Grant recipients include Impact Capital Managers, Lafayette Square Institute, Responsible Asset Allocators Initiative, and the Sustainable Investing Research Initiative
The Tipping Point Fund on Impact Investing (TPF) today announced that it will award grants to four organizations doing catalytic work to address shared challenges within the sustainable and impact investing fields, including impact measurement, system-level investing, and public policy. The TPF is a donor collaborative committed to creating and supporting public goods critical to the impact investing market's continued growth and fidelity.
“These grants are about elevating existing practices and seeding further innovation to demonstrate clearly that impact investing can and must address head-on the systemic challenges facing our society,” said Fran Seegull, Executive Director of the TPF and President of the U.S. Impact Investing Alliance.
“From policy advocacy that will create economic opportunity for workers and communities, to creative solutions for how financial market actors can better assess and understand systemic risks, this cohort of TPF grantees is helping to drive positive impact throughout the capital markets system,” said Jessie Duncan, Senior Program Officer at the TPF.
Each grant proposal was evaluated based on its potential contribution to areas that the TPF team considers vital to the continued growth and success of the sustainable and impact investing fields. The selected grant recipients will use funding from the TPF to work on a specific project or deliverable seen as critical to the growth and fidelity of these fields. The complete list of the latest grant recipients and their projects is available below and on the TPF website.
Impact Capital Managers (ICM) – ICM will work with its network of 140+ leading private capital impact fund managers—focused on market-rate, competitive returns—to build internal operational capacity and understanding of how policy and regulation affect private capital impact funds, track and share tangible outcomes (like jobs created and capital invested across the U.S.), and identify opportunities to educate policymakers on the perspectives of impact investors.
Lafayette Square Institute – The Lafayette Square Institute will work to remove barriers to scaling employee ownership, such as a lack of financing options for employees, by engaging with policymakers across the political spectrum to explore policy changes with the potential to create significant wealth for workers and communities.
Responsible Asset Allocator Initiative (RAAI) – The Responsible Asset Allocator Initiative (RAAI), together with the Predistribution Initiative, will establish the Sustainable Financial Benchmarking Lab (SFBL), a co-creation forum for investment teams of asset owners and allocators, industry professionals, and other stakeholders to reform traditional financial benchmarking practices that restrict sustainable and inclusive investing and inhibit the effective management of system-wide risks.
Sustainable Investing Research Initiative (SIRI) – The Sustainable Investing Research Initiative (SIRI) — a program at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs launched in 2022 to foster research, dialogue, and education on system-level investing — will expand its work to advance scholarship, develop educational materials, and provide a platform for dialogue among key capital markets actors to foster the alignment of existing efforts around measurement and systemic reporting.
About the Tipping Point Fund on Impact Investing
Launched in late 2019, the Tipping Point Fund on Impact Investing (TPF) is a donor collaborative developed to create and support public goods critical to the continued growth and fidelity of the impact investing market. The funding provided by the TPF builds on existing field-building efforts by prioritizing the areas that are chronically underfunded, are best suited for collective action, and require additional support beyond that provided by individual grantmakers. Learn more at www.tpfii.org.