She is a former trustee of the Yale Club of Chicago Scholarship Foundation and a past presidential appointee to the US Treasury Department Community Development Advisory Board. Schwartz currently serves on the board of directors for the Mission Investors Exchange and the International Women’s Forum - Chicago Chapter. She has been a guest lecturer at Oxford, Stanford, Harvard, Duke and other schools and was an adjunct professor at the University of Chicago for several years. Prior to joining MacArthur in 1995, Schwartz was an investment banker in public finance at John Nuveen & Co and CFO for a nonprofit child welfare agency. Since 2001, Debra and her team have invested in more than 200 funds and enterprises working in the US and globally across diverse fields, including affordable housing, community development, and clean energy. Dedicated to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world, MacArthur has allocated up to $500 million for impact investments that advance its mission by fueling innovation, growth and inclusion. Recent MacArthur investments and ongoing collaborative initiatives that seek to build a more just, equitable and resilient future, locally, nationally and globally - including the Catalytic Capital Consortium and Benefit Chicago.ĭebra Schwartz is Managing Director for Impact Investments at the MacArthur Foundation. community development finance institutions (CDFIs) trace their roots to civil rights and social justice movements of 50+ years ago and pioneering impact investors seeking to fight inequality and injustice The urgent need to transform our existing system of finance and investment to become purposefully inclusive, innovative and catalytic, actively advancing economic, social, and environmental change by being more flexible, patient and risk-tolerant
How conventional finance has fallen short for communities, families and critical needs – historically and today In this special fireside chat and audience Q&A, Impact Entrepreneur’s Laurie Lane-Zucker welcomes Debra Schwartz to discuss MacArthur’s work in building the field of impact investing and activating capital for justice. They bridge financial and market gaps to empower families, entrepreneurs and communities that mainstream financial institutions and firms too often marginalize or leave behind.” They enable innovation and rapid action to tackle urgent problems and seize opportunities for social, economic and environmental progress. They help build and fuel responsive, mission-driven institutions that meet essential needs. MacArthur Foundation, asserts that “at their best, impact investments deliver capital that aims for justice. Debra D.In a recent blog post, Debra Schwartz, Managing Director of Impact Investments at the John D. It helps fill the knowledge gap between optimism and execution.” REAL IMPACT highlights the complicated trade-offs they will face along the risk-return spectrum and offers a blueprint for market growth.
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