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Using Impact Investing to Create a Sustainable Greater GoodUsing Impact Investing to Create a Sustainable Greater Good

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What’s the historical model of investing and impact?  Investments produce a return and, separately, social impact was made with distributions through foundations.  Today that’s changing.  With social or impact investing, there’s a melding of the two.  Impact investments are made for a “double or triple bottom line” effect while also producing risk/reward return.

And it’s not all done within a foundation.  As JP Morgan for the Global Impact Investing Network reported on Jan. 7, 2013 in their “Perspectives on Progress, The Impact Investor Survey,” family offices, pension funds, endowments, banks, investment managers and individuals are increasingly making impact investments, which are driven by philanthropic intent. From 2012 to 2013, surve...

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About the Authors

Sharna Goldseker

Managing Director

www.2164.net

Sharna Goldseker has sixteen years of experience in the non-profit sector including thirteen in the philanthropic field as a grantmaker and as a consultant to families, foundations and advisors on next generation and multigenerational engagement in philanthropy and family enterprise.

 

Sharna is Managing Director of 21/64, a non-profit consulting division of the Andrea and Charles Bronfman Philanthropies specializing in next generation and multi-generational strategic consulting for families. In that capacity, Sharna facilitates Grand Street, a network of a hundred 18-35 year olds who are or will be involved in their family's philanthropy; speaks and consults on generational transitions using 21/64'suniquely developed tools; and, trains other advisors on 21/64's approach to multigenerational engagement.

Sharna earned a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Pennsylvania with majors in Urban Studies and Religious Studies. She has a Masters in Public Administration in Non-Profit Management from New York University's Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service where she was the inaugural Charles H. Tenney Fellow. She also has training in organizational development, group dynamics and family systems.

Sharna currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Council on Foundations and the Goldseker Foundation and is a member of the Collaboration for Family Flourishing.

John Hoover

John Hoover is the Chief Financial Officer of the Andrea and Charles Bronfman Philanthropies and Managing Director of Chasbro Investments, a family office.