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The Week in Impact Investing: ImpactAlpha’s First Decade

TGIF, Agents of Impact! Read on for co-founder Zuleyma Bebell’s reflections on ImpactAlpha’s 10-year anniversary. In today’s brief: 🗣 Raise a glass. In ...

The Brief | Jessica Pothering

The Brief: Upskilling lenders for the Great Deployment

Greetings Agents of Impact! In today’s Brief: Featured: Deploy! Lenders face a steep learning curve in deploying capital for green community infrastructure. Green ...

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The Brief: Family offices warm to climate investments

Greetings Agents of Impact! In today’s Brief: Featured: LP / GP Family offices warm to investment opportunities in the climate transition. As much ...

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The Brief: Impact investments in Anthropic’s AI

Greetings Agents of Impact! In today’s Brief: Featured: Responsible AI With stakes in Anthropic, impact investors seek a seat at the AI table. ...

The Brief | Dennis Price

ImpactAlpha Open: Participant’s impact on film finance + investing in HBCU brilliance

Greetings, Agents of Impact! 🎉 Offer Extended: Take 75% off. For a decade, leaders have trusted ImpactAlpha to guide them to the ‘alpha in impact.’ To celebrate ...

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The Brief: Solar for all

Greetings Agents of Impact and happy Earth Day to you! In today’s Brief: Featured: Climate Finance For this Earth Day, the White House ...

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The Week in impact investing: Spring into action

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The Brief: Participant Media’s impact on film investing

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The Brief: A good economy is good news

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The Brief: Investing in HBCUs

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The Brief: Catalyzing climate resilience for small farmers

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The Week in impact investing: Chaos theory

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The Brief: Investing to eliminate food waste

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The Brief: Reconnecting communities divided by highways

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The Brief: Green shoots in Puerto Rico’s reconstruction

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ImpactAlpha Open: Billion-dollar blended deals + ‘systems level’ stewardship

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The Brief: Totality

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The Week in Impact Investing: Producing Impact

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The Brief: How investors can amplify the US ‘green bank’

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The Brief: Billion-dollar blended-finance transactions

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The Brief: Community investing on the Liist of impact funds

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ImpactAlpha Open: US ‘green bank’ takes shape + Brazil’s impact ecosystem

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The Brief: Unlocking ownership to close racial wealth gaps

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The Week in Impact Investing: Open-source Impact

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The Brief: Assembling partners for the US’s green bank

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The Brief: Building an inclusive impact economy in Brazil

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The Brief: Ownership and wealth-building in The Great Deployment

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ImpactAlpha Open: De-risking The Great Deployment + clean cooking’s carbon credits

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The Brief: Smarter catalytic capital

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The Week in Impact Investing: De-risky Business

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The Brief: Accelerating clean cooking with carbon credits

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The Brief: Shareholders get their say

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The Brief: Standardizing and scaling green financing

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ImpactAlpha Open: Munis for The Great Deployment + spoofing Vanguard on climate

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The Brief: Green banks for community infrastructure

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The Week in Impact Investing: Deploy!

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The Brief: Spoofing Vanguard’s climate commitment

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The Brief: Off-grid energy’s high marks

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The Brief: Private equity’s role in managing impact

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ImpactAlpha Open: Women-led impact funds + corporate climate disclosure

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The Brief: The Great Deployment runs through the muni bond market

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The Week in impact investing: State of the Impact

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The Brief: Nudging climate action from disclosure to accounting

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The Brief: Artificial intelligence and corporate governance

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The Brief: Women-led funds seeking climate solutions

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The Brief: Investor optimism and urgency in Latin America

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The Week in Impact Investing: ¡Adelante!

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The Brief: UK marketplace aims for ‘net gains’ in biodiversity

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The Brief: Social determinants of wealth

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The Brief: Value-creation playbooks for delivering alpha from impact

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ImpactAlpha Open: AI for workers + Latam’s impact ecosystem

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The Brief: Latin America’s growing impact ecosystem

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The Week in Impact Investing: Collaboration

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The Brief: New neighborhood economics

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The Brief: Fusing philanthropy and investing in multi-donor funds

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The Brief: VCs betting on AI for workers

The Brief | Dennis Price

ImpactAlpha Open: Stewarding purpose + HBCU climate action

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The Week in Impact Investing: New Narratives

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The Brief: Abundance as an antidote to inflation

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The Brief: Private financing to house homeless Californians

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The Brief: Stewarding purpose through a perpetual trust

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ImpactAlpha Open: Confronting bias in asset management + immigration alpha

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The Brief: Systemic risks of the Magnificent Seven

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The Week in Impact Investing: The Wood Dragon

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The Brief: Climate signals from the insurance industry

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The Brief: How impact fund managers create value

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The Brief: Fund strategies for inclusive communities and building wealth

The Brief | Dennis Price

‘Impact alpha’ investors + six inclusive economy funds

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The Brief: Confronting bias in asset management

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The Week in Impact Investing: Climate+

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The Brief: Africa’s green jobs boom

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The Brief: The Brief: Is the EV glass half-full or half-empty?

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The Brief: Climate + gender investment strategies

The Brief | Dennis Price

ImpactAlpha Open: AI in impact finance + changing systems

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The Brief: Land-sharing to accelerate the energy transition

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The Week in impact investing: Fund discovery

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The Brief: Changing systems from inside and out

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The Brief: AI in impact finance

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The Brief: GE’s Scope 3 disclosure dance

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ImpactAlpha Open: Investing in the ownership economy + Justice40’s impact

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The Brief: Investing in the ownership economy

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The Week in impact investing: Disrupting dysfunction

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The Brief: Disrupting disruption with leverage-first models

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The Brief: Justice40’s accelerating impact

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The Brief: Incentivizing impact

The Brief | Dennis Price

ImpactAlpha Open: Investing in psychedelics + six impact funds raising capital

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The Week in impact investing: Altered states

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The Brief: Investing in psychedelics for ‘net zero trauma’

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The Brief: Impact, climate and AI for good in 2024

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The Brief: Rebound for impact fundraising?

The Brief | Dennis Price

ImpactAlpha Open: Workers and economic growth + channeling AI for good

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The Brief: ‘Green bank’ financing for affordable housing

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The Week in impact investing: Inclusion alpha

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The Brief: The key to the surprising health of the US economy

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The Brief: G for governance in 2024

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Next Year in impact investing: Betting on the future

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The Brief: At Stake in 2024: Playing climate offense to scale up and phase out

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The Brief: At Stake in 2024: ‘Impact alpha’ in public and private markets

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The Brief: At Stake in 2024: Impact investing in emerging markets

The Brief | Dennis Price

ImpactAlpha Open: Scaling worker ownership + arbitrage opportunity in muni bonds

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The Brief: At Stake in 2024: Returns on inclusion and the ownership economy

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The Week in Impact Investing: Shared Prosperity

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The Brief: Plugged In to the inclusive economy, fossil fuel doom loop, Canada’s employee ownership trusts, recapitalizing Copia in Kenya, Voices of impact management

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The Brief: Today’s Call: Hidden impact in muni bonds, shuttering Jeffrey Ubben, women’s livelihood bond, Omidyar Network exits India, decarbonizing your banking

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The Brief: In community with food, greening global agriculture, electric buses in Africa and India, Sir Ronald’s $900 million impact fund

The Brief | Dennis Price

ImpactAlpha Open: AI for climate + ESG for crypto

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The Brief: Playing mispriced muni risks, small business resilience in Africa, rooftop solar in India, crunch time at COP28, India’s climate investors

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The Week in Impact Investing: The How

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The Brief: AI for climate, sustainable forestry investing, Congruent’s climate tech fund, Zestmoney’s shutdown, crypto and ESG

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The Brief: Social premiums in muni bonds, Milwaukee’s cautionary tale, Africa’s local funds, foundations of social justice, tools for institutional investors

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The Brief: Impact incentives and lived experience on The Liist, climate tech in South Asia, COP’s finance day, racial-equity investing after affirmative action

The Brief | Dennis Price

ImpactAlpha Open: COP watch + blending finance for the Global Goals

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The Brief: Chilling corporate climate cooperation, petro-billions for the green transition, California’s forest resilience bond, funds for local-capital funds

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The Week in impact investing: Soft power

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The Brief: Climate tech in the Global South, raising science-based climate targets, climate + health in Canada, sustainability tools for private equity

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The Brief: Catalyzing billions for the SDGs, petit French nukes, plastic-based concrete, carbon reporting for construction, family-office climate investing

The Brief | Jessica Pothering

The Brief: Markets and methane at COP28, banking community banks, fish farms in Kenya, renewable heat in France, Indigenous venture capital

The Brief | Dennis Price

ImpactAlpha Open: Private equity’s sustainability billions + Ceniarth’s inconvenient truths

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The Brief: Ceniarth’s inconvenient truths, sustainable EV motors, vertical farms in Europe, virtual doctor visits in Africa, fiduciary duty of care

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The Brief: Private equity’s sustainability billions, Raj Shah’s big betsThe Brief:

The Brief | Dennis Price

ImpactAlpha Open: Introducing ‘Macro Impact’ + building an ownership movement

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The Brief: Return to values investing, traffic congestion in Texas, TIME’s climate leaders, alt-ownership structure

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The Week in Impact Investing: Optimize

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The Brief: Inclusive future of work, circular fashion, eye care in Africa, survey of climate tech opportunities, outcomes-based financingThe Brief:

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The Brief: Today’s Call: Climate + gender, the ownership pyramid, Indigenous enterprises in Australia, energy access in west Africa, climate finance in India

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The Brief: Climate + gender fund strategies, forest carbon credits, robot farm workers, soil regeneration, supercharging energy retrofits

The Brief | Dennis Price

ImpactAlpha Open: Private equity’s appetite for impact funds + assessing meat risk

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The Brief: Higher for longer, AI for tapping the IRA, Japanese investors in Africa, rare earth-free magnets, Evanston’s reparations

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The Week in Impact Investing: Buffers

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The Brief: Financing health in the Global South, clean power bond in SoCal, Rockefeller’s climate commitments, Colombia’s truckers, retail impact notes

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The Brief: Climate + gender portfolio, Candide’s just transition fund, Gresham House’s forest strategy, Black-led inclusion tech, PE’s impact tailwinds

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The Brief: Quality job strategies make The Liist, KKR’s second impact fund, Social Finance targets DAFs, 174 real estate funds, US hemp opportunity

The Brief | Dennis Price

ImpactAlpha Open: Lessons from impact failures + US hemp opportunity

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The Brief: New wave of oceans investing, Pomona’s persistence, diabetes care in Egypt and India, Brookfield’s debt for renewable energy, job quality in India

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The Week in Impact Investing: Battle-Tested

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The Brief: Republicans’ big chill on shareholder action, rural electrification in Côte d’Ivoire, upskilling workers in Colorado, lessons from Acumen’s failures

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The Brief: Mandatory climate disclosure, digital credit for Mexico’s farmers, training surgical teams, sustainable cities, microfinance merger in India

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The Brief: Plug in to VertueLab’s Aina Abiodun, tales from the conference circuit, green bond for clean cooking, EVs in India, de-risking grid finance

The Brief | Dennis Price

ImpactAlpha Open: Socap’s defiant optimists + US ‘green bank’

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Climate + gender in agriculture lending, pollinating impact tech, collateral-free trade finance, digital edge for Black entrepreneurs

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The Week in Impact Investing: Visible Hands

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The Brief: Here comes the US green bank, Flourish’s fairer fintech, Colombian microfinance, flexible financing in Africa, emerging market impact in a down market

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The Brief: SOCAP’s best-dressed, mini-grids in rural Africa and Asia, next-generation geothermal energy, managing water scarcity

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The Brief: Overheard at SOCAP, moving capital to women, disability solutions, battery storage in Texas, outperforming on impact

The Brief | Dennis Price

ImpactAlpha Open: Gender lens in Latin America + the $2 billion crowd

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The Brief: From DEI to equitable wealth-building, climate tech innovation, community-based healthcare, crowdfunding $2 billion, green bonds vs. fossil fuels

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The Week in Impact Investing: The Alpha in Impact

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The Brief: Gender lens in Latin America, clean generators in Europe, grocery store Scope 3 emissions, the power of the IRA’s ‘direct pay’

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The Brief: Surplus churches in Canada, resilient female farmers, mini-grids in Chad, super-batteries, rethinking tax increment financing in Chicago

The Brief | Dennis Price

ImpactAlpha Open: Child-lens investing + State of the Field

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Scaling employee ownership, water bonds in Texas, water kiosks in India, independent media in Poland, Ozempic’s economic impact

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The Week in Impact Investing: Alternate Paths

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The Brief: Child-lens investing, access to insurance in India, women-led private equity in South Africa, community solar, closing the gender credit gap

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Rethinking water, on-site solar in South Africa, German energy efficiency, overcoming antibiotic resistance, pricing climate risk

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Today’s Call: The State of the Field, moving beyond financialization, LeapFrog’s emerging consumers, mitigating wildfire risk, child-lens investing

The Brief | Dennis Price

ImpactAlpha Open: Overheard at GIIN Impact Forum + Liist of open impact funds

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The Week in Impact Investing: Courage to act

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The Brief: Overhead at The GIIN, ‘state of the field’ call, batteries in Nigeria, autism care, Macquarie takes stake in Sonen, digitizing African agriculture

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Today’s Plugged In: Black Farmer Fund, deep climate tech, solar power in Texas, integrated impact and financial analysis

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The Brief: Native- and women-led funds on The Liist, scaling alt-plastic, clean cooking in Rwanda, surge in small business starts, community-rooted sports

The Brief | Dennis Price

ImpactAlpha Open: Employee-ownership edge + community-rooted sports

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The Brief: Equitable homeownership, growing impact ventures in Africa, systemic investing post-affirmative action

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The Brief: Plugged In with Sherrell Dorsey, deploying climate solutions, purpose-trust transitions, grid drones, indoor salmon farming, boosting Black ownership

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Today’s Call: Ownership economy, previewing the GIIN forum, good jobs in South Africa, upcycling fruit waste, greening corporate cash

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The Brief: Community foundations’ local investments, San Diego school bond, corporate biodiversity credits, meaningful Internet connectivity

The Brief | Dennis Price

ImpactAlpha Open: Climate Week takeaways + remembering Suzanne Biegel

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The Brief: Call Preview: Financing worker ownership, agri-marketplace in Ghana, insurance tech in Singapore, policy headwinds and tailwinds

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The Week in Impact Investing: Legacy

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The Brief: Climate Week’s brighter outlook, naming rules for ESG funds, European climate tech VC, impact notes, messiness and mutuality in measurement

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The Brief: Green accountability, zero-gap financing, microfinance in Rwanda, fossil-fuel writedowns, effective corporate engagement

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Employee-ownership edge, nature-based solutions, lower-carbon capital, financing Africa’s farmers, corporate impact investing

The Brief | Dennis Price

ImpactAlpha Open: On the ground for Climate Week NYC + charting the sustainability revolution

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The Brief: Five climate narratives, galvanizing climate solutions, Hawaii’s student housing bond, California takes on Big Oil

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The Week in Impact Investing: Getting Real

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The Brief: Generation Investment charts sustainability, protest-invest at Climate Week NYC, waste-to-plastic alternatives, standing up to for diversity-focused funds

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Financing infrastructure in Africa, decarbonizing battery supermaterials, electric motorbikes in India, funding Black farmers

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Multiplying impact-first capital, homegrown solar manufacturing, European climate tech, hemp-based energy storage, bipartisan worker ownership policy

The Brief | Dennis Price

ImpactAlpha Open: Impact managers scaling up + Africa’s climate opportunity

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The Brief: Global reporting for US companies, infrastructure bond in Michigan, banking migrant workers in the Gulf, climate protesters raise the stakes

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Week in Impact Investing: Thinking Bigger

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The Brief: ImpactAlpha in Copenhagen, Africa’s climate opportunity, zero-emission steel, landscape restoration, acquisition of Energy Capital Partners

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The Brief: Challenging wealth supremacy, Omnivore’s agtech exit, climate-adaptation Catalyst Fund, sustainable aviation fuel

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The Brief: September’s Liist of open impact funds, reducing livestock methane, replacing plastic packaging, repricing natural capital, Ryan Reynolds’ Wrexham model

The Brief | Dennis Price

ImpactAlpha Open: Cautionary tales from East Africa’s disruptive darlings

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The Week in impact investing: Second looks

