The 10-year Social Investment Fund 6.0 demonstrated the power of impact-first investing strategies for addressing poverty in Africa and Latin America
Seattle, Washington; October 5, 2025
Global Partnerships, a nonprofit impact-first investment manager, announced the maturity of its 6th fund this week. Over the past decade, the Global Partnerships Social Investment Fund 6.0, LLC (SIF 6.0), an impact-first debt fund, positively impacted 16.2 million lives across 27 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean and Sub-Saharan Africa. In total, SIF 6.0 deployed over $280 million across 108 social enterprise investees.
“SIF 6.0 is a story of innovation within the context of trusted, long-term partnership. Our investors and investees came along with us on this journey,” says Mike Galgon, CEO of Global Partnerships. “Investees sharpened their ability to serve the vulnerable and hard-to-reach, especially women and the rural poor. Investors reduced their return expectations in exchange for high and verified impact. Our model now reflects the best of what we learned through SIF 6.0: blend capital, rigorously measure for impact, and extend advisory support.”
Launched in 2015, SIF 6.0 piloted new depths in impact-first investing for Global Partnership in expanding opportunity for people living in poverty. Through the fund, Global Partnerships provided larger loans and lower cost terms for social enterprise investees serving people living in poverty.
The fund’s portfolio focused on expanding client access to economic livelihoods, education, energy, health, housing, and water through investees such as Agora Microfinance Zambia, Acceso El Salvador, and UNI2 Microcrédito in Colombia.
As part of its blended capital approach, Global Partnerships used philanthropic contributions to provide numerous SIF 6.0 social enterprise investees with impact advisory services, including funding in-depth telephone surveys that allowed them to optimize for both impact and growth. Notably, Global Partnerships’ impact advisory support helped many SIF 6.0 investees weather challenges like the COVID-19 pandemic, macroeconomic instability, and political crisis.
As a result, SIF 6.0 achieved high impact . Surveys from November 2018 to July 2025 of over 13,000 clients found that 91% of clients reported their quality of life had improved because of their involvement with a SIF 6.0 social enterprise investee.
Global Partnerships’ experience with, and learning from, SIF 6.0 has since informed the design of four new impact-first debt funds: the Impact-First Growth Fund, the Impact-First Development Fund, the Impact-First Fund 9, and the Impact-First Fund 10.
About Global Partnerships
Global Partnerships (GP) is a nonprofit impact-first investment fund manager that expands opportunity for people living in poverty. GP-affiliated funds invest in social enterprises across Sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America and the Caribbean that provide products and services to clients in poverty. GP’s fund portfolio addresses the multi-faceted needs of these clients across economic livelihoods, education, energy, health, housing, and water. Learn more at https://globalpartnerships.org.