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Publications

This is where you will find Heron’s Publications.

Jim King

Questions We’re Asking This Week: San Joaquin Valley Edition

We’re launching a new series called “Questions We’re Asking This Week” that catalogs some of the inquiries we’re chasing in order to help people and communities help themselves.

A Quick Guide to Place-Based Investing

At Heron, we’re always looking for opportunities to better align our investments with our mission — which sometimes involves investing deliberately in specific geographies. Here is a spectrum of strategies that we look to when we are trying to invest in a specific place.

Deep Dive: The Muses Apartments Bond

The second in a series of retrospective deep dives into a broad selection of Heron’s early fixed income impact investments, featuring a mixed-income housing community in post-Katrina New Orleans.

Introduction to Net Contribution

Several years ago, we committed to aligning our entire portfolio with our mission. At the time, we thought that would mean investing in enterprises that provided family-sustaining jobs. But we quickly realized that some of the enterprises that provided good jobs might not be good, on the whole, for the people we wanted to help.

Over time, our general desire to invest first and foremost in enterprises that have a net positive impact on society (and only then layer on our specific mission) developed into the net contribution lens.

President’s Letter 2017

Heron’s president, Clara Miller, offers a look back at the past five years of the foundation and offers some lessons learned.

Field Notes: Stewarding Mission Through Risk Management

OliverWyman and SeaChange Capital Partners produce a report outlining ways to mitigate the trials of nonprofit finance.

President’s Letter: A Look Back at 2014, Part I

Heron’s President Clara Miller discusses our evolution and common myths we see in the social sector.

Thinking On: Impact Investing Meets Development Finance

Heron president Clara Miller offers lighthearted thoughts on the cultural anthropology of two groups interested in poverty solutions.