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Current Issue: Volume 14, Issue 4 (2022) Impact Investing
Thanks to the sponsorship of the Max M. & Marjorie S. Fisher Foundation and Mission Throttle, this issue is open access and free to download.Executive Summary
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Editorial
Free Access
Using Foundation Capital for Good: Opportunities in the Balance Sheet
John Sherman and Veronica Olazabal
A Promising Place-Based Collaborative Impact Investing Fund Strengthens Community and Informs Philanthropic Practice
Benjamin Kerman and Clara Miller
The Field-Building and Grantee Experimentation Role of Foundations in Impact Investing as Illustrated by a Gender-Lens Investing Case Example
Courtney Bolinson and Laura Allan
Leveraging Foundation Balance Sheets for Greater Impact: Piloting a Pooled Guarantee Program
Jane Reisman, Jim Baek, David Newsome, and Christine Ryan
The Ford Foundation’s Work to Build the Field of Impact Investing
Margot Brandenburg and Abeda Iqbal
Defining Your Double Bottom Line: Philanthropy and the Investment Landscape
Stephane Ligonde, Garrett De Temple, and Tuokpe Ajuyah
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