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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. 

  • Discounted registration for our biennial national conference and Mission Investing Institutes
  • Discounted or complimentary registration for webinars, members-only Mission Cafés, and professional development events
  • Regular member communications and newsletter
  • Access to the Member Portal, including profiles of your peer organizations
  • Special invitations to regional programming around mission investing 
  • Prioritized opportunities to sponsor our National Conference 
  • First consideration as presenters for investment opportunity forums and deals spotlights
  • Access to our library of resources, research, and news
  • Online access to and opportunity to submit sample documents, request for proposals, and templates to plan for and make mission investments (with investor permission)
  • Invitation to contribute impact investments to our online Mission Investment Database 
  • 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.

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
$1 billion or over $8,700
$500,000,000 - $999,999,999 $5,200
$100,000,000 - $499,999,999 $3,500
$50,000,000 - $99,999,999 $2,300
$0 - 49,999,999 $1,150
Sustaining membership $17,500-$100,000+

Nonprofit Annual Operating Budget For-Profit Annual Revenue dues amount
- Over $5,000,000 $5,800
Over $ 5,000,000 $2,500,000 - $4,999,999 $2,900
Below $5,000,000 Below $2,499,999 $1,150

$17,500-$100,000

Become a Sustaining Member

Mission Investors Exchange Sustaining Members are a community of foundation leaders dedicated to growing the impact investing field. They play a proactive role in leading innovation and pioneering new practices. They help to continuously enhance the platform and service offerings for the overall network.

  • Recognition in all published and online versions of Mission Investors Exchange member list
  • Logo recognition on Mission Investors Exchange website
  • Opportunities to feature case examples and news stories
  • Direct link with Mission Investors Exchange staff and communications department to coordinate the sharing of press releases, investment stories and other impact investing related content

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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Have questions about membership?

MIE is the leading impact investing network for foundations, philanthropic asset owners, and their partners dedicated to deploying capital for social and environmental change. With over 250 member organizations, MIE provides resources, inspiration, and connections that help organizations increase the scale and impact of their impact investing work. Members come to MIE and each other for best practices, new investment opportunities, deal partnerships, and innovations in impact investing around the world. Contact our Membership team to explore how we can support your work.

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