Our cause-based solutions provide you with the opportunity to fuel the collective work of many charities all addressing the same issues. Your tax-deductible donation is pooled with others to help achieve wide-reaching effects and the opportunity to get a return on your donation.

These four characteristics help define credible social impact donations and investing:

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  Intentionality

  A donor’s intention to have a positive social or environmental impact through donations that are essential to the causes.

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  Donations with Return Expectations

  Impact donations are expected to generate a financial return on capital or, at minimum, a return on capital.

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  Range of Return Expectations and Asset Classes

  Impact donations target worldwide causes and the impact as well as financial returns that range from below market (sometimes called concessionary) to risk-adjusted market rate, and can be made across asset classes, including but not limited to cash equivalents, fixed income, venture capital, and private equity.

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  Impact Measurement

  A hallmark of social impact donating is the commitment of the investor to measure and report the social and environmental performance and progress of underlying donations, ensuring transparency and accountability while informing the practice of social impact investing and building the field.