April 1, 2019 Mission Investing
He shows how and why funders should invest more in Native communities. Kevin Walker’s blog “Equity for Native American Communities: Using Mission Investments Alongside Grants” was posted today in the Stanford Social Innovation Review (SSIR) as part of a blog series...
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October 8, 2018 Mission Investing
NWAF Program Director Karla Miller has almost 15 years of PRI experience and shares how an investment with Montana & Idaho Community Development Corporation (CDC), now MoFi, led to insights that foundations and CDFIs can use to better assess when and how to take...
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July 10, 2018 Mission Investing
Our mission investments complement grantmaking to impact community change in our region of eight states and 75 Native nations. Through mission investing, we’ve advanced our mission in ways that go beyond grantmaking to put resources from our endowment to work for the...
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June 8, 2018 Mission Investing
We’ve been excited to team up with HCAP Partners over the past few years to create social and economic returns through our mission investments. HCAP has a targeted approach towards improving job quality standards for its portfolio companies: HCAP Partners’ Gainful...
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May 23, 2018 Mission Investing
You hear a lot about our grantmaking, but historically, we’ve set aside 5 percent of our assets for grantmaking activities. One way we’re using the other 95 percent is to make investments that deliver economic and social returns for our communities, which we call...
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April 3, 2018 Mission Investing
Check out this Philanthropy Northwest blog post with our investment director Amy Jensen. She talks about our mission investments with HCAP Partners, Stone Arch Capital, and others to advance good jobs and financial capability through more than $40M of investments....
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