Global Partnerships

What is Global Partnerships?

Global Partnerships is an impact-first investment fund manager dedicated to expanding opportunity for people living in poverty. They focus on deploying capital to social enterprises that provide market-based products and services which enable individuals to earn a living and improve their lives.

Their investment strategy targets sectors that serve the needs of people at the bottom of the economic pyramid, emphasizing areas like financial inclusion, health, education, energy, agriculture, and livelihoods. They support innovative business models that demonstrate a clear intent to achieve positive, scalable social impact alongside financial sustainability or modest financial returns.

With 18 active investment initiatives and a strategy geared towards an impact-first future, Global Partnerships aims to provoke a shift in capital deployment and partnership dynamics, centering their investments around listening to the clients living in poverty. By the latest figures, they have made $807.8 million in cumulative impact investments, touching the lives of 35.6 million people.

One of their highlighted initiatives includes a focus on Women-Centered Finance with Health, recognizing the disproportionate lack of access to effective and affordable health services experienced by approximately 1.3 billion people, particularly women.

Additionally, the fund manager has established initiatives like the Smallholder Farmer Market Access, demonstrating their commitment to partnering with enterprises, like Coop Chirinos—a cooperative aimed at aiding smallholder coffee farmers, facilitating their inclusion within the broader market, and enhancing their socio-economic outcomes.

Global Partnerships operates with a clear understanding that an impact-first approach necessitates a new way of thinking about capital and partnerships, indicated in their annual reports and ongoing commitments to their partners and initiatives.