Knowledge Center for Impact-Linked Finance

Discover our ILF resources!

This knowledge center has all the resources you need to acquainted with Impact-Linked Finance and kick off your journey as a practitioner of this innovative solution. Whether you are (1) a public or philanthropic funder and strive to make the most (impact-)effective use of your capital, (2) an intermediary or implementer who wants to structure and execute impact-linked deals, (3) an investor who would like to be serious about embedding impact into finance, or (4) an entrepreneur who wishes to receive “better terms for better impact”: Here, you are at the exact right spot to get started.

The goal of the knowledge center is to accelerate and multiply the application of Impact-Linked Finance around the world. We want to inspire like-minded pioneers and collaborate. Below are the resources that await you. These tools, templates, tutorials, and insights are open-source, ready-to-use and free of charge.

(1) Discover Impact-Linked Finance

Welcome to the basics around Impact-Linked Finance. If you haven’t had a chance to discover this innovative concept yet, this is the place to start. Here’s an overview of what you will find:

(2) Deep dive into Impact-Linked Finance

Ready to dive deeper into Impact-Linked Finance and get one level closer to implementation? We have a lot of useful knowledge and wisdom to share:

(3) Practice Impact-Linked Finance

Time to jump into practice. This is the place for tutorials, toolkits, bootcamps, and other interactive ways to learn and implement Impact-Linked Finance with our experts:

(4) Calculate Impact-Linked Finance

There is no better way to see what Impact-Linked Finance can do for you than calculate a real-life example. With this unique and free Impact-Linked Finance Calculator, entrepreneurs, investors and funders can enter their case-specific data and simulate 3 different Impact-Linked Finance instruments in real-time:

(a) Social Impact Incentives (SIINC)

(b) Impact-Linked Loan

(c) Impact-Linked Revenue Share Agreement.

This one-of-its-kind open-source tool is only available on this Open Platform. Enjoy playing with it!

(5) Connect with the Impact-Linked Finance community

Practice becomes more effective and inspiring when you engage with a community of like-minded peers and experts. Our partners at Roots of Impact have exciting plans to build a Community Hub (CH) for Impact-Linked Finance. To stay up-to-date on the launch of this ILF CH,  check out this page. You can subscribe and contribute!

For now, you can receive premium services such as advice, guidance, and quality assurance by Impact-Linked Finance experts at Roots of Impact or iGravity.

Examples of topics that can be covered in these advisory mandates are:

How to (1) integrate Impact-Linked Finance in a particular organizational set-up (for implementers and funders), (2) design Impact-Linked Finance programs and funds (for implementers and funders), (3) screen and select suitable enterprises (for implementers), (4) best structure Impact-Linked Finance transactions (for implementers), (5) choose the right Impact-Linked Finance instrument (for implementers and funders), or (6) deal with impact – from impact assessment to impact incentives and impact verification (for implementers).

Previous Impact-Linked Finance knowledge – gained e.g. either in an Impact-Linked Finance Bootcamp or via other forms of engagement – is highly recommended prior to requesting premium advisory services.

If you are an entrepreneur interested in receiving Impact-Linked Finance, please check out our Impact-Linked Funds and their calls for applications.