Advocacy Alongside Capital: How Investors Can Use Their Voice to Enhance Their Impact

As noted by Blue Haven Initiative, policy engagement is a relatively untapped lever for most impact investors. However, policy engagement and advocacy can be a powerful complement to impact investing strategies especially as narratives around impact investment face political headwinds. Climate investors have demonstrated how advocacy and capital can be aligned to create impact at scale. Other sectors can learn from experience and consider how to leverage that complementarity going forward.

The panel will feature experts who have uniquely combined capital plus advocacy for ecosystem building and market-level change, with a focus on financial inclusion and small business growth.

Collectively, this panel of experts will explore key grounding questions such as:

-Given current conditions, why might policy engagement be a good strategy for impact investors?
-What are the examples and models we can learn from to effectively pair advocacy and investment?
-How can coalitions and networks like those created by SOCAP be a pragmatic starting point?
-How can these initiatives be funded and sustained?