INVESTORS & INVESTOR NETWORKS
IMPACT INVESTMENT INTERMEDIARIES & INVESTMENT READINESS PROVIDERS
OTHER ORGANISATIONS
INTERNATIONAL
INVESTORS & INVESTOR NETWORKS
Community Sector Banking is a specialist in not-for-profit banking and provides products that are tailored to the specific needs of the community sector.
Social Enterprise Finance Australia (SEFA)
SEFA provides tailored finance solutions to mission led organisations and helps them to build their capacity to manage debt and become financially sustainable. SEFA offers property secured loans, enterprise growth loans and capacity loans.
Foresters provides community finance loans for social enterprises and non-profit organisations who are looking to grow and develop. Loan options include property purchase or construction, business development for growth and early stage development.
The Giant Leap Fund is an Australian venture capital fund, managed by Impact Investment Group, which is dedicated to investing in for-purpose businesses.
Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN)
The Global Impact Investing Network is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to increasing the scale and effectiveness of impact investing.
The Government gives small businesses loans with low or no interest. Loan amount reaches from a few thousand dollars to $1 million. They are offered by federal and state governments.
IIG is an Australian impact investment funds manager. IIG partners with and invests in companies, ideas and entrepreneurs by offering capital, support and connections needed to scale positive impact. Investors include individuals, families, institutional investors, corporations and foundations.
Pangaea is an investment company that focuses solely on direct impact investments in social enterprises. Preferred impact areas are mainly in childhood and adult education, literacy, training, as well as employment for disadvantages groups and health for indigenous groups.
From deep partnerships with start-up social enterprises, to investments in large-scale social and environmental projects, Small Giants is an Australian family office that creates and supports businesses that are shifting us to a more socially equitable and environmentally sustainable world.
Social Impact Investment Network SA
The Social Impact Investment Network SA is a member-based network based in South Australia, committed to the promotion of social investment as a mechanism for achieving valuable social outcomes
Social Traders’ Social Enterprise Development Fund (SEDF)
SEDF provides financial and non-financial support to social enterprises. The Fund has been established to provide a source of patient capital and support for start-up and early stage social enterprises that would otherwise find it difficult to secure investment from other sources.
Social Ventures Australia Social Impact Investment Trust
SVA’s Social Impact Investment Trust invests in businesses, social enterprises and projects with a clear social impact and financial results in a variety of impact areas. Target minimum investment size is $1 million.
Social Ventures Australia Social Impact Fund
SVA’s Social Impact Fund provides loans and equity investments to social enterprises. Investments typically span from $150,000 to $1 million.
Toniic is a global network of action-oriented impact investors, both individuals and institutions. Toniic has members in over 20 countries and its members have invested in over 15 countries.
IMPACT INVESTMENT INTERMEDIARIES & INVESTMENT READINESS PROVIDERS
Australian Impact Investments is a financial advisory group specialised in designing, implementing and managing impact investment portfolios for wholesale investors. They provide our clients – individuals, family offices and charitable foundations – the opportunity to align their investment strategies with their values and generate competitive financial, social and environmental returns.
Benefit Capital offers a range of impact investing services including helping social enterprises raise capital, corporate structuring for impact, reporting on impact and emerging impact investment opportunities.
Blue River Group is an Australian impact investment services firm, assisting clients in creating impact investment products and then finding the appropriate wholesale investors to invest in the products.
Brightlight is an initiative of Christian Super, providing impact investing consulting and management services.
Capital Collaboration is an advisory firm with impact at the heart of what they do. They work with entrepreneurs and businesses globally, helping them grow, scale, and prosper in a sustainable and ethical way.
Clearpoint Counsel is Australia’s first certified B-Corporation law firm. They work with a range of industries and provide legal services for fast growing to well established organisations.
The Difference Incubator (TDi)
TDi develops investment ready enterprises that create positive social impact and are financially sustainable – freeing them from ongoing reliance on philanthropic or government grants.
