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Rescue, Recovery, Revival: Social investment and Covid-19 Insights in Brief Report 1 June 2020
Esmée’s approach to social investment
This report
We believe that social investment is a powerful and financially sustainable tool we use, alongside grants and our own actions, to achieve our impact goals.
This document sets out what we’ve witnessed to date from our social investment portfolio in light of Coronavirus, what we might be able to learn and how we can use this to inform our social investing, taking a tools-in-the-box approach, through the rescue, recovery and revival stages caused by Covid-19.
We take a proactive, flexible approach to making investments - not ‘one size fits all’: we assess the most effective use of our investment to create the greatest impact. Practically, this means using a variety of tools and convening methods to enable impact. We are impact-first, and, as such, use a diversity of social investment instruments.
Given that the situation is constantly changing, our actions are anticipated rather than certain. Our learning will evolve and deepen as we gain a wider perspective and we will reshape our response accordingly.