Events
- March 27 @ 11:30am MST: The Amazing Race for Housing Webinar 2
- April 24 @11:30am MST: The Amazing Race for Housing Webinar 3
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What We’re Doing
We are planning “The Amazing Race for Housing,” which could be a playbook to solve our housing crisis structurally.
We are facing one of the greatest housing crises of our time. Even with the most significant public investments of our time, we are still in a housing crisis. While the federal government provides grants to organize angel investors for startups, there is yet to be a source of federal or state government funding to educate and organize private investors for housing, nonprofits, and businesses. Suppose federal and state governments provide incentives to create Main Street investor groups similar to angel investor groups. In that case, we will unlock the missing puzzle piece to provide the private match to invest in our housing, nonprofits, and businesses at scale.
Through this initiative, we will be working alongside the U.S Forest Service to educate investors and close an investment gap of $15M on a $90M Dillon Workforce Housing Project (even after the U.S. Forest Service provided the land; State of Colorado provided a $5M grant, and Summit County provided a $1.5M long-term investment).
We believe we can educate and organize a community of millionaires, foundations, wealthy families, and companies to co-invest in this and other projects, nonprofits, small businesses, startups, cooperatives, tandem-hybrid organizations, and funds in order to provide quality housing for those who restore our forests and fight our wildland fires.
The First Step: Identify
National Housing Financial Innovation Impact Investing Landscape Scan: Gilson Family Foundation funded Essex County Community Foundation to partner with IFC to identify 10 housing impact investing leaders engaging in impact investing. As part of this work, we interviewed and developed case studies for each of the following impact investors:
- Doug Spencer
- Erich & Hannah Sachs Foundation
- Women’s Foundation of Colorado
The Second Step: Educate
One-Day Workshop + Five Sessions: IFC offers in-person workshops for individuals and organizations to gather and explore financial innovation, full spectrum capital and impact investing in a small group format.
Webinar Series: IFC also offers online education for housing investors to learn from each other. In 2024, IFC will host 3 public webinar series to showcase the individuals and organizations that participated in the National Housing Financial Innovation and Impact Investing Landscape Scan (above).
Impact Investing Institute: Beyond live events and webinars, IFC offers access to recorded educational content on the Impact Investing Institute that impact investors can engage with at their own pace.
Courageous Capital Stewards Podcast: Dr. Steph and IFC Senior Advisors interview those housing impact investing leaders taking brave steps to align and leverage the assets they steward for their communities.
Learning Circles: IFC develops cohorts of housing investors wanting to go on a journey to learn about full spectrum capital and the IFC toolbox, which contains over 100+ tools and examples of community infrastructure.
The Third Step: Activate
The Opportunity Scan: Ready to put your newfound financial innovation, full spectrum capital and financial innovation knowledge into practice? IFC offers advisory services to support individuals and organizations to facilitate their own Opportunity Scan to source impact investments within their own philanthropic portfolio.
Design a Housing Impact Investing Strategy and Database in 5 Steps
- Map Grantee Investments: Opportunity Scan
- Map Intermediaries: National Intermediary Landscape Scan
- Map Housing Impact Investing Leaders: National Housing Financial Innovation and Impact Investing Landscape Scan
- Map Individuals, Foundations, Family Offices, and Corporations who want to invest
- Develop the strategy