Mission & VisionImpact Frontiers is a peer learning and market-building collaboration

Impact Frontiers about mission

Our focus is on usefulness and practicality for investment decision-making.

To achieve this, we lead with questions, and facilitate interactions that help investors come up with their own answers, based on their strategy, context and data. Collaboration unlocks learning and innovation in addressing the challenges we face.

PURPOSE

The urgency of the social and environmental challenges we face makes it imperative that investors allocate capital to impact accurately and efficiently.

Mission

Our mission is to accelerate investors’ integration of impact alongside financial risk and return into their investment practices for the benefit of people and the planet.

VISION

We envision a world where investors are able to make and manage investments to achieve integrated financial, social, and environmental goals.

Facilitating investors to learn together

We facilitate peer-learning communities and create practical tools that support investors in managing impact and integrating impact with financial data, analysis, and processes.

Impact Frontiers also stewards the norms and consensus-building practices pioneered by the Impact Management Project. We use practitioner experiences to jump-start consensus-building in areas of practice where standards and guidance do not yet exist, and synthesize and share the results of these collaborations with the field at large.

Our Timeline: 2015 - Present

2015

Root Capital implements “Efficient Impact Frontier” Approach

2017

"Toward the Efficient Impact Frontier" published in SSIR

2018

First investor cohort launched

2019

Impact Frontiers migrates to Impact Management Project

2020

Root Capital implements “Efficient Impact Frontier” Approach

2020

Handbook published synthesizing findings of first cohort

2021

Six investor cohorts launch; IMP concludes

2022

Cohorts launched in partnership with CASE @ Duke's Fuqua School

2023

Field-building resources published for three frontier topics: systems mapping, ABC of impact, and impact portfolio construction

2024

Version 1 of Impact Performance Reporting Norms published; Five Dimensions of Impact updated based on a social equity audit and public consultation
Frequently Asked Questions

Impact Frontiers is a program of the Bridges Impact Foundation, a 501(c)3 based in the United States.

Impact Frontiers is not a framework. We help you better understand and implement existing impact frameworks and standards, and integrate them alongside the financial considerations you also manage. We are framework-inclusive and open to diverse methods of incorporating impact into investment decision-making.

We do not provide consulting services, but are happy to provide referrals.