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Guidelines for Good Impact Practice
A set of guidelines produced by the Impact Measurement Working Group of the Social Impact Investment Taskforce.
IRIS is managed by the Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN), a nonprofit organization dedicated to increasing the scale and effectiveness of impact investing. The GIIN offers IRIS as a free public good to support transparency, credibility, and accountability in impact measurement practices across the impact investing industry. IRIS provides added value in the following ways:
By cataloging the most useful metrics from across the industry in one place, IRIS takes the guesswork out of which performance metrics to use.
By providing a standard common language to talk about results, IRIS makes it easier to compare investments and aggregate information across a portfolio.
98% of investors recognize the importance of standardized metrics and over 5,000 organizations are using IRIS to evaluate, communicate and manage their social and environmental performance.
IRIS doesn’t reinvent the wheel and incorporates and aligns with widely accepted 3rd party standards wherever possible. Organizations can use IRIS as the anchor for their diverse reporting requirements.
Learn about the history of the IRIS catalog, and meet the stakeholders that have participated in its evolution. Learn more
Browse the IRIS catalog and pick a set of metrics that makes sense for your portfolio. Learn more
Learn how your peers use IRIS metrics to measure the social and environmental performance of their investments. Learn more
A set of guidelines produced by the Impact Measurement Working Group of the Social Impact Investment Taskforce.
