Toniic Public Events

Join us for this Family Office Working Group meeting where we will hear from Toniic Member Naomi Golad.

Toniic’s Family Office Working Group serves as a forum to inspire and support Toniic members who are principals and staff in their family offices in making joint impact investments and supporting one another.

This call will focus on sharing successful strategies, innovative practices, and lessons learnt from Toniic’s foundation members. In this call, Sybren Devoghel from the King Baudouin Foundation will discuss the recent redesign of their impact strategy, highlighting key learnings and successes from the process.

This session is designed to foster meaningful discussions, encourage the exchange of insights, and explore new opportunities for collaboration.

We’re eager to gauge members’ interest in future ‘foundation-focused’ discussions. We welcome suggestions for topics you’d like to see covered in potential future sessions.

Toniic and The Impact are organizing an event for investors employing a catalytic capital approach in their investments. Catalytic Capital refers to patient, risk tolerant and flexible impact investments aimed at addressing critical social and environmental objectives. Understanding the important role of these investments, particularly where conventional commercial capital can be under-invested due to to perceived risks or uncertainties, this event will allow for a deeper conversation around the use of catalytic capital with peer investors to offer collaboration and opportunities around increased deal flow, systems change investing, co-investments and shared learnings.

Campfires serve as Toniic's virtual gathering spaces, where members from around the world can connect and engage in meaningful discussions on various themes or global events that evoke a communal response.

Effective altruism (EA) and impact investing both strive to maximize positive societal impact. EA frequently utilizes quantitative metrics and cost-effectiveness analyses to evaluate interventions. In this session, we’ll explore the extent to which impact investors can leverage EA’s measurement techniques, such as:

• The applicability of metrics like QALYs (Quality-Adjusted Life Years) to business contexts

• Challenges in quantifying diverse social and environmental outcomes

• Balancing financial returns with maximizing impact

• The pros and cons of a data-driven approach to impact assessment

• How EA measurements might enhance—or hinder—impact investing practices

Campfires serve as Toniic's virtual gathering spaces, where members from around the world can connect and engage in meaningful discussions on various themes or global events that evoke a communal response.

Effective altruism (EA) and impact investing both strive to maximize positive societal impact. EA frequently utilizes quantitative metrics and cost-effectiveness analyses to evaluate interventions. In this session, we’ll explore the extent to which impact investors can leverage EA’s measurement techniques, such as:

• The applicability of metrics like QALYs (Quality-Adjusted Life Years) to business contexts

• Challenges in quantifying diverse social and environmental outcomes

• Balancing financial returns with maximizing impact

• The pros and cons of a data-driven approach to impact assessment

• How EA measurements might enhance—or hinder—impact investing practices

Join Toniic co-founder, Charly Kleissner, and other Toniic members and friends for a day hike close to Innsbruck after the Alpine Impact Days.

Several Toniic members will attend and speak at the Alpine Impact Days on October 10-11. On Friday, October 11, we'll start the weekend with a drink and potentially dinner after the Alpine-Impact-Days. On Saturday, Charly will lead a group on a small hike close to Innsbruck. We will be back in the afternoon, such that you can start your travels home then.

We invite you to join for the Alpine Impact Days and stay for another day of relaxed hiking and sharing with Toniic members and friends. Or you can also join just for the hike on Saturday.

More information and registration for the Alpine Impact Days here: https://www.tirol.impacthub.net/alpine-impact-days-2024-en

We look forward to seeing many of you in Innsbruck in October.

The Toniic Arts Working Group, in conjunction with the Gender and Racial Equity Working Group, will host a call focusing on female artists.

The main themes that will be discussing are the power dynamics in the art world, ongoing myth of the male artist genius, buying power inequalities, curators’ biases etc. We will have a quick overview in terms of data looking at % of women in institutional art collections, price behaviour of female artists along their career, price points of female artists (auction prices) compared to male counterparts. Of course we will also delve into the importance of gender lens collecting and future projection.

Working Groups are group gatherings led by a Toniic Member that meet monthly.

The objectives of the working group include sharing insights on investment strategies, expanding deal flow by leveraging Toniic members’ extensive networks, and supporting collaborative due diligence benefiting from Toniic members’ expertise.If you’re interested to learn more about this working group, check out their Connect Group here: https://connect.toniic.com/groups/regenerative-agriculture/

If you have any questions, please reach out to Koen at koen.van.seijen@toniic.com.

Working Groups are group gatherings led by a Toniic Member that meet monthly.

The objectives of the working group include sharing insights on investment strategies, expanding deal flow by leveraging Toniic members’ extensive networks, and supporting collaborative due diligence benefiting from Toniic members’ expertise.If you’re interested to learn more about this working group, check out their Connect Group here: https://connect.toniic.com/groups/regenerative-agriculture/

If you have any questions, please reach out to Koen at koen.van.seijen@toniic.com.

Are you thinking of joining the Amsterdam GIIN Impact Forum this October?

And even if you are not, come to the Netherlands some days earlier so that you can join us on October 21st for an afternoon of learnings and inspiration.

Catalytic capital refers to patient, risk-tolerant, concessionary, and flexible impact investments that can address social or environmental objectives requiring longer time horizons or higher-risk investments. It is often deployed in areas where commercial capital is scarce or hesitant to invest due to perceived risks or uncertainties.

According to our research, one of the major barriers to greater deployment of catalytic capital is collaboration among different players. HNIs and Family Offices are often early movers and operate at the seeding stage of catalytic capital, Foundations are often able to de-risk investments with first loss and participate in blended finance transactions. We want to bring these actors together.

During this event you will connect with practitioners among HNIs, Family Offices, and Foundation impact investors in a practitioner-focused event designed to share knowledge and investment approaches, inspire ongoing collaboration towards co-investments after the event. To achieve this goal, we will run a workshop to identify collaboration leverage points, and propose action oriented next steps.