Enabling Impact
through Sport.

The sport impact group
INTRO

The Sport Impact Group is here to enable impact through sport.

Sport organizations are increasingly under the microscope of stakeholders - especially fans, media, advocacy groups, sponsors, governments, and governing bodies -  to anticipate the effects of sustainability and ESG issues on performance, to comply with sustainability and ESG standards, and to demonstrate positive impact on society.


Impact organizations and change-makers from both inside and outside of sport recognize the power of sport as a unique tool for achieving social, economic, and environmental impact and seek innovative and sustainable solutions for realizing that potential.

The Sport Impact Group works with organizations to enable impact through sport.

The Power of Sport has long been recognised as an incredibly powerful tool - used for good and bad in the past. In the last 10-15 years the ‘Sport for Good’ Sector has seen tremendous growth  - and so have two other sectors: Social Finance and ESG-compliance.

Combined they can be incredibly powerful and successful especially when based on data, analytics and transparent reporting.

The Collective

A collective of international sport and impact professionals

  • Using sport for positive social and environmental impact;
  • Bringing more funding to the sector by building bridges between sport for impact and social finance sector;
  • Providing a collaboration platform to strengthen services for the sector. (Contact us at info@sportimpactgroup.org for more info about collaborating and joining.)
Our Team

Our Vision

An established, professional, highly active, and highly impactful sport for impact global ecosystem.

Our Mission

Our mission is to support all stakeholders in a joint effort to evolve and grow the sport for impact sector

  • by developing practical tools, content, and solutions,
  • by encouraging collaboration, and
  • by building bridges between the sport for impact sector and the growing philanthropic and impact investing sectors.

Our core values

Practical

Data-Driven

Innovative

Transparent

Collaborative

What we do

Sustainability & ESG Consulting

Our multidisciplinary team provides a holistic approach to sustainability and ESG compliance for sports organizations (such as federations and clubs), sport events, NGOs, and others. We assess the relevance of current and future standards, certifications and frameworks in combination with client needs and priorities to develop individualized sustainability and ESG strategies. Through state-of-the-art to data management we enable easy tracking and reporting, ultimately helping organisations achieve compliance, profit, and impact.

Impact
Consulting

Using similar skills as for our sustainability and ESG consulting, we also work with impact organisations (such as sports organizations, NGOs, not-for-profits, and charities) to refine their impact areas, define strategies, and identify and track appropriate targets and indicators. As with our sustainability and ESG practice, great emphasis is placed on utilizing state-of-the-art data-management to guide governance and implementation, to facilitate reporting to stakeholders and funders, and ultimately to demonstrate impact.

Facilitating
Funding

Organisations with comprehensive and effective Sustainability/ESG and Impact Strategies can become very attractive for commercial partners as well as philanthropic and impact investors.  To support such organizations and to address the need for greater funding and mobilisation of capital for sustainability and impact, we combine our knowledge of enhanced sustainability/ESG and impact strategies with innovative financing models to help clients access a broad range of funding sources and achieve their funding needs.

Why we are unique

We specialize in sport for impact.

There are many “sport for good” and “sport for development” organizations aiming to use sport for positive outcomes for society.
Sport for impact represents a different standard for projects, programmes, and organizations characterized by

  • Specific strategies, methodologies, or theories of change 
  • A data-driven approach with clear targets and KPIs
  • Alignment to the United Nations SDGs or other impact framework

What We Do

Sport Impact works with sport and impact organizations (like foundations and NGOs)

To establish or improve sustainability or impact strategies

To establish or improve impact data capture and management

To demonstrate, visualize, and share impact outcomes and data with stakeholders in line with regulatory requirements and international reporting standards.
3 GOALS
- Sustainability Compliance and Meeting Standards
- Achieving, Improving, and Capturing Impact
- Facilitating Funding for Impact
5 Service Areas:
- Consulting
- Research and Development,
  Tool Development
- Capacity-Building & Education
- Content Creation & Communication
- Collaboration Platform

The Challenge

  • Sports organizations are more and more  under the microscope of stakeholders to comply with sustainability and ESG requirements and to demonstrate a positive impact on society;
  • Funders of impact organizations are increasingly no longer satisfied only with sport’s “potential” but demand evidence of social, economic, and environmental impact;
  • The sport for development and sustainable sport sectors are highly fragmented and mostly made up of independent consultants or small organisations.
  • Sport programmes still struggle to attract and secure sustainable financing.

