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This discussion board provides a forum for exploration of different ways to calculate an expected impact rating for prospective investments.

Over the last decade, investors claiming  to have positive impacts on people and the planet have been called upon to meet increasing standards of impact measurement and reporting, to avoid the perception (or the reality) of ‘impact-washing.’ As the communities of impact evaluation and investing converge, what can each learn from the other?

Impact Frontiers is launching an effort in 2023 to build consensus on a common set of elements that any impact report verification should include by verifiers, reflecting a common set of elements that constitute complete and high-quality impact reporting by investors. These will serve as a shared foundation that will enable appropriate consistency among methodologies used by disparate third-party verifiers, increasing the amount and quality of information about impact that flows up the capital chain.

Impact Frontiers and the Predistribution Initiative invite your feedback on a discussion document and prototype set of metrics by which investors can measure and manage their positive and negative investor contributions.