Users of the service pool money with like-minded investors to make commercial real estate investments that are otherwise difficult to access.
Free market economists admire the separation of money and government while audit-minded accountants relish its public traceability.
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The single-minded focus on making money turns out to be less successful in making money than a values-based approach that gives the customers what they really want.
Many of these same people are also the ones who contribute money and time to other society-minded efforts.
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Weisel's approach would scare any value investor, but at least he has a bunch of sober-minded institutional clients who are putting money on him.
The more evangelically-minded New Labourites argue that investing money in parks is a way of balancing the charges wrought in city centres by private speculators in the 1970s and 1980s.
Apparently believing the battle had been won, many green-minded Americans stopped bothering to join up and offer money.
In this case from collegiate sports, a collection of schools with like-minded philosophical and academic missions have opted to leave money on the table and receive less media money initially in order to protect the long-term legacy of their brand value of their conference name.
Someone in the Treasury will have to start thinking like a distressed-asset manager, since he or she will be managing the taxpayers' money to earn a profit and will have to make tough-minded decisions about which investments are likely to pay off and which aren't.
This arrangement allows foundations to increase the amount of money available to the social sector, while simultaneously building stronger and more sustainable socially minded entities.
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Attention environmentalists and green-minded investors: You no longer have an excuse for not putting your money where your mouth is when it comes to supporting solar energy projects.
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