Opinion

Trustee's column: Why is MCI so hard for some foundations?

James Brooke Turner
1 December 2008
Alliance magazine

James Brooke TurnerSevdalina Rukanova’s article in the September issue of Alliance describes some of the problems foundations encounter in approaching mission connected investing – MCI. The idea of an investment that ‘targets a market rate of return and also helps a foundation achieve its mission’[1] makes unarguable good sense, so why don’t more foundations snap up this win-win opportunity? I think there are four issues here.

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