Investing for Systems Change

IMP+ Project

Our mission: Contributing to Positive Systems Change

Sustainable and impact investing are gaining more traction than ever before ($1.2 trillion). At the same time, the challenges we are facing have only gotten worse. Some of these global challenges – climate change, ecosystem collapse, social injustice – are complex and systemic in nature, and therefore need a response that meets its complexity. We believe that we need an additional approach to investing, which we call investing for systems change.

Founders

The definition of System Change Investing that we collectively developed:

“Investing for systems change is investment capital that is being deployed – often coordinated with other types of resources and interventions – with the intention to contribute to positive systems change.”

The four pillars of our work

Working groups

Continue to nurture and grow our ‘working group’, i.e. community of practice

awareness

Continue to build awareness in the broader field on ‘investing for system change’

capacity

Build capacity of more investors and build evidence

capital

Catalyse more capital toward system change

Our guiding principles

Co-creative: collectively define what systems change investing is

Emergence: sense what wants to emerge; enable and accelerate that

Stewardship mindset: don’t feel any ownership over ‘investing for systems change’; it is a beautifully broad and diverse field to which we hope to contribute in some meaningful way

Transcending paradigms: celebrate that there are multiple paradigms when it comes to ‘investing for systems change’, not just the paradigm that guides our own world view

Global and diverse perspectives: care about this work being informed by diverse perspectives from all across the world; not be dominated by any one ethnicity/ gender/ race or country/ region perspective

Personal transformation: believe that systems change investing (the ‘outer work’) and personal transformation (the ‘inner work’) go hand-in-hand

Project Leader

ALEXANDRA KORIJN

BOARD TONIIC, AJE, CONSULTANT, IMPACT INVESTING & SYSTEMS CHANGE

Systems Change: What if investment approaches matched the complexity of the problems we are seeking to solve?

by Alexandra Korijn

Whole regions and communities have been activated to collectively engage in the complex issues in their region, identify the people and organisations working on the ‘acupuncture points’ for change that could make an outsized impact in the system, and then match those with a wide range of capital and funding to support a whole myriad of solutions.