Investor Circle
In case you missed our recent Investor Circle webinars, we’ve included information and linked the presentation decks and recordings (when available).
To learn more about upcoming Investor Circle webinars, visit here. Questions about Investor Circle? Email Kim Moeller.
May: Investing in Stories That Inspire and Transform
Companies: Jimmy the Movie, Adore Creative Jeremy Latcham, Marvel & Breadwinner Producer
April: Building a Better Future Through Tech & Real Estate Investing
Companies: Builders + Backers, T&H Investments
March: Investing Together in Frontier Markets
Companies: Keystone, Brontide, Ibex
February: Combating Human Trafficking
Company: The WaterStone Impact Fund with Tim Tebow
January: Investing for Social Impact
Companies: Creation Investments and SUNCAP Fund
Pull Up a Chair
Pull Up a Chair is an invitation to have a seat and listen to interviews about impact investing with NCF Relationship Managers and Impact Foundation Solution Providers. In each brief video, you'll hear candid, peer-to-peer dialogue about innovative impact investments and creative ways NCF givers are putting their Giving Fund dollars to work for the Kingdom.
Whether you're looking for fresh inspiration, a model to bring back to your givers, or simply want to stay connected to what God is doing through the NCF offices and Impact Foundation nationwide, there's always something worth hearing when you pull up a chair.
To share your giver story in an interview, email us!
June, 2026 Interview
Impact Investing Insights: A Conversation with NCF SouthWest’s Tim MacDonald and Impact Foundation’s Solution Provider Kim Moeller.
Join us for Taste of the Table at Impact 2026
How do impact investors evaluate opportunity, risk, and redemptive potential? Join us for Taste of the Table, an immersive introduction to impact investing at Impact 2026 in October!
As the generosity ecosystem continues to grow, this hands-on session is designed to help you understand what it takes to engage with clarity and confidence. You’ll connect with other generous givers, build practical skills, and gain firsthand insight into what it means to take a seat at the investment table.
When you enter the room, you’ll be given $500K in Impact Bucks! We’ll begin with lunch and hear from current impact investors as they share how they got started and what they’ve learned along the way.
Then we’ll dive into the interactive session, where you and your teammates will participate in a simulation, hear pitches from active Portfolio Companies, and learn the tools to decide into which companies to invest your charitable Impact Bucks. Taste of the Table will conclude with each team sharing its methodology behind how it invested.
Please join us for a fun approach to impact investing and gain practical knowledge, curated resources, and helpful books to continue your learning. Space is limited. The sign-up app won’t be live until September, but if you’d like us to save a spot for you and/or a giver, please email us here.
And the Survey says…
Our Survey and Newsletter Plan
In late April, we emailed a survey to the NCF office team members who have participated in our Impact Foundation equipping sessions to better understand how we can serve you and, most importantly, your givers.
Wow! Thank you for responding! We heard from 94% of the offices. We love helping you serve your givers to consider adding redemptive, God-honoring investments to their traditional granting and generosity strategy. Together, we expand the tools available to RMs, deepen giver relationships, and create pathways for charitable capital to generate transformational impact and future giving capacity.
Our goal is for our communication to be timely and helpful in supporting, further equipping, and encouraging you.
We learned a lot and have used it to craft a plan to keep you all informed. Here’s what we heard:
Over 50% opted for a quarterly newsletter, so quarterly it will be! You’ll still receive our general quarterly newsletter that goes to ALL of our Donor/Investors, Portfolio Companies, and partners, including NCF and our Investor Circle invitations. But only the NCF offices that have engaged in equipping will receive this newsletter, Common Ground.
You asked for more peer success stories and case studies; our goal is to include one in each newsletter. See the interview and video with Kim Moeller and Tim McDonald in this issue.
Movie Trivia Question: What sci-fi blockbuster features the line, "Where we're going, we don't need roads." Email here with your answer. Someone will win a prize!
We read that you want regular, concise reminders and best practices. Impact Investing with Mr. Miyagi will include helpful tips in each issue.
