Monetizing Impact: How Economic Systems Can Incentivize Impact Value Creation
The world needs more financial systems that value positive outcomes for people and the planet.
This participatory session, hosted by Acumen, will feature different impact-first ecosystem players who are exploring how positive social and environmental outcomes can improve access to capital. By doing so, vulnerable communities have access to the goods and services they need the most, inclusive and sustainable businesses can do better, and we can foster a financial system that values net positive outcomes, like lower carbon emissions, reduced waste, and improved access to opportunity.
Acumen will be launching a new brief on monetizing impact as part of this session.
The panel discussion will anchor around a provocative question: “Social impact is linked to positive long term economic outcomes - so why are they not valued?”
We will highlight real examples and lessons learned from emerging models and monetized impact (e.g., performance based financing, carbon credits), to understand:
How economic systems can incentivize impact value creation;
How simplified tools and methodologies, policies and regulation can create strong markets for impact; and
What else is needed to strengthen systems for social enterprises, so that they can scale solutions needed for massive change.
Acumen’s Chief of Insights and Strategy, Amrita Bhandari and Acumen’s Chief of Development and Partnerships, Yasmina Zaidman will be on the panel, alongside a social entrepreneur from the Acumen community that is harnessing impact monetization, a Donor (e.g., corporation or foundation representative) and an Economist/Systems Thinker.
Capacity: 60 maximum.