The challenges we face transcend borders; but so can the solutions. The Bridges Group continues to play a role in catalysing impact across the world through a range of strategies, from Nigeria to Israel, the Netherlands to Ghana…
The challenges we face transcend borders; but so can the solutions. The Bridges Group continues to play a role in catalysing impact across the world through a range of strategies, from Nigeria to Israel, the Netherlands to Ghana…
Bridges Israel was launched in 2019 as an independent affiliate of Bridges Fund Management. It has its own investment strategy and governance, but it shares the same underlying investment philosophy, and will draw on the impact methodologies and expertise developed by Bridges’ UK and US teams since 2002. Sir Ronald Cohen, co-founder of Bridges and a leading figure in the growth of impact investing around the world, chairs its Advisory Board.
As an investor, Bridges Israel’s aim is to tackle the inequalities that are prevalent in the state of Israel (which has the highest poverty rate in the OECD, and also a very high rate of income inequality). It does this via a two-pronged strategy: by investing in growth businesses that support underserved populations, and in impactful ‘tech for good’ companies with the potential to scale both in Israel and beyond.
Visit the Bridges Israel siteIn 2015, we launched the Bridges U.S. Sustainable Growth Fund, to invest in lower middle-market U.S. growth companies operating within the healthcare, education, energy and environmental services sectors – as well as those providing quality jobs and services to underserved communities.
We later set up a U.S.-facing sister organisation to The Bridges Impact Foundation. The Bridges Impact Foundation U.S. currently runs the Turner MIINT programme (providing hands-on education of investing for impact to graduates) and Impact Frontiers (advancing the integration of impact into financial frameworks and decision-making).
More on Bridges U.S.Bridges’ specialist Outcomes team continues to take its world-leading expertise to new regions and countries to create transformative outcomes and demonstrate the unique power of this approach, via our SDG Outcomes initiative.
From education programmes in Sierra Leone, India and Ghana, to plastic waste management in Nigeria and job creation in Turkiye – we’re working in low- and middle-income countries with governments, donors, delivery partners and impact-driven investors to improve hundreds of thousands of lives, as well as protect our natural world.
Read moreBridges has been selected by Fulcrum Asset Management as a partner for its new Long Term Asset Fund (LTAF) – which is designed to help DC pensions access longer-term investments.
Read moreBridges is delighted to have achieved practical completion in Tolworth, Greater London; as well as receiving planning permission to construct its first logistics scheme in Dublin, Ireland.
Read moreIn its fourth exit of the year, Bridges is delighted to announce it has agreed to sell the Nexgen Group to Bidvest Noonan, a market-leading provider of facilities services.
Read moreMichele Giddens will now be sole CEO of the firm, with Philip Newborough moving to a new role as Executive Chair.
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