THIRD VATICAN CONFERENCE
on Impact Investing

On July 8, 2018, at the invitation of Catholic Relief Services and the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development, impact investing experts and Catholic leaders from around the world convened in Rome to share and evaluate blended finance models and investible vehicles to address systemic challenges of great importance to both the Catholic Church and the global community: Climate Change, Health, Migrants and Refugees, and Youth Unemployment. It was a results-oriented conference that catalyzed collaboration among participants, mobilized capital, and generated select commitments-to-action. The biennial series of Vatican Impact Investing Conferences is a vital, long-term global platform around Pope Francis's vision of 'putting the economy at the service of peoples'.