Listen to 102.3 FM KIXP either on your radio or online at kixp.org and press the play button at 10 AM to hear an interview with Georgette Wong, whose expertise is in impact investing and strategic consulting to strengthen local communities. Georgette currently serves as Board Chair of the Nonprofit Finance Fund, the Investment & Audit Committee for The Russell Family Foundation, as well as the Investment Committee of the Orcas Island Community Foundation. She has been the CEO of Correlation Consulting for the past 10 years, focused on clients seeking to integrate their passion for social change and to create both financial and social rewards. Her clients have included foundations, corporations, wealthy families, and pension funds.
Here is an excerpt from her LinkedIn account:
Georgette was one of the early pioneers of impact investing. Her “Take Action! The Impact Investing Summit” brought together asset owners and other investors managing more than a combined $4.5 trillion in assets in 2012. Since Take Action’s founding in 2007, Georgette has helped catalyze at least $350 million in new commitments to impact investing. The focus of Take Action! was on those investors seeking premium financial returns while creating social and environmental impact.
Georgette presented to the US Senate in December 2013 (http://www.dsoc.senate.gov/2013/12/11/senate-democrats-meet-with-leaders-in-philanthropic-community/) and released Insights & Innovations: A Global Study of Impact Investing + Institutional Investors (http://correlationconsulting.com/?page_id=21) at the US State Department in April 2012. She has been featured in The California Endowment’s CenterScene newsletter (Summer 2012) and in Private Asset Management Magazine (2011). She has also published in the San Francisco Federal Reserve’s Community Development Review (2010) and was an advisor to Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors’ Solutions to Impact Investors: From Strategy to Implementation (2009).
Georgette earned her M.B.A. from UCLA’s Anderson School of Management and her B.A. from Amherst College.
What a phenom!
This episode will appear on the Life on Orcas Island with Edee Kulper podcast after it airs on the radio. You can also find each weekly episode online on Amazon Music (tell your Alexa: “play the podcast Life on Orcas Island with Edee Kulper” and the latest episode will begin playing), ApplePodcasts, Spotify, iHeartRadio, PlayerFM, Podchaser, BoomPlay, and PodBean.
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