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Mission Investors Exchange is the leading network for foundations seeking to grow and deepen their impact investing practice. We also welcome affiliate members – asset managers, investment advisors, consultants, CDFIs, and other organizations that support foundations on their impact investing journey.
Why Join?
We offer trusted spaces and resources for members to connect, learn, and develop a robust impact investment practice.
Foundations
We work to create a welcoming community where foundations of all kinds can engage and learn.
Affiliates
Affiliate members provide mission-driven services that help impact investing programs flourish in philanthropy. Affiliates are CDFIs, asset managers, consultants, and more.
Learn About Our Members And Partners
Membership Benefits
Membership Benefits, All In One Place.
Foundations play a pivotal role in developing the impact investing field, keeping focused on mission and providing catalytic capital to attract other investors. Our foundation members are diverse in mission, size and structure.The Mission Investors Exchange staff work to build a close foundation community and share tools to help members explore new impact investment opportunities and innovations from around the world.
- Discounted registration for our biennial National Conference and Mission Investing Institutes
- Discounted or complimentary registration for webinars, members-only video conferences, and professional development events
- Regular member communications and newsletter
- Access to the Member portal, including profiles of your peer organizations and contact information for your colleagues
- Connections to consultants and other service providers
- Special invitations to regional programming around mission investing
- Access to our library of resources, research, and news
- Online access to sample documents and templates to plan for and make mission investments
- Access to recorded audio/visual presentations from past webinar trainings
- Discounts on select partner products and services including from Aeris, Alliance Magazine and the Global Impact Investing Network
Our affiliate members are non-foundation members that can provide vital services or expertise to foundations in the Mission Investors Exchange network. They come to MIE to connect with other members and contribute valuable education and resources to our network.
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Discounted registration for our biennial national conference and Mission Investing Institutes
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Discounted or complimentary registration for webinars, members-only Mission Cafés, and professional development events
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Regular member communications and newsletter
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Access to the Member Portal, including profiles of your peer organizations
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Special invitations to regional programming around mission investing
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Prioritized opportunities to sponsor our National Conference
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First consideration as presenters for investment opportunity forums and deals spotlights
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Access to our library of resources, research, and news
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Online access to and opportunity to submit sample documents, request for proposals, and templates to plan for and make mission investments (with investor permission)
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Invitation to contribute impact investments to our online Mission Investment Database
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Access to recorded audio/visual presentations from past webinar trainings
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Discounts on select partner products and services including from Aeris, Alliance Magazine and the Global Impact Investing Network.
Sustaining Members are organizations guiding the way for foundations and others in the impact investing field through innovation and pioneering new practices. By joining at this annual membership level of $16,500 to $100,000, foundations express their support of MIE's role in growing a movement committed to deep impact.
Sustaining Members receive all of the foundation member benefits described on the adjacent tab and are recognized on the MIE website and in member lists, given opportunities to feature case examples and news stories, and have a direct link with MIE staff to coordinate the sharing of press releases, investment stories, and other impact investing content.
We are proud to have the following 30 foundations as Sustaining Members of MIE:
- Annie E. Casey Foundation
- Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
- Builder's Initiative
- California Wellness Foundation
- Colorado Health Foundation
- Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta
- Conrad N. Hilton Foundation
- Doris Duke
- Ford Foundation
- George Gund Foundation
- Heron Foundation
- Kellogg Foundation
- Kresge Foundation
- Lumina Foundation
- MacArthur Foundation
- Margaret A. Cargill Philanthropies
- Max & Marjorie Fisher Foundation
- Nathan Cummings Foundation
- Northern Trust
- Northwest Area Foundation
- Packard Foundation
- Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
- Rockefeller Brothers Fund
- Rockefeller Foundation
- Sorenson Foundation
- Surdna Foundation
- The California Endowment
- The McKnight Foundation
- Walton Family Foundation
Rates
| foundation's total assets | dues amount |
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| $1 billion or over | $8,250 |
| $500,000,000 - $999,999,999 | $4,950 |
| $100,000,000 - $499,999,999 | $3,300 |
| $50,000,000 - $99,999,999 | $2,200 |
| $0 - 49,999,999 | $1,100 |
| Sustaining membership | $16,500-$100,000+ |
We must interrogate our own practices and our own way of working—if we do, we can fundamentally change philanthropy from the top down and the bottom up."
Darren Walker,
Ford Foundation
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