To improve the quality of life in Newaygo County. The Board of Trustees of Fremont Area Community Foundation (Community Foundation) believe the time has come to begin expanding and exploring additional options. We have been discussing how to leverage the power of our endowed assets beyond grant making through the expansion of Program Related Investments (PRIs) and the use of Impact Investing tools.
FEG's mission is to "Empower our clients to achieve their goals through superior investment performance, objective insights, and research". We are an independently-owned advisory firm that provides investment consulting, outsourced chief investment officer (OCIO), and research services to predominantly institutional clients, such as university endowments, private and public foundations, community foundations, religious organizations, and healthcare institutions. FEG developed the Responsive Investing Solutions Exchange (RISE), as a partnership with our clients to provide investors seeking both financial and social gains the opportunity to align their portfolios with their own unique goals.
The Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation supports arts, education, environment, informed communities, and poetry to connect communities and influence social change to achieve an equitable New Jersey.
The Foundation’s local impact investing program allows the Foundation to:
• Develop a new tool that can promote community development;
• Broaden the community’s existing perception of the Foundation – as a community leader and grant maker – to include its new role as investor;
• Activate more existing assets and develop opportunities for residents and partners to leverage capital in support of local projects.
Promoting sustainable agriculture in the face of climate change and supporting other important causes.
From OMA:
The foundation focuses on supporting sustainable agriculture and food systems projects, while also supporting women's reproductive rights and other important causes, including environmental protection, arts and identity, natural disaster relief and social justice.
Impact Charitable unites catalytic philanthropists with community partners, financial institutions, foundations, social enterprises, and governmental bodies. As an Impact Capital Catalyst, Impact Charitable unlocks and accelerates capital that sparks positive change. We move more money, in more ways, to more people and places.
The Impact Evaluation Lab brings clarity and accountability to impact investors, aligning impact investment strategies with traditional capital-markets expectations so the impact sector can scale with integrity and become a trusted part of mainstream finance.
Through our flagship tools, the Impact Authenticity Score and the Impact Navigator, the Impact Evaluation Lab provides assessments of mission alignment, impact execution and financial performance to identify funds which deliver on their impact commitments. Developed in partnership with leading impact organizations, fund managers and asset owners, the IEL tools provide practical, actionable insight and analyses for fund managers and asset owners, empowering confident allocation decisions in the impact investing sector.
Our mission is to provide the tools and develop the trust that is required by all asset owners and investors to enable impact investing to fulfill its potential as part of the core architecture of global financial markets.
