This piece provides coverage of the Nathan Cummings Foundation’s move to invest its entire $440-million asset pool in ways that drive social change. The article highlights how this announcement follows last year’s decision by the Ford Foundation to commit up to $1 billion to impact investing over a decade, and signals that the market may continue to see more foundations make similar commitments to align their endowments with their values. The piece quotes GIIN CEO Amit Bouri, "We will continue to see more announcements like this one ... as more foundations realize that they are leaving their resources on the sidelines instead of putting all of their assets to work.”

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