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Investing for Social Gain: Reflections on Two Decades of Program- Related Investments
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Investing for Social Gain: Reflections on Two Decades of Program- Related Investments

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A handbook on the Ford Foundation's experience with program-related investments, which are loans, guarantees, or equity investments that support the same goals as the foundation's grant programs. Includes nine case histories.

Ford Foundation
1991
64 pages


Contents
Preface
Introduction
A Museum in Harlem
A Trustee's Perspective
History
Early Pri Experience
Reorganization
The Pri Program Today
How a Pri Is Made
Managing Risk and Loss
Six Lessons
Project Profiles
Variety of Program Interests and the Pri
Variety of Structures and the Pri
Grant-Making Strategies and the Pri
Why Program-Related Investments?
Capacity-Building for Individuals and Institutions.
Enabling Nonprofit Organizations to Build Long-Term Assets.
Obtaining Project or Venture Financing.
Appendix Five-Year Financial Summary
Selected Bibliography
Strengthen democratic values, reduce poverty and injustice, promote international cooperation and advance human achievement.
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