Advocating Our Impact Investment Strategy

Founders Charly and Lisa Kleissner strategy around impact investing includes: capacity building of impact investors and entrepreneurs; dedication of over 90% of their foundation corpus to Impact Investments; identification of and providing solutions for gaps in the Impact ecosystem; transparency around their investment practices and portfolio; and sharing of impact measurement, all with the goal of leveraging capital markets to help solve systemic social and environmental challenges.

Current advocacy activities include:

Toniic: A global action-oriented seed-stage impact investor network
Publications: Solutions for Impact Investors: From Strategy to Implementation
Our impact investment portfolio
Speakers at numerous conferences and investor forums
Founders of Social Impact International, a capacity building organization for scaling social enterprise, Dasra Social-Impact as a prototype.

Rockefeller Foundation Case Study of Toniic’s T100 Project

This 2018 Rockefeller Foundation case study of the Toniic T100 Project “shares the significant efforts of a network of investors to document and analyze the impact of a collection of impact investment portfolios. … Our hope is that other mission-oriented investors can draw lessons from Toniic’s experience to strengthen their own impact measurement practices.”

Download the report.

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