Good businesses have access to sufficient, affordable capital to grow their impact.
Mission Driven Finance launched in 2016 to fill the gap between philanthropy and traditional investments.
This space, known as “impact investing,” faces many challenges such as complicated structures, uncommon underwriting, high transaction costs, and a need for technical assistance.
With the right mechanisms – and the right partners – we CAN accelerate positive social change.
We look for investment opportunities that radically grow the impact of an organization, rather than financing working capital. The most exciting investments are complex, multi-party capital stacks that only come together with an intermediary like Mission Driven Finance connecting the puzzle pieces.
There is a solution to every problem, it just takes getting the right set of partners working together. We develop solutions from a team perspective and include external partners and their strengths in this process.
We believe that an equitable economy is just, morally imperative, and more sustainable than traditional structures. Accordingly, we incentivize equitable business practices and our team invests time in supporting clients with barriers to capital to become investment ready.
We strive to avoid the profit-above-all motives that have led to issues in traditional finance. We believe results are better when investors, borrowers, and intermediaries are all aligned and have a mutual understanding of their respective goals.
In addition to being complex, financial management and program evaluation can be quite dry and uninviting. To the extent possible, we try to make impact investing fun.