There was interest in information about deal flow. We’re working to find ways to showcase this. In the interim, we’ve included a link to information about our past Investor Circle webinars, including the presentation decks and website recordings. Additionally, our New to the Neighborhood column includes some of the companies we’ve recently invested in, with a link to more information about all of our Portfolio Profiles on our website.
And finally, there were questions about finding our most recent concept sheets, FAQs, fees, and other resources. In our From the Pantry feature at the end of every newsletter, you’ll find links to all of our shared internal and external documents.
Again, thank you for serving with us. If you have any questions about this newsletter or anything else, please connect with your Solution Provider or email us here.
What’s Brewing?
Catch up on the latest happenings with Impact Foundation and NCF equipped offices.
Have photos or something to share for the greater good of our audience? Contact us here.
Right: Alanna Linden visiting the NCF Charlotte, NC office.
“PIG PICKIN” IN RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA—MAY, 2026
In May, Jeff Johns and Bryan Chrisman visited the National Christian Foundation office in Raleigh, NC, for their first scheduled equipping session. Here’s what NCF Regional Director, Richard Newton, reported about the event:
“Yesterday, Kathryn Williams and I enjoyed a day of equipping with Bryan Chrisman and Jeff Johns with the Impact Foundation.
NCF Carolinas Raleigh has seen more than $10M granted to Impact Foundation for some amazing redemptive work.
Some of those dollars have already come back to NCF Giving Funds! And we didn't leave all the fun of Impact Investing to our givers….NCF Carolinas has invested some of our own generosity dollars too!! One of those investments is in our new office Building, ETHOS!! We partnered with other NCF Givers that captured the vision with us to create a redemptive space for faith-centered non-profit and for-profit entities to gather for our work and collaboration. It has been awesome!!”
—Richard Newton, NCF RM, NCF Carolinas Raleigh.
In addition, NCF Carolinas, Raleigh recently welcomed givers and faith-based organizations to a celebratory BBQ — a down-home “Pig Pickin’,” in North Carolina speak — to highlight Redeeming Development Group’s success with the ETHOS office building.
The gathering offered a firsthand look at charitable capital in action. Redeeming Development Group shared how the ETHOS model is creating space for faith-centered nonprofit and for-profit leaders to work, gather, and collaborate — and how that vision may expand into other states through current and future investment opportunities.
Together, the event celebrated both what generosity has already made possible and what redemptive impact can continue to unlock.
SQUEEZING FIELD WISDOM OUT OF BEN NUSSBAUM IN MICHIGAN—MAY, 2026
Cold rain did not slow down the learning in Grand Rapids this May. Jeff Johns and Ben Nussbaum joined much of the local office team for a hands-on session focused on the power of redemptive investing.
The conversation landed at just the right moment. With the team already engaged in an active investment opportunity, the equipping became more than theory — it gave them a timely, real-world example to work through together.
Impact Investing with Mr. Miyagi
Mr. Miyagi represents quiet, disciplined, and practical wisdom. In The Karate Kid, his training shows that growth comes from repetition, patience, trust, and learning to do things well until they become part of who you are.
In this column, we’ll share impact investing training highlights and tips to help you guide your givers in investing their charitable capital.
Our collaboration with NCF Relationship Managers is designed to serve givers more fully. By combining NCF’s trusted giving platform with Impact Foundation’s charitable investing expertise, we help RMs engage givers in deeper conversations about aligning their capital with their values, investing in causes they care about, and stewarding charitable resources for lasting economic, social, and spiritual impact.
How does working with Impact Foundation complement (not compete with) the core NCF offerings?
In 2015, NCF leadership recommended that the work of Impact Foundation be established as a separate organization.
Through Impact Foundation, NCF givers have a streamlined way to fund transformational businesses, make loans to charity, and grow the amount available for future reinvesting and granting from their NCF DAF.
Just as NCF allows givers to recommend grants, Impact Foundation allows givers to recommend charitable investments, including for-profit and global enterprises.
Impact Foundation has a proven transaction platform and a team of experts capable of swiftly innovating and implementing complex investments, utilizing a range of debt and equity instruments.
Investments with Impact Foundation may provide tax advantages that may increase the returns on deployed charitable capital.
(From the training document, FAQs for NCF Relationship Managers (link to the full document here), page 1, 6/16/26)