A powerful reminder of the transformative potential of impact investing to drive real change from award-winning filmmaker Ava DuVernay at the 2024 National Conference closing plenary, Empowering Change through Impact Investing. #MissionInvest2024 https://lnkd.in/g8S_XnMS
Mission Investors Exchange
Philanthropic Fundraising Services
New York, NY 5,801 followers
The leading impact investing network for foundations, philanthropic asset owners, and their partners.
About us
Mission Investors Exchange (MIE) is the leading impact investing network for foundations and philanthropic asset owners dedicated to deploying capital for social and environmental change. With over 250 organizational members, MIE leverages its expertise and resources to provide foundations with the education, inspiration, and connections to align more assets to mission. Members rely on MIE and each other for best practices, new investment opportunities, deal partnerships, and innovations in the practice of impact investing around the world. A pioneer in the field, MIE was founded in 2005 by a group of funders interested in new ways to use their capital for impact, including the Annie E. Casey, Ford, George Gund, Heron, MacArthur, David and Lucile Packard, Prudential and Rasmuson Foundations and the Meyer Memorial Trust. Join us: www.missioninvestors.org.
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https://www.missioninvestors.org
External link for Mission Investors Exchange
- Industry
- Philanthropic Fundraising Services
- Company size
- 11-50 employees
- Headquarters
- New York, NY
- Type
- Nonprofit
- Founded
- 2005
- Specialties
- Impact investing, Philanthropy, Mission investing, MRI's, Sustainability, and Foundations
Locations
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Primary
417 5th St
8th Floor
New York, NY 10016, US
Employees at Mission Investors Exchange
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Melanie Audette
Senior Vice President @ Mission Investors Exchange | Impact Investing
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Dan Goldberg
Director of Program Management at Mission Investors Exchange
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James Wahls
Senior Vice President, Programs and Initiatives, Mission Investors Exchange; Managing Director, Revolve Fund
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Matt Onek
Chief Executive Officer at Mission Investors Exchange
Updates
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A throwback to our #MissionInvest2024 x ImpactAlpha partnership, where Erika Brice of The Kresge Foundation explored the reasons why #impactinvesting should focus in on HBCUs: "The imperative for expanding access to affordable capital to HBCUs is clear, and there is a significant role for CDFIs in addressing these inequities. The Brilliance Fund is one way forward, and it’s a way forward that we expect to bring both financial and social returns." Read more: https://lnkd.in/e7em89gT
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Mission Investors Exchange reposted this
“Greater transparency drives greater impact.” We are delighted and honored to share Outcomes that Matter — our first-ever Impact Report, which outlines our accomplishments and future directions to achieve people-centered impact. https://lnkd.in/dKpMmSsr
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📰 The latest: Daniel Heimpel (Good River Partners) and Scott Koch (Reissa Foundation) co-author an article for MIE about their Dine-Around at #MissionInvestors2024 back in May, where conference attendees visited one of the most exciting youth housing projects in Los Angeles: Los Angeles Room & Board's Dunamis House. Read more from Daniel and Scott about the key takeaways from this Dine-Around event surrounding ending the foster care to homelessness pipeline in Los Angeles: https://lnkd.in/egnwqeBE Thank you again to our Dine-Around sponsors: Conrad N. Hilton Foundation Reissa Foundation The Kresge Foundation The Ralph M. Parsons Foundation
Investing to End the Foster Care to Homelessness Pipeline
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Powerful advice from Jim Casselberry, CEO and Co-Founder, Known Holdings and Board Chair of Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator (LACI) at the 2024 National Conference Impact in Action site visit with the LACI. #MissionInvest2024 https://lnkd.in/g8S_XnMS
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Valerie Red-Horse Mohl, CEO of Red-Horse Financial Group, on the urgency of adapting to a changing landscape during the conference breakout: Implementing Diverse Manager Strategies in an Evolving Landscape. #MissionInvest2024 https://lnkd.in/g8S_XnMS
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Calling the tasks ahead “good challenges,” Climate United CEO Beth Bafford said grant recipients, including Climate United, were “rapidly coordinating partnerships across sectors, bringing communities and capital providers together in new ways,” and fielding requests from businesses, communities and individuals “looking to take advantage of this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.” Beth Bafford spoke at length about the EPA's $27 billion in federal climate grants at #MissionInvestors2024 back in May 🙌 https://lnkd.in/eC2wsy9b
Green bank and community lending plans shift into high gear with release of $27 billion in federal climate grants
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From Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors: 5️⃣ Ways to Approach Impact Investing 🙌 ✅ Seek clarity on risks and rewards. ✅ Know what you own. ✅ Widen your aperture. ✅ Listen. ✅ Don’t set it and forget it. Read more via Kiplinger: https://lnkd.in/eAChE8h9
Five Ways to Approach Impact Investing
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Check out this great NYC event from our friends at MIT Solve!
We’re excited to announce the finalists for our 2024 Global Challenges! From this pool of 68, we will select 30 solutions to join our 2024 Solver Class and pitch their solutions live at Solve Challenge Finals on September 23 in New York City. Meet the finalists https://hubs.li/Q02JBxHw0
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Our MIE members The California Endowment, The California Wellness Foundation, and Weingart Foundation are doing some transformative work with being "All-In" with their endowments, ensuring that every investment their institution owns or deploys is, "in some way, serving the purpose of our respective missions in the community. " Together, all these foundation have about 6️⃣ billion dollars in assets. Five percent amounts to $300 million earmarked as grants to nonprofits — and they've pledged to direct their remaining $5.6 billion toward the mission. Read more from Institutional Investor: https://lnkd.in/gBvvKMYi
California Endowments Are ‘Breaking With the Status Quo — And You Should Too’
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