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optimize their impactClose 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 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 32,000 users who have registered to use IRIS+ materials. Join a live IRIS+ demo 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 32,660 Subscribers 42,260 Users 22,770 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 frameworks 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 March 23, 2023 GIIN Launches Performance Benchmark for Agriculture Impact Investment Funds ‘Living in a Vacuum’ Louisa Burwood-Taylor The Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN) has launched a new tool for agriculture impact investment funds to measure the impact of their investments against others. Eighteen agriculture impact investment funds have contributed data about some 1,200 investments to the agriculture impact benchmark , 16 of them contributing to its design. Link to Original Article NEW IRIS+ guidance on adopting an equity lens across investment sectors With PolicyLink and CapEQ, the GIIN has updated the IRIS+ Thematic Taxonomy (beginning page 42) , which will serve as a guiding resource for applying an equity lens across investment sectors. This work articulates how the strategic goals within the IRIS+ Racial Equity theme intersect with different investment themes, why that matters, and where racial equity-oriented goals show up in each investment theme. Watch the webinar from the April 27, 2023 launch here: Launch of SIX new and updated IRIS+ impact themes The Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN) is proud to have launched new and updated content for six impact themes on IRIS+: Racial Equity, Gender, Healthcare, Sustainable Agriculture, Clean Energy, Biodiversity on June 15. Watch a recording of the launch webinar. 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