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The Brief: ImpactAlpha’s Career Hub, promise and peril of Europe’s SFDR, upcycling aluminum and recycling textiles, dignified jobs for climate resilience

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Trouble at Twiga, battery-recycling billions for Redwood Materials, rooftop solar in the South, impact strategies for single-family rentals

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Letter from Italy, Wisconsin social bond for affordable homeownership, convenient high-speed EV charging, AI and aquaculture, how Texas beat the heat

The Brief | Dennis Price

ImpactAlpha Open: Investing in resilience in Maui + wither anti-ESG

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Wall Street’s willful ignorance, alt-pesticides for African farmers, rooftop solar in Vietnam, World Water Week, fall conference circuit

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The Week in Impact Investing: How anti-ESG ends

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The Brief: Investing in resilience in Maui, jobs in South Africa, culturally-sensitive mental healthcare, farmer training in Ghana

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The Brief: Today’s Call: Indigenizing catalytic capital, stabilizing homeownership, affordable cancer care, Ramaswamy’s anti-woke revolution

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Native-led lenders and fund managers, VC for employee ownership, disability services, Engine No. 1’s retreat, LGBTQ+ investing, hardware advantage

The Brief | Dennis Price

ImpactAlpha Open: Acumen’s Indian zebras + investing in hardware

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The Brief: Gender bonds in Latin America, financing small truckers, renewable heat batteries, last-mile distribution in India, pro-ESG narratives

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The Week in Impact Investing: Ingenuity

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The Brief: India’s e-mobility transition, Occidental’s carbon-capture play, farmland upgrades, sustainable fertilizer, Acumen’s Indian zebras

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Grid resilience on Long Island, blue bond in Gabon, sustainable mineral supplies, health equity in Los Angeles, carbon credits in Africa

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The Brief: Inflation Reduction Act turns one, investing in decarceration, building green in Africa, youthful climate victory, KKR’s employee ownership edge

The Brief | Dennis Price

ImpactAlpha Open: Africa’s solar standouts + Hiro Mizuno’s next act

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The Brief: Indigenizing catalytic capital, Big Solar securitizations, pursuing perovskites, Charlotte’s affordable housing, getting started with impact ratings

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The Week in impact investing: Fearless

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The Brief: Healthcare innovation in Africa, green bond in San Francisco, filtering microplastics, protecting Amazon forests

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The Brief: Mangrove revival in Pakistan, bankruptcy for electric bus maker, giving circles, lab-grown pork, piloting character-based lending

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: The Liist: First-time impact fund managers, rebar recycling, green infrastructure in Africa, climate risk in insurance, Al Gore’s climate optimism

The Brief | Dennis Price

ImpactAlpha Open: Racial bias in VC + climate risk in insurance

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The Brief: Racial bias in venture capital, local investors back Ghana’s small businesses, breakthrough energy fund, investing in cancer treatments

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The Week in Impact Investing: Hot Streak

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The Brief: Investing in workers, catalyzing local climate deployment, Brazil’s coffee producers, healthcare in the Middle East, stakeholder voices

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Today’s call: tapping HBCU talent, private equity giants grade their impact, mobile healthcare in Africa, FINCA’s ventures

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: HBCU innovation, cracking the code for community ownership in Kansas City, Africa’s circular economy, small business lending in New York

The Brief | Dennis Price

ImpactAlpha Open: Impact at HBCUs + BlackRock backpedaling

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Navajo Power’s just transition, African development impact bonds, designing utility-scale solar, underground hydrogen, brewing employee ownership

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Week in Impact Investing: Solutions

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The Brief: Financing HBCUs, sustainable supply chains, green ammonia, Bridges’ brownfield fund, catalyzing food waste solutions

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Participatory investing toolkit, fintech in Southern Africa, electric bike bankruptcy, peak Larry Fink

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: ESG Month on Capitol Hill, carbon-removal credits, Armenian entrepreneurs, investing in HBCUs, muni impact in Detroit

The Brief | Dennis Price

ImpactAlpha Open: Indigenizing catalytic capital + energy transition minerals

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Worker power and quality jobs, solar financing in Haiti, Coke’s carbon footprint, managing the green bank

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Week in Impact Investing: Inclusion

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Indigenizing catalytic capital, blending climate financing, sustainable construction, impact family offices

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The Brief: Inclusive real estate wealth, independent media in India, lower-carbon cement, Australia’s Indigenous entrepreneurs

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: The Liist of green and inclusive managers, climate tech downs and ups, rehabilitating affordable housing

The Brief | Dennis Price

ImpactAlpha Open: Racial equity investors lean in + drones over fireworks

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Steering global impact, diverse fund managers, aquaculture unicorn, battery recycling, chief impact officers

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Week in impact investing: Leaning in

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Racial equity investing after affirmative action, healthy food on every table, clean energy access in the DRC, climate risk in passive investing

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Sequestering carbon in family forests, curbing e-waste in Africa, financing climate adaptation, connecting capital to communities

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Week in Impact Investing: Fireworks

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Manufacturing jobs bond in Cincinnati, climate and agriculture in India, micro-entrepreneurs in Latin America, skin in the game

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Pension and insurance funds’ shift to impact, community investment vehicles, sustainable proteins, recycling plastics, debunking ESG myths

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Due diligence doozy, clean energy prepayment bonds, resilient food systems, sanitation livelihoods in India, climate solutions for smallholder farmers

The Brief | Dennis Price

ImpactAlpha Open: Women-led impact funds + Climate-resilient development

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Inflection point for global finance, low-carbon building materials in Africa, upcycling seaweed, new sustainability disclosure standards

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Week in Impact Investing: Equilibrium

The Brief | Roodgally Senatus

The Week’s Impact Jobs: June 23, 2023

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Track-record alternatives for emerging managers, innovations in development finance, climate tech in India, racial equity in muni bonds

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Global pact for development finance, AI for healthcare solutions, pay-as-you-go solar, Impact America’s third fund, mining for decarbonization

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Navajo entrepreneurship, investing in Africa’s youth, Known’s innovation lab, impact deposits, World Bank climate fail

The Brief | Dennis Price

ImpactAlpha Open: Off-grid solar market shifts + reckoning for vertical farming

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Week in Impact Investing: Allocation

The Brief | Roodgally Senatus

The Week’s Impact Jobs: June 16, 2023

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Solar CEOs on Africa’s off-grid future, onshoring solar wafers, energy as a service, caregiving support, active ownership of public equities

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Today’s Call: Muni Impact, catalytic capital at family offices, homeownership in India, clean energy for small buyers, impact ETFs and cut carbon notes

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Collateralizing social loans, carbon-neutral metal, mushroom materials, manufacturing building boom, AI job creation, electric India

The Brief | Dennis Price

ImpactAlpha Open: Institutional climate opportunity + Asia’s appetite for impact

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Local climate partnerships, Just Climate’s impact-linked carry, EVs in India, digital health in Nigeria

The Brief | Jessica Pothering

India’s River and RevFin score investor backing to accelerate EV adoption

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Week in Impact Investing: Audit

The Brief | Roodgally Senatus

The Week’s Impact Jobs: June 9, 2023

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Racial equity audits for munis, preventative healthcare in India, AI for greenhouses, climate resilient food in Washington state

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Future of Common Future, activating diverse talent, sequestered-carbon credits, sustainable aviation fuel, Asian investors’ appetite for impact

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Catalytic capital on The Liist, corporate solar in India, better benefits, sustainable cosmetics, plant-based leather, inclusion alpha in private equity

The Brief | Dennis Price

ImpactAlpha Open: Fusion investments + impact funds raising capital

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Institutional impact in the green transition, sourcing substitute teachers, coping with copper shortages, currency guarantees, thriving farmers

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Week in Impact Investing: On the brink

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Inside corporate impact reporting, green hydrogen for aviation, blueing Los Angeles, Africa’s low-carbon economy, May’s ESG madness

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Proxy season’s big chill, securitizing off-grid solar payments, green Opportunity Zones, trucking cooperative in Nashville

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Muni strategies for racial equity, outsourced impact investment officers, EVs in West Africa, Indigenous resilience in Indonesia

The Brief | Dennis Price

ImpactAlpha Open: Ownership economy + carbon market correction

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Week in Impact Investing: Toolkits

The Brief | Roodgally Senatus

The Week’s Impact Jobs: May 26, 2023

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Financing social determinants of health, neighborhood preservation bond in Philadelphia, tax credits for mothers, US SIF’s Lisa Woll’s exit interview

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Perpetual purpose payouts for auto mechanics, employee ownership and quality jobs, smart heat pumps, lessons from financial activists

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Appalachia as a climate refuge, the science of circular materials, community ownership in California, 2X’s gender-smart mobilization, measuring enterprise impact on the SDGs

The Brief | Dennis Price

ImpactAlpha Open: Outperforming on impact management + green nukes

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Women and the SDGs, solar cell towers, climate tech VC, dissing dollar stores, green nukes, solutions-oriented cinema

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Week in Impact Investing: Alignment

The Brief | Roodgally Senatus

The Week’s Impact Jobs: May 19, 2023

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Inclusive franchise ownership, low-carbon building materials, fundraising FUD at TPG, industrial water management, green hydrogen

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Impact management leaderboard, ground-source heat pumps and direct-air capture, backing diverse fund managers, tying compensation to outcomes

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Infrastructure in informal settlements, rooting out bias in asset management, pay-as-you-go in Africa, green steel in the Midwest, screening out guns

The Brief | Dennis Price

ImpactAlpha Open: Exiting with impact alpha

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Assessing risk to impact, ESG data to measure outcomes, greening the digital economy, supporting caregivers, fusion ambitions

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Week in impact investing: Alpha

The Brief | Roodgally Senatus

The Week’s Impact Jobs: May 12, 2023

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Impact in private equity, greening the digital economy, edtech for Spanish speakers, STEM tools bond, climate project finance, ESG conundrum

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Carbon credits for social enterprises, accounting for nature, catalyzing women-led funds in Africa, bridging climate finance’s valley of death

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Impact alpha in exits, scaling community ownership, higher-ed finance, payment digitization in Central America, AI opportunities in education

The Brief | Dennis Price

ImpactAlpha Open: Impact fundraising defies headwinds

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Adapting social impact incentives, embedded lending in Latin America, energy access in Africa, rare earth recycling, impact unicorns

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The Week in Impact Investing: Basics

The Brief | Roodgally Senatus

The Week’s Impact Jobs: May 5, 2023

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The Brief: Impact liquidity crunch, corporate climate capital, rehabilitating homes in New England, solar for small business in India, overheard in Philadelphia

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Investing in reproductive care, gender lens on fintech, clean cookstove acquisition, long-duration batteries, Chicago’s muni impact investors

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: The Liist of inclusive community funds, Calvert’s billion-dollar notes, green hydrogen in India, neighborhood economics in Mississippi

The Brief | Dennis Price

ImpactAlpha Open: Impact CEOs + employee ownership

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The Brief: Creative economy investment pipeline, coffee and climate, waste-to-fuel in California, employee ownership ecosystem, decarb bros take on the doomers

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The Week in Impact Investing: Maturity

The Brief | Roodgally Senatus

The Week’s Impact Jobs: April 28, 2023

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Today’s Call: Good green jobs, opportunity for impact CEOs, Arizona State’s green bond, smallholder farmers in Brazil, financing small businesses

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Clean energy transformation, new age nukes, AI in the Global South, launch Africa, banking on climate chaos

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The Brief: CDFI bonds + inflation, electrifying dollar rides, modular fusion reactors, trillion dollar bank, the Inflation Reduction Act so far

The Brief | Dennis Price

ImpactAlpha Open: Human rights in VC + mapping climate investments

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Financing fintechs in emerging markets, green earth impact fund, plant-based home goods, data centers in Africa, cultural impact bonds

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Week in Impact Investing: Earth

The Brief | Roodgally Senatus

The Week’s Impact Jobs: April 21, 2023

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Climate co-investing map, sustainable aquaculture, Dutch impact fund-of-funds, avocado farming in Kenya, circular solutions for plastic

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Lafayette Square’s worker solutions, impact muni to expand home ownership in North Carolina, scaling climate tech, measuring investors’ contributions

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Embedded finance for inclusion, marketplaces for green tax credits, BlueMark’s impact integrity, equity for creatives, institutionalizing industrial policy

The Brief | Dennis Price

ImpactAlpha Open: Climate and gender alpha + a just cannabis economy

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The Brief: Impact investing in China, farm management in South Africa, Two Sigma’s bet on human capital, MassMutual’s catalyst fund, managing human rights risks

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The Week in Impact Investing: Outcomes

The Brief | Roodgally Senatus

The Week’s Impact Jobs: April 14, 2023

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Marketplace for social outcomes, students of sustainable investing, bee-friendly pesticides, renewable energy in Africa, AI for climate finance

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The Brief: Climate solutions in India’s slums, sustainable light rail in Kansas City, unbundling school services, unlocking philanthropic endowments

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The Brief: Suzanne Biegel heads for change, blockable housing, Tesla’s master plan, the SDG second half, preserving ‘Green Book’ businesses

The Brief | Dennis Price

ImpactAlpha Open: VC alternatives + next-gen impact investors

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The Week in Impact Investing: Renewal

The Brief | Roodgally Senatus

The Week’s Impact Jobs: April 7, 2023

The Brief | Jessica Pothering

The Brief: Climate risk in the muni market, Indigenous women-led businesses, catalyzing food-waste solutions, faith-based investing for the holidays

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: VC alternatives for diverse founders, energy efficiency in Europe, inclusive fintech in Uganda, AI and disability, rewilding as a climate solution

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: The Liist of eight impact funds, livelihoods for Ukrainian refugees, renewables in South Africa, speaking up for workers in the Year of the ‘S’

The Brief | Dennis Price

ImpactAlpha Open: Impact in public equities + April’s Liist of funds

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Blueprints for climate deployment, food processing in Africa, immigrant-led businesses in Europe, greener cement in Senegal, Vanguard in the hot seat

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Week in Impact Investing: Theory of Change

The Brief | Roodgally Senatus

The Week’s Impact Jobs: March 31, 2023

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Impact investing in public equities, carbon farming revenues, investing in child care, fusion startup, data for spending decisions

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Today’s Call: Metrics Madness, strengthening community finance, carbon-negative concrete, bonds for independent media and gender and racial equity

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Universal metrics for racial equity, impact tech in Africa, AI and climate, plant-based boom and bust, assessing Opportunity Zones

The Brief | Dennis Price

ImpactAlpha Open: Texas’s climate lead + lessons from the plant-based bust

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Texas’ choice on climate, smart water-tanks, breast cancer screening in Latin America, AI for food waste, foundations and net zero

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The Week in Impact Investing: Algorithms

The Brief | Roodgally Senatus

The Week’s Impact Jobs: March 24, 2023

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Proxy season opener, Pepsico’s regenerative shift, flexible electric grids, Nigeria’s creative economy, the real price of water

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Metrics and mood music in impact reporting, embedded finance in emerging markets, urban resilience in Africa, social cost of carbon, electrify everything

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Biden’s veto, tree-planting redux, conservation easements, agribusiness in Kenya, disability-friendly travel, outcomes and levers for racial equity

The Brief | Dennis Price

ImpactAlpha Open: Metrics madness + social cost of carbon

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Metrics for racial wealth-building, safe drinking water, solar for small businesses in India, innovations in climate finance, human capital disclosure

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Week in Impact Investing: Madness

The Brief | Roodgally Senatus

The Week’s Impact Jobs: March 17, 2023

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Metrics Madness, Fink’s fine line on ESG, embedded finance in emerging markets, climate tech in Los Angeles, solar recycling, top impact CEOs

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Investing in gap-closing startups, flexible growth capital in Uganda, affordable housing in West Africa, reversing biodiversity loss, deinfluencers

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Elevar’s strategy for low-income customers, water infrastructure in Africa, green bond in Jordan, biomass to biofuel, ImpactAssets 50

The Brief | Dennis Price

ImpactAlpha Open: Banking impact + regenerative economy

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The Brief: Systemic risks at Silicon Valley Bank, women-led businesses in LatAm and Asia, SPAC deal on deadline, catalytic capital grants, US SIF’s new chief

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Week in Impact Investing: Gender+

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The Brief: Catalytic capital for systems-change in Africa, resilient smallholder farmers, accessible virtual power plants, 8 ways to transform asset management

