Abstract
Undeployed charitable assets in donor-advised funds (DAFs) reached $121.4 billion in 2018‒including $33.9 billion at Community Foundations. Most of these undeployed funds are invested in conventional financial instruments. However, DAFs present a unique opportunity to promote impact investing into the local community, including Community Development Financial Institutions that serve their local communities. In this report, authors Eric Hangen, Michael Swack, and Jordan Hensley discuss the results of their study to see whether DAF donors’ choices of how to invest undeployed funds can be influenced by a change in how donor choices are presented, with the intention of increasing the percentage of undeployed funds that donors designate for community impact investments.
Department
Carsey School of Public Policy
Publication Date
Spring 4-14-2020
Series
Report
Publisher
Durham, N.H. : Carsey School of Public Policy, University of New Hampshire
Document Type
Article
Recommended Citation
Hangen, Eric; Swack, Michael E.; and Hensley, Jordan, "Behavioral Finance of Impact Investing: The Case of Donor-Advised Funds" (2020). The Carsey School of Public Policy at the Scholars' Repository. 400.
https://scholars.unh.edu/carsey/400
Rights
Copyright 2020. Carsey School of Public Policy. These materials may be used for the purposes of research, teaching, and private study. For all other uses, contact the copyright holder.
DOI
https://dx.doi.org/10.34051/p/2020.385