The Impact Exchange, founded in 2006, is a for-profit business focused on making companies more effective, positively impacting people’s lives, and using business to combat poverty.

Impacting companies

Our goal is to help your business run more efficiently and effectively, at lower cost, while making a difference in your community and the world around you.

Whether in IT services, project management, administration and production outsourcing, or new supplier and buyer connections, we want to help you be more profitable financially and personally.

Impacting people

Our goal is to build relationships with people, give them profitable avenues to use their talents, and enable them to enable others. This may be a parent in a developing country or a Chicago accountant or MBA grad who wants to do something with his life.

Long term, we plan to create unique jobs in the developed and developing world for individuals with a passion for being on the cutting edge of social impact and business development

Impacting poverty

Rich countries have poured billions of dollars into charitable aid to improve global living standards, but most of the world’s poor are seeing little improvement. Significant progress in living conditions is only found where there is encouragement and success of private business and entrepreneurship.

Early advocates using business to combat poverty repeat the old saying, “Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach him how to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.” Our goal takes this a step further. We believe that the fisherman also needs financing for his boats and nets, markets to sell his fish, and people to support his efforts all around him.

In everything we do, we strive for quality, excellence and impact.