{"id":9292,"date":"2026-04-27T18:12:38","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T18:12:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.openvaluefoundation.org\/?p=9292"},"modified":"2026-04-27T18:12:39","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T18:12:39","slug":"blog-post-59","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/openvaluefoundation.org\/en\/2026\/04\/27\/blog-post-59\/","title":{"rendered":"Blog Post 59"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The book *The Bottom Billion* by Paul Collier was decisive in viewing investments as a very useful tool for generating the development we weren't achieving with our foundation's donations.&nbsp;<strong>April 2019<\/strong>&nbsp;We decided to put everything we had learned into practice and launched&nbsp;<strong>Global Social Impact Fund (GSIF),&nbsp;<\/strong>the first private debt fund managed by&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/globalsocialimpact.es\/es\/inicio\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">GSII<\/a>, to grant&nbsp;<strong>Funding for high-social-impact businesses in Sub-Saharan Africa<\/strong>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Since then, we have wanted&nbsp;<strong>Convincing the traditional investor of the interest and usefulness of social investments&nbsp;<\/strong>through the tools and rigour they are accustomed to. With this impact assessment we have&nbsp;<strong>transformed into objective and measurable data those looks and smiles that fill us all with joy<\/strong>&nbsp;and that reflect a positive impact on the quality of life of the employees, customers, or suppliers of the companies in which we invest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>At GSII, we believe that what isn't measured can't be improved.<\/strong>, and how difficult it sometimes is to measure when the aim is to improve the livelihoods of the bottom billion people whose freedom is limited by a scarcity of economic opportunities and a lack of access to decent work. We highlight some GSIF figures that reflect both the joy of investing for development, and the joy of those who manage to improve their livelihoods through work or enterprise:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>7,362,065 people reached<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1,811,349 customers served<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>35%: higher average revenue per customer<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>12,501 jobs maintained<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>289 jobs created<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thanks to the team, the investors, the people who are part of the companies and funds in which we are invested, the collaborators and friends who are accompanying GSII on this journey.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thank you for trusting that there are ways to&nbsp;<strong>To build an economy that contributes to making the world a fairer, freer and more inclusive place for all.<\/strong>&nbsp;Thank you for demonstrating that it's possible to achieve profitability while offering opportunities to those who, due to structural and systemic causes, haven't been able to access them.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We are satisfied with the work carried out in measurement and impact management over recent years. Little by little, and together, we will ensure the figures in this report grow each year, and we will be able to see that this can be made into a better place, and that the data can help us prove it, with rigour and with care.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Welcome to our&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/globalsocialimpact.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/Memoria_impacto_GSII_2020.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Impact Report 2020<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>El libro The Bottom Billion de Paul Collier fue determinante a la hora de ver las inversiones como una herramienta muy \u00fatil para generar el desarrollo que no est\u00e1bamos consiguiendo con las donaciones de nuestra fundaci\u00f3n. En&nbsp;abril de 2019&nbsp;decidimos poner en pr\u00e1ctica todo lo aprendido y lanzamos&nbsp;Global Social Impact Fund (GSIF),&nbsp;el primer fondo de deuda [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-post"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/openvaluefoundation.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/openvaluefoundation.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/openvaluefoundation.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openvaluefoundation.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openvaluefoundation.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9292"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/openvaluefoundation.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9294,"href":"https:\/\/openvaluefoundation.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9292\/revisions\/9294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/openvaluefoundation.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openvaluefoundation.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openvaluefoundation.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}