Strengthening Impact Management CohortImplement a comprehensive impact management approach
Impact Frontiers, the Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship (CASE) at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business, and Prime Coalition are partnering to offer a program in which participants will develop and strengthen impact management approaches tailored to their organization’s context, strategy, and goals.
The program will include monthly meetings over a twelve-month period, with workshops, case examples and exercises, structured peer sharing and feedback, guest expert sessions, and coaching.
Program Curriculum
The program is divided into three sequences: Foundations, Scaffolding, and the Roof. The Foundations and Scaffolding sequences build on one another to lay the groundwork for the impact-financial integration tools and processes we develop in the Roof sequence.
foundations
1. What's Possible & What it Takes
2. Fundamentals of Climate Investing
3. Impact Ratings Part 1: Enterprise Impact ("What", "Who", and "How Much")
scaffolding
4. Impact Ratings Part 2: Enterprise Impact ("Investor Contribution" and "Impact Risk")
5. Spotlight on "What" and "How Much" of Climate Assessment: Mitigation
6. Impact Ratings (and Climate Lens) in Practice
7. Spotlight on "What" and "How Much" of Climate Assessment: Adaptation & Resilience
roof
8. Intro to the Efficient Impact Frontier
9. Financial Risk and Return Day!
10. Integrated Analysis and Decision Making
11. Optimizing your Process to Optimize Performance
12. Conclusion*
Our PartnerS
CASE at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business
The Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship (CASE) is an award-winning research and education center based at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business. Since 2002, CASE has been a leader in the field of social impact and impact investing, serving as a hub for research, teaching, and practitioner training.
CASE has worked with thousands of impact organizations, funders, and field-builders to connect theory to practice. CASE specializes in developing practitioner-friendly training and tools to equip impact leaders to succeed and scale their impact. CASE Smart Impact Capital is a professional impact investing program that has been in continuous use since 2016 by over 95 accelerator, fund, and university cohorts. CASE partnered with the UN Development Programme to launch a Coursera course that has trained over 8000 enterprises and investors to enhance their practices around Impact Measurement and Management for the SDGs.
Cathy Clark
Cathy Clark is Faculty Director at CASE at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business and Founding Director of the CASE i3 Initiative on Impact Investing. Cathy is globally recognized as a collaborative visionary and pioneering influencer in the fields of social entrepreneurship and impact investing. She has been named a B the Change Champion, Social Innovation Thought Leader of the Year in 2020 by the World Economic Forum, and one of 2021’s top 12 Agents of impact by ImpactAlpha.
Previously, Cathy was an investor at Flatiron Partners, a philanthropist at the Markle Foundation, and a policy convener at the Aspen Institute. She holds an MBA from Columbia Business School and a BA from the University of Virginia.
Prime Coalition
Prime Coalition is a nonprofit organization on a mission to unlock catalytic capital and change the future of climate finance. Prime centers on collective, long-term thinking in this global movement by supporting people, programs, and innovations that can help spark, deepen, or accelerate emerging climate solutions that have strong potential to transform our world in the decades ahead. In the spirit of additionality, we seek to fill gaps or enable outcomes that are unlikely without our catalytic support.
The Prime family, which includes Prime Coalition and its affiliated organizations, aggregates and channels catalytic capital toward deeply impactful climate ventures and projects that we believe have the power to create significant, long-lasting change and that might struggle to raise sufficient support without us — such as when the time horizon to retire technology risk is too long for traditional investors.
Expression of Interest
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