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: International Women’s Day edition: Gender and climate, inclusive diligence, leadership parity, digital literacy, Macro’s diverse voices

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The Brief: Women lead The Liist, infrastructure in emerging markets, heat pumps in Maine, cutting solar soft costs, ESG standards explained

The Brief | Dennis Price

ImpactAlpha Open: March’s Liist of impact funds + climate alpha in public markets

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: India’s energy transition, digital upskilling in Mexico, small-business financing in Kansas City, purpose trusts for stakeholder governance

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Week in Impact Investing: Grounded

The Brief | Roodgally Senatus

The Week’s Impact Jobs: March 3, 2023

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Regeneration and risk-taking at FLII, decarbonizing food, green hydrogen, Egyptian fintech, clean energy acquisition

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: ESG in muni markets, BlocPower’s big raise, Serena stakes SoLo, disability x tech, valuing workers in the care economy

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Trust-based investing practices, upskilling in Chicago, soil wealth, blockchain impact

The Brief | Dennis Price

ImpactAlpha Open: Impact in real estate + BIPOC-led climate startups

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Special Latin America edition: entrepreneurship boom, Central America partnerships, regional impact unicorns. Plus: reconstruction in Ukraine

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Week in Impact Investing: Founders

The Brief | Roodgally Senatus

The Week’s Impact Jobs: February 24, 2023

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Social impact real estate, rural Opportunity Zones, sustainable aviation fuel, solar for nonprofits, financing disabled founders

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Today’s Call: Year of the S, University of California’s Blackstone brouhaha, catalytic capital for lifting livelihoods, optimizing data for impact

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Employee ownership vs. private equity, accounting for human capital, motion in ocean investing, COMMUNITYx organizing, accessible chips jobs

The Brief | Dennis Price

ImpactAlpha Open: Rihanna’s star power + Blue-collar tech jobs

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The Week in Impact Investing: Ready

The Brief | Roodgally Senatus

The Week’s Impact Jobs: February 17, 2023

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Shifting paradigms in finance, mass transit in Kenya, digital banking in Spanish, scaling battery materials, TPG’s rising impact strategies

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Ceniarth’s catalytic continuum, charger help for electric vehicles, insurance boom in India, Africa’s blue economy, blueprint for a green bank

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Private equity’s climate ambitions, ownership-lens investing, regenerating Morocco’s desert, Black-led impact tech, ChatGPT’s due diligence

The Brief | Dennis Price

ImpactAlpha Open: Jay-Z’s NFL influence + impact in private equity

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The Brief: Ariel’s Project Black (Q&A), developing diverse developers, digital prescriptions in Egypt, mini-grids in California, human rights in EV supply chains

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Week in Impact Investing: The Job

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The Brief: Racial equity in municipal finance (video), Common Future’s accelerator, refrigeration management, battery manufacturing, Black business boom

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Kelly McCarthy on private equity and IRIS+, accelerating HBCU founders, solar and wind power drones, affordable internet and telehealth in Kenya

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: The Liist of open impact funds, e-mobility in India, recycling robots, Europe’s green new deals, ethical hacking, corporate refugee responses

The Brief | Dennis Price

ImpactAlpha Open: February’s impact funds raising capital + investing in refugees

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Impact reports roundup, Ariel’s Project Black, solar financing in the U.S. and Nigeria, small-scale fusion, investing in economic mobility

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Week in Impact Investing: Dilemmas

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Optimizing catalytic capital, Just Climate’s first deals, Jonathan Rose’s affordable housing preservation, impact growth capital in India

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Today’s Call: Muni Impact, ESG in European VC, banking Egypt’s unbanked, decarbonizing buildings, flood insurance, S-shaped energy transition

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Municipal finance for fiscal justice, financing restoration with future carbon credits, impact notes, green steel, community-led funds

The Brief | Dennis Price

ImpactAlpha Open: Quality carbon credits + Black-worker ownership

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Emerging-markets fund rebound, building trust in healthcare, investing in Appalachia, ESG emergency in Oklahoma

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The Week in Impact Investing: Integrity

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Carbon credit crossroads, solar irrigation in India, smart thermostats in Europe, financing employee ownership, disability disclosure

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Development finance transparency, electric pay-as-you-mow, diabetes care in India, Generate’s latest raise, impact policy lookahead

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Municipal bond activism (Q&A), bioplastics and revenue-based loans in Latin America, green bond in Vietnam, GOP governors tack to the center on ESG

The Brief | Dennis Price

ImpactAlpha Open: New capital decision-makers + inclusive crowdfunding

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Mitigating currency risks, climate insurance in Brazil, green coffee in Rwanda, securitization for adaptation

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Week in Impact Investing: Cred

The Brief | Roodgally Senatus

The Brief: Dissing Davos, solar mini-grids in Madagascar, sustainable lithium extraction, Shell’s EV charging acquisition

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Impact of corporate political contributions, decarbonizing cement, rural banking in Indonesia, wind turbine robots, subscription e-trucking in California

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Community climate infrastructure, nature-based carbon, women-led tech in Latin America, Cake’s demographic trifecta, B of A’s stakeholder performance

The Brief | Dennis Price

ImpactAlpha Open: Structuring finance for impact + climate SPACs

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Week in Impact Investing: Catalytic

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Catalytic capital for scaling, billion-dollar climate funds, diverse asset managers, grid-scale battery storage, costs of the ESG culture wars

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: GOP’s about-face on business, municipal wastewater-to-value, recycling in Nigeria, hydro power in Cote d’Ivoire, human rights in impact investing

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Deploying community infrastructure, digitalizing India’s shops, sustainable real assets in Germany, inclusive corporate VC, fairness as a service

The Brief | Dennis Price

ImpactAlpha Open: Inside impact reports + restorative capital

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Inside impact reports, green energy dealflow, healthcare for older women, climate resilience in Madagascar, revenue-based finance in Latin America

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Week in impact investing: Deploy

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Electrifying New York’s ‘dollar vans,’ biodiversity startups in Indonesia, affordable school loans in India, sexy circular strategies

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Developing climate project developers and other 2023 climate trends, financial inclusion in rural India, Indonesia’s underbanked, green concrete

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: The Liist of new impact funds, sustainable development in Nepal, solar refrigerators, ESG predictions for 2023

The Brief | Dennis Price

ImpactAlpha Open: 2023 lookaheads and January’s Liist

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The Brief: A way forward in 2023

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The Brief: Looking Ahead to 2023: ESG to Impact

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The Brief: Looking ahead to 2023: Abundance, ownership and inclusion

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The Brief: Looking Ahead to 2023: Emerging Markets

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The Brief: Looking Ahead to 2023: Climate Finance

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Week in Impact Investing: Words

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Just energy transition partnerships, investing in healthy communities, AI for plant-based food, growth lending in Africa, family offices for impact

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Greenwashing graveyard, Elon Musk’s climate risk, HSBC’s natural capital funds, healthcare in Africa, women’s livelihoods, climate resilience debt

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Jigar Shah’s $140 billion bridge to bankability, narrowing the racial wealth gap, commercializing fusion power, tracking Scope 3 emissions

The Brief | Dennis Price

ImpactAlpha Open: Manage the impact of investments, better

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Adasina’s fiscal justice strategy, ESG bonds for cities, domestic work in Senegal, carbon credits in India, worker ownership and revenue-based lending

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Week in Impact Investing: Proximity

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Impact-linked compensation, second-party opinions for green bonds, small-business lending in Africa and Appalachia, disclosing extinction risk

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Investing in the creative economy, overheard at Mission Investors Exchange, small-business loans in Colorado, reducing plastic waste in Latin America

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: New Liist of impact funds, better impact reporting, gender smart in Africa, investing in wildfire prevention, taking on the investment committee

The Brief | Dennis Price

ImpactAlpha Open: AI chatbots know impact investing + December’s Liist

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Pro-ESG forces strike back, Black businesses in Arkansas, inclusive fintech in India and Mexico, sustainable aquaculture, comparing impact outcomes

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Week in Impact Investing: ⚽ Goal!

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Inclusive development in Baltimore, Lafayette Square’s non-dilutive growth capital, distributed power plants, building the Long COVID economy

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Exiting to employees, TPG enters carbon market, accountability in healthcare investing, insurance for gig workers, chemical-free crop treatment

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Onboarding impact investors, Evercare’s exit in Kenya, supply-chain financing in Nigeria, cities as carbon sinks, innovative finance playbook

The Brief | Dennis Price

ImpactAlpha Open: ESG and crypto + three drivers of ‘inclusion alpha’

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Access to housing wealth, Atlanta’s social bond, real-estate impact in the U.K., climate tech at MassMutual, Gary Community’s leadership transition

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Labor Department’s green light for ESG, catalyzing catalytic capital, Africa’s inclusive growth, rewiring America, future of social entrepreneurship

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Bankrupt billionaires, home healthcare, Kenya’s electric buses, geothermal heat pumps, boosting renter wealth, public solution for worker rights

The Brief | Dennis Price

ImpactAlpha Open: Climate finance opportunities

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Seeking inclusion alpha, committing to equity in California, streamlining government aid, Schneider’s corporate VC, #WTF at COP27

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Week in Impact Investing: Governance

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Tradeoffs in the global goals, low-carbon real assets, battery-powered stovetops, good jobs in India, emissions liability management

The Brief | Jessica Pothering

The Brief: Today’s Call: Racial equity in muni bonds, climate finance tracker, coal shutdown in Indonesia, agtech in Africa, social impact moonshots

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: New climate narrative, home ownership in Denver, college test prep, clean energy in India, gender alpha in agribusiness

The Brief | Dennis Price

ImpactAlpha Open: ESG after the midterms + muni impact

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Call preview: Racial equity in muni markets, catalytic capital for energy transitions, climate cost savings, blockchain for nuclear threat reduction

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Week in Impact Investing: Deliver

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Impact: the video game, emerging markets’ energy transition, regenerative ranching, telemedicine in India, Web3 for climate impact

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Bond banks vs. the Black Tax, Quona’s financial inclusion, Norwegian offshore wind, electric buses in emerging markets, finance day at COP27

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Fintech data for impact, recycling tech opportunity, Egyptian savings circles, ESG attacks escalate, ‘climate-transition’ proteins

The Brief | Dennis Price

ImpactAlpha Open: Impact stakes in U.S. elections + COP27 watch

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Loss and damages at COP27, women-led climate tech, lending in Puerto Rico, microfinance in Mozambique, community solar, growth in impact assets

The Brief | Roodgally Senatus

The Week in impact investing: Stakes

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Keeping fossil fuels in the ground, climate tech pipeline, microfinance exit in Honduras, Indigenous-led waste recycling, impact-linked compensation

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Impact stakes in U.S. elections, climate tech in Africa, impact real estate in the U.K., lithium battery recycling, enabling environmental justice

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: November’s Liist of impact funds, Collide’s Capital’s fund for diverse founders, BlackRock’s balancing act, Is nuclear energy sustainable?

The Brief | Dennis Price

ImpactAlpha Open: The original impact investment + The Liist

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Muni bonds and racial equity, zero-carbon chemicals, Baltimore’s conscious companies, no-collateral loans in India

The Brief | Jessica Pothering

The Week in Impact Investing: Tradeoffs

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Bob Eccles on ESG and impact, truth in climate impact, Saudi sustainability, affordable housing in New York, impact alpha in private equity

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Creative climate finance, made in Africa, social infrastructure in Europe and North America, Shariah-compliant lending, racial justice in PE

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: (Im)perfect solutions to food waste, sustainable seeds for smallholder farmers, fusion’s race to Q>1, six short signals

The Brief | Dennis Price

ImpactAlpha Open: Impact investors… in real life

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Local fund managers as entrepreneurs, community solar, ocean-based climate tech, Chicago’s west side united, gender lens + climate finance

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Week in Impact Investing: Transacting

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Dealmaking at SOCAP, forestry in Africa, EV manufacturing in the U.S., clean energy infrastructure in Europe, disrupting development finance

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: The missing ‘E’ in ESG, renewable natural gas, climate impact fund in India, digitizing regenerative ag, women entrepreneurs in the Global South

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Rockefeller’s climate strategy, early childhood education, neighborhood trust in Boston, leveraging the balance sheet

The Brief | Dennis Price

ImpactAlpha Open: “Climate never felt this dope.”

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: ESG to impact, Lightrock’s climate impact, solar and battery storage in Africa, sustainable tilapia in Brazil, diversity in asset management

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Week in Impact Investing: Swagger

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Overheard at the GIIN, lending to Indian enterprises, performance fact base, climate deals for retail investors, Acumen’s lessons in patient capital

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Patagonia’s private impact, clean hydrogen haul, propagating agroforestry, workforce housing in Philadelphia, small business lending in New Mexico

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Klean energy kulture, Common Future’s stake in SOCAP, Amazon’s catalytic capital, blending finance for smallholder farmers

The Brief | Dennis Price

ImpactAlpha Open: Impact funds hit $1 trillion, VCs ♥️ ESG, and more

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Week in impact investing: Gateways

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Blockchain’s eco-warriors, Bluestar’s green energy fund, low-carbon utilities, solar mini-grids in Rwanda and the DRC, VCs ♥️ ESG

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Greening your retirement plan, Africa’s cold chain, long-life batteries, clean energy for businesses in Costa Rica, water startups in Tunisia

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: The October LiiST, carbon recycling, impact for domestic workers, EV financing in India, credit for migrants, beyond ESG at SOCAP

The Brief | Dennis Price

ImpactAlpha Open: ‘The LiiST’ of impact funds raising capital (October)

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Community development funds, innovative climate finance, healthcare for underserved Americans, Nigerian solar acquisition, impak ratings

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Week in Impact Investing: Reality Check

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Actionable impact data, clean mobile power, working capital for African enterprises, inclusive real estate developers, climate-resilient timber

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Today’s Call: Gender smart in emerging markets, investing in East Africa’s refugees, independent media in Nigeria, clean energy action in Pittsburgh

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Charting the ‘sustainability revolution,’ energy transition at Mirova, AXA’s natural capital, EV charging in the U.S., U.K.’s impact investing growth

The Brief | Dennis Price

ImpactAlpha Open: Making markets for women – and the world

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: South Africa’s women-led funds, Barbados’ blue bond, EV charging in Europe, returns on inclusion in asset management, environmental justice grants

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Week in impact investing: Trillions

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Nature’s gold vault, workers’ comp, consumer carbon footprint, battery swapping for two-wheelers, boosting returns at emerging-market impact funds

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Green growth in Ghana, impact M&A, battery storage in India, accelerating first-time fund managers, digital pharmacies in Nigeria, insect protein

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Designing the Green Bank, CNote for community lenders, upskilling underrepresented talent, forest-based carbon credits, portfolio-first stewardship

The Brief | Dennis Price

ImpactAlpha Open: Patagonia exits to stakeholders + more

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Kicking off Climate Week, scaling good jobs, pooling capital for emerging VCs, Indigenous enterprises, Builders Vision for mission-related investing

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Week in Impact Investing: Bridges

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: India’s climate investing tipping point, profitable smallholder farms, Ethic’s growth round, green exchange, carbon-free crypto

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Reclaiming the ESG narrative, charging commercial EV fleets, clean energy in Europe, criminal justice impact, resilience risk in muni markets

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Greening every neighborhood, lab-grown pet food, cheaper energy in Europe, creating independent creators, rethinking work

The Brief | Dennis Price

ImpactAlpha Open: 💥Catalytic climate investors

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Climate finance tracker, investing in oceans, gender-smart in Africa, coding classes in Vietnam, the climate king?