Grace Mutual generates financial and other solutions for not for profit organisations, principally around capital and assets. Grace Mutual works at the intersection of the commercial and social worlds to bring commercially viable solutions to social challenges for groups that have a mission orientation.
IBA’s Business Development and Assistance Program assists Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people to access the skills, knowledge and resources required to start and grow a viable, sustainable business.
Impact Academy’s flagship project is the Impact Accelerator, Queensland’s bold new 20 week program dedicated to supporting startup and early stage entrepreneurs achieve sustainable and scalable impact. Other initiatives include the Impact Express, Impact Workshops, Impact Engagement and Impact Consulting.
Impact Generation Partners works with businesses that needed help becoming investor ready to raise capital, and also with a range of potential investors, educating and advising them on how to engage with impact investing.
The Impact Investment Ready Growth Grant supports impact businesses and mission-driven organisations in their growth stage on the journey to investment readiness. The Impact Investment Ready Discovery Grant supports not-for-profit organisations to explore pathways to financial sustainability and plant the seed for impact investment propositions.
ImpactSeed was founded to address the lack of deal flow for investors in social business startups in Western Australia. They connect founders with angel investors. They strive to build pools of investment, and the number of investments in social businesses.
Incus Group assists organisations in the review, design and implementation of new and existing programs, supporting their ambitions to effectively and efficiently create value for their communities and themselves. This includes program design and implementation, and impact investing opportunities.
Many Rivers is a not-for-profit organisation that supports aspiring business owners with microenterprise development support and access to finance.
One10 provides an entrepreneurial ecosystem to foster and commercialise purpose driven businesses that will have a positive impact for the future.
SoFA’s priority is supporting people with a mental illness to get and keep a job. SoFA provides assistance with the commercial expertise required to establish and grow viable social firms, and the expertise in the adjustments required to assist employees with a mental illness get and keep a job.
Social Impact Investment for Sustainability
This Victorian Government program supports investment-ready social enterprises, providing a combination of grant and low interest loan. Investment-ready social enterprises can apply for up to $200,000 as a combination grant and low interest (2.5%) loan to scale up (expand) their operations.
Social Outcomes assists with identifying, designing, implementing, and measuring new social innovations. They focus on the impact that organisations are trying to create and the complex social problems they are trying to solve. From here, they apply the innovations that will best fit (and fund) that context and capability.
Social Scaffolding combines the skills of two of Queensland’s experts in partnership development, to support business and social agencies to solve social problems together. This includes partnerships and solutions for social investment and creating shared value propositions.
Social Traders’ focus is on raising awareness of social enterprise, building enterprise capability, and opening markets for social enterprises products and services in Australia.
Social Ventures Australia (SVA)
SVA works to create better education and employment outcomes for disadvantaged Australians by bringing the best of business to the social sector, and by working with partners to strategically invest capital and expertise.
Spark Strategy is an agency for strategic thinking, transformation and sustained action. They believe ideas spark brighter futures and are about unearthing these ideas and bringing them to life, including looking at innovative business and funding models.
OTHER ORGANISATIONS
The Australian Centre for Social Innovation (TACSI)
TACSI uses the best of design, social science and business thinking to develop new programs in the community, and to build the innovation capability of the social sector.
B Lab is a non-profit organisation that awards B Corp certification to companies that meet rigorous standards of social and environmental performance, accountability and transparency.
Centre for Social Impact (CSI)
A collaboration of the University of New South Wales, Swinburne University of Technology, The University of Western Australia and The University of Melbourne, the Centre for Social Impact supports the delivery of beneficial social impact in Australia through research, teaching, measurement and the promotion of public debate.
Foresters is a non-profit organisation that delivers community finance and social investment products in Australia.
Good Shepherd Microfinance offers a range of people-centred, affordable financial programs for people on low incomes.
Knode works across society, helping the smallest groups and community organisations, to corporates and government, to participate in the process of designing social innovation.
