Impact Investing Opportunities to Advance Water, Health and Equity
There is an opportunity for philanthropic impact investors to align their investment strategies with their or others’ grantmaking – and with government funding initiatives – to advance solutions to these challenges and help move towards an equitable water future.
The report’s top recommendations to philanthropies making impact investments are focused on the following:
Make an allocation to early-stage technology companies in the water arena.
Invest in intermediaries to unlock larger public funding sources for sustainable projects in historically marginalized communities.
Establish a municipal bond strategy.
These three recommendations offer strategies for impact investors to support and finance improvements in water infrastructure today. Other recommendations detailed in the report also include strategies to use grantmaking or below market loans (called program-related investments or PRIs for foundations) to support the development of projects in a pre-investment stage that could be investable in a few years.