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Week in Impact Investing: Stepping Up

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Climate adaptation and resilience, food-waste startup consolidation, hydropower in Nepal, fintech in Rwanda, responsible banking for next-gen savers

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Fixing water in Jackson, Bboxx acquires PEG Africa, Kapor Capital goes outside, Danish energy fund, sustainable deliveries, Dow Jones’ ESG data

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Featured: September’s LiiST of active funds, New Island Capital’s wind down, charter school bonds, lithium battery recycling, food-waste reduction dealflow

The Brief | Dennis Price

ImpactAlpha Open: September’s LiiST of impact funds raising capital

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Week in impact investing: Workers

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Parsing ESG regulations, decarbonizing global shipping, reusable PPP, genomic solutions, ESG acquisition in Europe, Pakistan’s climate calamity

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Removing highways to reconnect communities, green infrastructure in Southeast Asia, fintech expansion in India, education finance in emerging markets

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Letter from a Black fund manager, valuing lived experience, green infrastructure in Africa, early wildfire detection, parametric crop insurance

The Brief | Dennis Price

ImpactAlpha Open: The ESG counter-counterattack

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Concrete steps to decarbonize cement, reforestation video game, diverse climate suppliers, India’s smallholder farmers, community solar + storage

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Week in Impact Investing: Risky Business

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Practitioner wisdom from emerging markets, corporate carbon management, insect farming in India, green commercial real estate, Indigenous-led apparel

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Costs of anti-ESG riskwashing, health impact funds, carbon-capture tech, geothermal fracking, Brazilian telehealth, battery optimization

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Gender mindset shift: women in agriculture and as investment decision-makers, Black-led businesses, Nigeria’s micro-traction, motorbike finance

The Brief | Dennis Price

ImpactAlpha Open No. 5: Climate and crypto

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Risk capital in West Africa, India’s artisan economy, next-gen nuclear, Kenya’s smallholder farmers, disrupting wastewater management

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Week in Impact Investing: Talent

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Green bank mobilization, community climate finance, nature-based carbon credits, logistics in Africa, good nursing jobs, solar tracking tech

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: ‘Social bonds’ for foundations, future of work in Africa, battery storage in Australia, sustainable shrimp farming, Convergence’s design funding

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Anti-ESG playbook, urban innovation, consumer fintech in Mexico, climate adaptation for farmers, waste to bio-plastic, Waverley Street’s new CEO

The Brief | Dennis Price

ImpactAlpha Open: VC’s diversity dividend

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Community rounds for emerging managers, backstopping Backstage Capital, banking Africa, tractors in Nigeria, Inflation Reduction Act’s fine print

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Week in Impact Investing: Reset

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Resetting the climate table, sustainable internet connections, shopping with food stamps, low-carbon hydrogen, accelerator opportunities in Africa

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Funding U.S. climate banks, Berlin’s green generation, education finance in India, fixed-income impact, sustainable forestry

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Banking Africa’s missing middle, a fresh way to fight food waste, disaster insurance in Latin America and the Caribbean, institutional climate action plans

The Brief | Dennis Price

ImpactAlpha Open No. 3: Time to build

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Catalyzing new markets, home healthcare economy, low-cost solar installs, creators of color

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Week in impact investing: New Voices

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Policy entrepreneurship for inclusive growth, microfinance acquisition in Kenya, upskilling neurodiverse professionals, catalytic capital for crises

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Green opportunities vs. tax quibbles, food tech in Morocco, worker-owner payout, catalytic capital to combat bias in asset management

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: The LIIST of open impact funds, EVs-as-a-service, impact tech in Africa, federal policy for community solar

The Brief | Dennis Price

ImpactAlpha Open No. 2: Impact funds raising capital now

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Valuing the Congo Basin, guilt-free AC, e-mobility in Latin America and the Caribbean, M&A in agrifood tech, accounting for climate impact

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Week in Impact Investing: Deflation

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Energy efficiency opportunity, treating diabetes in Mexico, reducing plastic waste, managing carbon footprints, seeding emerging managers (podcast)

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Streamlining food rescue, sustainable herbicides, accelerating health equity, renewable drinking water, collaborative catalytic capital

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Supplying sustainable lithium, decarbonizing whole cities, seeding agtech in Argentina and India, blended finance for NGOs

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Quasi-public impact investors, early tech in emerging markets, decarbonizing real estate, off-grid solar in Africa, Indonesian agri-tech

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Week in Impact Investing: Volatility

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The Brief: Formula E, drone delivery in Africa, sustainable mobility, pandemic lessons for a recession, SOCAP Open voting

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Airlift’s crash landing, clean energy in Africa, fusion dreams, impact and risk in catalytic investing

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Climate tech’s resilience, raising impact funds, cutting food waste in India, new rules for shareholder engagement

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: E.U. vs. U.S. in climate tech, global fund for coral reefs, talent development for the future of work, TPG’s hydrogen play, upskilling climate workers

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Week in impact investing: Cosmic

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Sri Lanka’s crisis, community solar, Black tech founders, reducing cow burps, financing small businesses in the U.K., six strategies for scaling

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: ESG and its discontents, climate ventures in Africa, recycling blended textiles, preventing chronic disease in Mexico, impact investing at art museums

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Sobering proxy season, KKR’s second impact fund, agrifood tech in India, energy-efficiency-as-a-service, impact management leaderboard

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Bboxx’s down-market growth (Q&A), EVs in India, digitalizing farms in Latin America, trading environmental commodities, seeding emerging fund managers

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Week in impact investing: Zeitgeist

The Brief | Roodgally Senatus

The Brief: Politics and power in asset management, impact litigation, repurposing food waste, unconventional ventures, African animation, better ESG disclosure

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Reining in greenwashing, financing motorbikes in Brazil, backing small businesses in Opportunity Zones, captured-carbon products

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Legal headwinds for climate action, home ownership in India, renewable energy infrastructure, making employee ownership count

The Brief | Roodgally Senatus

Summer break special: Agents of Impact Call roundup

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The Week in Impact Investing: Summer

The Brief | Roodgally Senatus

The Brief: Alt-corporate structures, overheard at GSG, future of work fund, Brookfield’s big haul, impact real estate

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Solving for oceans and climate, catalytic carveouts, Kellogg’s ReNewCo, affordable apartments, sustainability data unicorn, carbon pricing

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: The XX edge, scoop on SOCAP, Mirova snatches SunFunder, corporate refugee action

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Week in impact investing: Bright spots

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Transforming food systems, waste to value, climate careers, disability startups, investing in justice, Van Jones’ social enterprises

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Upgrading ESG metrics, affordable housing in L.A., electrochemical carbon removal, soil health in Mexico, banking Black customers, race-conscious community finance

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Lessons in catalytic capital, good jobs at small businesses, mini-grids as a service, net-zero pledges, ESG’s regulatory reckoning, global impact leaders

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Local funds in emerging markets, real estate impact, decarbonizing fashion, guaranteeing clean energy, $8 billion in food-waste deals

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

This week in Impact Investing: Out

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Impact compass, upskilling caregivers, edtech unicorn, rewarding regenerative agriculture, battery storage, gender-smart merger

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: LGBTQ+ entrepreneurs, corporate waste reduction, cleantech debt for diverse founders, Obvious Ventures’ cool billion, equitable infrastructure

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Follow the climate talent, blockchain identities in Zimbabwe, GenZero in Singapore, alt-credit data in Nigeria, One Percent for America

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Kapor Capital’s leadership (podcast), transitions to employee ownership, supply-chain financing in India, food waste solutions in Brazil, Africa Eats

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Week in Impact Investing: Arsenal

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Housing solutions in Los Angeles, food access in Latin America, EV components, microfinance index, tracking policy reforms

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Hop on The Call: Financial inclusion in Africa, catalytic capital to cut food waste, Aavishkaar’s carbon fund, sizing impact investing worldwide

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Gun violence as a systemic risk, biofertilizers, decarbonizing construction materials, food ingredient footprints, rebooting ESG for social value

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Week in Impact Investing: Confrontation

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: The taming of Engine No. 1, gig worker-owners, global catalytic capital, carbon removal first movers, greenwashing watch at the S.E.C.

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: ‘Impact on’ in volatile markets, pharmacies in Southeast Asia, carbon + crypto, on-demand EV charging, grid emissions

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Proxy showdowns, women’s power shortage, electric mobility in Africa, private credit in emerging markets, just homes in the U.S.

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Davos watch, healthy childbirth in the U.S., impact tech in Latin America, consumer solar in Germany, optimizing EV charging

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Week in impact investing: Building

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Overheard in Philadelphia, Generation’s sustainable solutions, supply-chain financing in Africa, plant-based foods, Opportunity Zones and Covid recovery

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Reversing food desertification, renewable energy in emerging markets, greening crypto mining, climate questions for oil execs, Black tech nation

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Employee ownership economy, small businesses’ carbon footprint, precision agriculture in Europe, maternal health tech, green infrastructure

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Climate microfinance software, regenerative agtech, insurance in Southeast Asia, self-charging batteries, where to meet

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Week in impact investing: Forward

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: ESG gets political, BRAC’s microfinance notes, Black gathering spots, climate resilience in Asia, waste to energy, non-banks in India

The Brief | Jessica Pothering

The Brief: Leading with climate justice, entrepreneurs of color loan fund, climate-smart businesses in Africa, vegan burgers, natural health solutions

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Today’s Call: Beyond VC, silicon battery tech, inclusive energy upgrades, upskilling workers, Egyptian fintech, environmental justice chief

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Alt-capital for startups, affordable diagnostics in India, Black-led financial institutions, better carbon markets, electric mobility in Africa

The Brief | Jessica Pothering

The Week in Impact Investing: Reality

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Uncharted’s common future, catalytic capital for least-developed countries, mushroom leather, Milken highlights, politics of ESG

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Ventures at the helm of impact management, carbon accounting in community lending, inclusive fintech in Mexico, access to transport in the U.K.

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Jonathan Rose on affordable green housing, agriculture-as-a-service in Brazil, home energy monitoring, neobank in India, flexible business financing

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Growing pains in off-grid solar, heat pump savings, decarbonized cement, gender bond in Tanzania, renewables in Asia, telehealth for birthing mothers

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Week in Impact Investing: Social value

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: J.D. Vance’s impact past, $7B climate fund, sun king of Africa, green energy loans, Gates Foundation’s proxy voting

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Venture capital in Africa, crowdfunding creative businesses, farmer resilience, going circular in Europe and Africa, Japan’s impact investing boom

The Brief | Jessica Pothering

The Brief: Emerging wisdom about emerging managers (podcast), health systems in Africa, small business emissions, lab grown meats, carbon capture materials

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Scope 3 for social, circular innovation, decarbonizing products, supply chain visibility, inclusive fintech in Pakistan, XPRIZES for carbon removal

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Week in Impact Investing: Earthlings

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The Brief: Earth Day dispatches from Mexico, impactful impact reports, diverse climate managers, electric aircraft, system-level investing

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Upskilling workers in New York, housing for health in California, regenerative agriculture, Egyptian entrepreneurship, venture-led impact management

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Today’s Call: Climate adaptation, financing Black farmers in New York, inclusive fintech in India, laser-based fusion in Japan, job matches for nurses

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Equity in climate resilience, maternal health in Brazil, Stripe backs Sacca for carbon capture, nimble solar installations, the circular economy

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Week in impact investing: Market-making

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Climate adaptation innovation, female food founders of color, sustainable textiles, lending to farmers in India, solutions at scale in Latin America

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Financing climate-smart farmers, carbon removal markets, digital banking in the Philippines, mapping the oceans, optimizing Opportunity Zones

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Impact performance benchmarks, the S-factor, climate resilience in emerging markets, equitable auto insurance, managing water risks

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Sanctions and ESG, financing taxis in Peru, seeding health and climate tech, greening cement in Ghana, discounting food waste

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Week in impact investing: Community assets

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: On the job with BlocPower, climate accounting, Voyager’s decarbonization fund, Ellevest’s women investors, stalling small business finance

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Community rounds for startups, sustainable drywall, big bet on Climeworks, auto recycling in Brazil, health tech in Egypt

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Carbon capture’s moment, gender lens in emerging markets, digital healthcare in India, Jacaranda’s split strategy in Kenya

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Climate tech VCs, water equity, financial inclusion in Egypt, overlooked founders, mushroom foodtech, bucking buybacks

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Week in Impact Investing: Perseverance

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Financing farmers in Africa, organic farming in the U.S., clean energy in Indonesia, LeapFrog’s launchpad, climate-Sharpe volatility ratios

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: How to be a climate leader, public support for disclosure, impact ventures in Asia, health social networking in Cameroon

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Today’s Call: political risk, celebrity impact in Hollywood, rhino bond in South Africa, small business lending in India, inclusive fintech in Mexico

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Investing in Ukraine, impact consolidation in Europe, comunidad partners in Texas, EV battery production in Canada, human-centered climate action

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Week in Impact Investing: Sunlight

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Bridge loans in unstable environments, gender equity in healthcare, institutional impact in the Netherlands, risk appetites in development finance

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Electrify everything, smart circuit panels, farmer finance in Africa, decarbonization in China, cold chain packaging, impact incentives

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Climate disclosure breakthrough, banking Africa’s farmers, ocean carbon capture, impact investing in a time of conflict

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Whole Earth (podcast), direct-air and forest-carbon capture, recycled wood waste, India’s venture capital surge

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Week in Impact Investing: Vision

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Black Vision Fund, scaling community lending, Africa’s informal retailers, green shipping, ImpactAssets 50

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Proxy preview, modular mini-homes, refugee jobs, micro-insurance in Ghana, donor-advised impact investing

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Divesting from Russia, Mooving up, Black founders matter, smart homes in Europe, impact investing in Latin America

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Community voices, building credit scores, renewable natural gas, health entrepreneurs in Arab communities, Latin American impact

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Week in Impact Investing: Disequilibrium

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Employee ownership and flexible funding, women entrepreneurs in South Africa, impact in Nepal, waste to protein, Nigerian neobank

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Investing in press freedom, emerging fund managers, decarbonization in Asia, lease-to-own solar, nature-based health solutions

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Today’s Call: Operationalizing ESG, women driving alpha, telehealth in Uganda, digitalization in southeast Asia, migration opportunity in Europe

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Corporate ESG incentives, carbon to diamonds, gender lens in Nigeria, even cheaper solar, food waste in Egypt, everyday impact investors

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Week in impact investing: Leadership

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Age of adaptation, Serena’s ventures, forest-based carbon, e-delivery in Latin America, social bonds for racial equity

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Russia’s ESG red flags, growth capital for entrepreneurs of color, pay-as-you-go in Africa, equitable real estate in LA, labor risk in the meat supply

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Europe’s green shock, climate breakthroughs and climate resilience, agtech in India, digitizing solar energy, hydrogen sensors

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: After the invasion, African agri-businesses, upskilling tech workers, community solar, monitoring emissions

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Week in Impact Investing: Disclosure

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Demand for carbon credits, ESG metaverse, battery recycling in India, small farmers in emerging markets, memo to the Impact Task Force

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Gender and justice, low-carbon wood, digitizing Africa’s small retailers, EV charging in the U.K., infrastructure impact

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Today’s policy Call, spotlight on donor advised funds, decarbonizing heavy industry, mini-grids in India, CDC rebrand, remembering Paul Farmer

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Week in Impact Investing: Perceptions

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Supply-side policies, Palestinian tech, Flutterwave’s big haul, access to cash in Nigeria, Black-led real estate in Philly, upcycling plastic waste

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Climate adaptation investing, food for health, neobank in Brazil, carbon sinks in Europe, electric transit in Kenya, rules for corporate disclosure

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Impact-linked equity, training VCs of color, insect protein, infrastructure exits, healthcare in emerging markets, permanent supportive housing

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Evolution of fiduciary duty, emerging secondary markets, Brazil’s favelas, Nuveen’s impact fund, financial health innovation in Mexico and Morocco

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Week in impact investing: Positive externalities

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Beyond baseline ESG, farmer waste-to-energy, decarbonizing the grid, gender lens in Central America, deal matchmaking

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Banking Africa’s traders, Veris’ new backer, KKR’s eco-restoration, Bear Peak’s community solar, policies for private capital for public good

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Today’s Carbon Call, positive externalities, impact securities, at-home primary care, Bitwise in Denver, Amplify in Toronto

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Carbon supply and demand, direct air capture, agronomic intelligence, Engine No. 1’s climate ETF, affordable health insurance in Nigeria

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Week in Impact Investing: Horizons

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Corporate carbon calculus, healthier fats, Black-owned bond issuers, sharing scooters, Latin American e-commerce, asset owners’ race to the top

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Ross Baird’s local blueprint, charging electric trucks, putting carbon credits on blockchain, upskilling India’s tech workers

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: $1 trillion in climate finance, climate call to action, sustainable fertilizer, health equity for seniors, African tech ventures

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Food waste investing, responsAbility acquisition, gig workers in South Africa, vertical farming funding, manufacturing in underserved communities

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Week in Impact Investing: Performance

