A growing number of foundations are offering low-interest loans, buying into green business ventures, and investing in other asset classes to advance their missions. Yet most mission investing remains haphazard and inconsequential. To bring about real change, foundations need to take a fundamentally different approach, making strategic mission investments that complement their grantmaking. Authors Mark Kramer and Sarah Cooch talk about strategic mission investing in the Fall 2007 issue of Stanford Social Innovation Review
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While a number of observers have offered advice to foundations on how to be more effective with the ...
While there are benefits to strategic grantmaking, organizations should beware of taking the trend t...
Nonprofit organizations (NPOs) as mission-driven organizations could profit from investing in stocks...
More foundations are using their investment assets to achieve their missions, according to Key Facts...
This recently published report provides the first comprehensive analysis of mission investing by U.S...
"Should a private foundation be more than a private investment company that uses some of its excess ...
This report provides a guide to mission investment intermediaries, organizations that collect capita...
Since the Packard Foundation's first PRI in 1980, its approach to mission investing has evolved dram...
Looks across a variety of foundations, to identify distinctly different operational definitions of s...
In response to declining investment returns, many foundations are implementing across-the-board cuts...
In their pursuit of value creation, charitable foundations are mission- rather than profit-driven. T...
This new series on impact investing, produced by Stanford Social Innovation Review in partnership wi...
Traditionally, the research on strategy has rather focused on profit-seeking organizations whose pri...
Impact investing enables foundations and other mission-based organizations to invest their dollars i...
Discusses in detail the legal aspects of mission-related investing, including federal and state fidu...
While a number of observers have offered advice to foundations on how to be more effective with the ...
While there are benefits to strategic grantmaking, organizations should beware of taking the trend t...
Nonprofit organizations (NPOs) as mission-driven organizations could profit from investing in stocks...