Impact Investing Can Help Foundations Avoid Obsolescence

I am pleased to share a new op-ed I have written with Bill Burckart on impact investing and its role in the transformation of philanthropy.

https://philanthropy.com/article/Opinion-Impact-Investing-Can/228569

Cutting off Capital to Mountain Top Removal

Long recognized as bad for the environment and bad for communities, mountain top removal coal mining is now being challenged by investors who are telling the banks that finance the activity to stop.  This engagement tactic has also been used with banks on other project finance activities through the Equator Principles.  

The big question is does cutting off the bank lines stop the activity?  

http://nyti.ms/1Ac6hrP

A New Twist on Social Impact Bonds to Rehabilitate Housing

The Richmond Community Foundation in California has come up with a great idea to sell SIBs to rehabilitate housing and engage Bay Area impact investors. 

http://nyti.ms/1Bc2Sx7

Peer-Pressure Philanthropy and Donor Advised Funds

Interesting article about young (and old) philanthropists and the role that DAFs can play.

http://www.newyorker.com/business/currency/peer-pressure-philanthropy