December 26, 2018 General News
By Kevin Walker, President and CEO, Northwest Area Foundation Our mission compels us to keep learning, looking, and discovering ways to serve our priority communities. In May, the board and staff of the Northwest Area Foundation journeyed to the Spokane Indian...
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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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