ImpactIf

It is becoming clear that governments alone cannot meet the challenges set by high poverty and unemployment rates, rapidly growing populations, rising food and energy prices, insufficient health care, environmental degradation and other major concerns facing developing countries.Social impact and economic growth in emerging market countries. Yet fi... nancial institutions lend an insufficient portion of their balance sheets to this sector. Increasingly, investors are stepping in to bridge this funding gapImpact investors believe that they can play a part in shaping the future by deploying capital to this sector in an innovative, proactive and socially responsible manner. Based on the above, the vision of Impactif is a world where social and environmental are the basis for all entrepreneurial activities. To enhance the quality of social lives of people and the environment through the creation of sustainable and innovative enterprise activities, advisory support and platforms that foster investment in social and environmental projects.Before the launch of ImpactIF, there was no defined and set of criteria to qualify projects for social and environment impact projects. Investors seeking to make impact investments have no adequate means to actually review and perform due diligence on a potential investment project especially in a developing world. Additionally, more and more innovations and businesses ideas on the area of social and environment are out there but there are limited linkages between the entrepreneurs/campaigners and investors. Those are the issues ImpactIF is in the mission to solve.Read More