News & Updates

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Photo by Matthew Henry.

Mission-Aligned Investing

Our Commitment to Support Diversity in the Investment Sector

3/31/20

As part of the RBF's efforts to better align our investment practices with our mission, we have set a new goal to invest 25 percent of our endowment with firms majority-owned by people of color and women.
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Mission-Aligned Investing

Reflecting on DEI in Our Investment Practices

2/13/20

Informed by a new report from the Knight Foundation, several foundations have begun to explore how we can better support diversity, equity, and inclusion in the investment space.
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Mission-Aligned Investing

Coalition of Foundations Launch the Tipping Point Fund to Scale the Impact Investing Field

12/5/19

With $12.5 million in initial funding, the TPF will begin making grants in 2020 to support the growth and integrity of impact investing.
Cover of the report Divest Invest Philanthropy—Five Years After Launch, which shows a series of wind turbines on a flat landscape.

The Croatan Institute surveyed all philanthropies that had signed the Divest-Invest pledge since 2014 for its report.

Mission-Aligned Investing

New Report Shows Divesting Foundations Can Build Value Without Sacrificing Values

10/31/19

The report surveys all philanthropies that have signed the Divest-Invest pledge since 2014.
A grid displaying the 17 Sustainable Developement Goals identified by the United Nations

Agility and the RBF elected to use the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals as a standard for categorizing ESG and impact investment metrics.

Mission-Aligned Investing

Assessing Mission-Aligned Investment Efforts: Progress and Challenges

5/13/19

In partnership with Agility and individual fund managers, the RBF seeks to develop and refine approaches to assessing the nonfinancial outcomes of our mission-aligned investing.

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