Welcome to Impact Associates
Impact Associates is a niche company based in Adelaide, South Australia, dedicated to advancing the impact investment industry in Australia.
Impact investment provides capital which gives social sector organisations the capacity to deliver returns. These may be social, financial or both – and the investment can be used toward revenue funding or capital investment.
Revenue funding allows an organisation to deliver defined outputs or outcomes. It covers day-to-day activities, regular service provision and ongoing projects. Capital investment provides finance to build an organisation’s long-term capacity to achieve its social mission. Very often social impact investments are made to assist in the resolution of complex and intransigent social problems which have traditionally been the responsibilities of government. Not-for-profit organisations which have the capacity to mitigate these problems following a private investment will generate savings to government, which in turn will be used to repay investors.
Social sector organisations may generate a surplus through trading activities, contracts for delivering public services, grants and donations, or a combination of some or all of these. Social sector organisations can include non-profit organisations.
Impact Associates is a division of Lizard Drinking Pty Ltd.