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The Conduit: Liesel Pritzker Simmons in Conversation
Conduit Impact Champion, Asha Lad, and fellow Conduit member, Liesel Pritzker Simmons, had a conversation about Liesel’s journey in impact investing.
Forbes: This Billionaire Tax Is Pro-Growth - And Common Sense
Elon Musk may not want to tweet it on Tax Day, but for America to maximize its economic growth, America’s billionaires will need to pay more in taxes.
Human Capital Innovations: Scalable and Actionable Human Performance Takeaways for HR Leaders, with Susan Githuku
In this HCI Podcast episode, Dr. Jonathan H. Westover talks with Susan Githuku about scalable and actionable human performance takeaways for HR leaders.
The Financial Times: Family offices and philanthropy: New ideas for a changing world
Philanthropy maintains tradition and brings family values to life. In a changing world, it helps a family secure its legacy – but the ways to practise philanthropy are evolving.
National Center for Family Philanthropy: Five Questions for Liesel Pritzker Simmons
Liesel Pritzker Simmons is the co-founder and principal of Blue Haven Initiative and the co-founder of IDP Foundation. Recently NCFP sat down with her to talk about her reflections on the evolution of NCFP and the field.
Capital Musings: Putting Wealth to Work for Impact
In this episode, our host, Edoardo Tancioni, interviews Liesel Pritzker Simmons, Co-Founder and Principal at Blue Haven Initiative. Liesel talks about her journey to #impactinvesting and shares tips on how investors can make wealth work for profit and for purpose.
Medium: 2018 in Review: The Craziness & The Fails
When I sat down to write this blog, I did some free word association with our portfolio company names and the events of the year. Because I’m more a math person than a words person, I used a couple of the same words over and over?—?mostly “craziness” (good crazy) and “fail” (bad crazy, oversimplified). Some companies got both, depending on the time of year.
The Economist: Impact Across All Investments
The role of family offices in building the impact investing ecosystem across the continuum.
Impact Alpha: Boston is a growing hub of global – and local – impact investing
When Jessica Brooks started at Boston Community Capital, it was one in a handful of impact investors in Boston. The kind of work the community development financial institution—now called BlueHub Capital—was doing wasn’t called impact investing then. That was 17 years ago. “Impact investing” came later.
Barron's: Using Donor Advised Funds to Invest for Impact
Donor advised funds, or DAFs, are set up by nonprofits to allow investors to make donations into an investment fund and get a tax break for a charitable contribution as the assets in these vehicles are eventually given to qualified nonprofits.
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