Impact-First Investing?

Impact-first investing means investing in a way that seeks the highest possible social impact, while seeking to preserve capital for investors.

Impact-first investing is distinctly different from return-first investing, which seeks the highest possible financial return (often without consideration of social or environmental consequences), and from philanthropy, which seeks the highest social impact without any preservation of capital.

We believe that impact-first investing has an essential role to play in advancing sustainable solutions to poverty for millions of people worldwide.

What Does Impact Mean to Global Partnerships?

All of our funds’ impact-first investing is aimed at empowering low-income and marginalized people to earn a living, provide the basic necessities of life for their families, and improve their lives. We aim to deliver high social impact for people living in poverty, by investing to:

Broaden opportunity across different facets of poverty including, but not limited to, economic opportunity, education, energy, health, housing, sanitation, water, and food.

Deepen inclusion of poorer and underserved people, including women and the rural poor.

Serve millions through sustainable and scalable solutions that can positively impact the lives of millions of people.

Improve lives by empowering people to earn a living and meet their basic needs.

We do this while seeking to preserve capital with a modest financial return for all fund investors.