CMF’s place-based impact investing collaboration work with members has put Michigan in the national spotlight in a series of a new briefs produced by the Urban Institute and Mission Investors Exchange (MIE).

Place-based impact investing is defined in the briefs as “the local deployment of impact capital, or investments made with the intent to yield a financial return as well as a social or environmental return.”

The series highlights work underway in Michigan, Baltimore, Chicago and New York to provide emerging lessons about the roles of foundations and other collaborators in this space. The