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.
Our goal is to future-proof your legacy. As a provider of asset management, advisory and investment banking services, our clients are unique in the market. Why? We’re a fiduciary to families and institutions led by people who believe that humanity and the planet are part of every returns equation.
We address your needs by tapping into the opportunities within the fastest-growing and most under-capitalized demographics in the world. We work with teams that others miss, where our experience tells us there’s a higher likelihood of both performance and innovation.
With residents and partners, LISC forges resilient and inclusive communities of opportunity across America – great places to live, work, visit, do business and raise families.
Silicon Valley Community Foundation advances innovative philanthropic solutions to challenging problems, engaging donors to make our region and world a better place for all. Through visionary leadership, strategic grantmaking and world-class experiences, we partner with donors to strengthen the common good locally and throughout the world. For over a decade, SVCF actively engages with donors wishing to make mission-aligned investments from their donor advised funds, and works with donor's investment advisers to achieve custom impact portfolios.
Sobrato Family Foundation uses the full array of impact investing tools to support the Foundation's mission of building a more equitable and sustainable world.
What do we mean by sustainability? We define sustainability as positive longevity, and sustainable development as meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. In order to tackle the challenge of sustainable development, both developed and developing countries will have to shift from a resource-intensive, consumption-driven, debt-dependent model of development and growth towards a more sustainable one. This means using natural and financial resources wisely and in a way that promotes long-term economic, social and personal wellbeing. How do we apply this idea to investment? We take a bottom-up, company-focused approach to sustainable investment. We look for good quality companies (management, franchise and financials) that are well positioned to meet the challenge of sustainable development and contribute towards achieving it in the countries in which they operate, be they developed or developing. We have a strong conviction that such companies face fewer risks and are better placed to deliver positive long term returns to shareholders. The investment objective of our sustainability funds is to generate attractive long-term, risk-adjusted returns for our clients by investing in companies involved in sustainable goods and services, responsible finance and required infrastructure. We are not passive investors. We recognise there is no such thing as a perfect company and believe positive engagement plays an important part in improving shareholder value and protecting the value of our client portfolios over the long-term. We engage actively with company management on a wide range of issues including alignment of interests, governance, reputation, strategy and other environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues. What do we not mean by sustainable investment? We do not screen in clean tech or green-themed companies, nor do we screen out particular sectors and companies on moral or ethical grounds. Although we do not do any formal negative screening, we are unlikely to invest in companies operating in high risk sectors such as gambling and tobacco because their long-term sustainability positioning is poor.