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Crypto’s climate play, digitalizing the Philippines’ sari-saris, impact verification, Verdane’s impact fund, Deval Patrick’s next move

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Hedging meat risk, cleaning municipal water, banking off-grid solar in Kenya, tackling income inequality

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Tech for impact data, finclusion in Africa, climate infrastructure in India, supply chains in Brazil, the alpha in apprenticeships (podcast)

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Conflicted pensions in Canada, Azolla Ventures invests, SDG fund in Sweden, Black-led development in Philly, circular economy in Europe

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: The Week in impact investing: Abundance

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Catalyzing water projects in Kenya, deep decarbonization, health equity, rural Africa’s consumers, Larry Fink reax

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Institutional shifts (podcast), revenue-based financing in Mexico, e-scooters in Taiwan, small farms in India, Larry Fink’s conventional wisdom

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Impact VC performance, BlocPowered, Black-led biotech, solar-powered windows, BMW’s venture fund, e-waste reduction

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Week in Impact Investing: Bridges

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Reactivating community solar, composting at scale, African e-commerce, 60 Decibels of data, carbon management

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Investing in people on the move, digitalizing hardware stores in Colombia, sustainable aquaculture in Africa, Jigar Shah on catalytic climate capital

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Impact portfolio lessons, skill-building for tech careers, clean energy in rural communities, sustainable supply chains, long-term + ESG

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Impact investors parody… themselves, Blackstone’s billions for clean energy, sustainable waste management, hyperlocal delivery in India, rent-to-own

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Week in impact investing: Next chapter

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Corporate accountability for democracy, pharmacy supply-chain in Ghana, carbon recycling, deeptech impact, innovative climate finance

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: ESG tap dance, fast-charging EVs, circularity in fashion, Kenyan fintech, sustainability-linked loans in India, inclusive future of work

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Impact fund flows, compostable plastic, EverFi exits, edtech in Latin America, microfinance in Sri Lanka, vanilla farmers in Madagascar, scoping Scope 3

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Capitalism reimagined in 2022, expanding opioid treatment, accelerating lean impact data, remembering Harry Halloran

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Crowding in capital for impact, gender lens in Australia, New Voices, solar exit for SJF, sustainable supply chains, agri-commerce in India

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Exponential climate capital, vehicle subscriptions in Africa, natural-resources governance, impact market mechanisms, direct air capture

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Digital transformation in emerging markets, financing climate infrastructure, gender lens in Africa, recycled thermoplastics, proof of impact

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Week in Impact Investing: Multiracial

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Diversifying asset management, smart subsidies for smallholder farmers, guaranteeing medical credit, India’s family offices, 206 gender-lens funds

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Food waste mobilization, EV dreams at Toyota and Harley-Davidson, biogas digesters for dairy farms, investing in democracy

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Today’s Reconstruction, impact beyond ESG, women’s livelihood bond, Indian agtech, circulating capital, charging EVs, fiduciary duty for pension funds

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: The Port Royal Experiment, Black-led schools and housing development, global health tech, G7’s impact task force, Orange nature

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Week in Impact Investing: Whole

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Reconstruction investing, clean energy bonds, digital payments in Côte d’Ivoire, fleet charging in the U.S., publicly-traded climate plays

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Impact reporting season, Nigeria’s informal merchants, capturing carbon, U.S. circular economy, investing in racial equity, inclusive procurement

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Moving capital toward justice, energy management SPAC, thermal storage, financial literacy for kids, Justice40, Veris’ impact

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Climate-committed shareholders, secondary market for community lenders, super app for Africa’s drivers, European crowdfunding, women-led biotech

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Week in impact investing: Resonance

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: The Reconstruction this time, microfinance acquisition, fusion frenzy, Chris Sacca on climate, impact-linked education finance muni-bond impact

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Building back better on the Navajo Nation, aluminum recycling, EV charging in Europe, corporate impact in Canada, plant-based eggs

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Today’s Call: Capitalism reimagined, sustainable robo-advisors, health-equity investing, independent media, convergence of impact standards

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Warriors and lovers, plant-based everything, electric boats, open-source ESG, inclusive fintech in Indonesia

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Spinning off ReNewCos, wildfire reinsurance in California, community solar in New York, impact startups in Latin America, corporate political activity

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Designing a better system, impact tech in Nigeria and Ghana, custodial accounts for children, investing in caregivers, looking ahead to COP27

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Climate-adjusted returns, impact performance standards, farm fintech, Navajo power, Bay Area anchor, shuttles in Nigeria

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Week in impact investing: Convergence

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Leveraging infrastructure investments for communities, health apprenticeships, sustainable seafood in Portugal, carbon offtakes, 160 racial equity funds

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Christian catalytic capital, advancing sustainable banking, Climate Investor Two, green infrastructure, micro entrepreneurs, public benefit investors

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Hop on The Call, crowdfunding small businesses, pharmaceuticals in Nigeria, Europe’s blue economy, credit cards in Mexico, boosting Black innovation

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Finding a sustainable bank, decarbonization tech, anaerobic digesters, revenue-based financing, carbon-market rules

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Week in impact investing: Consensus

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Africa’s crypto boom, electrifying commercial fleets, equitable economic growth, new climate funds, rising carbon markets

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Disrupting small-business financing, Evergreen’s dream box, education lending, distributed solar, sustainable supply chains, equitable economic growth

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Friends of ImpactAlpha, inflation pressures on ESG, fusion profusion, Black-owned fintechs, Belize’s blue bond, managing small-business emissions

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Week in impact investing: Planet

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: High-quality jobs (podcast), optimizing impact data (video), Africa’s informal retailers, Brazil’s e-prescriptions, financial alliance for net zero

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Catalytic capital at COP26, naturally occurring affordable housing, fintech in Ghana, regeneration in Australia, COVID recovery in Kenya

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Creative economy, ocean climate sensors, zero-carbon diesel engines, health workers and e-mobility in India

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Environmental justice funding, clean energy investment, Citi’s social bond, gig healthcare workers, COP kickoff

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Week in impact investing: Multi-sector

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Regeneration in practice, Just Climate, Fifty Years, Black vision fund, India’s smallholder farmers, carbon management, fixing blended finance

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Patient capital for BIPOC businesses, impact unicorns, Africa’s creative entrepreneurs, Indonesian pharmacies, data for decision-making

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Today’s Call: Catalyzing climate capital, COP dealflow, Builders’ second fund, lab-grown breast milk, expanding employee ownership

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Investing in health, green infrastructure in India, hydrogen-powered air cargo, LatAm vocational training

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Week in impact investing: Countdown

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Living Cities Q&A, crypto in West Africa, funding the crowdfunders, good gig jobs, mapping ocean impact, $100 billion climate downpayment

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Bridging climate gaps, catalytic capital podcast, capturing carbon, Latin America fund raises, women fund managers of color, ABCs of impact investing

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: ETFs for the climate transition, Sudan’s venture deal, Black women social innovators, Indian fintech, SOCAP’s narratives for change

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Character-based lending, green infrastructure, local fungi, remote women’s healthcare, disrupting gender-based violence

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Week in impact investing: Real life

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: The British are coming for climate change, decarbonizing cities, mobility unicorn in India, five impact dimensions, Dutch impact ventures, countdown to COP

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Catalytic capital case studies, AXA’s stake in Blue Like an Orange, inclusive fintech lending, affordable housing, reinventing community reinvestment

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Today’s Call: Black tech, green solutions, low-carbon lithium, reimagining capitalism, emissions accounting, impact finance careers

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Week in impact investing: Restoration

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Place-based fixed income, private-markets ESG, European foodtech, agri-marketplace in Pakistan, Black and Latinx tech founders, Detroit’s EV dreams

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Global impact goes local, upcycling grocery waste, refugee impact bond, residential solar acquisition, optimizing impact

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Activating retail investors, equitable car insurance, reforestation drones, U.S. vs. Europe, private equity in Africa

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Restorative economics, battery storage goes public, edtech in India, modeling climate risk, donor-advised fund reforms

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Week in impact investing: Outcomes

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Community climate tech, emerging market impact unicorns, innovative climate finance, pay equity, beyond ESG-washing

The Brief | Jessica Pothering

The Brief: Diverse climate-fund managers, Caprock’s new owners, Africa’s food supply chains, European impact tech, science based targets

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Impact media boomlet, AI-enabled infrastructure, solar EVs, agri-processing in Nigeria, inclusive economic growth

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Accounting for impact, Impact 3.0, decarbonizing industry, off-grid energy access, banking Pakistan’s workers, sustainable insulation, Black geekdom

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Week in impact investing: The Great Unf**kening

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Methane math, change at Change.org, solar fintech in Uganda, low-cost computers, Africa’s plastics innovators

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Inclusive creator economy, streaming Audius, Bezos’ Earth funding, banking Egyptian workers, cellular meat, planet forward, China rethinks coal

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Private climate capital trumps public commitments, inclusive fintech in Africa, workforce tech in India, U.S. forest resilience bonds

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Redressing infrastructure harms, spurring community solar, gender alpha in Australia, Climate Week in NYC

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Week in impact investing: Shareholder power

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Optimizing for Impact challenge, institutional carbon lock-in, Jeb Bush aligns with impact, solar internet, ESG in real estate, alt-proteins

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Enterprise tech and small-business capital, finance justice, student-led VC, climate-proof coffee, disinformation risks, criminal-justice footprints

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Capitalism Reimagined call, natural asset companies, forest conservation, African fintech, solar finance in Kenya, lab-grown cheese

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Sustainable personal finance, optimizing for impact, decarbonizing chemicals, opportunity fund in Pittsburgh, Catholic impact collaborative

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Week in impact investing: The intersections

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Letter from New Orleans, earthshot for climate tech, buy now pay later in Latin America, health tech for women, climate tech in India

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Shareholder flex, climate and employee ownership funds, climate earth shots, farmland in Australia, scaling conservation investments

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Pension funds’ fiduciary duties, repurposing food waste, global income share agreements, financial inclusion in Indonesia, barbershop revenues

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Week in impact investing: Stewardship

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Beta stewardship, sustainable public equity offerings, duckweed protein, cybersecurity apprenticeships, inclusive community finance

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Resilient microgrids, energy access relief, assisted e-commerce in rural India, Australia’s impact startups, microfinance in Bolivia, care economy

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Sunwealth’s Jessica Brooks walks the talk, ride-hailing in West Africa, gravity energy storage, affordable California

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Resilience force for hurricane recovery, small business digitization in India and Pakistan, EVs in Australia, lower minimums for climate funds

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Week in impact investing: Decentralized

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Building back Haiti, forest-carbon fund, robots for Indian farms, grid energy storage, Nick Hurd on the impact taskforce

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Climate-science talent grab, agtech in India, digitizing Nigeria’s informal businesses, infrastructure upgrades, democratizing farmland investing

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Artists as startups, financial access in Ghana, long-duration batteries, Bridges’ impact exits, farm carbon, innovate Alabama

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Restoring justice in criminal justice, digital transformation in Latin America, recycled housing, children and ESG

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Week in impact investing: Persistence

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Impact-first debt, career impact bonds, community solar, beta stewardship, vaccine justice

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Rethinking lending risks, modeling climate impact, women’s wellness, energy from water, Apple’s impact accelerator, boldface taskforce

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Playing the carbon markets, affordable housing in the U.S., health equity, five critiques of blended finance

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Speaking ESG truth to power, Chris Sacca’s lower-carbon capital, electrified fertilizer, solar-powered fisheries, sorting impact labels

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Week in impact investing: Smarter

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Community investment funds, Black fund managers, cleantech debt, green batteries, accelerating community finance, introducing Policy Corner

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Finding religion, financing drivers in Nigeria, racial disparities in credit, greening vertical farms, climate infrastructure week

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Africa’s informal retailers, Australia’s alt-protein, upskilling in Mexico, sizing the impact market

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Enterprise’s equitable path forward, retirement savings, farmer marketplace, tech training, deployable climate solutions

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Week in impact investing: Climate capital

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Climate fund step-change, climate-resilient agriculture, fintech in South Africa, decarbonizing buildings, Q&A with Goldman’s Asahi Pompey

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Unlocking impact in emerging markets, AI for alt-protein, electric trucks, voluntary carbon markets, impact management

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Philanthropy unbound, community solar in the U.S., catastrophe bonds in Jamaica, mini-grids in Nigeria, ‘Volcker Shock’ for climate

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Week in impact investing: Design

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Incentivizing impact, healthcare apprenticeships, wellness solutions in India, health clinics in Africa, sustainable infrastructure, ESG reporting solutions

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Accelerating Native entrepreneurship, managing zero-carbon grids, mezzanine debt for Africa, building renter credit, catalyzing climate capital

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Sustainable investing’s fuzzy math, guarantees in Memphis, community equity in North Carolina, forestry in California and Oregon, fungi-based protein

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Private equity pitches ESG, alt-fertilizer, impact real estate, South African health tech, Generate’s $2 billion for infrastructure

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Week in impact investing: Restructuring

The Brief | Jessica Pothering

The Brief: Sustainability-linked debt, racial equity bond, Indian agtech, electric aviation, carbon market expansion in Europe and China

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Charting sustainability trends, returns on inclusion, climate tech, edtech in Chile, centering communities in the COVID recovery

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Diversity disclosure, global impact tech, sustainable wood, battery race, committing the G20, leading Living Cities

The Brief | Jessica Pothering

The Brief: Kinder capital, business digitization in the U.S. and Kenya, solar tech SPACquisition, KKS Advisors gets acquired, fungi-based protein

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Week in impact investing: Breakthrough

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Inclusive fintech in Africa, vaccine delivery, early-stage climate tech, Muhammad Yunus’ carbon market, gender FOMO, climate finance in emerging markets

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Asia Green Fund’s Bo Bai, Apollo’s impact dealflow, high-tech greenhouses, neobanking in Mexico, green infrastructure in emerging markets

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Commercial fusion, drone delivery, digital inclusion in Egypt, Black-owned edtech, Indian solar, nonprofit M&A

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Week in impact investing: Investment-ready

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Migration solutions in Central America, workforce and affordable housing, efficient electric motors, climate risk tech, banking for impact

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Lisette Cooper walks the talk, J.P. Morgan acquires OpenInvest, COVID screening in India, local water-quality data, innovative gender financing

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Fiduciary duty to Africa, consolidating impact managers, back to work in America, conservation in Peru, voting rights for small shareholders

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Closing racial wealth gaps in Atlanta, financing employee ownership, upskilling Africa’s youth, electric hydrogen, COVID long-haulers

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Week in impact investing: Stakeholders

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Racial pledges to policies, Buffalo’s green infrastructure bond, circular economy funds, Togo solar plant, Rockefeller’s $20 billion climate goal

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Securitization for sustainable development, forest carbon, home healthcare, Backstage’s portfolio, Engine No. 1’s shareholder strategy

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Worker power, funding Black founders, S2G’s blue economy deals, haute climate adaptation, structured exits

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Public benefit corporations go public, EVs-as-a-service, renewables in Africa, buzzword bingo, Europe’s sustainability reporting directive

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Week in impact investing: Juneteenth

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Closing racial wealth gaps, European solar assets, access to medicine in India, recycling electronics, catalyzing climate capital

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Inclusive community lending, industrial modernization, Kenya COVID relief, carbon tracking tech, getting impact-first capital off the sidelines

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Climate stakes in NYC election, small business resilience, South Africa’s smart cities, affordable irrigation, sustainable investing performance

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Black culture on blockchain, community lending, labor market insights, housing equity, Latin America’s creative economy

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Week in impact investing: Reimagination

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Global access to vaccines, electric batteries, student-run impact funds, Adobe Capital acquisition, confronting income inequality, alt-capital

The Brief | Jessica Pothering

The Brief: Fintech in Latin America, racial equity in Georgia, impact in listed equities, plastic proliferators, emissions and diversity disclosure

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Capitalism reimagined, good jobs in Pakistan, impact exit in Uganda, edtech in Vietnam, biotech financing in Hong Kong, biodiversity risk disclosure

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Catalytic climate capital, social infrastructure, gig work in India, Citi’s impact fund, podcasting in South Africa, taxing revenue-based finance

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Week in impact investing: Building forward

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Electric mobility in emerging markets, better weather forecasts, corporate community investors, insurgents at Exxon, coastal climate adaptation

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Catalytic family capital call recap, cheaper smallholder finance, Kenyan farmer training, carbon accounting in China, rebuilding Black

