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Supporting diverse emerging fund managers

Supporting diverse emerging fund managers

Lauren Grattan spoke on an Impact Finance Center and Boston Impact Initiative panel on how backbone organizations like Common Future and Mission Driven Finance are driving diversity, equity, and inclusion in the world of emerging managers.

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Impact(ed) podcast: Foundations with Essma Bengabsia

Impact(ed) podcast: Foundations with Essma Bengabsia

Essma Bengabsia (The Annie E. Casey Foundation) talks about the untapped power and potential of philanthropy’s approach to investing, as well as how her community and identities have led her to be an impact investor at a $3 billion foundation.

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Collaboration to Catalyze Impact

Collaboration to Catalyze Impact

Impact Charitable and Mission Driven Finance discussed how charitable capital can accelerate impact for community-rooted funds. See how this partnership can make capital more accessible.

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Letters from Lauren: May 2023

Letters from Lauren: May 2023

We wrote this North Star into the company theory of change: “Financial systems that perpetuate poverty are flipped to systems that eradicate it.” Systems change sounds really cool, but admittedly can be hard to picture. It is thrilling to see it coming into clearer focus, hopefully for you too.

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Letters from Lauren: March 2023

Letters from Lauren: March 2023

It’s a lot of fun and a lot of work reconnecting capital and community. We’re thrilled to have new teammates that are up for doing both. Please help me welcome newcomers from the last few months of busy recruiting.

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Letters from Lauren: January/February 2023

Letters from Lauren: January/February 2023

This year has started off with strange weather (certainly here in California) and many disheartening reports of violence and discord, but we still believe that centering community in finance can help change those trajectories.

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