The mission of Impact Investing Think Tank (IITT) is Unleashing More Capital for Good. A program of the Phillips Foundation, IITT convenes and educates investors on the topic of impact investing through speaker series, seminars, workshops and its online hub of curated information and resources. For more information, please email IITT@phillipsfdtn.org.
Our Impact Fellows program invites eligible MBA and MPA students to join Phillips Foundation for a summer term, academic year or both to experience impact investing in action. Prior fellows include an MBA candidate from UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business and an MPA student in the School of Public and International Affairs at North Carolina State University. Impact Fellows have continued on to positions at organizations like the Southeastern Council of Foundations and the DRK Foundation. For more information, please email info@phillipsfdtn.org.
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With the backing of our Mission-Related Investment (MRI), this jewelry brand and social enterprise doubled the number of women it employed in Uganda, launched into its first department store, and secured an additional round of growth capital to support continued scaling.
The Foundation made a Program-Related Investment (PRI) in the form of credit enhancement to secure bank financing for building renovations that would increase operational capacity and sustainable earned revenue for this Downtown Greensboro attraction and artist-in-residency program.
We provided a Mission-Related Investment (MRI) to support MCE’s Global Economic Opportunity Notes. MCE’s central focus is to make loans to financial institutions that help people living in poverty in developing nations. Approximately 71 percent of the beneficiaries are women who use the financial services to build assets and start businesses.
As a short-term cash management strategy, the Foundation cycles grant capital through RSF’s 90-day Social Investment Fund prior to annual grant distributions. These assets are loaned to social enterprises around the world. RSF has administered over $300 million in loans since 1984 in the areas of food and agriculture, education and the arts, ecological stewardship, and social finance.
We allocated a portion of our fixed-income portfolio to Self-Help through its Women & Children Term Certificate offering, which finances facilities for charter schools and helps women open their first savings accounts, buy a home, afford childcare or start a business. As a CFDI, Self-Help also loans to sustainable businesses including solar farms, recycling businesses, ecotourism, bike shops and more.