The Opportunity

  • ESG / sustainability standards and delivering a “triple bottom line for people, planet, and profit” are becoming mainstream, including for sport organizations, events, and programmes;
  • The toolkits for impact work, social finance, and impact investing have evolved significantly and are now well-suited for application to the sport for impact sector;
  • Impact strategies, data, analytics, and transparent reporting are playing bigger and bigger roles to help impact organizations become more investible and financially sustainable.

In the last 10-15 years the ‘Sport for Good’ Sector has seen tremendous growth - and so have two other sectors: Social Finance and ESG-compliance.Combined they can be incredibly powerful and successful especially when based on data, analytics and transparent reporting.

Who We Are

The Sport Impact Group is an association of international sport and impact professionals

  • Using sport for positive social and environmental impact
  • Providing a collaboration platform for industry experts to come together and jointly offer customised holistic solutions to clients  
  • Bringing more funding to the sector by building bridges between the sport for impact and social finance sectors
  • Providing a collaboration platform to strengthen services for the sector.

Contact us at info@sportimpactgroup.org for more info about collaborating and joining.

Meet the Members

Our
Vision

An established, professional, highly active, and highly impactful sport for impact global ecosystem.

Our 
Mission

Our mission is to support all stakeholders in a joint effort to evolve and grow the sport for impact sector

  • by developing practical tools, content, and solutions
  • by encouraging collaboration
  • by building bridges between the sport for impact sector and the growing philanthropic and impact investing sectors.

Our Core Values

Practical

Data-Driven

Innovative

Transparent

Collaborative

What We Do

Sustainability & ESG

Our multidisciplinary members provide a holistic approach to sustainability and ESG compliance for sports organizations (such as federations and clubs), sport events, NGOs, and others. We assess the relevance of current and future standards, certifications and frameworks in combination with client needs and priorities to develop individualized sustainability and ESG strategies. Through state-of-the-art  data management we enable easy tracking and reporting, ultimately helping organisations achieve compliance, profit, and impact.

Impact

Using similar skills as for our sustainability and ESG consulting, we also work with impact organisations (such as sports organizations, NGOs, not-for-profits, and charities) to refine their impact areas, define strategies, and identify and track appropriate targets and indicators. We place great emphasis on utilising state-of-the-art data-management to guide governance and implementation, to demonstrate impact,  facilitate reporting to stakeholders and funders, and ultimately make the impact organisation ‘investable’ and financially sustainable.

Facilitating Funding

Organisations with comprehensive and effective Sustainability/ESG and Impact Strategies can become very attractive for commercial partners as well as philanthropic and impact investors. To support such organizations and to address the need for greater funding and mobilisation of capital for sustainability and impact, we combine our knowledge of enhanced sustainability/ESG and impact strategies with innovative financing models to help clients access a broad range of funding sources and achieve their funding needs.

Service Areas

Collaboration Platform
Consulting
Strategy Data ManagementMonitoring, Reporting,
Evaluation
Finance
Consulting
Research & Development
Tool Development
Conducting Research
Capacity-Building & Education
Capacity-Building & Education
Informational Workshops
Awareness-raising and knowledge-building workshops  (e.g. to brief management teams, governance boards, and stakeholders on sustainability/ESG compliance requirements)

Practical Workshops
Hands-on workshops with responsible managers and teams to develop and deliver key sustainability or impact deliverables such as strategies, processes, policies, and tools.
Content Creation & Communication
Consolidating academic research 

Creating and disseminating user-friendly and practical content 

Producing commissioned content
Research & Development
Collaboration Platform
Creating & managing platforms, forums, or consortia 

Organizing conferences or other special events
Content Creation & Communication
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Service Areas

Consulting
Consulting
Strategy Data ManagementMonitoring, Reporting,
Evaluation
Finance
Research & Development
Research & Development
Tool Development
Conducting Research
Capacity-Building & Education
Capacity-Building & Education
Informational Workshops
Awareness-raising and knowledge-building workshops  (e.g. to brief management teams, governance boards, and stakeholders on sustainability/ESG compliance requirements)

Practical Workshops
Hands-on workshops with responsible managers and teams to develop and deliver key sustainability or impact deliverables such as strategies, processes, policies, and tools.
Content Creation & Communication
Consolidating academic research 

Creating and disseminating user-friendly and practical content 

Producing commissioned content
Collaboration Platform
Creating & managing platforms, forums, or consortia 

Organizing conferences or other special events

Why we are unique

We specialize in sport for impact.

There are many “sport for good” and “sport for development” organizations aiming to use sport for positive outcomes for society.

Sport for impact represents a different standard for projects, programmes, and organizations characterized by

  • Specific strategies, methodologies, or theories of change 
  • A data-driven approach with clear targets and KPIs
  • Alignment to the United Nations SDGs or other impact framework