Dear reader, prezados leitores e prezadas
leitoras,
We are glad to present our sixth newsletter on
Impact Investing in Brazil. The aim of the newsletters is to further unite the
Impact Investing community, to provide a channel to exchange ideas and simply
to inspire.
After the last edition of the newsletter,
which gave an overview of the entire second Impact Investing conference on
“Enhancing Impact Investing in Brazil”, we would now like to focus on the
outcomes of the key part of the conference – the roundtables on “Alternatives
and Access to Funding”,”Social Housing” and “Education”.
The roundtables enabled the audience to
interact directly with the panelists representing the perspectives of
investors, entrepreneurs, accelerators and the academics from the University of
St.Gallen, the Impact Investing Platform of the HSG Hub Sao Paulo and Insper.
This unique setting proved to generate a very stimulating and fruitful
discussion.
The goal of the roundtables was to give all
participants the chance to interact directly and equally with the panelists as
well as bringing all the key players of the community together. Additionally,
new research questions were generated by feeling the pulse of the Impact
Investing industry through the discussion of key challenges and potential
solutions in order to enhance the industry.
To enable the participants to focus on their
field of expertise and interest on the conference day, the roundtables were
organized by sectors. The moderation of the discussion through an academic
ensured a neutral conversation as well as the documentation and further use of
the generated results.
The roundtable about “Alternatives and Access
to Funding” focused on potential new frameworks that would allow classifying
investments of social impact differently to traditional investments maximizing
financial return. This also relates to the basic but challenging question of
balancing business and social impact that should be defined first for the
industry.
“Education” addressed the unclear division of
responsibility of multiple governmental organizations (federal, state and
municipal) and the difficult scalability of social impact projects in schools.
“Social Housing” identified the challenge of
high investments and lack of innovation as key problems and argues for the
leverage of best-practice projects and social urbanization.
The outlook will provide the readers with an
idea of what to expect from the next newsletter, which will present the latest
developments of the three-month period after the conference. We are looking
forward to receiving any suggestions, insights and comments from you by the mid
of November in order to be able to incorporate them. Additionally, we would
like to invite you to stay updated through our Facebook page “Impact Investing
in Brazil”.
We hope you enjoy reading our newsletter! You can find the full version here.
