{"id":26550,"date":"2025-08-18T14:27:38","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T17:27:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sitawi.net\/?p=26550"},"modified":"2026-02-09T16:49:52","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T19:49:52","slug":"negocios-de-impacto-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sitawi.net\/en\/negocios-de-impacto-2\/","title":{"rendered":"What are impact businesses?\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Today's socio-environmental challenges require innovative, scalable, and financially sustainable solutions. It is in this context that impact business<\/strong>, enterprises capable of uniting purpose and results, proving that positive impact<\/strong> and profit can go together<\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

What are impact businesses?<\/strong> <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

According to National Strategy for Investments and Impact Businesses \u2013 Enimpacto<\/strong> (Decree 9.977\/19<\/a>), one impact business<\/strong> is an enterprise that combines positive socio-environmental impact with sustainable financial return<\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

What sets them apart is the intentionality<\/strong>: the mission and main objective need to be focused on generate socio-environmental impact through its core activity, whether in the product, service or form of operation<\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

These businesses operate like traditional companies \u2014 generating their own revenue from the sale of products and\/or services, in sectors such as education, health, nutrition and technology \u2014 but they have a socio-environmental cause as primary motivation<\/strong>. They are business solutions to real problems, which show that there is no conflict between social and economic ambition<\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Main characteristics of an impact business<\/strong> <\/h2>\n\n\n\n