MISSION INVESTING
The Vermont Community Foundation believes in using its resources to help create healthy, vital Vermont communities. Along with grantmaking, donor education, philanthropic advising, and nonprofit capacity building, the VCF is exploring ways to expand its mission investments, an effort that is gaining momentum among foundations in this country. For the VCF this means being active shareholders, offering a socially responsive investment pool, investing 5% of our pooled investments in Vermont, and continuing to seek other ways to align our investments with our mission.

Mission investing is a relatively new sphere of activity for foundations, and for the next year or so we will be exploring additional options for future mission investments. This is part of our Learn. Lead. Grow. strategy: we are learning about opportunities and needs in order to lead the way and inspire other Vermont-focused institutional and individual investors to do the same. If we do this well we can continue to grow the impact of Vermont-focused giving and expand the reach of the foundation.

Read more about mission investing at the VCF.