Navigating IMM with The Human Safety Net
The Human Safety Net & Croce Rossa Italiana - Comitato di Milano | ESIR project
Investment strategy
The investor for impact
The Human Safety Net is a foundation set up in 2017 by the insurance company Generali Group, with the mission to “unlock the potential of people living in vulnerable circumstances so that they can transform the lives of their families and communities.”
The Human Safety Net supports, through a highly engaged grant-making approach, over 75 NGO partners in 26 countries across Europe, Latin America and Asia.
The activity of The Human Safety Net is split into two programmes: the For Families programme supports parenting during early childhood, while the For Refugees programme is focused on improving employment and fostering entrepreneurship of refugees.
The three levels of impact
The Human Safety Net looks at the three levels of impact, which EVPA defines as the investee level, investor level and ecosystem level.
The investee level refers to the impact that supported organisations have on beneficiaries. Through the For Refugees Programme The Human Safety Net supports partners that break down barriers to access the labour market, and/or support entrepreneurs to launch their own businesses.
The investor level is about the impact that the investor itself has on the supported organisations. The Human Safety Net has two major grant-making mechanisms, matching and scaling grants. From those that have an ambition to scale, the Scale-Up Impact grant is open to those partners who have demonstrated high impact programmes