Beyond Compliance: Embedding Impact through Innovative Finance24This chapter offers a roadmap for companies to start their journey in adopting OBF approaches to integrate social impact into their core businesses. Tapping into the existing experience of OBF practitioners There is a wealth of information, experience and learning to be gleaned from organizations and practitioners that are already deploying OBF tools. By tapping into the collective resources of the members of the Schwab Foundation’s Global Alliance for Social Entrepreneurship, companies get access to many such organizations that have successfully applied OBF tools. The following table provides an overview of information sources and organizations who have significant experience in deploying OBF tools, and advisors who are specialists in structuring such tools. OBF resources and active market participants TABLE 1 Resources and networks: Data and collaboratives that support problem solvingOBF adopters: Organizations with OBF transaction experienceAdvisors and intermediaries: Market facilitators with technical expertise Brookings Institute Acumen 60 Decibels Impact Linked Finance Collaborative Bertelsmann Foundation Acruz Partners GSG Impact BNP Paribas Bridges Outcomes Partnerships Government Outcomes Lab, University of OxfordCiti Common Good Marketplace Miller Center for Social EntrepreneurshipCenter for Social Value-Enhancement Studies (CSES)/SK GroupDalberg Outcome Finance Alliance (OFA) Education for Employment Global Carbon Rewards Outcomes Accelerator (OA) Education Outcomes Fund Impact Europe (EVPA) European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD)Impact Genome European Commission (via the European Investment Advisory Hub)Instiglio Foreign and Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)KOIS Invest Goldman Sachs Foundation Levoca Impact-Linked Finance Fund Marlow Global LGT Venture Philanthropy MAZE Non-Profit Finance Fund Miller Center for Social Entrepreneurship Proparco Roots of Impact State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO) Social Finance UK SK Group – SPC Sorenson Impact Group Societe Generale Tamarack Institute StriveTogether The Bridgespan Group Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC)The Palladium Group Technoserve UBS Optimus Foundation Yellowwoods – impact bond Yunus Social Business

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