Collecting & Reporting Poverty Data: Using the Progress out of Poverty Index Toolkit with the Impact Reporting and Investment Standards is a new white paper co-authored by the IRIS initiative and the Grameen Foundation. Investors and organizations can learn how to leverage the the Progress out of Poverty Index (PPI) toolkit and the Impact Reporting and Investment Standards (IRIS) to measure, track, and report the number of poor beneficiaries served.
In September 2011, to accompany the publication of the first IRIS data report, Data Driven: A Performance Analysis for the Impact Investing Industry, twenty nine leading impact investors signed this letter to recognize the need to establish standardized social and environmental performance reporting as an industry best practice.
To provide a model of IRIS adoption by impact investors, the KL Felicitas (KLF) Foundation and the Global Impact Investing Network jointly released this case study which explains KLF's motivation for IRIS adoption and details the Foundation's application of IRIS across its active investment portfolio.
Featured in a special SOCAP 2011 issue of MIT's quarterly Innovations journal, this article by Amit Bouri, Director at the GIIN, discusses IRIS and the stakeholder involvement necessary to establish standards for a new industry.
This three-page background document gives an overview of what IRIS is, why IRIS was created, and how IRIS benefits investors, fund managers, and companies.
Este documento de tres páginas contiene información general sobre el marco de IRIS, la razón por crear IRIS, y el valor que IRIS ofrece a inversionistas, gestores de fondos, e empresas.
The SROI Network and the IRIS team collaborated on this article that explains how the SROI method can be used in conjunction with IRIS indicators to help an organization understand its impact in a credible and comparable way.
The GIIN team interviewed Brinda Ganguly and Margot Brandenburg, both of who are Associate Directors at The Rockefeller Foundation, about their experiences requiring IRIS to measure the social impact of their Program-Related Investments (PRIs).
IRIS interviewed Lindsey Yeung, Impact Assessment Manager at the Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs, about her experiences using IRIS metrics to measure social performance.
This use case study illustrates Triodos Sustainable Trade Fund's process of IRIS adoption and its use of IRIS to communicate and report to stakeholders about its active investment portfolio.