Social Finance Centre
Grow your understanding of social finance approaches and how they can be used in different contexts.
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We need to bring impact to the center of our economic system, alongside profit, so that it can drive the systemic creation of positive outcomes.
Impact, Sir Ronald Cohen
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Welcome to the Social Finance Centre
Whether you are just starting out or looking to advance your practice, you have come to the right place. The modules offered in this centre will help you understand the characteristics of social finance, find the right tools, and build partnerships towards collective impact. Take a self-paced module to get an overview of the concepts and join a live session to hear directly from other practitioners. There’s also a library of resources for you to dig into at your leisure!
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Recommended resources
Social Success Note Playbook
By Asha Impact
This Playbook has been developed for impact investors, risk managers, outcome payers and other stakeholders in the impact ecosystem looking for consolidated information on blended finance in general and on the social success note in particular.
In Good Company: Aligning stakeholder interests for development with social finance
By UBS Optimus Foundation
The rise of social finance is driven by the growing recognition that in order to solve the world’s most complex social and environmental challenges, a stronger focus on impact is required from investors. UBS Optimus Foundation aims to drive systemic change that reshapes the way development is financed with a threefold approach.
UBS Optimus Foundation: From Giving to Investing
By pfc social impact advisors
This case study examines how UBS Optimus Foundation (also known as UBSOF, Optimus, or the Foundation) is investing in new social finance tools such as Development Impact Bonds (DIBs) and impact loans such as Social Success Notes (SSNs) to prototype solutions to scale to improve the lives of children globally. The centerpiece of the social finance portfolio is a pay-for-success model that supports outcomes and results over payment for activities.
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Making the Mark: The Benchmark for Impact Investing Practice
By BlueMark
This research report from BlueMark synthesizes insights about the development of IMM practices in the impact investing ecosystem: which practices are most widespread, where the field is underdeveloped, case studies on best practices, etc. The research currently being undertaken by Impact Frontiers and AVPN will look to build on this research, and BlueMark is also a new member.
Climate Investor One Case Study
By Convergence
This is a case study of Climate Investor One (CIO), a $850 million blended vehicle designed to advance the development of renewable energy infrastructure projects in emerging markets. It’s pioneering three-phase sequential financing approach aims to align project capital needs with appropriate investors maximising private investment while also ensuring access to finance to early stage renewable energy projects.
The Little Book of Investing in Nature
By Global Canopy
This book lays down various alternatives to finance biodiversity conservation. Aimed at governments, NGOs and private sector investors, it introduces an overarching framework that organizes biodiversity finance techniques into five categories – revenue generation, better delivery, expenditure realignment, avoidance of future expenditures, and catalysts.
Building Blended Finance in India
By Stanford Social Innovation Review
Highlighting the potential of blended finance to advance development, this article discusses the example of a successful blended finance program – REVIVE Alliance in India created to support the most vulnerable communities that are experiencing severe credit crunch due to the pandemic. While successful, many such platforms face multiple bottlenecks constraining the vast benefits blended finance can offer.
China encourages green financing in Malaysia through BRI
By The Star
China has become the primary driver of green financing in the region over the years. It’s ambitious BRI coalition in efforts to go green provides Malaysia – the largest recipient of investment amongst South-East Asian countries, the impetus to boost green financing efforts to mitigate climate change and improve livelihoods.
Gender Bonds Haven’t Been a Big Hit Globally, but a Japanese Bank May Change That
By PassBlue
Although the market witnesses growth, very few gender bonds have been issued in the past decade. Discussing the different approaches gender bonds issuance can initiate to impact, the Japan International Cooperation Agency – one of the first public development banks to issue a gender bond, sets a precedent representing a much needed change in the market as it taps into investor interest thereby advancing gender equality.
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