How much is your financial return discounted by your mission investment strategy?'
A New Approach – Like other American foundations, The F. B. Heron Foundation has for years focused on helping families at the bottom of the economic and social scale —
Today we’re hearing from others in the field on the tricky relationship between impact and risk.
In writing this monograph, our main goal is to provide impact investors with tools to tighten the link between their investment decisions and impact creation.
Putting investment portfolios to work for the greater good can unlock opportunity in marginalized communities, especially those with substantial minority or low-income populations. Equity Advancing Equity frames some of the possibilities for the growing practice of mission investing and captures the momentum of a dozen community foundations that are leading the way.
This executive summary provides an overview of impact investing and how leaders could accelerate its evolution and increase its ultimate impact in the world.
The strategic investment of university endowment funds can improve the quality of life in communities throughout the United States and beyond. This handbook is a guide for college and university administrators, trustees, finance committee members, and all other university stakeholders interested in developing and implementing community investment policies for the institution's endowment.
An essay by Heron Board Chairman, William M. Dietel.