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Impact Rate of Return

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      Quantify your impact on the world.

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      Impact Rate of Return®

       

      The world’s first comprehensive turnkey solution for

      measuring, analyzing, and reporting impact of any kind.

       

       

       

    • How It Works

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      SELECT

      Select the type of

      impact you want

      to measure.

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      CUSTOMIZE

      Customize our algorithm

      to your preferences

      and priorities.

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      ACT

      Act on your results

      to achieve greater

      societal impact.

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      Why Impact Rate of Return®

       

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      CUSTOMIZABLE

      Configurable to reflect your needs.

       

      COMPLIANT

      Meets investor and regulatory reporting requirements.

       

      COMPATIBLE

      Aligns with industry leading reporting standards.

       

      COMPREHENSIVE

      Analyzes activity across all elements of impact.

       

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      Comprehensive Impact Analysis

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      iRR® factors in every element of impact necessary for a comprehensive analysis:

      TYPE

       

      Delivery of

      Impact

       

      QUANTITY

       

      Magnitude of

      Impact

       

      QUALITY

       

      Materiality of

      Impact

       

      COST

       

      Cost Effectiveness

      of Impact

       

      TIME

       

      Time of

      Impact

       

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      Who should use it

      iRR® has broad use and applicability across sectors:

      Funds

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      Improve your investment performance and downside risk protection.

      Streamline your impact data analytics.

      Foundations

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      Gain deep understanding of your impact across grantees and portfolios.

      Deepen your program impact insights.

      NGOs

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      Elevate the visibility and awareness of your mission, programs, and impact on society.

      Clarify your impact communication.

      Governments

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      Increase your agency's or city's impact accountability and transparency.

      Strengthen your policy and program reporting.

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      iRR® in the Media

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    • iRR "calculates a unit of social or environmental return for the original investment that's interchangeable and comparable"

      - Bloomberg, 2019

      iRR is a "framework for predicting and measuring the positive social and environmental impact of a project that will be of interest to impact investors"

      - Financial Times, 2018

      "Funds should also integrate impact measurement and reporting into their decision-making...including Impact Rate of Return"

      - Fortune Magazine, 2019

      "Investors often set an expected internal rate of return at the outset of their investments...similarly, they can do the same with their impact goals by using iRR"

      - New York Stock Exchange, 2019

      "By predicting the relative performance of a given set of program options, partners can allocate capital based on specific priorities and goals"

      - Harvard Business Review, 2018

      "Fund managers should additionally select, measure and report on metrics...in alignment with validated third-party evaluation methodologies [including] iRR"

      - Federal Reserve Bank of New York,

      OZ Reporting Framework, 2019

      "Impact Rate of Return, a tool to measure the rate of impact for every dollar a person invests. It's now used by more than 75 impact investors or funds"

      - Forbes Impact 50, 2020

      "iRR as a measure for comparing various social investments - will make this work a visionary...method for determining the value of this type of funding"

      - American Library Association, 2018

      "It's precisely these [iRR] equations that prove social value investing a workable discipline-not merely a fuzzy dream of do-gooders"

      - Kirkus Reviews, 2018

      "We tested Impact Rate of Return's potential efficacy as a process for impact management explicitly for the OZ community"

      - ImpactAlpha, 2019

      iRR is "an innovative approach to performance measurement and management...to calculate how efficient [investors] are at accomplishing social impact"

      - National Real Estate Investor, 2020

      "This new software comes at a perfect time, and will be an invaluable measurement tool to demonstrate the power of smart...development"

      - Medium, 2020

      "Efforts have also been made to create comparable impact data through quantitative approaches such as...Impact Rate of Return"

      - Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2019

      Organizations can "consider their "comparative advantage," and [this] universal measure of "impact" can be as fungible as money"

      - Fast Company, 2011

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