IIA: Innovation Investment Alliance
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Driving Impact at Scale
The Innovation Investment Alliance (IIA) was a funding and learning partnership between Mercy Corps Ventures, the Skoll Foundation, and USAID’s Global Development Lab. Through this collaboration, we aimed to support transformative social enterprises on their journeys to scale and to generate practical insights on how impact can be expanded sustainably and effectively.
Together, the IIA committed nearly $50 million to eight high-impact social enterprises around the world — catalyzing systems-level change across sectors and geographies.
Our Portfolio
8 impactful social enterprises
We invested in eight organizations for their proven potential to scale and tackle systemic challenges such as poverty, climate vulnerability, education access, and financial inclusion. The IIA’s investments helped them accelerate growth, deepen impact, and inform broader lessons on scaling social impact.
Fundación Capital seeks to eliminate extreme poverty by ensuring that people have access to knowledge and tools that enable them to save, build assets, and manage risk.
Imazon is a research institute that generates high-quality environmental data and analysis on Amazon deforestation, land use, and sustainable development to inform policy and action.
One Acre Fund provides bundled services — including seed, fertilizer, financing, training, and market facilitation — to empower farmers to grow more food profitably.
Evidence Action identifies evidence-backed social programs and implements them at scale to improve health and economic outcomes globally
WSUP works with utilities, governments, and private partners to design and implement sustainable WASH solutions — from infrastructure improvements to behavior change initiatives.
Living Goods bolsters community health outcomes by harnessing the power of technology to transform women and men into high-impact community health workers
VisionSpring partners with local entrepreneurs to distribute low-cost eyeglasses — enabling students, workers, and families to see clearly and participate more fully in education and work
Health Care Without Harm is creating a global movement against fossil fuels and toxic chemicals by aggregating the collective power of the health care sector
Research & Reports
Scaling Pathways
As part of the Alliance’s knowledge-building work, we partnered with CASE at Duke University to produce Scaling Pathways — a series of research reports and insights that capture what it takes to scale impact in the social sector.
Downloadable reports & studies
People Matter: Evolving Talent to Drive Impact at Scale – Explores how organizations build, structure, and retain talent as they scale. Download PDF or read online.
Scaling Pathways Series – Central hub for all Scaling Pathways research, case studies, and resources.
