Building markets
Strengthening the social finance ecosystem
Successful ecosystem efforts are often the result of multiple, parallel interventions where players from across sectors work together to facilitate, stimulate, and enforce action. Learning from “aligned action” engagements across a host of issue areas and geographies, Deloitte helps clients agree to and deliver on common mandates and action agendas, including by leveraging proprietary crowdsourcing technologies to assure the most effective convergence of actors and solutions.
Stories from the field
Given the highly evolving nature of the social finance industry, there is a need to have a strong and supportive ecosystem. Deloitte has supported initiatives focused on enhancing transparency and reporting practices worldwide as well as a range of convenings focused on rallying practitioners around ways to enhance the impact investing ecosystem. Efforts include support related to:
Enhancing Transparency and Reporting Practices
Based on our experience in sustainability and leadership in advancing financial and non-financial reporting, a consortium of field-builders invited Deloitte to help build a “FASB and GAAP equivalent” for impact investing.
Facilitating CDFI Aligned Action
Alongside a leading foundation, our team has supported a series of impact investing conferences and meetings to bring together leading players, identify challenges in the sector, and develop strategies to address them through collaboration. Deloitte has also provided targeted support to bringing the US impact investing community and Community Development Finance Institutions (CDFIs) closer together.
Helping the Private Sector Engage with the SDGs
Deloitte’s experience in inclusive business and impact investing led to the commissioning of a report with the UNDP focused on how to develop a company’s value proposition in the context of the SDGs based on their degree of “social impact” maturity.