Net Impact Week: Inspiring Growth and Impact - a week dedicated to exploring and challenging social impact's role in the business context. This week is from October 26 - 31 with 12 events (workshops, lunch and learns, student panels, community service, and social).
Come hear Amit Bouri (Kellogg '07) give a keynote speech as part of Kellogg's Social Enterprise Beacon Capital Partners Executive in Residence.
The Beacon Capital Partners Executive in Residence program is a unique opportunity for the Kellogg School to invite a world class leader in social enterprise to spend a few days talking with the entire Kellogg community about important issues in nonprofit management.
At its core, impact investing is the confluence of idealism and pragmatism; it relies on one having a vision for a better world and the rigor and determination to use investment to drive that change. So how does the market need to grow? What challenges still exist for impact investors? What opportunities remain untapped? The GIIN and its members are ready to tackle these types of critical questions to ensure that impact investing reaches its true potential. Amit will share his experience in leading the GIIN, as well as his vision for the future of impact investing—a vision that involves changing how people think about the purpose of capital and the opportunity to invest in a better world.
Amit Bouri (Kellogg ’07) is the co-founder and CEO of the Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN), a nonprofit dedicated to increasing the scale and effectiveness of impact investing. When Amit Bouri left his consulting job at Monitor in 2009 to start the Global Impact Investing Network, the global financial crisis was testing the very foundation of the global economy—it was also challenging the many assumptions investors made about how markets operate. Amidst this change, a group of pioneering investors saw an opportunity to build a real market for impact investments and channel vast amounts of capital towards addressing social and environmental challenges. Seven years later, the idea of impact investing has captured the imaginations of leaders and investors around the world. There are at least 350 impact investing vehicles operating worldwide, and the GIIN’s own membership has grown from 25 organizations to more than 220. And impact investing has only just begun to scratch the surface.
The Global Impact Investing Network is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization dedicated to increasing the scale and effectiveness of impact investing. Impact investments are investments made into companies, organizations, and funds with the intention to generate measurable social and environmental impact alongside a financial return. They can be made in both emerging and developed markets, and target a range of returns from below market to market rate, depending upon the circumstances. The GIIN addresses systemic barriers to effective impact investing by building critical infrastructure and developing activities, education, and research that attract more investment capital to poverty alleviation and environmental solutions. The GIIN is currently a sponsored project of Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors.