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Impact Investing
Capital for Justice: Spurring On Impact Investing for Racial Equity
How one foundation is building on a 50-year history of impact investing to unlock more capital and more justice toward greater equity, progress, and prosperity.
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Impact Investing
Diversity and Inclusion: Turning Shared Value into Shared Success
A look at how one financial services organization is using an integrated impact investing approach to support diversity and economic inclusion.
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Impact Investing
Creating Opportunity for Communities of Color Through Entrepreneurship
Supporting and strengthening small business owners can help increase economic opportunity in communities of color, building family and community wealth.
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Impact Investing
Building an Inclusive Economy by Supporting Entrepreneurs of Color
The US economy must change so that all Americans can shape its direction and benefit from its growth. Foundations can help lead the way through investment.
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Foundations
Equity for Native American Communities: Using Mission Investments Alongside Grants
How building relationships with Native communities can lead to economic and culturally grounded social impact for the long term.
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Foundations
Aligning Purpose and Investments: Why Are You Stuck?
The case for racial equity is clear, and hundreds of resources are available to help foundations get started. So why does organizational change continue to move slowly?
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Impact Investing
Impact Investing for Educational Progress
Investing in innovative entrepreneurs can make high-quality education and training more widely available, especially among poorly served racial and ethnic groups.
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Impact Investing
Five Practices for Developing and Staying Accountable to Racial Equity Goals
How an intention to address racial equity can influence institutional impact investing strategy.
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Foundations
Using All Our Tools to Advance Equity in the South and Beyond
Repairing the damage done by centuries of systemic racism demands an “all-of-the-above” approach.
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Foundations
Expanding Opportunity in the Capital Markets Through Racial Equity
Why investors need to deploy both grant capital and investment capital to create pathways for equitable opportunity.
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Foundations
Impact Investing and Racial Equity: Foundations Leading the Way
Foundations are deploying a wide range of impact investing strategies to advance racial equity in the United States.
How Foundations Are Using Impact Investing to Advance Racial Equity
Racial inequity is inextricably connected to nearly every social challenge that philanthropy seeks to address. Quality healthcare. Affordable housing. Access to a better education. Participation in a just economy. These are just some of the challenges that disproportionately affect people of color and are central to the mission-driven work undertaken by foundations.
Foundations and their partners have been fighting for racial equity for decades through grantmaking and advocacy. But the time has come for them to put an additional tool—impact investing—to work in advancing these goals. Indeed, as the impact investing field continues to grow, it is important to ensure that racial equity is at the center of the movement, an integral element of impact.
In this series, presented in partnership with Mission Investors Exchange, 10 foundation presidents share their organization’s efforts to embed commitments to racial equity into their institutions and impact investing practices. Articles explore impact investing strategies grounded in uprooting racial inequity and bias, as well as examining who controls and receives capital as it flows among asset holders, asset managers, intermediaries, investees, and the ultimate users of products or services. Foundations’ diverse efforts remind us that, along the many different roads to change, there are scores of ways to pursue racial equity.
The series opens with introductions by Mission Investors Exchange CEO Matt Onek and W.K. Kellogg Foundation President La June Montgomery Tabron. Along with other contributors, they hope to further dialogue on how to deepen the connection between racial equity and impact investing, and to provide concrete models that can inspire others to act.