GIIN in the news Press releases

  • Shifting power, redefining risk, and advancing justice: A model for investors to advance racial equity

    via ImpactAlphaby Amit Bouri, Tynesia Boyea- Robinson, Michael McAfee

    December 15, 2021

    Summary

    This ImpactAlpha article co-authored by Amit Bouri, Tynesia Boyea- Robinson, and Michael MacAfee speaks to the importance of the standardization of racial equity investment strategies. The article highlights the new framework for racially equitable investing affiliated with the Corporate Racial Equity Alliance, which was co-founded by PolicyLink, JUST Capital and FSG, and lists the framework’s three strategic goals which are, “1. Increasing the power of historically marginalized populations due to race and/or ethnicity; 2. Shifting the perception of riskiness of investing in those populations; and 3. Creating just systems that produce equitable outcomes.”

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  • Social Finance Podcast - Episode 4 - Pushing the frontier: impact investing for decent work

    via International Labor Organization by Lisa Morgan, Patricia Richer, Amit Bouri

    December 15, 2021

    Summary

    In this episode of the International Labor Organization’s (ILO) Social Finance Podcast, Lisa Morgan, Technical Specialist at the ILO, speaks with Amit Bouri, co-founder and CEO of the Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN) and Patricia Richter, Senior Technical Officer at the ILO. Their conversation focuses on the fundamental role that decent work and quality jobs play in sustainable development and how investors can leverage their financing to contribute positively to employment outcomes that address today’s pressing issues. Morgan, Bouri, and Ritcher highlight the collaboration between the GIIN and its members with the ILO, including the work on developing quality jobs investment strategies and metrics for measuring impact achieved.

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  • Warriors and Lovers: Systemic change requires diversity in strategies, too

    via ImpactAlphaby David Blank

    December 03, 2021

    Summary

    In this ImpactAlpha article, author David Blank speaks to members of the design team working on The New Capitalism Project, an 18-month effort that has enlisted a dozen leaders to participate in a collective strategy process to model the movement for a new economic system. Amit Bouri, CEO and Co-Founder of the Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN) is quoted in the article adding that, “There is still too much capital sitting on the sidelines. The movement for a new capitalism will require investors to rethink the power of capital and take a broader, longer-term view about the value investments create for people, for communities, and for the planet. It is time for a new status quo that thinks about investment capital in an entirely new way.”

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  • Adopting impact performance standards to hold sustainable investing accountable for real-world outcomes

    via ImpactAlphaby Christina Leijonhufvud, Sarah Gelfand, Kelly McCarthy, and Dean Hand

    December 03, 2021

    Summary

    This ImpactAlpha article co-authored by Christina Leijonhufvud, Sarah Gelfand, Kelly McCarthy, and Dean Hand emphasizes the need for more reliable and verifiable performance reporting on sustainability and impact results. The article mentions the GIIN’s COMPASS: The Methodology for Comparing and Assessing Impact report reading, “This work builds on the GIIN’s IRIS+ system, and several years of gathering real-world impact performance data at the investment level, to provide guidance on calculations and approaches for interpreting change in impact over time as well as for assessing impact performance relative to the size of specific social and environmental solutions gaps. The COMPASS methodology reflects aspects of several industry-wide efforts designed to bring more rigor and meaning to analysis and comparisons of impact performance data.”

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  • Getting Money off the Sidelines: A Starting List to Invest for Racial Equity

    via Bridgespan Social Impactby Bridgespan Social Impact, the Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN), PolicyLink, and CapEQ

    November 19, 2021

    Summary

    This work, which is the result of a joint project between Bridgespan Social Impact, the Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN), PolicyLink, and CapEQ, includes a list of racial-equity funds that that explicitly seek to improve the livelihoods of individuals who are Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC) and their communities. The work highlights the GIIN’s IRIS+ racial-equity theme reading, “Advancing racial equity requires diligent, intentional processes and consistent, rigorous evaluation regarding outcomes. Racial equity is often seen as both an emergent process and an outcome—investors cannot have one without the other. GIIN, PolicyLink, FSG, JUST Capital, and CapEQ recently partnered to launch the prototype of its IRIS+ racial-equity theme to help investors select impact strategies and metrics.”

