Predistribution Initiative

The Predistribution Initiative is a nonpartisan, multistakeholder non-profit designed to co-create improved investment structures and practices that share more wealth and influence with workers and communities. Our ultimate goal is to address systemic risks like inequality, biodiversity loss, and climate change, which manifest as systematic risks in markets and investors’ portfolios.

We were founded in early 2019 by a team of professionals focused on ESG issues and impact investing. We realized that while the ESG and impact investing fields have made significant progress, the guidelines and frameworks that have emerged as industry standards focus primarily on portfolio companies and the investments of investors. Meanwhile, investment practices and structures themselves may be exacerbating the problems we seek to solve and creating systematic risks for large institutional investors, as well as systemic risks for society. Given increasing stakeholder concerns about these issues, we recognized that there were major blind spots that needed to be elevated and addressed.