Program Related Investments

On a Mission: How Foundations Are Leveraging Investment Dollars to Impact Health

Publication date:

12/2013

Mission or impact investing, which can generate both a social and financial return, has been gaining attention in philanthropic circles as a way to invest money in for-profit and nonprofit organizations that do work with a positive social impact.

Resource Type:

Research

Audience:

Executive Staff

Topic:

Program Related Investments

Funding Area:

Health, Access and Care

Recycling charitable dollars: IRS gives green light to more program-related investments

Publication date:

08/2013

Expanded guidance opens door for foundations to make creative use of precious charitable resources.

Resource Type:

Blog Post

Audience:

Private Foundation

Topic:

Program Related Investments

Raising Student Voices: Student Action for University Community Investment

This paper seeks to identify ways to better connect two disparate realities that can be found side by side in America today: the growing needs of struggling communities and the vast but detached institutional wealth to which they are home. While communities across the United States continue to suffer in the wake of the financial crisis and the Great Recession, huge pools of investment capital are often to be found sitting right next door.

Resource Type:

Research

Audience:

Community Foundation

Topic:

Program Related Investments

Funding Area:

Education