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September 25, 2009
NEW GLOBAL INVESTING INDUSTRY GROUP AND WEB SITE LAUNCHED New York City, September 25, 2009 -- President Bill Clinton today announced the launch of the Global Impacting Investing Network (GIIN), a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting more effective impact investing around the world, at the Clinton Global Initiative. Impact investing is the use of for-profit investment to address social and environmental problems. The GIIN will promote the infrastructure, activities, education, and research that enable more effective impact investing, and will ultimately lead to a coherent, well-developed marketplace for the impact investing industry. "This network is a response to growing appetites from investors across the world for a platform that allows them to work together to capture the powerful potential of impact investing," said Amit Bouri, Director of Strategy and Development for the GIIN. "Now is the moment to transform disparate efforts into a coherent industry so greater capital will flow to solutions to social and environmental problems." An important part of GIIN's work includes a content-rich Web site with resources, events and contacts that promote GIIN's mission. The Web site uses content-management-software by New York based Mediapolis, inc. "We're thrilled that we can take our knowledge and experience of the Internet and put it behind GIIN and its crucial mission," said Mediapolis principal, Carl Pritzkat. "GIIN represents an entirely new way of achieving social and environmental change, and it only makes sense that their efforts should be reenforced by the best in new media." The GIIN is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to building the infrastructure, activities, education, and research that will enable more effective impact investing around the world. Impact investments aim to solve social or environmental challenges while generating financial profit. The GIIN's programmatic agenda is rooted in the challenges investors face. It serves as forum for identifying and addressing the systemic barriers that hinder the impact investing industry's efficiency and effectiveness. For more information, please visit www.globalimpactinvestingnetwork.org. Mediapolis (www.mediapolis.com ) creates technology that simplifies the production of high profile, high performance Web sites. Since 1994, Mediapolis has created custom software solutions to build more than 275 sites for clients including Sony Music, The New York Times, Johnson & Johnson and Volvo Cars.
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