Overview

The Social Impact Exchange is a community of funders, advisors, wealth managers, intermediaries, nonprofits and researchers interested in funding and developing practices for scaling-up social solutions. The Exchange’s purpose is to establish a marketplace ecosystem that consistently enables effective social interventions to achieve scaled impact. The Exchange has three main functions:

• Facilitate increased funding of nonprofit scaling initiatives through funder networks and growth capital markets in specific issues and geographies. 
• Develop and share knowledge, including research, information and education that leads to more effective scaling efforts
• Build Field Infrastructure to enable a capital marketplace to emerge, including standards, funding platforms, and distribution channels to efficiently connect funders with growth initiatives

It's members take active roles in driving key initiatives through a system of Working Groups.

Need

If the highest performing nonprofit programs, practices and policies consistently achieved scale, they could improve the lives of millions of people and transform society.

However, there are too few evidence based initiatives to scale and too few co-funding mechanisms. At the same time, knowledge of effective practices in scaling impact is in an early stage of development.

The Exchange is dedicated to filling these “gaps” by creating an interconnected marketplace to collaboratively fund well-vetted scaling opportunities, and by advancing knowledge that leads to more effective implementation.