Global Impact Investing Network

Established in 2009, The Global Impact Investing Network is a nonprofit membership organization with 450 members across almost 50 countries that builds industry infrastructure and supports activities, education, and research to help accelerate the development of the impact investing industry. The organization plays an important role by convening impact investors, highlighting innovative approaches, providing guidance on and supporting codification of sound practice, and building the evidence base for the industry. Ultimately, the Global Impact Investing Network focuses on reducing barriers to impact investment so more investors can allocate capital to fund solutions to the world's most intractable challenges. This award provides the general operating support to further this mission through a range of activities, including educating impact investors, mobilizing capital for impact investing globally, and safeguarding the integrity of impact investing by establishing and driving the adoption of principles and expectations of impact authenticity.

The Global Impact Investing Network convenes impact investors to facilitate knowledge exchange, highlight innovative investment approaches, build the evidence base for the industry, and produce valuable tools and resources. It thereby seeks to accelerate the industry's development through focused leadership and collective action. The GIIN Investor Forum is one of the largest in-person global gathering of impact investors, allowing them an opportunity to build relationships, discover opportunities, share insights about new strategies, learn the latest industry developments, and explore ways to drive continued momentum and growth in the impact investing market. Sponsorship allows the Foundation to engage with peers and learn from them, also offering a chance to hold a session on catalytic capital in the field.

Established in 2009, The Global Impact Investing Network is a nonprofit membership organization with 330 members across almost 50 countries that builds industry infrastructure and supports activities, education, and research to help accelerate the development of the impact investing industry. The organization plays an important role by convening impact investors, highlighting innovative approaches, providing guidance on and supporting codification of sound practice, and building the evidence base for the industry. Ultimately, the Global Impact Investing Network seeks to unlock greater capital and accelerate the growth of a robust and effective impact investing market to ensure that social, economic, and environmental well-being is within the reach of more people around the world. This award provides the general operating support to further this mission through a range of activities including the mobilization of capital for impact investing globally by educating investors and stimulating investment and safeguarding the integrity of impact investing by establishing and driving the adoption of principles and expectations of impact investing behavior.

Established in 2009, The Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN) is a nonprofit membership organization with 280 members across 41 countries building industry infrastructure and supporting activities, education, and research that help accelerate the development of the impact investing industry. Ultimately, the GIIN seeks to unlock greater capital and accelerate the growth of a robust and effective impact investing market to ensure that social, economic, and environmental well-being is within the reach of more people around the world.

This award provides the GIIN with support for its newly-launched initiative that aims to establish a dedicated platform to direct global impact investors to urgent critical needs arising from the pandemic, creating knowledge-sharing, synthesizing lessons and ultimately working to increase the amount of capital directed towards effective solutions for the emerging global crisis. The grant will provide support in Phase 1, which will establish a dedicated platform to direct global impact investors to urgent critical needs arising from the pandemic, share knowledge and help coordinate efforts and action among stakeholders and synthesize lessons from experiences in responding to the crisis.

Established in 2009, The Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN) is a nonprofit membership organization with 280 members across 41 countries building industry infrastructure and supporting activities, education, and research that help accelerate the development of the impact investing industry. Ultimately, the GIIN seeks to unlock greater capital and accelerate the growth of a robust and effective impact investing market to ensure that social, economic, and environmental well-being is within the reach of more people around the world. This award provides the GIIN general operating support to further its mission through a range of activities including mobilizing capital for impact investing globally by educating investors and stimulating investment, safeguarding the integrity of impact investing by establishing and driving the adoption of principles and expectations of impact investing behavior; and fueling the global impact investing movement by elevating the perception of impact investing as a positive force in the capital markets.