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Estate Planning Definitions: Impact Investing

What is Impact Investing?

Impact investing appears to be all the rage with the tech crowd and has been growing in popularity for the last 2-3 years.  Whether or not it is the right strategy for you completely depends on what your goals are and what you have accumulated so far.

Just to be clear: Impact investing is not the same as “Charitable Giving,” which is when you endow or gift something to a charity, non-profit, or private foundation.

Impact Investing, according to Michael Drexler and Abigail Noble of the World Economic Forum, is “an investment approach intentionally seeking to create both financial return and positive social impact that is actively measured.”

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Legacy Planning: Private Foundation vs. Public Charity

We hear the term “non-profit” bandied about a lot in the news and in the community.  I believe that most people have a very specific thing in mind when they hear non-profit, but it can actually be used to refer to a few different types of organizations.

Generally, when people say and hear non-profit, they mean a public charity.  They think of something like Charity: Water, or more local to Seattle, Compass Housing Alliance.

There are a few different types of tax-exempt statuses with the IRS. [Read more…] about Legacy Planning: Private Foundation vs. Public Charity