Impact Toolkit
The Impact Toolkit is an open resource designed to help investors navigate the landscape of impact measurement and management tools. It allows investors to tailor a list of fit-for-purpose resources and is the most comprehensive database of impact-focused systems, methods, indicators, and data in the world. Users can explore resources by category, geography, target stakeholder, and type, or customize their toolkit by providing information about their role, objectives, geographic focus, and impact areas. The Impact Toolkit is part of IRIS+, a system that makes it easier for investors to translate their impact intentions into real impact results. The GIIN team brings together a passionate group of professionals from around the world who are dedicated to changing the way the world thinks about the power of investment capital to create positive social and environmental impact.
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Impact Management Platform
The Impact Management Platform is a collaborative initiative among leading providers of international public good standards, frameworks, and guidance for managing impact. Its primary objectives are to clarify and build consensus on the meaning and practice of impact management, work towards a complete and coherent system of impact management resources, and engage in coordinated dialogue with policymakers. The Platform offers resources such as the system map, which provides a high-level visual of international resources available to enterprises, investors, and financial institutions for managing their sustainability impacts. Additionally, it outlines key actions of impact management, including strategy development, governance, identification of impacts, and measurement and assessment, to guide organizations in embedding impact management into their operations.
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True Impact
True Impact is a social impact measurement platform that helps organizations demonstrate how their cash, volunteerism, and in-kind donations translate into concrete results. The platform validates the impact of grants, volunteerism, and in-kind donations, generating insights needed to prove and improve the value of philanthropic investments. True Impact's advanced measurement software enables users to define impact through a reporting wizard and program evaluation experts, calculate real-time social impact claims based on contributions, and share results via on-demand analytics for easy stakeholder reporting. The platform addresses common challenges in traditional impact measurement approaches by focusing on outcomes rather than outputs, standardizing metrics for comparative analysis, and simplifying data collection processes to avoid overburdening funders and grantees.
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Impact Investor Tool
The Impact Investor Tool (IIT) is an advanced cloud-based software designed for fund managers and impact investors to evaluate, compare, and select investment opportunities, monitor and measure the performance of portfolio companies, and aggregate the impacts of investees at the portfolio level. Its calculation core is based on the state-of-the-art impact-weighted accounts framework, developed by the Impact Economy Foundation, Harvard Business School, Rotterdam School of Management, Singapore Management University, and Impact Institute. This enables the measurement and aggregation of various social, environmental, and economic impacts, allowing investors to make decisions based on aggregated impact metrics, such as impact returns, similar to financial metrics like ROI. Unique features of the IIT include the ability to tailor impact models to specific investments, and provide data entry portals to investment analysts and investees.
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