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Centering Blackness, HBCU venture capital, virtual surgery, cost-effective pay-for-success, facilitating dealflow

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Week in impact investing: Remembering

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Big Oil smackdown, preventing policy capture, Black innovation fund, Egypt’s early-stage startups, bridge loans, last-mile distributors

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Legacy of Black Wall Street, LISC’s catalytic capital, power-grid sensors, Exxon’s endgame, a retirement plan for Jeff Bezos

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Impact’s fallen star, financing fresh produce, microgrid maintenance, solar unicorn, bringing racial justice to finance

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Cheat sheet for The Call, sustainability-linked loans, agtech in Indonesia, climate intelligence, impact measurement and management

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Regenerative agriculture, next-gen geothermal, climate finance in Mexico, justice tech, plant-based chicken, smarter glasses

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Impact-first family offices, zero-carbon aviation, optimizing EV batteries, low-income solar, IEA’s energy transformation, listening to CDFI borrowers

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Shareholder flex, Ulu’s Latino-led fund, decarbonizing buildings, refurbished electronics, banking Egyptians, greener crypto

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Investing in women of the world, digitizing vintage clothing, scrutinizing carbon offsets and income-share agreements, ending unsustainable subsidies

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Commercial catalyst for inclusive fintech, worker owners, billion-dollar babies for the energy transition, diverse food tech, ethical digitalization

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Catalyzing infrastructure in Africa, farmers’ access to markets, Amazon’s sustainability bond, affordable student housing, shaping impact capital

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: China as an ESG risk, Midwest tech founders, D.C. food fund, innovative finance for local business, development finance at J.P. Morgan

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Governance risk in Saudi Arabia, carbon removal, electric freight transit, first time funds in Egypt, ESG in Nigeria, sustainable packaging

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Community collaboration in Minnesota, EnCap goes green, racial justice collaborative, Solve’s innovation future, mangroves carbon

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Upskilling workers, democratizing investing, pay later in Latin America, accessible plant-based protein, indoor feed farming

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: VC for African entrepreneurs, decarbonizing cement, solid-state batteries, grading Biden’s first 100 days, ESG policy shifts

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Black generational wealth, more-sustainable lithium, African small business fund, supplying artisans, solidarity economy

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Week in impact investing: Opportunity

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Opportunity Alabama, Brazil’s positive ventures, low-cost solar in the U.S., decarbonizing North America, transparency in ESG

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: $100 carbon, solar access in Madagascar, health-based affordable housing, Chinese agricultural drones, off-take agreements in conservation finance

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Inclusive real estate in Philadelphia, community solar in NYC, scaling edtech in India, regulating greenwashing, insurgents at Exxon

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Institutional impact (column), early-stage climate tech, hydrogen-fuel airplanes, pay-for-success forest protection, water equity, e-mobility

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Week in impact investing: Acceleration

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: The Great Acceleration, ugly produce, diversifying leadership, payroll loans in the Philippines, land restoration in Latin America

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Gender alpha in Pakistan, Earth Day dealflow, Classy’s capital, an inclusive next normal, Mosaic fellows, PhDs to VCs

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Real estate co-op in Oakland, community decision-making, Indigenous entrepreneurs in Canada, e-bikes in Vietnam, 3D-printed salmon

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Deploying endowments, FINCA forward, carbon drawdown, fungi bacon, urban aquaponics, Caribbean’s inclusive recovery

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Week in impact investing: Talent

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Ivy Jack walks the talk, Daryn Dodson reflects on The Reconstruction, slowing food spoilage, cash-management options, beyond microfinance

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Institutional shift, home healthcare in South Africa, affordable housing in Mexico, micro-“mompreneurs,” climate-tech funds

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Next-gen talent, eating worms, decarbonization partners, electric motorcycles in Africa, systems-level investing

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Making the case, career impact bonds, financial innovation and climate investment in emerging markets, de-risking college tuition

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Week in impact investing: New rules

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Structural reform agenda, North African tech innovation, Reinventure’s catalytic capital, battery tech, Jamie Dimon’s wish list

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Board diversity and ESG in emerging markets, Kiva’s refugee fund, sustainable soap, e-rickshaws, crowdfunding surge

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Impact-first family offices, structuring capital for impact, Black genius, lending to underserved Brazilians, equitable vaccine distribution

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Not so fossil-free, zero-carbon aviation, fungus-based textiles, mobile money in Kenya, housing for L.A.’s homeless, sustainable SPACs

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Week in Impact Investing: Optimized

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Electric network effects, custom portfolios, good green jobs, micro-business lending, community investing alliance

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Restorative-justice capital, collaborative lending in Miami, Brazilian resilience, tech + culture, living kindly, first-time fund managers

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Optimizing asset management, banking Black and Latino Americans, Senegal’s bakeries, financial access in the South, net-zero pledges

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Week in Impact Investing: Going direct

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Fossil fuel leaders and laggards, guaranteed income experiments, financial inclusion in Nigeria, plant-based eggs, medtech for millions

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Agtech in Africa, Danone on impact watch, The Nature Conservancy’s regenerative investments, fracking finance at Goldman Sachs

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Interrupting gentrification, inclusive recovery, digital transformation, water and agtech, distributed utility-scale solar, seeding diverse investors

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Climate-smart fintech, renewable energy in India, affordable loans for workers, JP Morgan’s Global Impact Fund, social bond surge

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Week in Impact Investing: The crowd

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Momentum for worker ownership, funding for crowdfunders, Indian farm satellites, plant protein, future of work, basketball’s impact vibe

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Corporate capital for inclusive innovation, crowdfunding for Main Street, small businesses in Brazil, harmonizing impact reporting, Danone’s drama

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Amazon’s pension pressure, greenhouse sukuk, impact tech in India, solar cars, crowdfunding frenzy, Macro’s Oscar bid

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Crowdfunding takeoff, SPAC for Black tech founders, African seed fund, climate tech ventures, stock-exchange faceoff

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Week in Impact Investing: Bottom-up

The Brief | Jessica Pothering

The Brief: Bottom-up reconstruction, Nigeria’s flutter wave, investments in Black women, the quilters of Gee’s Bend, good jobs fund

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Temasek’s leapfrog, six financial innovations, independent media, vertical farming, green hydrogen

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Revenue-based financing, inclusive tech in Pittsburgh, Indigenous capital in Canada, workforce solutions, soul food VC, accountability tools

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Rodney Foxworth on reparative investing, SunFunder’s solar transformation, equity crowdfunding in Africa, celebrating international women

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Week in Impact Investing: Tailwinds

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Jigar Shah’s $40 billion mandate, greening sovereign debt, social justice advisories, Chicago VCs, cold-chain carbon, India’s gig workers

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Net-zero water, principled voting, end of Indie.vc, southern resilience, vegan startups, Kenyan artisans, rolling impact tech fund

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Agents of impact inside Apollo, Kapor Capital’s impact fund, Chevron’s low-carbon fund, alt-capital for diverse founders, Cornerstone Capital acquired

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Democracy’s power brokers, lab-grown beef, blending SDG capital, workforce housing in D.C., gender + climate call recap

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Week in Impact Investing: Block power

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Surdna’s Don Chen, Indonesia’s women entrepreneurs, social ETF, PRI’s voting record, repricing climate risk, syncing impact management

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Bitwise’s digital new deal, green steel, ImpactAssets 50, mail-truck misfire, impact investor clubs

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Neighborhood trusts, block power, SheEO’s network effects, borrowing well, small businesses in India and Indonesia

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Week in Impact Investing: Distributed

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Life sciences capital, resilient electric grids, women’s healthtech, board diversity, minority-led suppliers, challenging finance fallacies

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Soil-carbon markets, edtech startups, reduce and recycle, expanding EV charging, Goldman’s sustainability bond, pay for success

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Ten-figure net-zero funds, lending to Black businesses, alt-payday lending, solar irrigation in Africa, Caprock’s Nick Flores walks the talk

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Week in Impact Investing: Incentives

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Outcome payments in Latin America, social impact bond in India, Kaepernick’s SPAC, clean steel, innovations for workers

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Due diligence 2.0, overlooked founders, sustainable SPACs, green wall in Africa, mobile health in Bangladesh, stashing corporate cash

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Climate edge for gender investors, quality meat in India, retail impact investing, electric bikes, small businesses in the deep South

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Impact fundraising falloff, SJF’s fifth fund, good eggs and good jobs, battery power in Oregon, monkey exchange in Brazil, representative toys

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Week in Impact Investing: Leadership

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Financing biodiversity, halving food waste, capturing carbon, wetlands in Indonesia, dental care in Vietnam, snacks in Bangladesh

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Climate-smart boards, net-zero electrofuels, inclusive fintech in Africa, supply chains in Brazil, Carmen Rojas on The Reconstruction

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: The Reconstruction podcast, lab-grown chicken, Backstage crowdfunding, sustainable rolling funds, Microsoft’s carbon capture

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: The Reconstruction, investing for climate justice, criminal justice reform, utility-scale solar, honest IPO

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Week in Impact Investing: Action

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Opportunity Zone window, executive climate orders, minority-led fund managers, solar in Chile, peer selection, beacon for impact entrepreneurs

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Larry Fink’s net-zero mandate, catalyzing economic opportunity in India, solar fintech SPAC, guaranteeing small biz lending in West Africa

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Climate adaptation, impact reporting, insuring smallholder farmers, imperfect food, student-centric finance, decarbonization opportunities

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: India’s agtech opportunity, EVgo-ing public, Jay-Z’s cannabis fund, loneliness impact bond, Patricia Farrar-Rivas walks the talk

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Week in Impact Investing: Creativity

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Financing creative entrepreneurs, Two Sigma Impact’s good jobs strategy, sustainable salmon, clean energy infrastructure, Biden’s Day One

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Developing energy project developers, Africa’s creative economy, India’s smallholder farmers, Haiti’s solar scale-up, betting big on electric mobility

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Brief birthday, Yo-Yo Ma on culture and capital, energy inclusion in Africa, sustainable development SPAC, new books for a new era

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Week in Impact Investing: Repudiation

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Sustainable consumer electronics, outcome optimization, converting to employee ownership, commercial solar in West Africa, coral adaptation

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Jigar Shah on infrastructure, financing clinics in Africa, electric fleet flurry, special-ed tech, return to Paris

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Community-led COVID recovery, Black-led real estate, climate risk-adjusted indexes, natural capital, ESG improvers

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Inclusive recovery in Latin America, Biden’s ESG investor, Indian agtech, immigrant edtech, forest carbon, air protein

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Week in impact investing: Historic

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Top 10 sustainability forecasts, affordable housing in Atlanta, small business financing in Pakistan and Egypt, workforce development amid COVID

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: What Agents of Impact expect, emission-free steel, immigrant entrepreneurs, affordable homeownership, boom in ESG bonds and funds

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Georgia’s mobilization, the Arctic’s stranded oil, sustainable mining, waste management bots, fintech in Kenya, femtech in India

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: New year’s watch list, edtech in China, agtech in India, micro-entrepreneurs in Zimbabwe and Zambia, alt-plastic, early action on climate policy

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Housing as healthcare, palatable price points, COVID capital for small businesses in the U.K. and India, alt-credit scoring, Bill Gates’ dose of optimism

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Relief for community lenders, impact alpha in listed equities, deforestation risk, access to credit in Brazil, microfinance in China, green hydrogen in Europe

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Financing climate adaptation in Africa, linking ESG and credit, social investment trust IPO, Black-led funds, the Great Burp Forward

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Institutional shift lookahead, solar irrigation in Togo, microfinance in America, waste-picking robots, lab-made milk, Biden’s climate agents

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Climate finance lookahead, inclusive and culturally-appropriate healthcare, hydrogen air travel, charging infrastructure, finite carbon, air sensors

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Racial justice lookahead, equitable path forward, liquidity for lenders, affordable residential solar, microbial engineering

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Catalytic capital lookahead, resilience ROI, classifying impact strategies, CNote’s millions, financing India’s farmers, impact policy planks

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Emerging markets lookahead, women in safe homes, off-grid revival, value-based health care, green policy proposals

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Week in impact investing: Science

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Creative portfolios, digitizing doctors, women’s livelihoods, immigrant founders, plastic waste, moves from Bridgewater, BlackRock and New York Common

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Deep tech impact, workforce housing, battery breakthrough, small businesses in India, tilapia farming in Mozambique, banking racial equity

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Activist hedge funds, climate fintechs, impact benchmarks and classes, SoLa’s Black Impact Fund, Latin America’s gig workers

The Brief | Jessica Pothering

The Brief: Business lending in Indian Country, green startups in South Africa, pay-for-success in Memphis, environmental impact bond in Virginia, EVs in N.C.

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Week in impact investing: Shifts

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Cultural endowments, climate financing gap, digitizing small businesses, inclusive cannabis, shelter tech, impact accountability

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Reporting on impact, impact goes public, banking Mexico’s unbanked, Texas health clinics, Total vs. Neste Oyj, Nasdaq’s diversity mandate

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Blueprints for refugee investing, accelerating climate tech, alt-pesticides, U.K. affordable housing, Domini goes global

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Updated ‘exclusion lists,’ corporate impact in Canada, digitizing solar installations, democratizing donor-advised funds, setback for private prisons

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Gender-smart recovery (Call No. 25 recap), serving COVID’s new entrepreneurs, Heartland founders, funding democracy, curbing astroturfing

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Proof points for Africa’s solar market, home solar in the DRC, sustainable food and agtech, Revolution Acceleration SPAC, lessons in impact management

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Impact-first climate investing, Bain Capital doubles down on impact, sustainability SPACs, mapping air quality, mobilizing for racial justice

The Brief | Jessica Pothering

The Week in impact investing: Onward

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Mitigating pandemic food risk, DealBook soundbites, waste management in India, crowdfunding consolidation, green capital in Switzerland and Germany

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Gender-smart call + guide, Opportunity Zone strategies in the Southeast, LISC’s impact notes, Micron’s cash, KKR’s packaging play

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Gender-smart capital, tallying sustainable assets, healthy living SPAC, access to electric vehicles, accelerating justice tech

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Week in impact investing: Transition

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Climate reset, inclusive hardtech, operating principles disclosure, blended capital shortfall, green stimulus, who’s who in the Biden transition

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Gender is material, waste-to-fuel opportunity, women’s health products, justice tech disruption, social bond boom

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Gender-smart call, biotech nudges, sustainable food in China, preserving jobs in emerging markets, ESG pendulum swings

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Post-election tailwinds, ESG-impact convergence, electric scooters in India, Twinkie factory rehab, Kenya’s women farmers

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Week in impact investing: Patience

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Election narratives, back to Paris, affordable housing in Charlotte, seaweed carbon capture, pandemic relief in Wisconsin, telehealth in Portugal

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Election takes, resilient tech startups in Africa, Virginia’s Opportunity Zones, crowdfunding for clean energy, consumer lending through the crisis

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Q&A with Amy Domini, building Latino wealth, bridging skill gaps, Norway’s solar buy, SEC boosts equity crowdfunding

The Brief | Jessica Pothering

The Brief: Revenue-based financing and zero-interest debt, digitizing Kenya’s taxis and Prazil’s informal businesses, boosting organic farming, DoL’s ESG rule

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Week in impact investing: Courage

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Small business financing lessons, Draper Richards Kaplan in Europe, PayPal’s bets on Black and Latinx managers, information and emergency funding for small farmers

The Brief | Jessica Pothering

The Brief: Democratizing DAFs, Cleveland cooperatives, Fearless Fund, water-quality sensors, Rockefeller’s $1 billion commitment

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Impact America’s disruption, India’s small merchants, fintech for community finance, market transition from the oil industry

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Virginia’s impact ecosystem, Mastercard’s deposits with CNote, alt-protein SPAC, lending for Brazil’s small businesses

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Week in impact investing: Democracy

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Taking stock at SOCAP, impact performance in agriculture and inclusion, health outcomes funds, digital commerce in Ghana, Unreasonable Collective

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Greenhouse food security, early-stage investing in South Africa, social bonds in Europe, electric vehicle infrastructure, catalytic diabetes fund

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Recovery entrepreneurship, impact growth engine, paying for success in San Francisco and Colorado, Black-owned financial institutions

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Financing solutions for frontline health clinics, electric buses, Chelsea Clinton’s edtech deal, mobile dentistry, SOCAP survival guide

