Since our beginnings in 2004, Aeris has established risk management standards for private community loan funds (CDFIs) and has helped drive the development of impact measurement and management practices in the CDFI industry—a learning curve now being replicated in the broader impact investment world. In 2013, the Aeris Cloud became the first online platform to help CDFI investors understand the impact and financial performance of their investments. Today, the broader investing field seeks a reliable, high-quality tool to collect, manage, and analyze impact data. Aeris’ unique experience and expertise can help accelerate the pace of impact investing.
Alicia has been a leader in the Global Microenterprise and Impact Investing space for over 15 years. Her work as an international fundraiser and impact advisor ensures social enterprises, nonprofit leaders and impact fund managers have the financial resources, investors, partners and growth strategies they need to start and expand their work. Alicia also supports capital allocators, foundations and impact investors to better understand and more strategically place capital in entrepreneurial ecosystems in underserved communities worldwide. Alicia began her career as a development economist. She worked as a practitioner and researcher across Latin America and Africa examining the role of financial institutions and Microfinance Institutions in poverty eradication. In 2022 she relaunched her consulting practice, DeLia Impact Advisors, to leverage her expertise and networks to advance the revenue generation of impact-first fund managers and social enterprise leaders. DeLia Impact Advisors (Día) connects exceptional impact leaders world-wide to capital, partnerships and networks. Our mission is grounded in the belief that talented people from everywhere in the world should have access to the "trust capital", networks and resources needed to see their vision take flight. DeLia Impact Advisors specializes in creating winning fundraising programs, investor relations, coaching, refining pitches & proposals, grant writing, market positioning, and unlocking funding opportunities and networks. Día works with clients within the following sectors: global economic development, microfinance, financial inclusion, gender lens and racial equity investing, agriculture, inclusive entrepreneurship, small business technical assistance, community development, poverty alleviation, women's economic empowerment and fintech.
We provide accessible equitable evaluation that enables you to create measurable and sustainable transformative social impact. We work with investors who want to make a positive social impact on the world in addition to making a financial return on their investment. Whether you plan to build your investment thesis, design an equitable screening process, conduct culturally responsive due diligence, or measure social impact post-investment, we can help you apply an equity lens to your investment.
Consultant to https://www.inicio.ventures/, vetting Latinx enterprises and supporting Latinx Fund Managers; member & investor at https://www.levelleaders.com/ investing in Black-women owned businesses; Project Manager for the New York Small Business Funder Collective - banks, foundations, HNW donors closing the racial wealth gap in NY Metro (new effort, website under construction), https://philanthropynewyork.org/ serving as fiscal agent; Senior Consultant https://bwam.network/, Black Women in Asset Management; Board Member, Eileen Murphy Foundation, new family foundation with goals to give and invest to support youth in distressed communities and circumstances.
Please describe your experience with impact investing.: M&E Advisor to The Rockefeller Foundation IMM Advisor to the GIIN Action Group lead for advancing IMM for World Economic Forum Huddle Group Contributor to Impact Measurement and Management Project (Bridges Fund Management) Researcher and author of publications (Situating Next Generation of Impact Measurement and Evaluation for Impact Investing & Streams of Social Impact Work: Building Bridges in a new evaluation era with market- oriented players at the table, Case Studies under development) Founding member of Social Impact Measurement topical interest group for the American Evaluation Association. Convener and presenter on impact measurement and management at numerous convening and conference (e.g. Rockefeller Foundation side events at SOCAP 2015, 2016, GES Summit 2016, Impact Convergence Conference 2016, GEO 2017, MIE Learning Institute 2017, MIE Impact Measurement Webinar 2017,South Asia Evaluation Concalve 2017, American Evaluation Association 2015-2017, Lili'uokalani Innovation Huddle 2017) Evaluation and IMM Consultant to social enterprises and foundations
Tideline is a consulting firm that provides tailored advice to organizations developing impact investment strategies, products, and solutions. Our mission is to help clients excel in realizing financial and societal value.
Upstart Co-Lab is disrupting how creativity is funded by connecting the $17 trillion of socially responsible and impact investing capital in the U.S. to the $920 billion U.S. creative economy. Since 2016, Upstart Co-Lab has framed the creative economy as an impact investing priority, garnered international attention for impact investing in the creative economy, and directly connected more than $17 million of impact capital with creative economy opportunities. Upstart’s research has shown that the creative economy offers investors impact value, commercial viability, and innovative edge; correlates with diversity, equity, inclusion; and is relevant in both developed and developing markets. Upstart Co-Lab is a fiscally sponsored project of Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors.
