New Frontiers | Our ApproachWe facilitate consensus-building in areas in which standards and guidance do not yet exist
Impact Frontiers aggregates, synthesizes, and shares new practices that can help investors to increase their impact, building on the content and facilitation practices pioneered by the Impact Management Project.
The typical process
01 Identify Topics
We identify significant challenges in impact management faced by practitioners in our community of cohort members and industry partners.
02 Conduct Initial Review
Review existing approaches and materials on the topic and synthesize findings in an interim paper intended to solicit views and suggestions from investors and others.
03 Publish Discussion document
In compiling the interim paper, we will conduct interviews with a large number of investors and other related parties to ensure that the contents are in line with actual practice.
04 Open for Public comment
The interim report will then be open for public comment on the Impact Frontiers’ Discussion Board and on live, online, open-invitation ‘huddles’ on each topic.
05 Publish consensus document
The paper will be finalized based on the feedback received and published in Our Work.
Interested in a particular topic? Or interested in participating? Please contact us for any topics you are interested in participating.
6 topics
ADVANCED THROUGH FIELD BUILDING INITIATIVES TO DATE
550+ PRACTITIONERS
SHARED THEIR COMMENTS THROUGH DISCUSSION BOARDS AND INTERACTIVE WEBINARS
A
An initiative in partnership with leading experts in racial, gender, and data equity to 1) develop a baseline layer of social equity awareness and practices that is simply good operating practice for any impact management professional; and 2) explore new impact management strategies for investors with specific social equity objectives.
B
A consensus-building initiative to establish Norms for investors in private markets about the content, structure, and format of impact performance reports.
C
Impact Frontiers is investigating the current state of practice in impact-driven portfolio construction and optimization across asset classes and spotlighting novel practices developed by individual investors incorporating impact into asset class allocation.
D
jointly facilitated an industry consensus-building effort to develop resources that can support investors in measuring, managing, and reporting their positive and negative contributions to impact and systematic risk.
E
In 2023, Impact Frontiers reviewed basics of systems mapping techniques and explored how they might be applied in the future at the investment and portfolio levels.
Impact Frontiers aggregates, synthesizes, and shares new practices that can help investors to increase their impact, building on the content and facilitation practices pioneered by the Impact Management Project.
Visit here to learn more about the topics we are currently working on.
The typical process
01
Identify Topics
We identify significant challenges in impact management faced by practitioners in our community of cohort members and industry partners.
02
Conduct Initial Review
Review existing approaches and materials on the topic and synthesize findings in an interim paper intended to solicit views and suggestions from investors and others.
03
Publish Discussion document
In compiling the interim paper, we will conduct interviews with a large number of investors and other related parties to ensure that the contents are in line with actual practice.
04
Open for Public comment
The interim report will then be open for public comment on the Impact Frontiers’ Discussion Board and on live, online, open-invitation ‘huddles’ on each topic.
05
Publish consensus document
The paper will be finalized based on the feedback received and published in Our Work.
Interested in a particular topic? Or interested in participating? Please contact us for any topics you are interested in participating.
