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Welcome to IIA’s final newsletter for the year and thank you for your support in 2022. Looking ahead to 2023, as momentum grows around the role of capital markets in solving social and environmental problems, we are confident that collectively we achieve so much.
Since 2015, our Impact Investment Ready Growth Grants program has awarded 105 grants, totalling $8.15 million and resulting in over $183 million in impact capital raised (to date).
In this newsletter, we share details of how we’re helping deliver even more impact – with new Growth Grant alumni, Board members and gender lens investing webinars.
Our latest report is a valuable resource to help investors reduce risks, improve investment performance and uncover investment opportunities, while positively contributing to gender and racial equity, and diversity and inclusion outcomes.
We continue to support social enterprises that are delivering creative solutions and having a significant and lasting impact on the communities they serve. In this newsletter, we share details of our latest Growth Grant recipients who are doing just that in the disability, health and housing sectors.
We’re pleased to share our latest news and final update for 2021 - with details of our new Executive Director, the latest round of Growth Grant recipients and the newly released Impact Taskforce recommendations.
Sabina Curatolo has led IIA’s strategy and engagement with government and other stakeholders to drive Australia’s for-purpose market to scale, and her invisible advocacy has resulted in policy action that today, is delivering positive change.
The annual GSG global summit will see more than 200 expert speakers and 1,500 participants from across 75 countries in action-oriented dialogue for how we can deliver impact solutions for our times.
We're pleased to announce our latest Growth Grant recipients, acknowledge the success of a past recipient, and we welcome a new Growth Gant panel member.
Our Growth Grants will continue to be available this financial year thanks to the extension of the Department of Social Services’ Sector Readiness Fund, and we congratulate our final round of recipients of the Resilience Grant.
Our latest report presents the learnings and stories from our continued support for the development of Australia's social enterprise sector over the last six years.
Our first round of Resilience Grants has awarded eight social enterprises impacted by the COVID pandemic with an opportunity to access advice on investment strategies to support business continuity.
COVID-19 has increased the pressure on the Australia Government's budget and heightened the focus on the outcomes delivered from spending. Here are the five funding commitments we'd like to see in this year's budget.
We are celebrating International Women's Day by recognising some of the remarkable women active throughout the impact investing ecosystem - as investors, innovators, enablers and advisors.
After four years as Chief Executive Officer at Impact Investing Australia Sally McCutchan will step down next month. In her tenure we have experienced an acceleration of impact investing in Australia which is due in no small part to Sally's vision and determination to grow the sector.
If there is a silver lining from an otherwise challenging 2020 it is the widespread shift of focus from purely financial and economic returns to those that also improve social and environmental outcomes.
Many social enterprises are bringing creative solutions to the sectors they operate in and are having a significant and lasting impact on the communities they serve.
The SDG Impact Standards provide a common language and best-practice guidance for integrating impact management into business and investment practices and decision making.
There are many social enterprises doing incredible work which is enabling people with disability to live fulfilling lives. We recognise them on International Day of People with Disability
Congratulations to our two most recent growth grant awardees - Refugee Talent and Nightingale Housing - both bring creative solutions that will have a significant and lasting impact on the communities they serve.