EMPEA and the Wharton Social Impact Initiative (WSII) announced a partnership to greatly expand Wharton’s impact investing performance database. The new partnership will accelerate the field by providing quantitative evidence necessary for the continued expansion and development of impact investment. The joint venture will provide comprehensive metrics for institutional investors, fund managers, academics and other industry stakeholders to conduct a rigorous analysis of financial and social returns and other important dynamics in the field.

Impact fund managers are encouraged to join the current data gathering cycle by February 28, 2015.