Torino Social Impact

Torino Social Impact is an open platform that brings together over 300 companies, private and public institutions, financial operators, charities, foundations, and third sector enterprises and federations with the aim to strengthen Torino as an ideal ecosystem for social entrepreneurship and impact finance. They joined the project by signing a MoU that aims to share ideas, experiences, projects, and resources in order to increase investments and activities that aspire to solve emerging social problems through economically sustainable and innovative business models. The result is a cluster of skills, activities, and services that strengthens and promotes the local ecosystem within the framework of Agenda 2030. It puts in place many experimental projects such as the Social Impact Stock Exchange devoted to giving access to finance to the social economy SMEs, tech and data for good initiatives, private and public social procurement programs, peer-to-peer learning through communities of practice, impact measurement training and research. Additionally, it is a unique model of public-private partnership that innovates the governance of the local ecosystem, focusing on the social economy.