Mark Pinsky is a pioneering leader in community development finance, dedicated to aligning capital with justice and expanding economic opportunity for under-invested communities. As the Founding Partner of CDFI Friendly America, he works to connect the $500 billion Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI) industry with under-resourced people and places.

With a career spanning strategic consulting, financial innovation, and advocacy, Mark also leads FiveFour Advisors, where he advises organizations at the intersection of money and purpose. His impact includes the creation of The CDFI Fund, The Equity Equivalent (EQ2) investment product, The NEXT Awards for Opportunity Finance, and the AERIS Ratings System—all instrumental in shaping the modern CDFI landscape.

From 1995 to 2016, Mark served as President & CEO of Opportunity Finance Network (OFN), where he was a leading national voice for mission-driven finance. He is also an accomplished author and thought leader, co-writing Organized Money: How Progressives Can Leverage the Financial System to Work for Them, Not Against Them and Opportunity For All: The Story of CDFIs.

A sought-after public speaker and strategist, Mark continues to champion innovative financial solutions that drive social impact and economic justice.

Tara manages a portfolio of institutional clients and is responsible for expanding the Boston Common’s relationships with the firm’s intermediary partners. She also works closely with the marketing team to highlight Boston Common’s leadership across the impact spectrum. She is a member of the firm’s Asset Allocation Committee.

Tara has worked in business development functions across the financial sector since 2011, including roles in private equity and fixed income. She joined Boston Common after building out the business development and investor relations program at a DC-based sustainable investing firm, Terra Alpha Investment.

Tara is a lifelong distance runner who takes pride in giving back in her free time. She currently serves on the Board of Directors for Hero Dogs, a Maryland-incorporated nonprofit that raises, trains, and places service dogs and other highly skilled canines with wounded veterans and first responders. She previously served on the board of America SCORES New York.  Tara received her BA from Middlebury College and her MBA from New York University’s Stern School of Business.

Eli Dalven, Impact Investing and Governance Specialist at Loring, Wolcott & Coolidge Trust, helps fiduciaries and investors direct capital toward projects that generate financial, social, and environmental returns. He is responsible for administering approximately $70 million of high-impact investments for private clients of the Sustainability Group, part of LWC. Since its founding in 1987, the Sustainability Group has helped clients align their portfolios with their values through a combination of active stock selection, corporate engagement and shareholder advocacy, and high-impact investing in community development organizations. In addition, Eli leads the firm’s corporate governance research efforts, helping to ensure that proxy votes align with LWC’s Proxy Voting Guidelines.
 
A graduate of Oberlin College, Eli has long been committed to sustainability and economic justice. As an economics and politics double major, he was involved in a variety of student organizations that focused on labor rights, environmental justice, and responsible investment—the latter helped Oberlin College establish an Impact Investing Platform within its endowment, which in turn, led to the work of the Impact Investing Advisory Group (IIAG) today. His passion for mission-driven finance stems from a belief that capital allocation can and should address critical global challenges