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Impact Investments, Impact Investing Advisory Services
Key Takeaway
To increase the prevalence of impact-first investing with DAF capital, practitioners should get creative—designing opportunities for those interested in impact to easily put their capital to work in innovative ways.
In “Donor Advised Funds and Impact Investing: A Practitioner’s View,” published in the December 2022 edition of The Foundation Review, FJC CEO Sam Marks outlines challenges and opportunities for impact investing with DAF capital. He explores Social Finance’s market research on unlocking DAF capital to achieve social impact and the UP Fund as an example of what’s possible in the field.
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