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Jim Sorenson is a successful entrepreneur, business executive, investor, and philanthropist. He is a pioneer impact investor and plays a leadership role in building the impact investing field worldwide. Jim believes impact investing is a powerful method for scaling solutions to local and global challenges, and for creating significant economic value. Jim makes impact investments with his personal capital, out of the endowments of his foundations (in the form of mission-related investments), and uses grantmaking capital from his foundations to make program-related investments (or PRIs). This case study will focus on Jim’s PRIs as they constitute the majority of the impact investments he makes. investing programs.
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