The Brief
The Brief | April 18, 2024
The Brief: Participant Media’s impact on film investing
Greetings Agents of Impact! In today’s Brief: Featured: Creative Economy Shutdown of Participant Media challenges other investors to drive impact through film. When …
The Brief | April 17, 2024
The Brief: A good economy is good news
Greetings Agents of Impact! In today’s Brief: Featured: Macro Impact Good economy actually is good news as impact investors adjust to new realities. …
The Brief | April 16, 2024
The Brief: Investing in HBCUs
Greetings Agents of Impact! In today’s Brief: Featured: Returns on Inclusion The brilliant case for impact investing in America’s HBCUs. Four years into …
The Brief | April 15, 2024
The Brief: Catalyzing climate resilience for small farmers
Greetings Agents of Impact! In today’s Brief: Featured: Adaptation Finance For these tech startups and investors, the next big thing is climate adaptation …
The Brief | April 12, 2024
The Week in impact investing: Chaos theory
TGIF, Agents of Impact! 🗣 Three body problem. In the video game at the core of the sci-fi novel by Liu Cixin (as …
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The Brief | April 11, 2024
The Brief: Investing to eliminate food waste
Greetings Agents of Impact! In today’s Brief: Featured: Food Tech Opportunities across the investment spectrum to recycle and reduce food waste. Understanding how …
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The Brief | April 10, 2024
The Brief: Reconnecting communities divided by highways
Greetings Agents of Impact! In today’s Brief: Featured: Muni Impact With bridges, buses and bike lanes, Reconnecting Communities rebuilds ‘civic muscles’ along with …
The Brief | April 9, 2024
The Brief: Green shoots in Puerto Rico’s reconstruction
Greetings Agents of Impact! This week, catch ImpactAlpha’s Roody Senatus in Washington, DC, at the Aspen Employee Ownership Ideas Forum, Dennis Price in …
ImpactAlpha Open | April 9, 2024
ImpactAlpha Open: Billion-dollar blended deals + ‘systems level’ stewardship
Greetings, Agents of Impact! This week, catch ImpactAlpha’s Roody Senatus in DC at the Aspen Institute’s Employee Ownership Ideas Forum, Amy Cortese in New York at TIIP’s System-level Investing …
The Brief | April 8, 2024
The Brief: Totality
Greetings Agents of Impact! Curious about today’s alignment of the earth, the moon and the sun? Good! Solar eclipses in history seem to …
The Brief | April 5, 2024
The Week in Impact Investing: Producing Impact
TGIF, Agents of Impact! 🗣 Inclusive prosperity. For decades, US economists viewed low-cost exports from China as a positive for consumers. Then came …
The Brief | April 4, 2024
The Brief: How investors can amplify the US ‘green bank’
Greetings Agents of Impact! 🇵🇷 Next week: Impact investment summit in Puerto Rico. Join Platform for Social Impact’s NEXA: Jobs Summit, April 10-11 …
The Brief | April 3, 2024
The Brief: Billion-dollar blended-finance transactions
Greetings Agents of Impact! In today’s Brief: Featured: 2030 Finance Blending billions: Lessons from more than three dozen big blended finance transactions. Deal …
The Brief | April 2, 2024
The Brief: Community investing on the Liist of impact funds
Greetings Agents of Impact! In today’s Brief: Featured: The Liist Fund managers deepen and broaden impact strategies for underserved communities (The Liist, April …
ImpactAlpha Open | April 2, 2024
ImpactAlpha Open: US ‘green bank’ takes shape + Brazil’s impact ecosystem
Greetings, Agents of Impact! Welcome to the latest ImpactAlpha Open, our free weekly newsletter on the news, deals and people powering impact investing and sustainable …
The Brief | April 1, 2024
The Brief: Unlocking ownership to close racial wealth gaps
Greetings Agents of Impact! In today’s Brief: Featured: Ownership Economy Wanted: First-time fund managers with strategies to ‘Unlock Ownership.’ A group of mission-aligned …
The Brief | March 29, 2024
The Week in Impact Investing: Open-source Impact
TGIF, Agents of Impact! 🗣 Green ownership and Black wealth. Long-running threads of ImpactAlpha’s coverage converged in Amy Cortese’s takeout on the centrality …
The Brief | March 28, 2024
The Brief: Assembling partners for the US’s green bank
Greetings Agents of Impact! In today’s Brief: Featured: Deploy! EPA’s new partners plot a $27 billion path to a US green bank. The …
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The Brief | March 27, 2024
The Brief: Building an inclusive impact economy in Brazil
Greetings Agents of Impact! The latest edition of ImpactAlpha Latin America, our newest specialized newsletter, drops later today. As a subscriber to ImpactAlpha, …
The Brief | March 26, 2024
The Brief: Ownership and wealth-building in The Great Deployment
Greetings Agents of Impact! 🗣️ ImpactAlpha Latin America. The next edition of our newest newsletter drops tomorrow, March 27. Opt-in to this special …
ImpactAlpha Open | March 26, 2024
ImpactAlpha Open: De-risking The Great Deployment + clean cooking’s carbon credits
Greetings, Agents of Impact! Welcome to the latest ImpactAlpha Open, a free weekly newsletter on the news, deals and people powering impact investing and sustainable …
The Brief | March 25, 2024
The Brief: Smarter catalytic capital
Greetings Agents of Impact! In today’s Brief: Featured: Catalytic Capital How smarter targeting of capital gaps can make catalytic capital more effective. Some …
The Brief | March 22, 2024
The Week in Impact Investing: De-risky Business
TGIF, Agents of Impact! 🗣 De-risk premiums. Talk about catalytic capital. One of the most effective uses of the $27 billion Greenhouse Gas …
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The Brief | March 21, 2024
The Brief: Accelerating clean cooking with carbon credits
Greetings Agents of Impact! In today’s Brief: Featured: Carbon Markets Leveraging the carbon markets for clean cooking, climate justice and social impact. Companies …
The Brief | March 20, 2024
The Brief: Shareholders get their say
Greetings Agents of Impact! In today’s Brief: Zoom in to today’s Call: The Great Deployment. It’s a policy-meets-execution moment. Community lenders are preparing …
The Brief | March 19, 2024
The Brief: Standardizing and scaling green financing
Greetings Agents of Impact! In today’s Brief: Featured: Deploy! Bringing standards and certainty to financing for community infrastructure and the green transition. Organizations …
ImpactAlpha Open | March 19, 2024
ImpactAlpha Open: Munis for The Great Deployment + spoofing Vanguard on climate
Greetings, Agents of Impact! Isaac Silk here, welcoming you to the latest ImpactAlpha Open, our free weekly newsletter on the news, deals and people powering …
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The Brief | March 18, 2024
The Brief: Green banks for community infrastructure
Greetings Agents of Impact! In today’s Brief: Featured: Muni Impact In Cleveland, stakeholders mobilize to deploy climate funds for community infrastructure. Chances might …
The Brief | March 15, 2024
The Week in Impact Investing: Deploy!
