Japan Social Innovation and Investment Foundation ( Social Innovation and Investment Foundation )
By leveraging our unique perspective as a foundation, we can create an action aiming to help build the base for a society in which the resolution of social problems and the creation of value take place autonomously and sustainably.
Working with companies, local governments, NPOs, and educational institutions, research and other organizations, we propose and execute numerous plans and provide assistance aimed at realizing an ecosystem for social and economic resources that transcends the conventional frameworks of self-help, public help and mutual help.
What is the Japan Social Innovation and Investment Foundation (SIIF)?
Five strategic themes for accomplishing our mission
-
- Three-dimensional investment structures experiencing global growth Impact investing
- “Impact investing” aims to generate simultaneous social and economic impacts alongside financial returns. The objective of SIIF is to create project models in Japan and to expand the market.
-
- Presenting new benchmarks for measuring value Social impact measurement/management
- Measurements designed to grasp the qualitative & quantitative social impact generated by projects and activities, and social impact management for the continuation of activities that utilize these measurements to enhance social impacts. We are working on the practice of both in Japan, as well as on knowledge development.
-
-
Paradigm shift in the public sector
PFS (pay-for-success) contracts
Social impact bonds (SIB) - Contributes to building reform mechanisms for more results-oriented public services, such as by using contracts in which payments are proportional to successful social outcomes (PFS), and methods for sourcing funding from investors on such occasions (SIB).
-
Paradigm shift in the public sector
PFS (pay-for-success) contracts
-
- A new economy supported by the exchange of value other than money Alternatives
- We are working to build mechanisms and project models to express the value in social, natural, cultural, human, and emotional capital in a way that would be difficult using an economic capitalist approach.
-
- Intentional funding drives innovation Progressive philanthropy
- We will provide backing for philanthropic activities that generate sustainable social impacts, so as to enable the transformative effects of individual donations and charitable activities by private-sector foundations.
Case studies
-
Impact IPO
Building the movement of impact companies getting listed & listed companies seeking impact -
With a focus on pressing social problems such as the declining birthrate and the aging population, this is a fund that aims to create the human resources and environment required to enable people to continue to work through a variety of life events. -
Based on the Act on Utilization of Funds Related to Dormant Deposits to Promote Public Interest Activities by the Private Sector (the “Dormant Deposits Utilization Act”), we were selected as an Organization Distributing Funds in fiscal 2019. -
-
Single mother
support projectIn our program for supporting single mothers who start businesses while raising children, we offer a choice of new work styles that are not restricted to a certain time or place. This is a framework for supporting the acquisition of the skills and financing required to start a business. -
Conducted Japan’s first survey into consumer awareness of impact investing
-
Initiated the SIB project first-ever for support of giving up smoking in Toyonaka City, Osaka Prefecture
-
Healthcare New Frontier Fund Impact Report published (Japanese only)
An archive of SIIF publications, including various reports, can be found here
News
Press releases
- Press releasesVision papers in the three areas of “Opportunity Gap,” “Community Revitalization,” and “Health Care,” along with the “VP Log,” guidance for pursuing the essentials of the issues and social change.
- Press releasesSIIF and Capital Medica Ventures issued “Impact Report 2022” about VC fund specializing in the healthcare sector for 5 consecutive years starting in FY 2018
- Press releasesSIIF, through the Japan Venture Philanthropy Fund, or JVPF, has provided JPY 30 million in funding and started management support to two organisations, “Platform for Sustainable Education and Community” and “Home-Start Japan.”
- Press releasesJapan Impact Investment No. 2 Fund Invests in Antway
- Press releasesSocial Innovation and Investment Foundation World’s First SIB Project to Support Smoking Cessation Toyonaka City’s SIB project to support smoking cessation, “Toyonaka Graduation Sm
Announcement
- AnnouncementMitsumasa Aoyagi, Vice-chair of Executive Committee has been appointed as a member of the Expert Committee for the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism’s survey and study on supporting local governments to introduce the results-based private sector outsourcing system (PFS/SIB) to promote its use in the urban development field.
- AnnouncementMember of Executive Committee Nanako Kudo has been appointed as a member of Osaka University Co-Creation Organization Fund Task Force
- AnnouncementNotice of Publication of 2022 Impact Review
- AnnouncementVice-chair of Executive Committee Mitsuaki Aoyagi has been appointed as a member of the Advisory Working Group for the “Japanese University Growth Model”, held by the Cabinet Office.
- AnnouncementMitsuaki Aoyagi, Vice-chair of Executive Committee has been appointed as Showa Women’s University Professional Graduate School, Graduate School of Social Welfare and Management.
Partnerships
SIIF cooperates with organizations that are involved in the global promotion of impact investing and social impact measurement/management, and in addition to communicating the latest trends in Japan, it works to disseminate leading cases and knowledge from overseas within Japan.