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Mission-related investing
French foundations make social investment fact-finding visit to the UK
A delegation of 17 French foundations professionals – all members of the French Foundations Centre (Centre Français des Fonds et Fondations – CFF) – spent three days in London this summer to review the social …
So is it best to invest?
Right now lots of people are talking about social investment. We are being flooded with reports about the size of the market, the government’s desire to stimulate it and funders are increasingly thinking ‘so what …
Interview with Buzz Schmidt
The F B Heron Foundation was established in 1992 with the mission of ‘helping people and communities to help themselves’. Although not the largest foundation by endowment, it has gained a strong reputation in the …
Mission-related investing – encouraging news from Germany
The short story: Mission-related investing (MRI) has a much bigger potential than many foundation practitioners thought in the past. The other good news is that financial and legal experts have shown in a report that more …
Crossing the mountains and building the bridges between NGOlandia and Bizworld
Although Salzburg Global Seminar says it likes to do things a little differently to most convening spaces – bringing together ‘all of the pieces of the jigsaw’ to solve ‘globally interactive problems’ creatively, as program …
Mission-related investing: a cautionary tale
Always eager to find ways to leverage their assets while advancing their organizational mission, foundations increasingly are turning to a new tool in the grantmaking toolbox: mission-related investments (MRIs) – i.e., investing a portion of …
CAN experience suggests providing shared office space for non-profits a good MRI strategy for funders
In the difficult times since the financial crisis struck, there has been much talk of non-profits collaborating, even merging – and suggestions that funders should be supporting them in this process. A press release (see …
Make-up of foundation boards crucial to decisions about investment
More than 80 per cent of 105 foundations that lost between 30 and 100 per cent of their assets to Bernard Madoff’s Ponzi scheme had fewer than five trustees serving on their boards. This was …
