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February 2023: Upcoming Events, Membership Renewal, MIE is Hiring, and Field News
Newsletter: February 2023
We Value You: Renew Your Membership Today
Our recent member survey results clearly show how much mission-driven impact investors value the opportunities that we provide for networking and peer-to-peer education, as well as our resources and programming. And we value having you as a member!
Renew by the March 1 deadline to remain a part of our MIE family. Renewal is quick and easy, and ensures you can continue to participate in the programming we have planned for the year ahead. If you have questions, contact Zineb Touzani at [email protected].
Mission Investors Exchange creates spaces for facilitating connection and learning for our members and the wider field. Here's what's planned for the weeks ahead.
Community Foundations Winter Gathering: Alternative Vehicles for Investment in Communities February 15, 2023
1:00 PM - 2:15 PM ET
Join this informal virtual gathering to continue conversations about community foundations building separately managed vehicles and community lending pools, all with a focus on utilizing the foundation’s influence and investment capital to drive greater equity and impact than through grants alone. Other topics might include: How do you develop investment-ready opportunities that are able to leverage impact capital in order to sustain and improve social outcomes in our communities? How do you operationalize community foundation impact investing programs? What systems and tools are community foundations using, both internally and outsourced?
MIE members should log in to register. If you are not a member or not a community foundation and would like to attend, please inquire at [email protected].
Virtual Learning Opportunity: Reexamining Impact Investing Implementation for Small-Staffed Foundations February 23, 2023
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM ET
As a follow-up to our 2015 Essential of Impact Investing guide for small-staffed foundations, this VLO will look at how small-staffed foundations look for ways to start impact investing or to expand their existing investment strategies. For a small-staffed foundation, it can be tricky to know where to start given the increasingly wide range of approaches to impact investing. Join us to explore the unique opportunities and challenges for small-staffed foundations in the field of impact investing.
MIE members should log in to register. If you have questions or challenges accessing registration or are not a member and would like to join, please contact Sophia Brown at [email protected].
Health Investors Winter Gathering: A Focus on Food March 23, 2023
1:30 PM - 2:45 PM ET
Join us for an informal virtual gathering of MIE health investor members to discuss how investing can drive positive health outcomes in communities. This gathering will encourage an emphasis on access to healthy food and sustainable food systems. Specific topics might include: How does access to healthy food feature in your impact investing program? How do issues related to access to healthy food, sustainable food, and agricultural space impact quality jobs and health outcomes?
MIE members should log in to register. If you are not a member and would like to attend, please inquire at [email protected].
Highlighting the latest advancements in the impact investing field.
The MacArthur and Bush Foundations are investors in Raven Indigenous Capital Partners, supporting early and growth-stage Indigenous enterprises. A biennial impact investing report by Cambridge Associates shows an overall increase in the practice by 81% in the last four years. Nathan Cummings Foundation is expanding its impact investing activities with a sole focus on Racial, Economic and Environmental Justice (REEF). UnitedHealth Group, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and others are lead investors in the first round of the Invest Appalachia Fund, which targets community health.
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“Born in Baltimore, Equitech is a movement to define what it means to be an inclusive tech city, creating a culture of belonging in tech while unlocking economic potential. Our vision is to create the first Equitech city, a top-tier tech city where diverse entrepreneurs found transformative companies; where the tech workforce of the future is growing up in our neighborhoods; where prosperity is shared across every Zip code; and where the technologies reshaping society are born.”
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Curious about what it would take to grow investment capital in Baltimore’s startup ecosystem? That question was central to our Impact in Action site visit during the MIE National Conference and is elaborated on further in The $11 Billion Opportunity: Unlocking Capital for the Growth of Baltimore Tech, a report published this past December by UpSurge Baltimore. The report highlights the unique—and often overlooked—assets of Baltimore, and the potential for those assets to drive the acceleration of its tech economy within the decade. It also provides specific benchmarks to achieve this goal. The report is a call to action to local companies, institutions, and investors, proposing that Baltimore has the opportunity to establish a new norm, a collective commitment to align around the Equitech vision and to effectively deploy resources that drive inclusive growth. With many doing a small part, the impact on Baltimore would be transformative.
