Bridges Annual Impact Report 2016: Tackling society’s biggest challenges

31st December 2016

2016 has been another productive year for Bridges, with four new investments, five completed exits and another pioneering addition to our platform – Bridges Evergreen Holdings, a permanent capital vehicle for mission-led businesses (taking our total funds raised since inception beyond $1 billion). More broadly, this year’s political turbulence has underlined quite how urgently we […]

2016 has been another productive year for Bridges, with four new investments, five completed exits and another pioneering addition to our platform – Bridges Evergreen Holdings, a permanent capital vehicle for mission-led businesses (taking our total funds raised since inception beyond $1 billion).

More broadly, this year’s political turbulence has underlined quite how urgently we as a society need to find better ways to promote equality of opportunity; to support underserved regions; to improve educational outcomes for young people; to build a more sustainable health and social care system; and to reduce our environmental impact.

At Bridges, we have been thinking about these challenges and seeking out investable solutions for more than a decade. In this year’s Annual Impact Report, we explain how this approach has enabled us to identify a range of different strategies across our platform of funds – and we outline some of the impact we’ve been able to deliver as a result. For instance, through our investments:

  • 3.3m care hours have been delivered to elderly and vulnerable people
  • 2,500 tonnes of CO2 saved through renewable and green energy usage
    across our property portfolio
  • 4,345 students have been enrolled in high-quality afterschool programs in the US
  • Almost 1,600 previously unemployed people have been helped back into work
  • Vulnerable children have spent 23,500 fewer days in care

We also show how this challenge-led focus has underpinned the new investments we’ve made in 2016.

Read the full report here:  (screen view)  (print view

 

 

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