Scaling Impact Online Workshop: the Impact Investment Readiness Journey

Is your social enterprise looking to take on impact investment in the future? 

Do you have what it takes to become investment-ready?

Is impact investment right for you? 

These are three big questions commonly faced by high growth social enterprises looking to raise capital and scale their impact. With the new year comes new opportunities including this opportunity to learn about how to get your business ready for impact investment. 

Presented by Social Impact Hub, you’ll leave this 2 hour online workshop with:

• A clear understanding of the impact investment landscape, the types of impact capital available and the nature of this capital
• An appreciation of the motivations of impact investors, and how different investors view the maximisation of impact and financial return
• An assessment of your impact investment readiness and identification of the areas where you still need work

About the Workshop

The online workshop will be a practical, insight-filled session for social enterprises and purpose-driven businesses with their eye on impact investment. You will have the opportunity to use the Social Impact Hub’s Impact Investment Readiness Diagnostic Tool, developed with the support of the English Family Foundation. This will assess your organisation’s impact investment readiness in ten different areas and identify what you need to work on in order to successfully secure investment. At the end of this workshop, you will learn about our upcoming Scaling Impact accelerator program focused on impact investment readiness starting in May 2021.

Grab your ticket to this value-packed workshop today! 

Meet the Facilitators

Jessica Roth - Founder & Director, Social Impact Hub

Jessica is the Founder and Director of the Social Impact Hub. The Social Impact Hub collaborates with purpose-driven organisations to advise, educate and mobilise capital to accelerate change. 

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.

Kate Saunders - Head of Scaling Impact, Social Impact Hub

Kate is the Head of Scaling Impact at Social Impact Hub and is passionate about bringing about social and environmental change by collaboration and mobilising capital through impact investment. She has extensive experience working in the financial markets and investment banking sector in Australia and Japan primarily as an equities analyst but also on the investment side. Returning from nearly a decade living in Japan, she was able to use her finance skills working in a microfinance organisation where she worked to measure the impact microfinance was having on the lives of loan recipients around the world. She then worked advising social enterprises and NFPs on growth strategies and impact measurement.

*** NOTE *** 

If you’re a social enterprise looking for impact investment, we are now receiving expressions of interest here for our second cohort of Scaling Impact, an impact investment-specific accelerator program starting in May 2021.