The Greater Cincinnati Foundation (GCF): Impact Investing--Leverage Your Giving Now
Through your donor advised fund, you can now partner with GCF to jump-start projects key to our community’s vitality. Together, our charitable funds can leverage non-charitable financial support from other foundations, financial institutions, and private investors.
Join an exclusive group of donors to invest in local projects that will make our community a more vibrant place to live and work, creating more opportunity for everyone while “recycling” your charitable capital to use with other projects. It’s an alternative to investing in the stock market that directly benefits our community.
Find out more about the social returns of our Impact Investing program. [PDF]
More about impact investing at GCF
- Impact Investing Overview [PDF]
- Impact Investing Frequently Asked Questions [PDF]
- Impact Investing Team Profile [PDF]
Current impact investment opportunities
- Deal Overview: Homeless to Homes Facilities: Cincinnati Center City Development Corporation (3CDC) – Single Men’s Shelter Second Investment [PDF]
- Short summary of Open and Closed Impact Investing Deals (February 2015)
Previous impact investments
The following are for information only. These deals are now closed:
- Deal Overview: Catalytic Development Funding Corporation of Northern Kentucky [PDF]
- Deal Overview: Cincinnati Center City Development Corporation (YMCA's women's shelter)[PDF]
- Deal Overview: CincyTech Fund III [PDF]
- Deal Overview: Community Health Centers Financing Fund [PDF]
- Deal Overview: Greater Cincinnati Energy Alliance [PDF]
- Deal Overview: Home Ownership Center of Greater Cincinnati [PDF]
- Deal Overview: Home Ownership Center of Greater Cincinnati II [PDF]
- Deal Overview: Homeless to Homes Facilities Plan Single Men's Shelter [PDF]
- Deal Overview: Minority Business Accelerator [PDF]
- Deal Overview: UpTech Fund I Class II [PDF]
Community Foundation Field Guide to Impact Investing
- Resources are available for community foundations starting an impact investment program from the Mission Investors Exchange.
Impact Investing: A 21st Century Tool to Attract and Retain Donors
- A 2012 article in Foundation Review about of GCF's impact investing offerings for donors by GCF's Amy Cheney, Robert Killins Jr., and Kathryn Merchant.