Impact Europe

Hey impactful! Registrations for #ImpactWeek 2024 are open! Grab your ticket now & join us in Bilbao from 27 to 29 November: https://lnkd.in/eCYNDR5a Seed Capital Bizkaia bbk Lever for Change NN Group Schneider Electric Foundation Sanofi BNP Paribas Alliance2015 SpainNAB Acted Boosting Opportunities Helvetas People in Need Welthungerhilfe (WHH) Roberta Bosurgi Alessia Gianoncelli Anamaria Bacsin Jana Bour Sophie Faujour Peter Cafferkey Ines Mertens de Wilmars 🕊️✌️Ewa Konczal Theognosia (Soulla) Kylili Sharelynne P. Gianluca Gaggiotti Nicolas Malmendier Isabelle Schiltz Valeria Balzarini Charlotte Galbiati Stéphanie Brenda Smialowski Karolina Kolarova Sara Seganti Martijn Blom Sona Dilanyan

Join us & Global Alliance of Impact Lawyers (GAIL) on 7 Nov for our joined session at ImpactCity's #ImpactFest! We'll talk about impact reporting regulations for start-ups, showing how positive impact metrics can increase alignment between impact investors and SMEs and facilitate a better flow of impact capital into the market: https://zurl.co/pyJk with Mirjam Niessen (DOEN Participaties B.V.), Katharina Bottenberg (Tony's Chocolonely), Leticia Bueno (Sustainable Capital Group), Antoine de Martel (Innpact), Raluca R. (GAIL) & our Karolina Kolarova

MicroEurope is a social investment company that promotes financial inclusion in Europe through microfinance. Seed Capital Bizkaia, alongside other anchor investors in Microeurope, brought together local actors and public funding quickly, enabling Microeurope to scale and provide affordable financial products for the underserved and climate change mitigation. This #ImpactWeek session will showcase the approach of investors, with an eye towards replicating the effect in sectors beyond microfinance. Join us to see how starting local can take impact from 'micro' to 'macro': https://lnkd.in/ewUkUiq3

"We don't sell a tomato, we sell transformation. If you buy this transformation, you support the farmers, you support the planet, and you support food affordability." -- Claire van Enk, Founder of Farm to Feed. The social organisation is Africa’s first digital marketplace for imperfect and surplus produce, addressing monetary losses for farmers, food scarcity among consumers, and climate change challenges. Join her and 20 other bold changemakers of the Cartier Women's Initiative at #ImpactWeek & hear how they are driving social and environmental change for a brighter tomorrow: https://lnkd.in/eCuQUsp9

Tech and AI are rewriting the future, but it's impact organisations who can help make sure it’s fair, ethical, and impactful. Join Fondazione CRT at #ImpactWeek to explore how the impact world can shape the digital revolution—not just use it. Hear from Ciro Cattuto (ISI Foundation), Giuseppe Dell'Erba (Fondazione Cottino), Christian Racca (Impact Deal), Gerardo Franco (Microsoft), Judith-Laure Mamou-Mani (Mirova) & Daniel Nowack (World Economic Forum) inspiring examples and strategies that lead the way: https://zurl.co/KTtN

Our board member Chris West (Sumerian Partners), our CEO Roberta Bosurgi & We Share Forward Foundation's Managing Director Eleni Theodorou share perspectives on our 20-year history and what that means for an evolving impact ecosystem. Join the conversation at #ImpactWeek, this November in Bilbao: https://lnkd.in/eCYNDR5a Seed Capital Bizkaia Fundación BBK | Obra Social EIB Institute Lever for Change NN Group Schneider Electric Foundation Cartier Women's Initiative Sanofi BNP Paribas Fundación ONCE / Inserta Alliance2015 SpainNAB ICEX Fondazione CRT Social Nest Foundation Acted Boosting Opportunities Helvetas People in Need Welthungerhilfe (WHH)

Discover in this #ImpactWeek session how a cultural shift can help companies perform better while becoming a force for good. Join Gilles Vermot Desroches (Schneider Electric), Annette Jung (Philips), Arnaud Mourot (Ashoka) & Sophie Faujour to discuss the opportunities & challenges of cultural transformation journeys: https://lnkd.in/ewUkUiq3

Indigenous communities experience some of the biggest inequities worldwide, including a disproportionately high rate of children entering foster care. The Family Spirit program by the Johns Hopkins Center for Indigenous Health works to address these inequities. They are one of the winners of the $143 million Build A World Of Play Challenge from The LEGO Foundation & Lever for Change. Learn more about open-call challenges to drive impact at #ImpactWeek: https://zurl.co/PNlz

#ImpactInvesting market growth is driven by countries with favourable regulations which are democratising access to impact investment. We need to accelerate the influx of impact capital now to finance a underserved social challenges and a just transition to a low-carbon economy that lefts no one behind. Country networks such as sector associations are key players to shape the future of Impact Investing in Europe. Join us at #ImpactWeek to discover how different countries are shaping the European impact investing sector from a national perspective: https://zurl.co/9hgE with Jose Moncada Durruti (SpainNAB), Steven Serneels (Impact Finance Belgium), Laure Wessemius-Chibrac (Netherlands Advisory Board on Impact Investing), Thierry Sibieude (FAIR - Label Finansol) & Álvaro Molina de Porres (EY)

For many Rwandans living below the poverty line, a hospital stay can mean going hungry. Solid'Africa is changing that by providing affordable, nutritious meals to patients in public hospitals. Isabelle Kamariza, the founder of Solid'Africa & Cartier Women's Initiative Fellow, will be speaking at #ImpactWeek in Bilbao. Join her in November: https://zurl.co/Y5bi