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  • Leading international organisations launch Platform to address calls for clarity on how to improve sustainability impacts

    via Impact Management Project

    November 17, 2021

    Summary

    In this press release, leading international organizations, including the Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN), come together to announce the creation of the Impact Management Platform. The Impact Management Platform will allow partnering organizations to “identify opportunities to consolidate existing sustainability resources, collectively address gaps, and coordinate with policymakers and regulators to support the mainstreaming of impact management. This effort represents the next phase of a global collaboration that, until now, was facilitated by the Impact Management Project (IMP), a five-year consensus-building forum designed to run until 2021.”

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  • Impact investment’s role in the fight against climate change

    via Private Equity International by Amy Carroll

    November 12, 2021

    Summary

    In this Private Equity International article, Amy Carroll explores impact investment’s role in the fight against climate change. Amit Bouri, CEO and Co-Founder of the Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN) is quoted in the article adding that, “A systemic problem requires a systemic solution. The climate crisis clearly requires far more than a purely impact investment approach. It will require a shift in government policy, corporate behaviour and personal consumption, things that lie beyond impact investors’ sphere of influence. It is important both that impact investors see themselves as part of a broader systemic effort and that other actors recognise the role that impact investors are playing in the overall solution.”

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  • GIIN: It’s time to act on climate change

    via Private Equity International by Amit Bouri

    November 12, 2021

    Summary

    In this Private Equity International article Amit Bouri, CEO and Co-Founder of the Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN), reiterates the importance of investing in climate action solutions. Bouri writes, “Every investment has the potential to contribute to environmental and social improvement. This raises questions regarding our responsibility as investors to integrate impact into all decisions – a principle at the heart of impact investing. The world needs more of what impact investing offers. Ultimately, we are working towards a holistic approach to maximising the impact of investments. We can transform the role capital plays in nurturing prosperity and sustaining, protecting and developing the world and all its people.”

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  • Embracing regenerative practices to restore climate and community

    via ImpactAlphaby Dennis Price

    November 12, 2021

    Summary

    In this ImpactAlpha article, Dennis Price highlights key takeaways from the Global Impact Investing Network’s (GIIN) Next Normal Now convening on Regeneration. Price zeros in on Amit Bouri’s fireside chat with co-founder and President of Jubilee Justice, Konda Mason, writing, “With a proven system of rice intensification, Jubilee Justice is helping Black farmers in Louisiana and Mississippi raise yields and income while reducing methane and water use. With Potlikker Capital, Oakland-based Jubilee helps the farmers integrate regenerative farming practices and cooperative ownership with reparative capital in the form of grants, recoverable grants and low- or no-interest loans. ‘You cannot expect to have the same kind of requirements for people who have been so maligned financially through economic apartheid,’ said Jubilee’s Konda Mason.”

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  • Climate change: sustainable investments on the rise as investors tie environmental concerns with financial returns

    via South China Morning Post by Keith Chan

    November 12, 2021

    Summary

    In this South China Morning Post article, Keith Chan highlights the role impact investing can play in solving some of the world’s most consequential issues, including the climate crisis. Chan mentions the GIIN in the article: “The Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN) defines impact investments as investments made with the intention to generate positive, measurable social and environmental impact alongside a financial return. The organization said the growing impact investment market provides capital to address the world’s most pressing challenges in sectors such as sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, conservation, microfinance, and affordable and accessible basic services including housing, health care and education.”

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  • Inclusion: A Critical Foundation for a Prosperous “Next Normal”

    via Impact Entrepreneur by Amit Bouri

    October 13, 2021

    Summary

    In this Impact Entrepreneur article, Amit Bouri, CEO and Co-founder of the Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN), reiterates the importance of a more inclusive global economic system. Bouri writes, “The next normal will recognize that inclusion never takes root as an optional, after-the-fact ‘add on.’ Instead, the next normal will demonstrate that inclusivity is the foundation upon which the most widespread economic progress can occur. Study after study shows that authentic inclusion can unlock trillions in global economic opportunity, that policies and investments directed at upliftment and development benefit all segments of society.”

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  • Business education must evolve. A faith-based lens can help relocate its purpose

    via Pioneers Post by Atul K Shah

    October 13, 2021

    Summary

    In this Pioneers Post article, the third released in a series in partnership with the Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN), Atul K Shah, a Professor at City University, shares his thoughts on how business education must evolve to use faith-based approaches to guide a new model that’s fit for the modern age. Shah writes, “To ignore faith communities in these times is to damage the very fabric of society that can lift us out of this climate and sustainable development crisis. There is an opportunity for us to work together in a new way. Faith leaders and communities provide us with a unique, untapped opportunity for sustainable development – they can bring long-term purpose, conscience and public interest, and nourish trust and relationships, rather than deplete them.”

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