EVPA and Roots of impact are partnering to share insights on Impact-Linked Finance and support catalytic capital providers in knowing more and potentially adopting this innovative financing practice.
Impact-Linked Finance was born out of the idea that every business can improve its social and environmental impact and that funders can help them doing so by providing better terms for better impact. By building in rewards for positive impact, companies can be directly incentivised for outcomes such as increased income for people living in poverty, gender equality, reduced plastic waste, or improved learning outcomes for children. How?
In this webinar, Bjoern Struewer, Founder and CEO and Patrizia Baffioni, Lead Impact-Linked Finance Programs at Roots of Impact joined us to share their experience in using Impact-Linked Finance to help social enterprises scale and deepen their impact and talked about the underlying principles and characteristics of Impact-Linked Finance.
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Alessia Gianoncelli
With a decade of experience in the social investment space, as part of her long journey at Impact Europe, the investing for impact network, Alessia contributes to build the impact investing market, by supporting impact investors and all impact stakeholders in connecting, exchanging, learning from each other, and providing them with research, data insights and capacity building opportunities. Alessia aims at accelerating impact by focusing on building partnerships with other networks and relevant actors in the field, sharing learning and good practices, breaking silos, and facilitating the creation and the exchange of knowledge.
In her capacity as Impact Europe Director of Knowledge and Programs, Alessia leads a team of 8 young enthusiastic professionals working on research activities, content and programs development, programs management, data collection, and community engagement.
Alessia co-authored publications, practical cases, and articles on topics such as venture philanthropy, impact measurement and management, impact strategies, the European impact ecosystem, tailored and hybrid finance. Thanks to her research, she prominently contributed to the Impact Europe narrative around investing for impact and to the debate on the different nuances of impact investing. Alessia is invited to speak at international conferences and give guest lectures at European Universities and Business Schools (e.g., ESADE Center for Social Impact, Nova School of Business and Economics, Luiss – Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali Guido Carli, INSEAD Business School in Paris, Solvay Brussels School Economics & Management).
Alessia also cooperates with Impact Europe's sister organisations in Latin America, Asia and Africa (GAIN, Latimpacto, AVPN and AVPA) to strengthen the collaboration among actors active in the global impact ecosystem, by sharing learning, facilitating the exchange of experiences, contributing to scale successes across regions.
Bjoern Struewer
After leaving the banking industry where he worked for over 20 years, Bjoern started working closely with public funders and impact investors to scale enterprises and innovations with strong potential for positive impact. With his team at Roots of Impact, he developed pioneering solutions such as Social Impact Incentives (SIINC) and Impact-Linked Finance as well as the Social Finance Academy.
He also leads the Initiative for Blended Finance at the University of Zurich, is Senior Fellow at theCenter for Sustainable Finance and Private Wealth and a mentor at the Harvard Kennedy School's "Impact Investment for the Next Generation" program.
Patrizia Baffioni
Patrizia leads and facilitates the open platform initiative for ImpactLinked Finance and manages several Social Impact Incentives (SIINC) programs, ranging from vocational training, water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) to off-grid energy sectors.
Before joining Roots of Impact she worked on technical cooperation projects at the United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO). She holds a master degree in Business Administration and in Development Finance.