Impact investing is the rapidly expanding approach to financial markets that seeks to do well and to do good. It attempts to generate positive financial and social returns.
Read More »Philanthropy, Impact Investing and the Rising Generation
Important information about trends in individual and family philanthropy is revealed by two recent studies.
Read More »Impact Investing Gets IRS Boost
Impact investing allows philanthropists to make more progress toward their charitable missions by using the engine of their philanthropically committed capital, rather than only the fumes. The IRS has just made that easier.
Read More »Brain Rehabilitation Technology Startup Intendu Attracts Impact VC Investment
Impact First Investments (IFI) announced today an investment in Intendu, an Israeli startup developing a novel technology to improve cognitive rehabilitation of people with brain dysfunction.
Read More »Israeli Impact VC Invests in Catalyst AgTech for Safer Agrochemicals
Catalyst AgTech is an Israeli company whose solution solves the conflict between the growing demand for pesticide use and the impact those chemicals have on the environment.
Read More »Program – Related Investments Key Tool for Impact Investors
Increasingly, charitable donors are interested in "impact investing" with their philanthropically committed capital.
Read More »Philanthropy: An Important Tool for Trusted Family Advisors
More than $40 trillion will be inherited over the next few decades — the largest transfer of wealth in history. Forty-five percent of spouses who inherit will seek and find a different financial adviser to manage those funds.
Read More »All Investing Is Impact Investing
Recently, philanthropic and investment leaders have come to recognize that grants and investments can have both financial returns and social impact.
Read More »Impact Investing: Putting Your Money Where Your Values Are
More than ever, investors are pondering, "Am I destroying with my left hand what my right hand is trying to save?"
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