Mission Investors Exchange

📰 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

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

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

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

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

Check out this great NYC event from our friends at MIT Solve!

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

Earlier this summer at #MissionInvest2024, one of our Impact in Action sessions at the Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator (LACI) explored clean tech impact investing and other climate-related strategies. Participants toured the incubator, met with entrepreneurs, and learned about efforts to accelerate the commercialization of clean technology and job creation. 🙌 Take a look at Impact Entrepreneur's latest story from our Impact in Action session: https://lnkd.in/dd6UP574

Insightful words from Doris Duke Foundation's President & CEO Sam Gill at the day 3 plenary Unlocking All Assets for Impact at our 2024 National Conference. #MissionInvest2024 https://lnkd.in/g8S_XnMS

🙌 A great feature by ImpactAlpha of our #MissionInvest2024 plenary speaker Jahi Wise, which details how instrumental Wise was in orchestrating the $27 billion Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund, which starts rolling out any day now. "Wise was an advisor to a newly elected President Joe Biden when ideas began to take shape for a national “green bank” to spur local lending for green energy retrofits, heat pumps, community solar and other green projects. The Inflation Reduction Act, passed two years ago next week, carved out $27 billion for such a “bank,” to be overseen by the Environmental Protection Agency." Read more: https://lnkd.in/e2x-q6yS