Future Returns: Using Foundation Guarantees to Unlock Capital
This article from Barron’s highlights CIGP’s role as a ready-made, guarantee-based solution for rebuilding communities.
Read the full article here: https://www.barrons.com/articles/future-returns-using-foundation-guarantees-to-unlock-capital-01591728993
Loan Guarantees
Catherine Covington of MCE Social penned a blog article on how foundations can use loan guarantees to leverage more of their balance sheets towards their missions.
Read the full article here: https://www.confluencephilanthropy.org/Loan-Guarantees
Foundations: Use Your Balance Sheet to Help
Mark Kramer, Co-Founder and Managing Director of FSG, explains how foundations can use guarantees to provide relief from the impacts of COVID-19.
Read the full article here: https://www.fsg.org/blog/foundations-use-your-balance-sheet-help
The Hidden Power of Guarantees in Community Development Finance
Next city examines the potential for financial guarantees to be leveraged as tools for impact in underserved communities.
Read the full article here: https://nextcity.org/daily/entry/the-hidden-power-of-guarantees-in-community-development-finance
Mission, Money And Markets: A Needed Piece of Community Development Infrastructure, the 'Guarantee Bank'
Kimberlee Cornett, former managing director of The Kresge Foundation’s Social Impact Practice, discuses building a new infrastructure for community impact and investment using guarantees.
Read the full article here:https://kresge.org/content/mission-money-markets-needed-piece-community-development-infrastructure-guarantee-bank
Mission, Money And Markets: Making 'Cents' of Guarantees, the View from a CIO
Rob Manilla, The Kresge Foundation’s Chief Investment Officer, explains how foundations can utilize guarantees for impact.
Read the full article here: https://kresge.org/content/mission-money-markets-making-cents-guarantees-view-cio
The Power of the Guarantee
When it comes to impact investing, a financial guarantee is a tool that can make powerful change happen in communities, without requiring investors to part with cash upfront — or maybe ever. This video from the Kresge Foundation examines this special, yet underutilized tool.
Scaling the Use of Guarantees in U.S. Community Investing
The Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN) investigates in-depth the application, benefits, and scalability of financial guarantees in impact investing.
View full article and download report here: https://thegiin.org/research/publication/guarantees-issue-brief