Impact Investing Fundamentals for Not-for-Profits

Social Impact Hub and Philanthropy Australia present: Impact Investing Fundamentals for Not-for-Profits - a half-day online workshop covering the fundamentals of impact investing and its potential to diversify your revenue streams and amplify your impact.

There is growing interest in impact investing as an emerging investment approach. But what does it mean, and how can not-for-profits utilise it as a new source of funding in an increasingly tough operating environment. 

Impact Investing Fundamentals for Not-for-Profits is a half-day, online workshop where you will learn from experienced investors and sector leaders:

• The fundamentals of impact investing, key trends and what the landscape looks like for Australian not-for-profits
• How impact investing can complement traditional fundraising sources
  
• The options, opportunities, challenges and risks for not-for-profits wanting to engage in impact investing
• Learn from case studies of how not-for-profits have accessed impact investment, including Save the Children's impact investment fund, setting up a sister for-profit similar to OzHarvest and ForPurposeCo, and accessing debt like Corryong Neighbourhood Centre
  

Who should attend?

• Leadership, finance or strategy staff of not-for-profits, charities, NGOs and for-purpose organisations
• Board members or advisors of not-for-profits, charities, NGOs and for-purpose organisations

What you'll take away:

• An understanding of how to approach impact investing in the context of not-for-profits
• Practical tips about how to attracted funding for impact through a range of investment vehicles - including investment funds using internal capital, patient debt, special-purpose vehicles, social impact bonds, and real asset investment partnerships

Don't miss this opportunity to better understand how impact investing can enable you to go beyond traditional fundraising and leverage the power of markets to create change and strengthen your financial security. Grab your ticket to this value-packed masterclass today! 

Meet the speakers:

Laura Scott | Head of Impact Investment at Save the Children Australia

Laura is the Head of Impact Investment at Save the Children and is responsible for the organisation’s first Impact Fund which launched in 2020. This includes managing the investment pipeline and portfolio of investments, working with a new Board of Directors and Investment Committee. Prior to this, Laura worked in Kenya as a Principal at Open Capital Advisors where she worked with investors and early-stage businesses across a number of countries in Africa and Asia. Laura started her career at Accenture and spent six years in management consulting, primarily in the energy, financial services and not-for-profit sectors.

Reece Proudfoot | Head of Innovation & Impact Investment at WWF Australia

Reece Proudfoot is Head of Innovation and Impact Investment at WWF-Australia. In 2017, Reece founded WWF's 'Panda Labs' - a global innovation platform designed to solve some of the world’s most wicked problems in collaboration with influential partners. Successful ventures include ‘OpenSC’, a profit-for-purpose venture launched with BCG DV to transform global food supply chains, reduce environmental impact and human rights abuses which raised US$4million at seed round, and ‘Impactio’, a global project and deal flow curation platform, that surfaces and supports portfolios of high impact projects. Soon, WWF-Australia will launch ‘Regenerate Australia’ - a program to help the post-bushfire and post-Covid regeneration and recovery process by identifying, supporting and funding investable, community-led ‘regenerative’ solutions. 

Lawrence Goldstone | Partner at PwC's The Difference I Chairman OzHarvest I Board Director ForPurposeCo. I Advisory Board PwC CMO Advisory

Lawrence is a Partner at PwC Australia, where he leads the Future of Work team. With 25 years local and international experience, Lawrence co-founded and led The Difference before it's acquisition into PwC in 2010, and is an expert in collaborative design, facilitation, engagement and creative communications. Lawrence is Chair of the OzHarvest Board, and a Board Director at ForPurposeCo. He also sits on PwC Australia's sustainability steering group and CMO advisory board and is mentor to a number of startups.

Elyse Sainty | Director, Impact Investing at Social Ventures Australia

Elyse leads SVA’s Social Impact Bond related work. She was instrumental in the development of each of the SIBs that SVA has launched to date and has worked on the development of projects in four States, with eight different government line agencies and ten service delivery organisations. She has also provided advisory support to the Governments of Australia and New Zealand in relation to outcomes-based contracting.

Elyse draws on her strong strategic, analytical and communication skills in providing technical and advisory support to service delivery organisations and to Governments, and in developing innovative financial structures that meet the needs of impact investors. She is a firm believer that the hard yards involved in putting together outcomes-based contracts are worth it, as they force a deeper understanding of the cost of disadvantage, illuminate ‘what works’, and provide a meaningful and clear common purpose.
Prior to joining SVA in 2011, Elyse had two decades of experience within the financial services industry. Elyse qualified as a Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries of Australia and holds a BEc from Macquarie University

Sara Jenkins | Business & Education Coordination at Corryong Neighbourhood Centre

Sara Jenkins became a Co-ordinator of what is now the Corryong Neighbourhood Centre (CNC) in rural, NE Victoria in Aug 2011 after working from Melbourne for over 30 years in finance, administration, compliance, systems development and audit roles in a diverse range of industries in the public and private sector including construction, health, manufacturing, entertainment, hospitality and gaming.

As well as managing the day to day activities of the CNC, Sara’s role is to bring the rapidly expanding plans for the CNC to fruition by obtaining and managing funds; meeting compliance and reporting expectations and generally keeping everything and everyone on track towards the goals of community benefit and independent sustainability.

Jessica Roth | Founder & Director at Social Impact Hub (Facilitator)

Jessica is the Founder and Director of the Social Impact Hub. The Social Impact Hub advises, educates, collaborates and mobilises capital for impact. Jessica is also a consultant to the impact investment sector, having served as the Impact Strategist for Blue River Group, an independent impact investment services firm, and opened the Sydney office of Impact Investment Group. Previously, Jessica was a Solicitor at King & Wood Mallesons in Sydney. She holds a B.A. and LL.B. (with First Class Honours) from UNSW and a LL.M. from Harvard Law School, where she was the recipient of the R.G. Menzies Scholarship to Harvard, and she studied social entrepreneurship, philanthropy and impact investing.