Featuring several of our Global Visionaries, our recently published white paper sets out to develop a framework to mobilize impact investing and strategic philanthropy for a better world.
During last year鈥檚 World Economic Forum, we offered our perspectives on ten pivotal debates that could have meaningful impact on shaping investments and markets. Now we鈥檝e published a white paper where we focus our attention upon one of those trends shaping sustainable finance 鈥� impact investing 鈥� in conjunction with strategic philanthropy, to develop a framework for creating a sustainable future.
The goal of the white paper is to introduce what we envision as the necessary extension of the current efforts. The paper explores some of the ways we can use the principles of philanthropy and impact finance to scale up the financing gap through a three step framework:
- Define: the scope of the challenges that we face and identify the resources available to address them.
- Align: public needs and private efforts. A gulf remains between what the SDGs need to achieve and what investors and others hope to accomplish.
- Refine: central to impact investing (and strategic philanthropy) is the concept of 鈥渋ntentionality鈥� in achieving targeted social and environmental impact.
Because they are world-class examples of being leaders towards impact, the paper features ten of our global visionaries profiled as leaders in their fields.
