COVID-19 Resources for Small Businesses and Nonprofits

Posted by Lauren Grattan
On March 18, 2020

[Updated April 6, 2020] We’re sharing with you—our community—the same message and COVID-19 resources for small businesses and nonprofits that we provided to our active borrowers. During this challenging time, stay true to your values and support each other. None of us will come out of this unchanged. This is rapidly evolving. We will update […]

Investors, News

AdvanceHER: Unlocking Opportunities for Women and Girls in San Diego and Abroad

Posted by Tyana Smith
On March 3, 2020

In our quest to increase economic opportunity for underestimated groups, we knew we’d want to emphasize supporting women and girls. With a diverse and largely female team, empowering more women has always felt natural to us. We’ve long wanted to connect the resources and needs of our community in new intentional ways that make a […]

Investors, News

Mission Driven Finance Selected as an ImpactAssets 50 2020 Emerging Impact Manager

Posted by Wilda Wong
On February 25, 2020

ImpactAssets Releases Ninth Annual IA 50 Impact Investment Fund Manager Showcase with New Emerging Impact Category FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Press Contact: Wilda Wong | 858-880-0252 x708 | wilda@missiondrivenfinance.com (SAN DIEGO)—February 25, 2020—Mission Driven Finance has been named as an Emerging Impact Manager in ImpactAssets‘s ImpactAssets 50 2020 (IA 50), a publicly available, online database […]

Investors

How One San Diego Philanthropist is Using Impact Investing to Create a Better Future [Interview]

Posted by Tyana Smith
On August 28, 2019

As lead investors in our Homebuilding Investment Fund, Kara Ballester and her husband Andy were instrumental in jumpstarting our efforts to accelerate affordable housing with San Diego Habitat for Humanity. We wanted to know—what motivated Kara to invest in affordable homeownership, and what has her experience with impact investing been like? We like to kick […]

Investors, Resources

How Can We Make Investing in Our Community a Great Investment? Flip the Traditional Finance Model on Its Head.

Posted by Tyana Smith
On July 22, 2019

When we first launched Mission Driven Finance, we developed the Advance Fund with one primary question in mind: how can we make investing in our community a great investment? The answer we found is to reimagine and reinvent finance to put the community’s needs first. We discovered incredible businesses and nonprofits committed to their communities […]

Borrowers, Investors, News

New Financing Model Unlocks Millions to Build Affordable Homes

Posted by Tyana Smith
On May 16, 2019

Investors in non-traditional fund address San Diego’s housing crisis (San Diego)—May 16, 2019—Today, Mission Driven Finance announces that investors have contributed more than $1 million to a revolutionary fund that will support the construction of affordable homes for low-income families. Investors concerned about the region’s housing crisis contributed to Mission Driven Finance’s Homebuilding Investment Fund […]

Investors, News

Legacy Arts: Intentional Impact Investing

Posted by Lauren Grattan
On October 17, 2018

We were delighted to share with Legacy Arts Magazine how impact investing can support wealth managers, financial planners, and advisors to offer their clients new strategies to craft a legacy with meaning. Many charitably-minded individuals are turning to impact investing to generate real social and environmental change in their communities, while simultaneously supporting their financial […]