INVITED TO JOIN AN AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT ADVISORY PANEL ON SOCIAL IMPACT INVESTMENTS

Thoth Impact Advisory and its Founder & Principal, Kunal Kirpalani, have been recently invited by the Australian New South Wales (NSW) State Government’s Departments of Premier & Cabinet (DPC) and NSW Treasury to join their Expert Advice Exchange (EAX). EAX is the social impact investment advisory panel managed by the New South Wales Office of Social Impact Investment (OSII) (https://www.osii.nsw.gov.au/) , which is jointly administered by both of these NSW Government departments.

OSII is the main implementor of the NSW State Government’s Social Impact investment Policy, collaborating closely with other government agencies and non-government partners. Key aspects of this work entail cultivating new social impact investment transactions and capacity building among government agencies and non-government partners, such as (albeit not exclusively) corporate investors and not-for-profits (NFPs), to become active stakeholders in the social impact investing space.

The main objective of OSII’s EAX is to connect social sector organisations in NSW with impact investing-orientated consultancy services from leading professional services firms, law firms and financial institutions.

Consultancy services are available in a number of areas, including:

• program development, implementation and evaluation

• financial management and accounting

• strategy, such as business planning, IT systems and communications

• legal issues, such as governance, intellectual property and regulatory matters.

The EAX was formed in 2015. After a temporary hiatus, it will be relaunched in the latter half of 2019.

Thoth Impact Advisory and Kunal are both honoured to have been invited to such a prestigious advisory panel, where they feel that can add much merit in enhancing the Australian social impact investment space in partnership with the NSW State Government and social sector organisation members.

We look forward to actively participating in EAX once it has formerly relaunched later this year.