The Bride of Christ: The 2024 Lausanne Congress
This past September, an Impact Foundation team member had the unique opportunity to attend the Fourth Lausanne Congress in South Korea.
In this blog, the author shares insights about what they saw and heard and a word of exhortation from the Conference for all believers.
Faith Driven Investor Podcast: What to Know about Donor Advised Funds
Impact Foundation co-founders Jeff Johns and Aimee Minnich talk with Richard Cunningham and John Coleman on a Faith Driven Investor Podcast about Donor Advised Funds (DAFs) and the simplicity and power of using them for impact investing.
Faith Driven Investor Podcasts offer stories from entrepreneurs and underscore how every investment makes an impact. Through the power of story, combined with best-selling authors the podcast speaks into the heart of the opportunities and challenges in front of all investors.
Welcoming Katherine Braynard to Impact Foundation
Katherine shares her business acumen with Impact Foundation as the Director of Innovation. In this role, she leads The Table investing sessions and educational opportunities for our Donor/Investors. Additionally, Katherine partners with various team members on special projects to create investment products, content, and new initiatives.
Media Update: Must-See Movies for 2024
As Senior Advisor, Media & Entertainment, Impact Foundation’s Ben Howard leads our relationships between media opportunities and our Donor/Investors.
Ben strongly believes in the power of media to help transform hearts and minds for the Gospel. Here’s an update on faith-connected media from Ben.
Invest Credit: Improving Lives Through Accessible Financial Services
A guest post from Invest Credit, one of Impact Foundation’s Portfolio Companies.
Invest Credit’s mission is to build trustworthy relationships with their clients by providing excellent financial services that empower them to realize their dreams for their businesses and families. Their vision is to spur social, financial, and spiritual transformation.
Welcome to our new team member Noelle Peck
As an Accounting Specialist, Noelle supports the Operations team with all things accounting and finance: taxes, asset management, and more. Noelle has a plethora of experience working with nonprofits (start-up and established) and other organizations implementing best practices, sustainable structures, and compliance with accounting standards.
Welcoming Jeff Ebihara to Impact Foundation
Jeff “Ebi” Ebihara serves as a Senior Advisor, building relationships with Donor/Investors and helping them steward their investments for impact. Given the plethora of “Jeffs” on our team (we’re up to 3 now), we will respectfully call him “Ebi”, his college nickname.
Solutions Series: Impact Foundation— The Generosity Now Podcast
Recently, Impact Foundation’s Aimee Minnich shared insights and lessons learned about generosity and co-founding and managing a start-up on The Generosity Now Podcast with Eric Most and Laurie Bossert.
The Generosity Now Podcast features individuals and organizations making a positive impact in our world and is “dedicated to inspiring generosity and promoting whole life stewardship among followers of Christ.”
Understanding the IRS Hearing on Proposed Changes to Donor Advised Funds
Proposed legislation by the IRS may mean changes for donor advised funds and charitable giving. Read how Impact Foundation is participating in the discussion. (Left: Aimee Minnich and Greg Mauldin, NCF General Counsel.)
Journey of Generosity: Generosity Now Podcast
Recently, Impact Foundation’s Senior Ambassador, Dana Wichterman, shared her "Journey of Generosity" with Eric Most and Laurie Bossert on their Generosity Now Podcast.
The Generosity Now Podcast features individuals and organizations making a positive impact in our world and is “dedicated to inspiring generosity and promoting whole life stewardship among followers of Christ.”
What We Learned Investing $500 Million
In the last few months, we hit a milestone: investing $500M of charitable capital into companies in 54 countries who aim to create social, economic, and spiritual transformation within their organizations and communities. We also celebrated our eighth birthday as Impact Foundation.
As Mark Twain said: “All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.” The past 8 years have been full of learning: some lessons came easily, others were hard-earned. Allow us to share a few with you.
Welcoming new team member, Ray Jarrett
Ray Jarrett serves at Impact Foundation as a Products & Services Ambassador. He guides our donor/investors as they make transformational investments with their Impact Accounts.
Welcome new Impact Foundation team member, Neil Ahlsten
Neil brings his experience in venture capital and technology to Impact Foundation to help founders and investors work together to create exceptional businesses that share the gospel, make disciples, and create a God-honoring culture.
Welcoming Geoffrey Morsman to the Impact Foundation Team
Geoffrey brings his detailed accounting skills and background in banking and investing to Impact Foundation to serve as Assistant Financial Controller. His passion for people, serving, knowing, and helping them makes him a great fit for the team.
Welcome to The Table: Learning and Investing for Transformation
As women investors become a growing impact investment segment, Impact Foundation is piloting a new series, The Table, for women to gather, learn, ask questions, and invest charitable capital together.
Reforming Education and Supporting Educational Equity
Using mentoring, coaching, and urban education reform, Clever Characters empowers adults who impact children—parents, school staff, and community-based mentors.
They strive to help adults support the social-emotional and mental health of students, through training experiences and short educational videos.
The Gift of Being Mentored
As someone who is usually called upon for expert advice or to solve complicated problems, it has been such a blessing to invested in by a successful, seasoned business leader. I met Grif through Ardent Mentoring and I highly recommend their services. Co-founded by Lloyd Reeb and Ryan King, Ardent connects social entreprenuers to world-class mentoring.
Transformational Prayer: A Personal Journey
PRAYR is more than just a faith tool—it's an avenue for building strong Christ-centered communities. Ministries are excited to use PRAYR to rally their members, coordinate efforts, and provide consistent peer-to-peer support where you know you are being lifted in prayer. It streamlines communication and facilitates groups, ensuring that prayers remain prominent and those who are in need are never forgotten.
Peregrine Turbine Technologies
Peregrine's technological innovations bring real value to the power decentralization effort across the globe, and the company believes that distributed generation is the model of the future.
Providing Hope for Education: Hartwell University
In 2021, after prayer, research, and development, Matthew Flippen and a team of expert educators launched Hartwell University, an affordable, online private Christian University to address teacher shortages.
Hartwell is equipping, encouraging, and preparing a growing number of future educators.