learn about the GIIN's campaign calling for investors to direct more capital to the UN SDGs, and explore the profiles of various investors that have already taken action to address these goals and build a sustainable future.
Explore the GIIN’s self-guided course to find out what steps impact fund managers take to effectively raise and deploy capital towards today’s most pressing social and environmental challenges. This resource seeks to answer questions that are core to a fund’s operating and investment strategies, such as: how does an impact investment fund manager identify investors, find investee companies, create a fund management team, and more.
Drawing on the GIIN’s Roadmap for the Future of Impact Investing, the GIIN and ImpactAlpha are leading a conversation about the actions needed to build the impact investing movement.
Scaling the market with integrity is a key focus of the GIIN’s ambitions for the market in the next phase of our work. As such, the GIIN is leading an effort to create a shared identity for impact investors and set expectations for participation in the market. A Draft of the Characteristics of Impact Investors has been released for public comment; we invite you to read it and provide feedback.
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