Social Impact Investing for Sustainability
Join the Tishman Environment and Design Center to learn from the Impact Finance Center about how we can move billions of dollars into our communities one transaction at a time.
Tuesday, September 27, 2016 at 6:00 pm
University Center, U L105
63 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY
Presentations by Dr. Stephanie Gripne, founder of the Impact Finance Center, and Doug Johnson, Senior Advisor of the Impact Finance Center, will provide an impact investing overview, as well as vision to develop a national impact investing marketplace. Bring specific questions to this panel-style discussion for how you can play a role in this important movement.
Bring specific questions to this panel-style discussion for how you can play a role in this important movement!
About the speakers:
As an academic entrepreneur, philanthropic advisor, researcher, and educator in the field of impact investing, Dr. Gripne sets the vision and provides leadership for the organization. Dr. Gripne focuses on business development, client engagement, and industry thought leadership through her research, writing, and speaking.
Doug Johnson supports the Impact Finance Center in fundraising and field-building initiatives. He is the Colorado Chair of TIGER 21, a peer-to-peer learning network for successful wealth creators. Doug brings extensive experience in investor relations, coordinated fundraising activity and new business incubation having served at both Innosphere and Actuator, a program he co-founded. He currently serves on the Regional Development Committee for the Community Foundation of Northern Colorado. He earned his BA from Colorado State University.
About the Impact Finance Center
The Impact Finance Center (IFC) is one of eight academic impact investing centers that conducts research, and one of only two with transaction experience. Working with individuals, families, foundations, businesses and other experts, IFC helps build long-term, effective philanthropic strategies and actionable plans that align with philanthropists’ values. IFC accomplishes this mission through research, education, and advising and special projects such as CO Impact Days and Initiative. Forbes just featured IFC’s work, which can be found here.
In 2014, the Impact Finance Center launched CO Impact Days and Initiative, a three-year strategy designed to elevate and accelerate impact investing in Colorado. One of its objectives is to catalyze the flow of $100 million of investment capital into social ventures that deliver positive impact to the state’s communities, economy, and natural environment. CO Impact Days, March 3-4, 2016, was the first statewide marketplace for impact investing: identifying, connecting, and celebrating top social ventures. CO Impact Days sourced more than 350 Colorado social ventures – featuring Colorado’s top 60 – and hosted the area’s leading impact investors and community members in a first-of-its-kind event to Learn. Connect. Invest.
Since the event, 12 investments have been made and we have 12 sets of due diligence are underway. IFC is also helping several foundations evaluate their endowment for fees, decisions and impact, and designing governance for two private foundations.