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Check out our enablement packages available to the impact investing sector today:
Impact Management
Collect, organize, and visualize your impact data across investments to enable data-driven decision making and resource allocation.
Impact Reporting
Improve reporting to investors through dynamic, accessible dashboards that incorporate investment allocations and customized KPIs.
Portfolio Support
Add value to portfolio companies or funds – and incentivize data submission – with easy-to-use data sharing tools and a tailored dashboard for each portfolio company or fund.
Pipeline Analytics
Apply your impact criteria across prospective investments during due diligence to deliver impact assessment ratings.
Community Indexing
Leverage community-level education, economic, health, and demographic data for deeper insights into community assets and needs.
Aaron Walker
CEO & Founder, Camelback Ventures |
“In our work with UpMetrics, it has been great to be able to send metrics dashboards to investors without having to recreate the wheel from scratch each time. Additionally, the UpMetrics team has been instrumental in helping us make surveys that are consistent so that we can use them year over year without recreating. The time saved has allowed us to concentrate more on our work with our Fellows and stakeholders.” |
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What is Impact Investing Measurement?
Impact investing measurement is widely considered to be a complex aspect of impact investing.
Multiple organizations have developed standardized impact investing metrics to help investors understand the impact of their dollars.
There are two major frameworks for impact investing data: IRIS and GIIRS.
1. Impact Reporting and Investment Standards (IRIS)
The Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN) promotes IRIS impact investing metrics.
These metrics measure social, financial, and environmental performance to support credibility and accountability across the business world.
Figuring out how to measure impact investing through the IRIS taxonomy offers organizations and investors standardized definitions to help collect and aggregate data anonymously across industries.
IRIS users have the option of choosing which impact reporting metrics are most relevant to them.
2. Global Impact Investing Rating System (GIIRS)
Developed by the nonprofit B-Lab, the GIIRS system provides certifications to B corporations. This highly respected impact rating tool rates companies based on their social and environmental contributions.
For funds, GIIRS ratings are the benchmark for success when assessing a fund’s impact on society and the world.
GIIRS also combines IRIS metrics, together with their own criteria, to provide ratings that are easily accessible through a centralized impact investing database.
Industries as a whole generate benchmark reports via the GIIRS system of impact investing measurement.
Multiple organizations have developed standardized impact investing metrics to help investors understand the impact of their dollars.
There are two major frameworks for impact investing data: IRIS and GIIRS.
1. Impact Reporting and Investment Standards (IRIS)
The Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN) promotes IRIS impact investing metrics.
These metrics measure social, financial, and environmental performance to support credibility and accountability across the business world.
Figuring out how to measure impact investing through the IRIS taxonomy offers organizations and investors standardized definitions to help collect and aggregate data anonymously across industries.
IRIS users have the option of choosing which impact reporting metrics are most relevant to them.
2. Global Impact Investing Rating System (GIIRS)
Developed by the nonprofit B-Lab, the GIIRS system provides certifications to B corporations. This highly respected impact rating tool rates companies based on their social and environmental contributions.
For funds, GIIRS ratings are the benchmark for success when assessing a fund’s impact on society and the world.
GIIRS also combines IRIS metrics, together with their own criteria, to provide ratings that are easily accessible through a centralized impact investing database.
Industries as a whole generate benchmark reports via the GIIRS system of impact investing measurement.
Why is Impact Investing Measurement Important?
Why is measuring impact investing relevant to investors? What is the importance of adopting a recognized impact investing framework? Adopting a framework can help you:
Using a framework can help organizations understand the impact they are making on the communities they serve. Beat external skepticism and attract greater levels of credibility and recognition through your impact investing report.
The question is how to measure impact investing in a way that meets industry standards, garners organizational credibility, and encourages stakeholders to double down on their contributions?
- Measure the intangible. Overcome the challenges of measuring something that cannot always be reported in mere numbers.
- Provide accountability. Show stakeholders the impact of their investments.
- Improve the effectiveness of social impact investments.
- Maximize the value of investments.
- Generate greater stakeholder credibility.
Using a framework can help organizations understand the impact they are making on the communities they serve. Beat external skepticism and attract greater levels of credibility and recognition through your impact investing report.
The question is how to measure impact investing in a way that meets industry standards, garners organizational credibility, and encourages stakeholders to double down on their contributions?
UpMetrics Makes Impact Valuation Easy
Acquiring the real information behind the words is tough. Investors often wonder how they can measure the intangible and convert it into a form that offers a real-world assessment of the impact their investments have made.
The challenge of acquiring and converting real information can be intimidating and difficult to manage. This is where the UpMetrics impact valuation solution can help.
UpMetrics doesn’t believe impact investing measurement has to mean sacrificing financial gains and vital resources.
With our platform, you’ll gain access to a data collector tool that streamlines the data collection process. Dashboards powered by these surveys as well as your data sources help businesses to understand key elements of their story that can form a compelling narrative.
All data is presented in real-time, and cutting-edge automation technology delivers that data seamlessly.
Connect your impact metrics to the SDG goals in the platform to connect your work to larger societal efforts.
Translate data into action plans. Learn more about the UpMetrics impact investing measurement tool now.
The challenge of acquiring and converting real information can be intimidating and difficult to manage. This is where the UpMetrics impact valuation solution can help.
UpMetrics doesn’t believe impact investing measurement has to mean sacrificing financial gains and vital resources.
With our platform, you’ll gain access to a data collector tool that streamlines the data collection process. Dashboards powered by these surveys as well as your data sources help businesses to understand key elements of their story that can form a compelling narrative.
All data is presented in real-time, and cutting-edge automation technology delivers that data seamlessly.
Connect your impact metrics to the SDG goals in the platform to connect your work to larger societal efforts.
Translate data into action plans. Learn more about the UpMetrics impact investing measurement tool now.
Additional Resources
Learn more about how UpMetrics can help your impact fund use data to accelerate positive change.
Tell Your Story of Impact with Data
Combining metrics and stories in one place can help you paint a more powerful picture of your impact. Use this guide to learn steps to becoming a data-driven organization, why numbers alone don’t tell a complete story, how to collect stories and qualitative data, and how to tie metrics to stories. |
5 Steps to Create a Data-driven Culture at Your Organization
From program design, to resource allocation, to storytelling for fundraising, data is changing how operators and funders drive impact. This guide will help you define goals and track progress, build and implement a strategy around data, and learn how to use your data internally and externally. |
11 Steps to Collect and Leverage Survey Data
Surveys are an important form of data collection to support program improvement and storytelling. We also know it can be challenging to create, disseminate, and analyze surveys amid all your other priorities. Here are 11 steps to set yourself up for success with surveys. |