TGIF, Agents of Impact! In today’s Brief: 🗣 Shovel readiness. Believe me, we try to spare you as many acronyms as we can. …
The Brief | March 14, 2024
The Brief: Spoofing Vanguard’s climate commitment
Greetings Agents of Impact! In today’s Brief: Featured: Deploy! How loan guarantees and catalytic capital can amplify federal ‘green bank’ funds. The federal …
The Brief | March 13, 2024
The Brief: Off-grid energy’s high marks
Greetings Agents of Impact! In today’s Brief: ⚡ Hop on today’s Plugged In: Tech equity in action. Google-backed Tech Equity Collective is working …
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The Brief | March 12, 2024
The Brief: Private equity’s role in managing impact
Greetings Agents of Impact! In today’s Brief: ⚡ Tomorrow’s Plugged In: Tech equity in action. Google-backed Tech Equity Collective is working to double …
ImpactAlpha Open | March 12, 2024
ImpactAlpha Open: Women-led impact funds + corporate climate disclosure
Greetings, Agents of Impact! Welcome to the latest ImpactAlpha Open, our free weekly newsletter on the news, deals and people powering impact investing and …
The Brief | March 11, 2024
The Brief: The Great Deployment runs through the muni bond market
Greetings Agents of Impact! In today’s Brief: ⚡ Plugged In: Tech equity in action. Google-backed Tech Equity Collective is working to double the …
The Brief | March 8, 2024
The Week in impact investing: State of the Impact
TGIF, Agents of Impact! In today’s Brief: ⚡ Plugged In: Tech equity in action. Google-backed Tech Equity Collective is working to double the …
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The Brief | March 7, 2024
The Brief: Nudging climate action from disclosure to accounting
Greetings Agents of Impact! In today’s Brief: – David Bank Featured: Policy Corner New SEC rules may be just enough to push climate action …
The Brief | March 6, 2024
The Brief: Artificial intelligence and corporate governance
Greetings Agents of Impact! We hope you’re enjoying the clean new look of ImpactAlpha.com. We’re still shaking down the new site; if you …
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The Brief | March 5, 2024
The Brief: Women-led funds seeking climate solutions
Greetings Agents of Impact! In today’s Brief: Featured: The Liist Every day is International Women’s Day for female fund managers driving climate solutions. …
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The Brief | March 4, 2024
The Brief: Investor optimism and urgency in Latin America
Greetings Agents of Impact! 👋 In Austin for SXSW? Join ImpactAlpha’s Dennis Price for “An investor talk on AI: All-in or all-hype,” a …
The Brief | March 1, 2024
The Week in Impact Investing: ¡Adelante!
TGIF, Agents of Impact! Pa’rriba y pa’lante. The energy was palpable at this week’s Foro Latinoamericano de Inversión de Impacto, or FLII, in …
The Brief | February 29, 2024
The Brief: UK marketplace aims for ‘net gains’ in biodiversity
Greetings Agents of Impact! In today’s Brief: Featured: Carbon Markets Can the UK’s market for trading nature credits deliver ‘biodiversity net gain’? Governments are …
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The Brief | February 28, 2024
The Brief: Social determinants of wealth
Greetings Agents of Impact! We’re at the FLII in Mérida. Follow us on Instagram. Today’s Agents of Impact Call: How fund managers drive alpha through impact. Join …
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The Brief | February 27, 2024
The Brief: Value-creation playbooks for delivering alpha from impact
Greetings Agents of Impact! Thank you for the enthusiastic reception for this week’s launch of ImpactAlpha Latin America. Opt in to receive our special monthly newsletter …
ImpactAlpha Open | February 27, 2024
ImpactAlpha Open: AI for workers + Latam’s impact ecosystem
Greetings, Agents of Impact! Welcome to the latest ImpactAlpha Open, our free weekly newsletter with the top news and opportunities in impact investing in …
The Brief | February 26, 2024
The Brief: Latin America’s growing impact ecosystem
Greetings, Agents of Impact! Say hello to ImpactAlpha’s Dennis Price at the Neighborhood Economics gathering in San Antonio. And look out for him and ImpactAlpha’s Cesar …