Mission Throttle

05/07/2020

Over the past month or so, nonprofit impact investment firm ImpactAssets has heard the same question from an increasing number of clients alarmed by the economic and health fallout from the pandemic: What can we do?

Since March, nonprofit impact investment firm ImpactAssets has heard from clients looking for ways to help. With that in mind, the firm recently launched the ImpactAssets COVID Response Fund, a hybrid of charitable giving and impact investing with an initial capacity of more than $1 billion.

03/05/2020

“While affluent millennials recognise the importance of impact investments, this rarely translates into action. "Studies show that social funds can be just as financially beneficial as conventional investments, yet our research shows that confidence to invest in a sustainable way is relatively low.”

Better research and accessible data on impact investing s positive financial returns is vital to help engage more investors a law firm has claimed

02/05/2020

"To boost investments in areas deemed too risky by most traditional financial folks, foundations and other like-minded impact investors have been banding together to goose available capital. The latest example: The Community Investment Guarantee Pool."

With $33.1 million in commitments from nine philanthropic organizations, one large health care system and a nonprofit lender, the Community Investment Guarantee Pool aims to catalyze community development finance in such areas as small business, climate and affordable housing.

01/21/2020

“We intend to double our offerings of ESG ETFs over the next few years, including sustainable versions of flagship index products, so that clients have more choice for how to invest their money."

BlackRock (NYSE: BLK), the world's largest asset manager and parent company of iShares, the biggest sponsor of exchange traded funds, is putting its money where its mouth when...

12/06/2019

Leaders from the foundation and family office communities today announced the launch of the Tipping Point Fund a first-of-its-kind donor collaborative geared towards scaling the practice of impact investing. TPF will make strategic grants to support the creation and development of critical market infrastructure that is necessary to maintain the continued growth—and more importantly, the integrity—of the impact investing market.

Blue Haven Initiative, Ford Foundation, MacArthur Foundation and Omidyar Network will anchor the $12.5 million Grantmaking initiative. NEW YORK, NY – December 5, 2019 – Leaders from the foundation and family office communities today announced the launch of the Tipping Point Fund (“TPF”), a f...

11/22/2019

"The financial services industry has inadvertently created a proliferation of terms that may confuse rather than clarify investment objectives and outcomes. Firms are currently using 80 different terms to describe various forms of sustainable investments, according to the report."

There are 80 different terms to describe various forms of sustainable investment, which confuses investors.

11/07/2019

Are you a 501c3 organization with a social enterprise model or mission-driven business? Our friends at the Max. M & Marjorie S. Fisher Foundation are seeking applications for low-interest concessionary loans from social enterprises based in and serving southeast Michigan. Deadline to apply is December 2, 2019 -- learn more here: https://mmfisher.org/rfa_socialenterprises/

11/03/2019

Sean Welsh, regional president for Western Michigan at PNC Bank, said the bank is investing $1.5 million in the effort, working with Strong Beginnings and other partners, including Spectrum Health, Kellogg Foundation, Michigan Health Endowment Fund and the State of Michigan, through the “pay for success” investment program.

The social impact bond model features nonprofits supported by investors who will be repaid only when the nonprofit delivers on its goals.

10/18/2019

The influence of a younger generation of philanthropists on U.S. family foundations is moving these charitable organizations into more intentional, issue-focused giving and has led to greater diversity in governing boards, according to the Trends 2020 study from the National Center for Family Philanthropy (NCFP) released on Wednesday morning.

A study from the National Center for Family Philanthropy and Bank of America finds a generational shift taking hold

10/11/2019

A new report from Toniic provides more evidence that investors are going farther, faster and deeper into impact, while meeting their targeted financial and impact returns.

Toniic Institute (46-4355039) is a tax-exempt public charity under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. Contributions to Toniic Institute are tax deductible to the extent provided by law.

10/05/2019

The broad category of sustainable and responsible investing grew 38 percent in the United States from 2016 to the start of 2018, to $12 trillion in assets under management, according to the US SIF Foundation. That represented one out of every four dollars of the $46.6 trillion under management.

So-called E.S.G. funds still make up a small fraction of these workplace retirement plans, but they are gaining ground.