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Overview

Meet Sianne. Her passion is simple: bring the philanthropic community together working toward achieving the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDG). Why? Because we know unified efforts lead to greater global equity for all. As a Chief Impact Officer and dual qualified lawyer in the UK and in her native South Africa, Sianne builds more impact equity for the London-based Maanch organization through an impact-platform uniting philanthropy, impact investors and corporations. We're talking impact investing and how to check off the world's Honey Do list. Tune in!

Today’s Guest

Sianne Haldane, Chief Impact Officer, Maanch

“The UN Sustainable Development Goals are a blueprint to achieve a better and more sustainable future for all.”

— Sianne Haldane, Chief Impact Officer, Maanch

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Episode Highlights

Sianne’s journey and story of what got her to where she is today (2:50)
An overview of The United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals (8:50)
Areas of growth for organizations in today’s changing world (15:50)
Dream bigger: reflect on the global ecosystem (19:00)
Community giving and impact tracking (20:00)
Funders want to know what they are achieving (20:50)
Leveraging data and technology for impact tracking (21:00)
A powerful moment of philanthropy in Sianne’s life (26:19)
Sianne’s One Good Thing: Keep things simple, and always keep learning. (32:00)

Powerful quotes

“I had this inherent understanding that I was just lucky to have been born into the family that I was born in. If I had a different kind of skin, my life would have been completely different in South Africa.” -Sianne

“There's all sorts of innovative ways to allocate capital and move finance to do good.” -Sianne

“We see ourselves as enabling the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.” -Sianne

“The UN Sustainable Development Goals are really a blueprint to achieve a better and more sustainable future for all.” -Sianne

“If you take that step back and look at the goals from that perspective, that's a good way to sort of start. Virtually every cause that philanthropists or foundation support are included in this ambitious scope of the SDGs.” -Sianne

“There’s also the interconnection between some of the SDGs, which is also important, you can see a real cause alignment for nonprofits profits in achieving the SDGs.” -Sianne

“They were created in 2015. And the goal is to reach them by 2030, it requires a lot more resource, then what is now being applied to them.” -Sianne

“Only two targets are close to being delivered out of like 169 different targets.” -Sianne

“It's about shifting mindsets, to think, yes, we are serving our community in this way. But how do we pour into the big global community? I really love the idea of everybody elevating their thinking beyond my part of the world, and thinking about how does the mission help everybody?” -Becky

“What's really struck me has been that there is a will out there from individuals and organizations to help.” -Sianne

“I think the challenge is that organizations or individuals often don't really sort of know where they can be the most effective, or what kind of intervention, you know, they could make.” -Sianne

“I hear collaboration is such a key part of this, you know, and this season, more than anything, we've talked about dreaming big. I think that's a natural place to go after the last year is like, we're ready to get refocused to, like what are our dreams that we want to do beyond just daily survival, you know, or daily focus.” -Jon

“That means using data, cleverly, to be able to really articulate stories well, and and then create that space for individuals and organizations to come together.” -Sianne

“Funders want to know what they are achieving.” -Sianne

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