Mission-Aligned Investing 101
A decade ago, I met a fellow foundation director, Laura Kind McKenna, who said to me: “Because the UnTours Foundation endowment is 100% mission-aligned, you should evangelize about that.” I didn’t have a clue what she was talking about! I told her that we didn’t have an endowment, only a Loan Fund to which she […]
Teamwork Makes the Dream Work: BTS of our MAI Short Film
June 7, 2023 by Rich Hoffmann of 215 Timelapse, the creator of our new MAI short film, Dollars That Make Sense I’ve taken on all sorts of projects over the years, pushing out of my comfort zone and trying my hand at new methods and in different industries. While I enjoy learning as I go, […]
Elizabeth Killough on the Off the Sideline Podcast: Mission-Aligned Investing
The Untours Foundation’s longtime director Elizabeth Killough recently sat down with Technical.ly Assistant Editor Stephen Babcock to talk about impact investing for the Off the Sideline podcast. She spoke about mission-aligned investing, and how the Untours Foundation invests its endowment to fund solutions to real word problems. The Untours Foundation is leading the movement and […]
Elizabeth writes about “risky” business
Our director, Elizabeth, was invited to write a piece about impact investing and risk, a specialty of the Untours Foundation since its inception. The Untours Foundation has no endowment, but rather directly invests in businesses that are doing good, solving problems, creating good jobs for those who need them most while helping the planet. […]
Getting Past Inertia: Ten Simple, Valiant Steps To Align Your Foundation’s Endowment With Your Mission – Or Not
Huff Post blog by Untours Foundation Director Elizabeth Killough There’s a lot of judgment these days about your endowment. You use it only to grow more money when it could be doing that and much more. I admit to my own judgment and perhaps you can face up to yours. You inherited a 100-year old […]
