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Established in 1949, the Nathan Cummings Foundation is a faith-based institution rooted in the Jewish tradition of social justice with an endowment of US$ 500 million. The organization focuses on finding solutions to the climate crisis and growing inequality by providing grants to organizations in the US, Israel and others, as well as investing its endowment assets.

The Nathan Cummings Foundation has been a longstanding advocate of Responsible Investing. Not only is the organization a founding signatory to the UN PRI, it also provides grants to initiatives seeking to further Responsible Investing and Corporate Social Responsibility such as Ceres, the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility, and As You Sow. The Nathan Cummings Foundation believes that leveraging capital markets to invest and use their influence as shareholders will help further their mission. Consequently, in March 2018, the Foundation committed to align the entirety of their endowment to Mission-Related Investments, a type of Impact Investing.

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Public Equity Portfolio Footprint – March 2019