b'It turns out that there are too many cultural and legal pitfalls along the way. Transforming a grantmaking organization into an invest-ment organization is no easy feat. And then there is the matter of all the NGOs who depend on a foundations grants. Get rid of gross mission-misalignment of investments? Sure. Increase the direct investment allocation, even with a place-based twist? Perhaps. Under-take a fundamental restructuring of the entire relationship between investing and grantmaking? Not a realistic prospect. With the benefit of hindsight and the experience of three decades of committee meetings, board discussions, and the multitudes of consulting-report twists and break-out-session turns that thisproject continues to entail, I have come to the conclusion, regret-tably, that mission-related investing is an intellectually provocative but ultimately impractical effort, a bit too much like trying to unscramble eggs. Hence the need for a whole new approach to finance, a whole new nurture capital sector, one that isnt built by reverse engineering existing structures and conventions, but is organized, from the ground up, and locally, around principles of carrying capacity, care of the commons, sense of place, community, diversity and nonviolence. One that reflects, integrally and fundamentally, awareness of the systemic crises of the 21st century.It is time for millions of great, humble, post-industrial, post-making-a-killing, post-techno-utopian acts of putting our hands in the soil. 3377'