Mission Investing

Maximizing Impact: An Integrated Strategy for Grantmaking and Mission Investing in Climate Change

Mark Kramer, Adeeb Mahmud, Serah Makka

Philanthropists can dramatically increase their impact by linking their mission investing approaches with their grantmaking strategies.

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Promoting Philanthropy in Luxembourg

Marc Pfitzer, Mike Stamp

Financial institutions in Luxembourg have found ways to both improve the philanthropic environment and benefit their business.

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A Brief Guide to the Law of Mission Investing for U.S. Foundations

Mark Kramer, Anne Stetson

Laws governing mission-investing are complex.  These guides analyze U.S. laws for these investments and recommend ways to navigate them.

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Risk, Reward, and Social Impact: Demystifying the Law of Mission Investing by U.S. Foundations

Mark Kramer, Anne Stetson

A comprehensive analysis of the legality of mission investing, examples from leading foundations of mission investing in practice, and practical recommendations to foundations and their advisors to facilitate mission investing within the framework of the law. 

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Aggregating Impact: A Funder's Guide to Mission Investment Intermediaries

Mark Kramer, Sarah Cooch

This guide to mission investment intermediaries highlights the range of intermediaries available and the advantages they offer funders.

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Toolkit

The Power of Strategic Mission Investing

Mark Kramer, Sarah Cooch

To foster dramatic change, foundations need a fundamentally different approach to mission investing: making mission investments that complement grantmaking.

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Compounding Impact: Mission Investing by U.S. Foundations

Sarah Cooch, Mark Kramer

This report provides the first comprehensive analysis of mission investing by 92 U.S. foundations representing $2.3B of mission investments.

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Executive Summary

Investing for Impact - Managing and Measuring Proactive Social Investments

Mark Kramer, Sarah Cooch

PSIs can simultaneously deliver measurable social benefits and attractive rates of return.

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Foundations Don't Understand What it Means to Take Risks

Mark Kramer

Risk isn't necessarily bad. In fact, the goal should not be to eliminate it, but to understand it, mitigate it through grant design where possible, and to match the level of risk taken to the importance of the associated results.

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