Sustainability’s Triple Bottom Line
We operate blended online/human expert systems to address the opportunities in the growing impact capital markets.
Both returns-first and impacts-first investors will find their values expressed through this platform, working with our personnel and partner organizations, upholding the GIIN definition — the intention to generate social and environmental impact alongside a financial return.
Impact investments can be made in both emerging and developed markets, and target a range of returns from below market to above market rate, depending upon the circumstances.
Projects and ventures made possible through impact investments often address “the world’s most pressing challenges in sectors such as sustainable agriculture, clean technology, microfinance, and affordable and accessible basic services including housing, healthcare, and education.” Access to basic services are seen as part of human rights, environmental and social justice, where impact capital now finds talented entrepreneurs solving these pressing issues:
- energy security, food security, water security … climate change (which affects the poor disproportionately to the more wealthy)
- helping people escape poverty traps, building toward local self-reliance
- improved quality of life and living conditions (such as clean indoor lights) delivering healthier places to live or work.
In short, for-profit impact investments leverage market forces to grow regional economies, strengthen trade partners, create jobs and change lives.