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)