We are a peer-to-peer community of wealth owners, deeply aware of the impact our investments can have in the world. We believe in the power of money as a force for good.
PYM is an independent foundation that connects and guides wealth owners to invest their capital consciously for a better world. We are a peer-to-peer community of families, philanthropists, individual investors, family offices, and foundations.
Your money matters
We believe in the power of money as a force for good. That is why we promote listed and non-listed impact investing. You can invest successfully in businesses, directly or through funds, that have a purpose beyond profit.
Companies are stepping up their efforts to do better business - socially and environmentally while remaining profitable. Entrepreneurs choose to be in business to help solve the biggest challenges our planet and humanity are facing. Traditional investors are pushed towards responsible investing. The EU will soon require institutional investors to disclose environmental and social risks in their investments.
Our mission
We seek to inspire wealth owners to invest and donate their money meaningfully and effectively. We want to be a leading light in your journey to be a conscious investor.
We focus on investors in the Benelux, but we welcome everyone who shares our goals.
PYM is a community of and for wealth owners who are passionate about investing for good. Everything we do revolves around peer-to-peer learning and knowledge exchange.
What do we do?
PYM inspires, educates, and guides wealth owners and their families to invest in what matters most to them, our planet, and future generations. We bring together investors - from the next generation to their parents and grandparents -, advisors, and other impact investment networks in a safe environment.
Unique peer-to-peer dialogue
We are a community where you can share your beliefs, expertise, and connections and learn from each other. Within our community, we have a wealth of knowledge and a deep network of impact investment professionals and funds.
Exclusive stories and insights from changemakers
With our newsletter, peer-to-peer meetings, investor tables, the Women's Wealth Matters program, and our flagship Impact Days (and Family Day), we reach a growing group of private investors in the Benelux.
Join us for drinks at the home of PYM co-founder Frank van Beuningen and learn about the mystery of impact, finding new pathways in a world dominated by finance by Marilou van Golstein Brouwers.
WWM is an ongoing series of events for female wealth holders only. This evening we are coming together in an informal setting to reconnect with old friends, meet new ones, and share with other wealth holders.
You'll be introduced to the basics of impact investing and sustainable investments, and how they can be applied to your own impact journey.
PYM stems from the first impact investment community in Europe, the Put Your Money Where Your Meaning is Community (Pymwymic) founded in 1994. Pymwymic has developed into an impact fund. To grow the investor community and facilitate collaboration, we founded PYM as an independent foundation.
As investors, we have benefited from collaborating and exchanging ideas with several impact investing communities, banks and family offices. We wanted to open up our community to every wealth owner who is interested in investing their capital consciously.
We are proud to have some experienced impact investors among us who we call our PYM Ambassadors. They are happy to get you started on your investment journey by sharing their experience, insights, network, and opportunities.
Would you like to help inspire more people to invest in impact?
We are always looking for more private wealth owners to join us as impact-investing ambassadors in our mission to guide more wealth owners to invest their capital consciously for a better world.
The PYM ambassadors you see below are happy to meet, share how they got started with impact investing, and answer your questions. Let us know where you are in your impact journey and where you are located, and we'll connect you to one of our ambassadors.
PYM (Pledge Your Money) is a foundation which brings together wealth holders at the kitchen table to talk about putting capital to work for a better world. Our overall aim is to grow the number of impact investors in the Benelux and inspire them to invest (more) in a transition towards a sustainable and restorative economy.
We organise peer-to-peer meetings, dinners, drinks, webinars, Impact Circles, the PYM Impact Days, and programs specifically for women, NextGen’s, entrepreneurs etc. We produce a bi-monthly newsletter, and an event calendar, and offer various resources to learn more about impact investing on our website.
PYM was incorporated in Amsterdam in August 2020, however, its origins are much older.
The PYM foundation and community of today got its start in 1994, alongside the investing activities of the pioneering group Pymwymic (Put Your Money Where Your Meaning is community), a group of impact investors who did a tremendous amount of field building and later on started an impact fund.
The founders of Pymwymic were at the vanguard of impact investing in the Benelux. When their fund grew, PYM split off as an independent foundation to focus on building the field and growing the number of impact investors in the Benelux.
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We are a community open for wealth holders with investable assets in excess of €500,000, but we also accept professionals who want to learn more about impact investing.
A conscious investor considers both financial returns and the social and environmental impact of their investments. They prioritize ethical and sustainable practices and seek investments aligned with their values.
PYM Ambassadors are active in impact investing as investors, board members, experts and leaders. They bring to the community their passion, experience and knowledge, and serve as sparring partners for new PYM’ers.
An annual two-day conference for aspiring and existing impact investors. The first day is open for wealth owners and the second day is also open to professionals who support impact investing. Every year the conference centres around a new topic, for instance in 2023 it was “Imagining the New Economy” while the theme of 2022 was “Biodiversity & Regeneration”.
A group of 10-12 wealth holders who want to learn and share more about impact investing and who commit to gathering at least 6 evenings (on average one per month) to discuss over dinner a specific topic introduced by a guest speaker.
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