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Week in impact investing: Scenarios

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Blue wave growth stories, fintech transparency in Nigeria, health tech in India, engagement with consequences, gender alpha, impact intersectionality

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Competing on impact in public equities, solar energy efficiency and access, Black venture capitalists, survey deadline

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Opportunity Zones’ second act, Europe’s clean energy startups, wildfire sensors, investor pressure on corporate emissions, four energy scenarios

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Tugende’s motorcycle loans, Aristata’s impact litigation, Black-owned neobank, JPMorgan’s racial justice pledge, hydrogen-powered trucks

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Week in impact investing: Reconstruction

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Today’s Call: Solar financing for frontline clinics, India’s credit gap, the failure files, infrastructure-as-a-service, Google’s Black founders fund

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Health clinic electrification, insect protein, India’s soil health, corporate energy retrofits, stakeholder capitalism tools, JPMorgan’s climate vow

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Salesforce’s impact fund, Husk’s microgrid expansion, greening affordable housing, oil’s unfunded liabilities

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Public policy for private equity, impact verification, India’s VC boom, Chicago’s service businesses, Latin America’s working capital crunch

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Week in impact investing: Extinction

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Solar financing for frontline health clinics, biodiversity urgency, India’s digital health boom, greening freight, racial justice algorithms

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: AppHarvest’s SPAC acquisition, cultivated shrimp in Southeast Asia, mitigating risk with an LGBTQI lens, raising green

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Climate finance innovation, ESG laggards, Save the Children’s impact fund, equity progress bonds, Crédit Agricole vs. BNP Paribas

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Career impact bonds, Citi’s impact fund, decarbon8ing, Viamo’s low-tech alerts, bridging the city climate gap

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Week in impact investing: Dissent

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: “Pro-business” has a new meaning, African reinsurance, solar health centers, Brazil’s urban farms, DWS’ impact shakeup

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Equity for CDFIs, alt-proteins and alt-leathers in Asia, fashionable hijabs, corporate net-zero pledges, Latin American entrepreneurs

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Today’s Call: Algorithms for racial justice, greenlighting off-grid solar, worker ownership in Cincinnati, climate stewardship leaders and laggards

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Electric transformation, Mastercard’s bet on inclusion, Amazon’s carbon capture, Citi’s impact alpha, IFC’s emerging markets performance

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Week in impact investing: Breathe

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Digging deeper to invest for racial justice, sustainability-linked credit, Trillium’s Matthew Patsky walks the talk, PhD to VC

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Pushing ESG from intentions to outcomes, AI + alternative proteins, sustainable packaging, Mexico’s SDG bond, WEF’s COVID alliance

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: COVID lessons from Southeast Asia, energy access in Nigeria, Bridges’ impact SPAC, sustainable cities fund, peak oil at BP

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Fusing climate and COVID recovery, East African dairy farmers, southern Black women and girls, resetting capitalism

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Week in impact investing: Narrative

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Impact investing’s new narrative, sustainable SPACs, falling solar costs, trade finance redux, UBS’s sustainable investing, ImpactAlpha is hiring

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: ESG proxy fight, ocean equities, RSF backs Native CDFI, Bima’s microinsurance, Valor’s inclusion premium, #EmancipateTheVote

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Centering equity in school innovation, Europe’s green bond parade, tracking agricultural carbon, smart subsidies for African agriculture

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Week in impact investing: Prototype

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Preventable deforestation, retail impact bond fund, insurance tech in Indonesia, Latin American social enterprises, Novartis vs. Sanofi

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: BlackRock’s case for impact in public equities, Oakland’s Black business fund, digitizing small businesses in Indonesia, AXA’s multi-asset impact fund

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Voices for electoral justice, drone intelligence, Costco backs LISC, DC angels, 10x’ing impact assets

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Lessons from Chadwick Boseman’s Wakanda, COVID financing in California, BlueOrange in Brazil, secondary markets for crowdfunding, greenhouse-in-a-box

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Week in impact investing: Deeper

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Systemic impact investing, China’s plant-based meat, CDFI merger, WorldRemit buys Sendwave, U.K. jobs bond, agri-tech trends in India

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Equitable employee ownership, sustainability-linked loan in Japan, off-grid solar in Mali, solar farms in Malaysia, water deals flow

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Blending finance for racial justice, petroleum-free materials, commercial EV conversions, smart metering, managing chronic disease

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Family businesses in East Africa, pad splitting, vertical farming in Finland, seafood tracing in India, crowdfunding through COVID

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Week in impact investing: Agency

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: De-risking smallholder farmer finance, electric trucking, commercial mini-grids, Lever VC’s alt-protein fund, COVID boost for remittance fintechs

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Investing in nuclear threat reduction, real estate + small business finance, social justice startups, Acumen’s solar exit, agri-investing in Africa

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Closing capital gaps in Latin America, expanding Fig Tech’s lending capacity, workforce investing, forming a fund with impact integrity

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Unlocking COVID aid in Alabama, Indonesia’s smallholder fish farmers, impossible food financing, clean energy takeover, Navajo entrepreneurship

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Week in impact investing: New norms

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Buying Black, endowments for racial justice, racial equity resources, $100 million oceans fund, how women invest, small business bonds

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Hourly employee ownership, seeding vertical farms, eco-packaging, e-motorcycles in Brazil, tropical forests funds, stranded-asset write-downs

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: 10x’ing systemic investing, election impact, impact agtech, corporate green bonds, communal ride-hailing, immigrant bonds, inclusive NMTCs

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Corporate climate collaboration, high-tech agriculture, EV charging networks, Mirova’s oceans fund, ESG in private markets

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Week in impact investing: Purpose-built

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Raising impact voices, democratizing 401(k)s, MacKenzie Scott’s gift list, securing medical supplies, hybrid meat, from gender lens to gender justice

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Engie vs. Enel, lending to diverse businesses in Colorado and Detroit, passive ESG investing, accelerating social entrepreneurs

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Founders first funding, artificial gravel, East African agribusiness, climate financing’s virtuous cycles

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Election impact call, accelerating COVID finance, impact crowdfunding, long-short green funds, Dutch vertical farms, Nia’s Kristin Hull walks the talk

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Week in impact investing: Pushback

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Investors push back, student mental health, distance learning with disabilities, vital capital in Kenya, DFID’s market-building

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Native natural foods, coastal pollution solutions, Nuveen’s new fund, Latam debt fund, Nick O’Donohoe on Sir Ronald Cohen

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Green crowdfunding, food preservation tech, DILA’s Latin America fund, animal-free dessert, redressing community grievances

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Corporate impact strategies, India’s edtech boom, Kauffman’s lab for capital access, Candide recruits

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Week in impact investing: True colors

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Diane Isenberg’s 1/10th challenge, FreshFry’s fresh capital, Italian food tech, racial justice in Oregon, equitable media, LGBTQI investing

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: BlackRock’s stewardship shortfall, Blackstone’s alt-dairy bet, KKR’s green collar, forestry in Africa, health tech in India, gender alpha funds

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: ESG pushback, doctors on demand, betting on activists, animal-free proteins, Vital Farms’ IPO, India’s impact investing market

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Nick O’Donohoe on risk and liquidity, gender megafund, Rivian’s raise, Bey’s Black-owned business fund, vested for growth in New Hampshire

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Week in impact investing: Toppled

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Generational opportunity, Catholic lens investing, lending to farmers in Myanmar, access to capital in Zambia, ESG hedge fund, pandemic risk-off

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Traders and investors, tipping point policy, female founder fund, solar mega-deal, Bangladesh’s microgrids, Africa’s essential businesses

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Incentivizing impact, alt-leather, pan-African innovation, frontier debt finance, pipeline fallout, Hiro Mizuno’s portfolio

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Week in impact investing: Independence

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Unlocking returns on inclusion, COVID lending in West Africa, Hamilton Lane’s impact fund, Rise Fund’s green infrastructure, capturing carbon – at a price

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Assets off the sidelines, Erie’s opportunity zones, Netflix banks Black, carbon tax on meat, Big Energy’s stranded assets

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Opportunity Zone reckoning, navigating parole, edtech in prisons, plastic from milk, Kiva’s gender fund, people-centered finance

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: 10x in 10 years, LeBron’s impact media, eco-pesticides, impact delta, Mexican alt-dairy, Midwestern founders

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Week in impact investing: Repricing

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Today’s Call: The How, COVID capital gaps, LGBTQ entrepreneurs, HBCU student debt, Jeff Ubben’s activist impact fund, creative capital coalition

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Greening infrastructure (replay), Amazon ventures into climate, water-tech Breakthrough (and BlackRock), Moskowitz Prize redux

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Accelerating Black-owned businesses, wage-based COVID relief, microgrids in West Africa, Ford prices COVID bonds, social shareholder resolutions

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Catholic climate investors, racial justice pledges, impact investing handbook, Egypt’s medicine marketplace, India’s social stock exchange

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Week in impact investing: Infrastructure

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Today’s Call: green infrastructure, enough impact excuses, financial health for gig workers, Chris Sacca goes lower carbon, Google’s CDFI fund

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: 10x’ing green infrastructure investments, alt-breast milk, priming climate tech, Cornerstone’s Erika Karp walks the talk, merging DFID

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Building community wealth, alt-home-financing, curbing construction carbon, employee financial health, BP’s stranded assets

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: LeapFrog’s Andy Kuper, vested world, worker-owned holding company, estimating impact assets, law enforcement accountability art

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Week in impact investing: Justice

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Today’s Call, spectrum of justice, barbershop tech, philanthropy’s COVID bonds, crowd-financing community solar, Nestlé vs. Danone

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: From essential workers to essential owners, gender in the recovery, fund for Black founders, low-waste harvests

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Nigeria’s healthcare opportunity, Ghana’s smallholder farmers, e-bikes in Latin America, ESG quants

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Call No. 18: Managing for impact, diverse fund managers, Softbank and a16z back Black founders, smart sewage, Australian impact investing

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Investing in racial justice, inclusive banking, pandemic tech, recycling carbon, fossil fuels’ $100 trillion blindspot

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Recovery’s racial reckoning, high-yield seeds in Uganda, carbon tech, pan-viral vaccines, innovation for aging adults

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Solidarity and support, Blue like an Orange in Latin America, plastics for change in India, food delivery in Portugal, mobilizing with urgency

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Agents of Justice, Ethiopian delivery tech, women’s entrepreneurship, COVID bond for Latin America, virtual due diligence

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Week in impact investing: Redesign

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Impact insurance, community capital recap, insuring rural India, small checks for emerging-market entrepreneurs, ESG on earnings calls

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Redesigning venture finance, $4 billion DFC relief plan, two bites at reducing food waste, measuring climate impact

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: New York’s CDFI loan fund, aspirational neo-bank, imperfect food distribution, emergency loans for social enterprises, drivers of ESG outperformance

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Week in impact investing: Pressure

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: The Call: 10x community capital, innovative CDFIs, Dutch impact fund of funds, Africa’s cold chain, COVID bridge-financing, flood of climate-risk warnings

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Bain Capital’s double impact, PPE guarantees, Olamina’s community lenders, flexible frontier finance, Nigeria’s tomato value chain

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Stakeholder claims on corporate cash + 10 ways to deploy it, sharing micro-insurance, pay-gap transparency, JPMorgan director in the hot seat

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: 10x Community Capital call, COVID business pivots, shifting from crisis to growth, Goldman’s Folio, Development Finance Corp.’s domestic mandate

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Week in impact investing: Systemic

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Green jobs recovery, African essential services fund, Peruvian edtech, creative economy in Kenya, talking systems change at Mission Investors Exchange

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: 10x’ing gender-lens investing, COVID investment coalition, essential workforce housing, mission investors’ experience, backstopping European startups

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Heron’s power shift, progress on foundation assets, Africa-based gender-lens funds, COVID lending in Germany, oil industry reckoning, social bond surge

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Visa Foundation doubles down, Mission Investors Exchange is on, Abacus’ Brent Kessel walks the talk, Charles Schwab and Folio divvy up Motif

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Week in impact investing: Flexibility

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Special Agent of Impact, turning ImpactAlpha inside-out, food distribution in Tanzania, Elizabeth Littlefield on corporate sustainability

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Boosting technical assistance, growing circular startups, education lending in India, alt-batteries, community COVID relief bonds

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Flexibility is catalytic, Domini’s sustainable solutions, carbon-neutral laundry, delivery service in Ecuador, career impact bonds

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: 10x challenge and response (replay), eco-crop treatments, value-based healthcare, wind software, PPP’s racial gaps, JPMorgan demotion

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Week in impact investing: Mobilization

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Impact Step Up call today, Ebola shutdown lessons, Colombian fintech, U.S. telemedicine, making the mark in impact management, ESG exodus

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Popular mobilization for public health, alt-protein demand, EV charging ahead, financial PPE, 10x challenge podcast, amplifying impact

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Spotlight on stewardship, circular plastic investments, donor-advised COVID investing, social housing in the U.K., fintech in Nigeria

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: 10x’ing impact investing, Repsol’s solar farm, agri-business fund, digital vocational training, Hiro Mizuno’s next steps

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Week in impact investing: Social

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Social bonds for COVID relief, pay-as-you-go solar software, Morningstar acquires Sustainalytics, Paycheck Protection Program let-down

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Green swans, online learning, mentoring for underrepresented entrepreneurs, emerging market capital managers survey, valuing the ‘S’ in ESG

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Impact management principles, Africa’s health startups, Ceniarth’s catalytic capital for rural lenders, Beeck Center’s impact job matching

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Week in impact investing: Trillions

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Calling universal owners, OpenInvest goes global, green outcomes in South Africa, catastrophe bond catastrophe, climate lessons for COVID

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Fintech relief channels, sustainable finance talent development, Africa’s gene bank, Indonesia’s small businesses, Tanzania’s wind farm, Tideline’s call

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Creative recovery, Iowa’s soil wealth, sustainable investments in volatile markets

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Week in impact investing: Forgivable

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: CDFIs in action, African Development Bank’s $10 billion plan, at-home medical exams, mitigating systemic financial risks

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Jack Dorsey’s impact LLC, LatAm COVID bond, corona-tech progress, restoration hydro, return of Keystone XL, finance profs talk pandemic responses

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Responsive capital for small and growing businesses, Visa Foundation’s gender lens, farmers-to-market in India, keeping impact on track

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Corona-tech mobilization, agtech in India and East Africa, Gates’ vaccine production plans, Ceniarth’s pandemic principles

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Week in impact investing: Essential

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Carbon bubble RIP, women’s health access, favorable-term COVID loans, GPIF’s new investment chief, Amit Bouri reimagines capitalism

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Online education breakout, MedGenome’s South Asian DNA, LISC’s COVID relief, Marshall Plan for emerging markets, topping up Main Street funds

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Small and growing business liquidity and stabilization, Seychelles’ debt-for-conservation swap, development-finance relief, tools for impact investors

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Matthew Weatherley-White walks the talk, Africa’s $3 billion COVID bond, DBL’s fourth fund, air taxis, SOCAP’s Cari Hanson

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Week in impact investing: Urgency

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Call No. 14: Recovery capital, resilience dividend, impact-linked debt forgiveness, local mobilization, GPIF’s new chief

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Stronger case for sustainable investing, waste management in Singapore, backstopping gig workers, collective bonds, Japan’s Hiro exits

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Making it matter, green stimulus, winding down fossil fuels, alt-proteins, farm-to-consumer in Indonesia

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Resilience and disruption, COVID-crash resources, Texas solar, Calvert Impact’s Beth Bafford walks the talk

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Week in impact investing: OMG

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: ImpactAlpha U, Main Street bridge loans, Nature Conservancy’s new CEO, GSG postponed

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Lessons from the pandemic, climate disruption, development-finance commitments, sustainable aquaculture in Sweden

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Social enterprise safety net, mobility rewards, disruption watch, meatless future, coronavirus tech

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: ESG in a pandemic, portfolio resilience, small-business loan guarantees, regenerative agriculture

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Week in impact investing: Resilience

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Stranding fossil fuels, ESG in a bear market, African impact tech, Blue Like an Orange in Colombia, COVID-19 therapeutics, Danone’s water play

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Social distance, resilient community capital, pharmacies in Africa, Chicago’s impact ecosystem, KKR Global Impact staffs up

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: New capitalism, neobank in Egypt, impact debt fund in India, softening the coronavirus disruption of local economies

