Impact investment readiness

Are you interested in attracting impact investment? We have developed a suite of resources and programs to support creative businesses to get impact investment.

Impact investing is a funding model with a range of benefits for arts and cultural organisations seeking to access new sources of capital and diversify revenue streams to realise cultural value and social purpose.

Australia’s National Cultural Policy: REVIVE, includes a commitment for Creative Australia to explore partnerships and funding models that attract commercial and philanthropic investment alongside government investment.

At Creative Australia, we have developed a suite of resources and programs to support creative businesses to learn more about impact investing and work towards impact investment readiness.

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What is impact investment?

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Understand impact investment and how it could benefit your arts practice or organisation by generating positive outcomes alongside financial gains.

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Measuring impact

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The ability to measure impact is key for investors to know how their investment will help to improve the social or environmental impacts of your creative business.

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Creative Returns: Getting started with impact debt finance

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This guide to working with debt finance for the Australian creative industries provides essential information on the nature of impact investment for the creative industries.

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Creative Industries Impact Lab

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This program, focused on impact articulation and measurement, is designed for creative organisations that are at the start of their impact journey

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Impact Investment Readiness Program

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Creative Australia is partnering with Social Enterprise Finance Australia (Sefa) to development a pilot an Impact Investment Readiness Program.

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We acknowledge the many Traditional Custodians of Country throughout Australia and honour their Elders past and present.

We respect their deep enduring connection to their lands, waterways, and surrounding clan groups since time immemorial. We cherish the richness of First Nations peoples’ artistic and cultural expressions. We are privileged to gather on this Country and to share knowledge, culture and art, now and with future generations.

Art by Jordan Lovegrove