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Knowing where the journey is headed: With our IMMPACT framework, you unleash your full potential for impact.

What is Impact? Lean Impact Impact Management and Measurement

Mission

THE ECONOMY OF TOMORROW HAS Ω

 

IMMPACT empowers impact entrepreneurs and impact investors to unlock their full potential for positive impact. We enhance their impact competencies and establish unified evaluation standards within Germany’s impact-driven startup ecosystem, making impact measurement and management (IMM) more accessible.

With the right tools—such as our proprietary Impact Maturity Model—and centralized information, we ensure that everyone in the ecosystem speaks the same language. Because only when we understand each other can we move forward together.

Ahead lies the vision of an Impact Economy, the economy of tomorrow. When positive social and environmental change goes hand in hand with financial success, the path is clear for a future where businesses and financial markets operate with a focus on impact.

Framework

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No matter if you’re in the ideation, startup, growth, scaling, or establishment phase: Our IMMPACT model helps you understand where you stand and simplifies the otherwise complex process of Impact Measurement & Management.

Across four key areas—Impact Strategy, Impact Management, Impact Governance, and Impact Communication—our model outlines the criteria your impact-driven startup or investment should meet and shows you how to elevate your impact to the next level.

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Clear Overview in the Impact Jungle
Our IMMPACT Maturity Model serves as a valuable guide for impact entrepreneurs, helping to overcome the complexity of existing tools, which often poses a significant barrier to their application. By addressing impact-oriented processes—planning, establishing, and implementing—early on, entrepreneurs gain a clearer path forward and a better understanding of what it takes to attract impact investors.
Intuitive Handling Without the Frills
The complexity of traditional tools has been a major obstacle to their usability. The IMMPACT Maturity Model provides a simple, first step for measuring and managing impact. This enables founders of new or existing impact startups to focus on solving fundamental social and/or environmental challenges with their business models.
Speaks Your Language
Investors, founders, and ecosystem stakeholders don’t always speak the same language when it comes to Impact Management & Measurement. The Maturity Model helps align expectations and creates a level playing field. It also clarifies for investors what they can reasonably expect from impact startups in terms of IMM across different stages.
Simple Meets Effective
Those investing in impact startups want to ensure their investment generates real impact. The IMMPACT Maturity Model bridges the gap between investors and founders with social and environmental goals, enabling them to communicate their impact more efficiently and unlock their full potential for positive change.
Ensuring Impact Where Impact Is Promised
With the IMMPACT Maturity Model, investors gain a clear understanding of what to expect from impact startups regarding IMM at different stages. This allows them to provide more targeted support to their investees and better align on the shared roadmap.
Shedding Light on the Unknown
Since there are no universally defined criteria for impact investing, it’s crucial for investors to have clarity about their investments. The IMMPACT Maturity Model addresses the requirements of Impact Management & Measurement across different startup phases, creating a transparent set of expectations.
Targeted Towards Impact
The IMMPACT Maturity Model empowers startup advisors and other ecosystem stakeholders who support impact entrepreneurs with tailored guidance. The framework it provides offers clarity on IMM practices and requirements at various stages of an impact startup’s development.
New Standards for the Impact Economy
The goal of political actors to promote impact-driven businesses and adapt regulatory frameworks requires tools that standardize the management and measurement of impact. The IMMPACT Maturity Model lays the foundation for such a standard.
The Basis for More
The Maturity Model serves as a first step and can be used as a foundation by actors in the nonprofit sector or public institutions to create and further develop their own models.
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This project is a collaboration between the Bertelsmann Foundation, the Federal Initiative Impact Investing (BIII), PHINEO, and SEND (Social Entrepreneurship Network Germany).

 

Together, we are working towards the Impact Economy—a future where businesses and financial markets operate with a focus on impact.

Together with partners, we strengthen the impact-driven startup ecosystem. In the areas of impact and financing, we provide resources for founders with social and environmental goals, enabling them to communicate their impact more effectively and reach their full potential.

→ bertelsmann-stiftung.de

Through IMMPACT, the Federal Initiative Impact Investing advocates for improving the framework conditions for impact investing in young social enterprises. With tailored educational offerings, we build knowledge and skills in impact investing and the impact investing market, standardize and evaluate impact analysis frameworks, and ensure transparency through accompanying studies.

biii.org

Our goal is to make impact tangible for all societal actors. With IMMPACT, we make our expertise accessible to impact founders and investors in a simple and user-friendly way. This enhances their skills and contributes to the development of the Impact Economy.

→ phineo.org

Participating in the cooperative project “IMMPACT” is a key step for SEND to help shape the Impact Economy of tomorrow. Our aim is to improve the framework conditions and ecosystem for impact-driven founders and provide targeted support offerings.

send-ev.de

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