Children’s Impact Multiplier Fund

Overview

The Children’s Impact Multiplier Fund is a fund established to provide catalytic capital for social enterprises and projects benefiting children in developing countries. It operates as an open-ended, revolving fund, recycling all investment returns into future impact investments, thereby creating a multiplier effect for children. The fund seeks philanthropic support to create a permanent pool of patient, catalytic capital that is deployed to social enterprises and projects prioritizing children's well-being. It aims to scale solutions that address the complex challenges faced by underserved children worldwide. The fund applies a child-lens investment approach, ensuring that children's rights and well-being are considered across the investment process—from due diligence and screening of potential investments to child-centered impact measurement and management post-investment. By leveraging philanthropic support, the fund enables enterprises to crowd in additional capital from private, philanthropic, or government sources, delivering multiplied impact for marginalized children at greater scale. The fund invests in market-based solutions with the potential to be sustainable, scalable, and replicable, enabling it to reach exponentially more underserved children and continue to grow that impact long after the initial investment and support. Since its establishment in October 2023, the fund has been operational, with seed funding and support from Save the Children members. It has made investments in various social enterprises and projects across multiple countries, focusing on sectors such as education, health, nutrition, child protection, and related infrastructure needed to enable resilience, social impact, and social mobility. The fund's approach combines philanthropic giving with the positive power of business to create sustainable, scalable change for children around the world. It operates as an evergreen facility, recycling all investment returns into future impact investments, thereby generating longer-lasting, multiple rounds of impact. This structure allows a single donation to be used repeatedly through reinvestments, creating a true multiplier effect for children. The fund's goal is to deliver integrity, rigor, and intentionality to the process of investing in children, ultimately driving better outcomes for them and their families. By co-investing in program impact and providing a resource-enriched accelerator approach alongside world-class administrative and operational support, the fund helps project teams design, pilot, prototype, grow, and scale their teams and programs to achieve impact better and faster than they otherwise could. Through intentional selection and careful due diligence, the fund chooses to work only with cutting-edge innovators and project teams that can deliver measurable impact as they turn game-changing ideas into planet-saving impact. The fund's portfolio spans both crucial land and ocean conservation efforts and a broader array of cross-sector strategies in public health, education and leadership, economic development, clean energy, climate resilience, sustainable food systems, energy efficiency, social and environmental equity, and more. By supporting partners to tackle some of the largest and most complex challenges worldwide, the fund aims to deliver and sustain large-scale improvements to the systems that shape children's lives, helping to better address their needs. It uses quality data and evidence to prioritize solutions that deliver the greatest impact for every dollar spent, ensuring that investments are directed toward initiatives that will have the most direct and significant impact for children. The fund's approach is designed to be flexible and adaptable, allowing it to respond to the evolving needs of children in developing countries and to invest in a diverse range of projects and enterprises that align with its mission and objectives. By combining philanthropic support with stra

Investment Focus

• Social enterprises and projects prioritizing children's well-being
• Market-based solutions with potential for sustainability, scalability, and replicability
• Initiatives addressing complex challenges faced by underserved children worldwide

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