Impact investing: Donor-advised funds

by Helen Avery

Kathy Merchant is president and chief executive of the Greater Cincinnati Foundation, one of some 700 community foundations in the US. Like most community foundations it offers a donor-advised fund product – pools in which local individuals and families invest as part of their federal tax-deductible charitable-giving allowance. The funds are invested in balanced portfolios, and the donors can ask the community foundation to make grants to non-profit organizations when they wish.

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