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Evaluation of a Moving Target: Lessons from KL Felicitas Foundation’s Impact Investment Portfolio 

3/18/2016

 
by Haley Millet

The Cascadia Foodshed Financing Project periodically reviews and summarizes reports relevant to its work. Here, we discuss key takeaways from KL Felicitas Foundation’s portfolio-wide evaluation report, “Investing For Impact: Practical Tools, Lesson, and Results.”
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​After coming into wealth in Silicon Valley during the dotcom boom of the 1990s, Lisa and Charly Kleissner founded the KL Felicitas Foundation with the groundbreaking goal of developing a portfolio dedicated to social return on investment. Today they continue to refine their own portfolio and, through groups like the 100% IMPACT Network, help others achieve similar goals. But fifteen years later with investments spanning a wide variety of locales, sectors and financial mechanisms, the Kleissners wondered: how can the foundation know for sure that its investments are having the desired social impact? KL Felicitas asked charity consultant New Philanthropy Capital (NPC) to conduct a third-party impact evaluation of their investment portfolio to find out.

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