Systemic investing and financing

Funding systems transformation thus essentially boils down to a three-pronged orchestration challenge: 1. Systemic intelligence generation Figuring out the nature of a societal issue and identifying the financial interventions needed to tackle it. 2. Capital matchmaking Channeling the right kind of capital to the right kind of intervention at the... See more

2.2 Why don’t we see capital orchestration happening yet? It has long been recognized that changing systems requires systems orchestration. Such orchestration often needs entities to act as the “glue” or connective tissue— what is commonly known as backbone organizations. Usually, backbone organizations convene, coordinate, translate, and advocate.... See more

The overall purpose of financial backbones should be to enable the effective and efficient allocation of a multitude of different kinds of capital from a multitude of sources to a multitude of destinations, guided by a theory of change for a particular systemic issue. The pathways to such enablement include influencing , governing , and controlling... See more