
Heidi Yanulis for Catholic Relief Services
The Ford Foundation’s plan to earmark $1 billion for investments that promote its equity mission is shining the spotlight on investments that seek both financial and social returns. In this special report, we examine the role nonprofits and foundations play in the burgeoning field and look at how impact investing affects giving.
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More Foundations and Charities See Impact Investing as Key to Social Change
Commercial giants like Goldman Sachs and BlackRock are the big players in a burgeoning field, but philanthropic institutions increasingly view their investments as tools to tackle the world’s toughest problems. -
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Will the Rise of Impact Investing Leave Less for Gifts and Grants?
Some donors say the strategy is changing how they give in powerful ways; others doubt that it can displace traditional philanthropy, especially with causes like feeding the hungry. -
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Nonprofits Innovate to Build Market for Mission Investing
Charities and foundations are tackling gaps in impact investing’s infrastructure to help fulfill the field’s promise of social and environmental change. -
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Impact-Investing Pioneers Take Stock and Adjust Course
For more than a decade, the Heron and Northwest Area foundations have invested their endowments with the goal of spurring social good. They’re drawing on lessons learned to tweak their approaches. -
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Inside the Ford Foundation’s Billion-Dollar Gamble
Fifteen years after putting money from its program budget into Tesla as part of its environmental and economic-development strategy, the foundation is staking a hefty chunk of its endowment on similarly mission-focused investments. -
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2 New Marketplaces Bring Impact Investors and Products Together
The services aim to expand mission investing by helping funds and enterprises raise capital faster and more efficiently. -
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Community-Development Nonprofit Set to Issue $100 Million in Bonds
The Local Initiatives Support Corporation says the offering will allow it to tap into impact-investment dollars and be more flexible in its work. -
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Ford Foundation Makes $1 Billion Pledge for Mission Investments
By promising a big chunk of its $12 billion endowment to businesses that reduce inequality, the nation’s second-wealthiest grant maker could spur peers to increase their impact investing. -
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Surdna Foundation Commits $100 Million to Impact Investments
The New York family philanthropy also issued a report aimed at helping other foundations that want their portfolios to mesh with their missions. -
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Foundation CEOs Struggle to Boost Mission Investing
The pressure for strong financial returns continues to overshadow efforts to do good by reallocating portfolios. -
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New IRS Rule Likely to Make Impact Investing Easier
The agency offers guidance to grant makers just days before Kresge announces it will commit 10 percent of assets to social investing. -
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Heron Fund Takes Radical Path on Investing
As the fund moves its $274-million endowment into impact investments, its most controversial approach is its shift way from a strict asset-allocation plan.