Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN)

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An archive piece from the Rockefeller Foundation recounting how meetings at its Bellagio Center in October 2007 and June 2008 defined 'impact investing' — using profit-seeking investment to generate social and environmental good — and led to the founding of the GIIN in 2009. The Obama administration committed over $2.3 billion to impact investing initiatives from 2009, and the G8 hosted its first Social Impact Investing Forum in 2013, the same year the Foundation closed its own impact investing programme. By 2013 more than 40 funds and 15 investors managing nearly $3 billion worked with GIIRS, and the total impact capital tracked by the GIIN stands at $1.164 trillion.

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• 1.164 trillion_usd

  impact capital allocated(impact investing)

  Economics

  region

  Global

  year

  null

  method

  total impact capital allocated as tracked by the GIIN

• 2.3 billion_usd

  us government commitment(impact investing)

  Economics

  region

  United States

  year

  2009

  method

  Obama administration commitments to impact investing initiatives, stated as over $2.3 billion

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