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Close Get Started Sign In Standards Data Education News & Events About Get Involved Quick Links Global Impact Investing Network Core Characteristics of Impact Investing Impact Toolkit The Navigating Impact project Investors Council IMM Leadership Initiative Menu Get Started Sign In IRIS+ System IRIS+ is the generally accepted system for measuring, managing, and optimizing impact. Create an account to get started Join the over 20,000 users who have registered to use IRIS+ materials. Watch the IRIS+ video IRIS+ makes it easier for investors to translate their impact intentions into impact results. All investors and companies create positive and negative effects on society and the environment. Impact investors seek to maximize the positive and minimize the negative by using the IRIS+ system to integrate social and environmental factors into investment decisions alongside risk and return. Credible, comparable impact data are needed to inform impact investment decisions and drive greater impact results. IRIS+ solves for this by increasing data clarity and comparability, and it provides streamlined, practical, how-to guidance that impact investors need, all in one easy-to-navigate system. It is a free, publicly available resource that is managed by the Global Impact Investing Network – the global champion of impact investing. Learn more about IRIS+ Scroll down The challenges the world is facing are too urgent for impact capital to underperform. It’s unacceptable for investors to make financial decisions based on gut feelings or best guesses, why should it be any different in the impact investing world? Take the guesswork out of impact measurement & management use IRIS+ to underpin your framework DESCRIBE goals, strategies, & expectations using a common language LEARN from evidence research, cases, guidance, and best practices COMPARE using core metrics & standard data categories ACT on impact data from core metrics to drive better results COMMUNICATE performance with stakeholders using standard data & templates Create an IRIS+ account to start to manage your impact 19,920 Subscribers 0 Users 5,920 Organizations IRIS+ is tailored to your unique profile & priorities You select the impact themes and/or SDGs and Strategic Goals that best match your approach and IRIS+ organizes them into different profiles Impact Themes The IRIS+ system uses impact themes to classify the types of strategic objectives or approaches investors or enterprises employ to achieve the primary social and/or environmental effect they intend to deliver. SDGs The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are the Unites Nations blueprint to achieve a better and more sustainable future for all. Each IRIS+ profile gets you started with mapping your effects to 5 dimensions of impact according to your preferences; assigning core metric sets to your priorities and goals; and offering a curated set of resources including implementation guidance and evidence . Integrate the core metrics sets into your investment management processes, methods, and frameworks to pave the way for performance comparisons . Scroll down For over a decade, thousands of stakeholders – including investors, small and large companies, analytics providers, evaluators, researchers, academics, and field-building organizations – have tested, provided feedback, and become part of the growing impact investing community who require comparable and credible impact data to manage performance. The GIIN has taken these expert perspectives into account to develop the world’s most comprehensive system for impact measurement and management, IRIS+. Find out what IRIS+-based impact measurement & management means for various stakeholders What is impact? What is impact measurement & management? How are investors using IRIS+ to measure & manage impact? How are companies using IRIS+ to measure & manage impact? Join a Webinar Request a Demo Watch the IRIS+ video Scroll down The Latest May 3, 2019 Investing for Social Impact Is Complicated. Here Are 4 Ways to Simplify It. New York Times The new version, IRIS+, is meant to translate impact investing goals like gender equity, climate change and affordable housing into results, said Amit Bouri, the chief executive of GIIN. He said the new system would help investors know exactly which metrics to track if they hoped, for example, to bring clean energy to rural areas. Link to Original Article IRIS+ Publishes Use Case with Nuveen In May 2020, the GIIN published an IRIS+ use case with Nuveen, which showcases how Nuveen uses IRIS+ to support its impact measurement and management practice. Read more New Theme Development - Quality Jobs In March 2020, the GIIN -- in partnership with the International Labor Organization (ILO) and ILO-ITC -- kicked off development of the Quality Jobs theme for IRIS+. Join the conversation Forbes: GIIN Report: Impact Measurement and Management are Front and Center for Investors Jan 22, 2020--A newly released survey from the Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN), called The State of Impact Measurement and Management Practice , reveals that impact investors are a lot more sophisticated when it comes to the assessment and management of social and environmental impact. Read more View All News When you use IRIS+, you are using metrics and guidance that produces data aligned with these organizations An Impact Measurement & Management System by the GIIN IRIS + Metrics Glossary Press Contact Us Help The GIIN offers IRIS+ as a free and public good to advance impact investing around the world Global Impact Investing Network One Battery Park Plaza, 2nd floor New York, NY 10004 Subscribe to our newsletter Stay up to date with our latest developments, from case studies, to practitioners’ perspectives, to guidance materials and templates to put IRIS+ into practice. ©2020 Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN) Terms Privacy This site uses cookies to provide you with a great user experience. By using IRIS+ System, you accept our cookie policy. Learn more ....