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Antony Bugg-Levine convened the 2007 meeting that coined the term "impact investing," co-founded the Global Impact Investing Network, and has spent decades working at the intersection of finance and social progress. In Investing in America, he reveals how innovators across the political spectrum are expanding access to finance to address the economic challenges Americans share--from affordable housing and reliable energy to fair access to capital for small businesses--while generating financial returns.

Organized around eight chapters, each focused on a specific economic challenge, Investing in America outlines the scope of the challenge and profiles the determined investors addressing it. More than 50 examples drawn from 42 states and Washington, DC, illustrate how foundations, companies, family offices, and individual investors are putting capital to work in ways that expand opportunity and strengthen fair competition across communities nationwide.

Beyond profiles, the book provides practical guidance on finding investments and advisors aligned with national economic solutions. It surveys legislative developments that are creating new opportunities to harness private investment to help America live up to our founding ideals. Mini-case studies show winning practices across issue areas and asset classes, and the final chapter demonstrates how anyone with a savings account--or just one dollar and an internet connection--can invest in America themselves.

Written in a bipartisan, optimistic, and patriotic spirit that highlights how people from different political perspectives are uniting in this work, Investing in America serves foundation professionals, family office managers, investment advisors, and individual investors seeking to align portfolios with positive economic outcomes. It also speaks to elected officials, voters, and graduate students in business and policy programs who want to understand how finance can address the challenges that unite us. This book is one grateful immigrant's 250th birthday present to the country that has given him and his family so much.

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