Leading Impact Investors and Philanthropists Convene for Mission Investors Exchange 2024 ...

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Ava DuVernay financed her latest film with money from the Giving Pledgean initiative of the California Endowment, the largest US foundation to commit its entire $4 billion portfolio to social and environmental causesand on May 9, she'll discuss the film's funding model with Miguel A.

Santana, president and CEO of the California Community Foundation, at the Mission Investors Exchange 2024 National Conference.

The conference, which will be the first in Los Angeles, will focus on "investing in social and environmental change at a time when the field of impact investing is growing rapidly," according to a press release.

"The time is now for philanthropy to boldly and resolutely assert its leadership in service of full economic inclusion and shared prosperity for all across this nation," says Robert K.

Ross, president and CEO of the California Endowment.

Other speakers at the conference will include Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, Mellody Hobson, co-CEO of Ariel Investments, and Jay Brown, co-founder and vice chairman of Roc Nation.

"As we collectively push for social and environmental change, there has never been a more crucial moment to bring together the leading impact investors and philanthropists into one city," says Matt Onek, president and CEO of MIE.

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