Chapter 5 provides four cases that analyze SIIF’s investments approaches, partnerships, and key issues that emerged from the research about impact. Cases include: n Insights into Japan’s First Impact Funds moves through SIIF’s process for creating a governance structure and making its first deals to capturing impact. The Wellness Fund analysis discusses partnership with Japan Post Insurance and investees. It also describes how its partners integrate VC (Venture Capital) and health care experience to build their systems change portfolio. n Women as an Economic Driver examines the state of gender equity in Japan, its history, advances, and challenges. n A0 Group is a nature-based business devoted to rural economic development . SIIF launched its Systems Change Collaborative in 2023 and A0 Group is the first in a rural forest community. Satoyama—A0 Group Investing in Nature-Positive Community Wealth Building examines the challenges rural entrepreneurs face and the role of investors to offer support to allow companies to survive and thrive in difficult circumstances. n The final case, What is Impact: Who Decides and Why It Matters, poses the questions—who, how, and why should community and beneficiaries be integrated? It is designed to take the Impact Economy community more deeply into deciding why impact measurement and management matter. Chapter 6 and Conclusion ask, what is next for Japan’s Impact Economy based on changing geopolitics? Will Japan’s leadership in sustainable finance hold and boldly expand to allow Japan to take a leading role in offering global solutions, or will it contract under political pressure? An epilogue vignette will be provided on SIIF’s exploration into ways to support a Sustainable Blue Economy. This effort will examine ways to potentially support rural fishing communities and Japan’s unique ocean economy and culture.
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Ten Years in the Making
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