Responsible Investment Association of Australasia (RIAA)
The Responsible Investment Association Australasia is the peak industry body representing responsible and ethical investors across Australia and New Zealand.
SIMNA is a knowledge-sharing network for social impact measurement. Its purpose is to help foster the emerging practice of social impact measurement in Australia.
Social Change Central is a dedicated online hub for social enterprises. SCC connects, encourages and supports social enterprises and aspiring entrepreneurs through a self-service database which collates the most up-to-date opportunities available in Australia and internationally.
Social Business Australia (SBA)
SBA supports social business to develop and grow, helping to raise the profile of business forms such as as cooperatives, employee-owned enterprises, and social entrepreneurs trading for the purpose of creating social value.
Social Enterprise Finance Australia (SEFA)
SEFA provides tailored finance to social enterprises on commercial terms together with targeted business advice and support.
SoFA’s priority is supporting people with a mental illness to get and keep a job. SoFA provides assistance with the commercial expertise required to establish and grow viable social firms, and the expertise in the adjustments required to assist employees with a mental illness get and keep a job.
The Social Impact Investment Knowledge Hub
The Social Impact Investment Knowledge Hub is the online home of the NSW Government’s Office of Social Impact Investment, established to facilitate growth in the social impact investment market.
Social innovation in Western Australia (SiiWA)
Social innovation in Western Australia develops, supports and connects socially innovative people, communities, organisations and businesses in Western Australia.
Social Traders’ focus is on raising awareness of social enterprise, building enterprise capability, and opening markets for social enterprises products and services in Australia.
Social Ventures Australia (SVA)
SVA works to create better education and employment outcomes for disadvantaged Australians by bringing the best of business to the social sector, and by working with partners to strategically invest capital and expertise.
INTERNATIONAL
Ashoka is a global organisation that identifies and invests in leading social entrepreneurs – individuals with innovative and practical ideas for solving social challenges. Since 1981, Ashoka has elected over 3,000 social entrepreneurs as Fellows, providing them with living stipends, professional support, and access to a global network of peers in more than 70 countries.
Big Society Capital is a financial institution with a social mission to help grow the the social investment market in the UK and ensure that charities and social enterprises wanting to borrow money or take on investment, can find appropriate capital.
The US-based Case Foundation is focused on promoting everyday philanthropy, deepening civic engagement, and broadening the use of new technologies to make giving more informed, efficient, and effective.
Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN)
The Global Impact Investing Network is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to increasing the scale and effectiveness of impact investing.
ImpactAlpha is a business media site focused on the impact investment marketplace: stories, leaders opportunities and trends.
Impact Investment Exchange Asia (IIX)
Impact Investment Exchange Asia is the home of Asia’s first private and public platforms for Social Enterprises (SEs) to raise capital efficiently.
New Economics Foundation (NEF)
The NEF is an independent think-and-do tank that promotes social, economic and environmental justice, and transformation of the economy so that it works for people and the planet.
The Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship
The Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship is a not-for-profit organisation, focused on advancing social entrepreneurship as well as fostering social entrepreneurs. It provides platforms at the regional and global level to highlight and advance leading models of sustainable social innovation.
The Skoll Foundation is a social entrepreneurship organisation focused on driving large-scale change by investing in, connecting, and celebrating social entrepreneurs worldwide. Each year the Skoll Foundation convenes the Skoll World Forum in Oxford, United Kingdom.
Global Social Impact Investment Steering Group
The Global Social Impact Investment Steering Group is the successor to the Social Impact Investment Taskforce established by the G8. The GSG is continuing the work of the Taskforce in catalysing a global impact investment market, across a wider membership. Its members include 13 countries (including Australia) plus the EU, as well as active observers from government and from leading network organisations supportive of impact investment.
Stanford Social Innovation Review
Published by Stanford University, Stanford Social Innovation Review is an award-winning magazine and website that covers cross-sector solutions to global problems. It covers a wide range of subjects from microfinance and green businesses to social networks and human rights.