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: International women’s impact, Prudential’s green bond, distributed solar in Africa, social impact bond in Belgium, women in climate finance

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Week in impact investing: Virtual reality

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Quona’s fund for inclusive fintech, payments in Colombia, skills training in India, accelerating solutions finance, the Netherlands’ impact scene

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Call to action for ImpactAlpha U, dealmaking in the creative economy, smallholder warehouses in India, Jay-Z’s venture fund, follow the talent scoops

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Impact investing without conferences, community wellness in Chicago, creative marketplace in Cote d’Ivoire, the Caribbean’s clean energy potential

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Catalyzing carbontech, Jumo’s $55 million raise, Africa’s creative economy, debt for d.light, U.S. Development Finance Corp.’s portfolio for impact

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Week in impact investing: Blueprint to scale

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Prudential’s billion-dollar blueprint, sustainable alt-leather, prison education, stormwater and waste reduction bonds, Carlyle’s strategy

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: ImpactAlpha U, early-stage agrifood tech, Town Hall’s healthcare fund, JetBlue’s sustainability-linked loan, pandemic-lens investing

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Emerging impact managers, Kenya’s informal economy, regenerative ag incentives, JPMorgan’s climate catch-up

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Electric fleet disruption, homeless housing in L.A., sustainable agriculture in South Carolina, impact investing’s gender edge

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Week in impact investing: Latin American solutions

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Latin American leadership, sustainable agriculture and aquaculture, investing in refugee solutions, Zebra cooperative

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Stakeholder obstacles, climate footprints, sustainable deliveries in Amsterdam, solar installations in West Africa, diversifying foundation asset managers

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Impact alpha in donor-advised funds, inclusive credit unions, greenhouses in India, flexible loans for founders of color, off-grid energy impact

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Week in impact investing: Accountability to impact

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Fintech reckoning in Kenya, KKR Global Impact closes $1.3 billion, employee financial health, vertical farms, Looney pledges BP to net-zero

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Putting cash to work, alt-dairy growth, off-grid solar in Colombia, agtech in Nigeria and India

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Tough questions for JPMorgan, a waycool $32M for Indian farmers, Render Capital for Louisville startups, Gates Foundation for climate and gender

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Obvious sustainability disruptions, $455M for Ecosystem Investment Partners, ethical chocolate, Asian impact tech, decision time for BP’s new CEO

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Week in impact investing: Impact FOMO

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Calling the inflection point, affordable-ish housing, LA’s clean tech fund, Baltimore’s local blueprint, ESG cash

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Impact alpha in emerging markets, $1B for sustainable infrastructure-as-a-service, consolidating ESG data, reshaping finance

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Opportunity Zone catalyst, Evercare in Bangladesh, incentivizing lending in Africa, inclusive smallholder agriculture, Cliff Prior’s new gig

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Just Mercy’s impact, micro private equity in South Africa, seat at Everytable, Melinda Gates’s bet on women’s inclusion

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Week in impact investing: Sustainability disruption

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: ESG crosses the chasm, Village Capital’s financial health fund, NYC’s women-led startups, green chemistry, pension funds’ changing climate

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Flexible financing in Latin America, GoodFuels exit, sustainable ag fund, climate-friendly beer

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Capital on the Frontier call, guaranteed impact, cash allocations, SDG six-pack, Techstars’ Atlanta impact, all-electric GM, steady pay

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Reshaping finance (Part 2), Opportunity Zone windfall, IIX’s Women’s Livelihood Bond, hub shutdown, Lighter’s alt-finance fund, remembering Leila Janah

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Week in impact investing: Impact is tipping

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Blended climate finance, lab-grown meat, JPMorgan’s development finance, circular economy for plastics, Sorenson’s Winter Innovation Summit

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Reshaping finance, catalyzing small farmer capital, Africa’s SDG startups, Canadian clean tech fund, rural Opportunity Zones

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Reckoning at Davos, SDG Blue (like an orange), catalysts for financial inclusion, ResponsAbility’s climate debt, Citi’s impact fund

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Jeremy Grantham Q&A, Indian agriculture platforms, efficient cooling, identity verification, jobs at Tipping Point fund and HBO

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Larry’s letter, immersive third spaces, diverse businesses, biotech funding, black innovation economy

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Positive externalities, BP’s solar revival, impact tech in India, green banks, female-focused films

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Shifting mindsets, procurement scorecards, economic justice fund accelerator, jumbo shrimp risks

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Week in impact investing: Power dynamics

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Big opportunities in small businesses in Africa, soil restoration REIT, social housing in France, greenhouse lettuce, Opportunity Zone impact

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Emergency student aid, Franklin Templeton acquires Athena, climate-resilient agriculture, Senegal’s startup act

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Due diligence on fund managers, Middle America’s startups, fintech in Côte d’Ivoire, longevity accelerator, Australia’s climate emergency

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: What we’re watching in 2020, southern credit unions, inclusion alpha, Nordic impact, resilient seeds, clean water access

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Climate Finance 2020: Leaders and laggards in the race to net-zero

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Catalytic capital: Reshaping risks and rewards to make markets work in 2020

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Capital on the Frontier: Impact in emerging markets is a 2020 growth story

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Institutional Shift: Universal owners push asset managers to push corporations toward sustainability in 2020

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Week in impact investing: Risk, adjusted

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Operator alpha, Nomura buys Greentech, African farmer exchange, incentivizing saving, revenue-based bridge financing, risks of privatization

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Electric vehicles in China, sustainable infrastructure financing, circular fashion, Exxon’s risk, impact in Atlanta

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Inclusive capital, closing paycheck gaps, electric-vehicle retrofits, Portland startups, aggregating smallholder harvests in Kenya

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: India’s social stock exchange, Plexo’s diversity thesis, Zora’s Israel impact fund, AfDB’s impact startups, inclusive recruitment

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Week in impact investing: New foundations

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Tipping Point fund, KKR’s wastewater strategy, Circulate’s Asia oceans fund, real estate retrofits in Toronto

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Neighborhood investment companies, inclusive fintech in Indonesia and Nigeria, solar financing in India, tele-health training, letter from Santiago

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Harlem Capital’s diverse entrepreneurs, Cornerstone Capital’s impact mutual fund, revenue-based finance in Europe, working capital for workforce re-entry

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Catalyzing climate finance in India, biodigesters in Cambodia and Bangladesh, Kenya’s rural Amazon, student-led impact funds

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Impact in a downturn, impact-linked loan, peer-to-peer in Indonesian, edtech in Nigeria, blue bonds

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Revenue-based financing, Cloudfactory’s Nepal play, a community bank’s Opportunity Fund, climate-smart rice bond

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Japan’s GPIF shakes up asset management, Samasource’s score, diverse teams, Sankalp’s entrepreneurial solutions

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Week in impact investing: Urgent impact

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Opportunity Zones’ homegrown impact, underrepresented Nordics, ethical jewelry, waste to fuel, stock market climate mandates

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Climate action at development banks, sanitation bond in Cambodia, sustainable agriculture in Australia, women in food in India, crowd cows

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: The urgency of Sir Ronald, activist impact investors, gender lenses in Africa and the Netherlands, environmental sandboxes

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Managing mission drift, future of work at Impact Engine, selling .ORG, robot recyclers, transition at Nuveen

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Week in impact investing: Distributed ownership

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Corporate impact, worker reskilling boom, Scottish aquatech, Chilean impact fund, 55 systems-change investors

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Leveraged buyouts for workers, steward ownership, kangaroo bond, reading app, carbon offsetting, health teleconsulting

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Climate-banking laggards and leaders, Hero’s future energy, Pakistani entrepreneurs, weaving systems in Central America

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Veteran entrepreneurs, Rise Fund’s Ugandan dairy deal, sustainable clams, CoPower acquisition, profitable smallholder finance

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Week in impact investing: Climate wake-up call

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Climate-financing wake up call, robotics in Baltimore, Palestinan youth development bond, European venture philanthropy

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Faith-based investing call, fund raises in the Netherlands and New Zealand, SEC clips shareholder advocates

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Olamina’s loans for racial-justice lenders, India’s mini-grids, investing in impact fund managers, private equity watch, climate on the ballot

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Scaling social enterprises in the U.K., socially determined healthcare, off-grid schools in Colombia, seeding Pakistani startups, co-op 100

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Week in impact investing: Popular uprising

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Exponential impact tech, place-based Australia, micro solar cells, last-mile deliveries

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: The Call on faith-based investing, smarter smallholder subsidies, workforce housing, Rise of the Rest II, plastic economy

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Popular protests, Twiga’s smallholder shift, Total’s carbon neutrality fund, community wealth models, Saudi spotlight

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Organic finance, internet in Nepal, disaster resilience, graduate-level income sharing, true impact alpha

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Week in impact investing: Wearing your values

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Overheard at SOCAP, local-currency guarantees, Oakland’s community capital, impact in Louisville

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Tropical forest fund of funds, Locavesting on ImpactAlpha, Facebook’s housing pledge, sharia-compliant bonds, innovative Green Bay Packers

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: SOCAP cheat sheet, investing in Puget Sound, impact first at Global Partnerships, five impact tools

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Rockefeller’s impact manager, e-Winnebagos, inclusive growth grants, fintech catalysts, off-grid in Africa, startup cities

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Week in impact investing: Mobilizing for transformative change

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: BALLE’s common future, de-risking digesters, bamboo diapers, new gender-lens funds

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Leveraging philanthropy, mobile money in India, impact startups in Miami, Mirova completes Althelia acquisition, New Zealand’s inflection point

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Farewell to Paul Polak, IFC’s Neil Gregory, de-risking cleantech, affordable lab-grown meats, sustainability-linked loans, climate-smart in Africa

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Week in impact investing: Expanding the mission

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Nutrition lens investing, Bristol’s place-based fund, faith in Atlanta housing, impact in emerging markets, de-risking Japan’s economy

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Crowdfarming local farms, smart emergency response, tracking soil health, The Purpose of Capital musical, Evercare’s new CEO

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: California’s public banks, Croatia’s impact startups, small-business loans in Colombia, energy access in Asia, ImpactAssets’ emerging managers

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Catholic ministries of impact, Better Ventures’ impact tech, Kiva’s loans to women top $1 billion, impact-weighted accounts

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Week in impact investing: Catalyzing capital

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Overheard at the GIIN forum, smallholder coffee, smart grids, recyclable fashion, data-driven healthcare, OPIC woes

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Aggregating impact, catalytic capital, financial inclusion in Bangladesh, Uganda’s farmer-owned tea, Egypt’s mom and pops

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Co-creating in Amsterdam, index impact, Denmark’s climate commitments, Indian aquaculture, blockchain for the SDGs

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Impact video games, Renewal’s fourth fund, forest preservation bonds, ending energy poverty, catalyzing capital at CDC Group

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Week in impact investing: Accelerating the transition

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Bloomberg’s Global Business Forum, Fidelity’s Ethic option, Aavishkaar’s expansion, Allianz’s impact fund, ANDE’s entrepreneurship for development

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Faith-based and place-based, Indonesia’s inclusive fintech, reef insurance, tech philanthropy, blending billions

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Retooling climate finance, transition bonds, battery-free energy storage, Open Road’s bridge loans, impact talent twist

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Mispriced climate risk, beyond Paris, Splunk’s data play, chronic-disease fund, farm robots, Solve’s innovation future

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Week in impact investing: Climate action

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Gender alpha in emerging markets, debt-free home refinancing, democratizing geospace, Bloomberg’s climate-finance primer

The Brief | Dennis Price

The Brief: Faith-based climate finance, circular cleaning products, Airbnb’s housing fund, impact alpha in impact tech, UC to go fossil-free

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Iroquois Valley’s direct public offering, gamifying school, Opportunity Zone academy, student-centric financing, Bono’s zipline, Agents of Impact in NY

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Impact aquaculture, India’s small business opportunity, dark side of toilet paper, sustainable secondaries, energy-poverty commission

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Week in impact investing: Creating impact

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Investing in impact media, KKR’s stake in labor’s future, solar bots, edtech dealflow, who’s afraid of Elizabeth Warren?

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Faith-based engagement on guns, Goldman’s solar yieldco, Black tech startups, frontier of impact finance, Tony Morgan to CDC

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Zebras take on unicorns, Africa’s soil startups, climate-analytics consolidation, St. Paul’s creativity economy

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Mainstreaming impact investing in Japan, regenerative animal farming, converting light into energy, chief Opportunity Zone officers

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Week in impact investing: Opportunity knocks

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: A racial lens on implicit bias, responsible coffee, pragmatic green infrastructure, animal agriculture risk, farm to table in Indonesia

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Accion’s fintech focus, UBS and KKR, OpenGov’s accountability tools, mandatory reporting in Opportunity Zones, Gifford to Credit Suisse

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Opportunity Zones on the defensive, housing insecurity solutions, long-term exchange, fintech in Mexico, edtech in India, corporate climate engagement

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

ImpactAlpha’s Big 7: Stakeholders and fiduciaries, deadlines and accountability, impact and opportunity, deals and policies, Agent of Impact Derrick Morgan

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: New fiduciary duty, Mitsubishi’s off-grid push, community impact notes, Blackstone’s impact

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Demonstrating impact in Opportunity Zones, LGT acquires Aspada, Quadria’s Asia healthcare fund, net-zero real estate, informal merchants

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Deadline for global goals, renewables in South Africa, Rise Fund’s revision, low-cost storage tech, farmer markets, B Corp challenge

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Policy wonks pipe up, Palladium’s impact fund, sensors for seniors, vetting vegan veracity

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

ImpactAlpha’s Big 7: Stakeholder capitalism, billion-dollar funds, Kiva’s inclusion protocol, impact policy incentives, Agent of Impact Shivani Siroya

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Checking stakeholder capitalism, inclusive micro-lending, social platform for immigrants, call for impact investing policies

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Building credit in informal markets, rooftop solar aesthetics, recycling in Kenya, small business financing in India, 10 sustainable investing trends

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Policy incentivizes for impact investing, affordable modular housing, biodigesters in Cambodia, diagnostics devices in Kenya, stakeholder primacy

The Brief | Dennis Price

The Brief: Apollo’s impact fund targets $1 billion, Newday adds advisory, AgDevCo in Ivory Coast, Emergy’s alternative meats, Phenix Capital’s impact summits

The Brief | Dennis Price

ImpactAlpha’s Big 9: Overcoming bias, cleantech revival, Kiva 2.0, platform shakeout, alt-term sheets, Agent of Impact Daryn Dodson

The Brief | Dennis Price

The Brief: Impact investing platform shakeout, cutting food waste, seeding inclusive fintech, blended financing for smallholders, beyond venture capital

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Cleantech rebound, financing drugs for neglected diseases, fintech for gig workers, Agents of Impact call recap

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Racial bias as systemic risk, Adobe Capital’s $30 million close, KKR’s $1 billion raise, loans for Indian agtech, neurodiverse employment opportunities

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Kiva’s next act, safety net for digital nomads, anti-slavery tech, U.K.’s creative economy, BlackRock’s stranded assets

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

ImpactAlpha’s Big 5: Quality jobs, resistance to revival, summer dealflow, Agent of Impact Kristina Newman-Scott, themes and memes

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: HCAP’s good jobs fund, Techstars’ sustainability startups, Jobs for the Future’s investment arm, LIIF’s public bond offering

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Reverse the polarity, aging in place, Indian agribusiness, off-grid refrigeration, affordable housing innovations in Louisville

The Brief | Dennis Price

The Brief: From resistance to revival, small business in India, manufacturing in Illinois, farmer livelihood impact bond, Y Analytics hires

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Quality jobs, Schroders acquires BlueOrchard, Indonesian cocoa livelihoods, ESG data rollups, farm waste to truck fuel

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

ImpactAlpha’s Big 9: Behind the story, soil wealth, alternative proteins, sustainability alpha, Erik Schiemann

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: ESG in the C-Suite, social infrastructure investing, affordable internet in Myanmar, alt-payday loans, antidepressant headsets

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Call No. 10: Reporters’ Roundtable, plant-based food disruption, sustainable mobility, monitoring off-grid energy, driving ImpactAlpha’s growth

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Better ESG, rhino bonds, tech and democracy, mitigating risk in low-income markets, UK’s Impact Investing Institute names CEO

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Soil wealth, microfinance bonds, Ethic’s customized investments, mini-grids in Tanzania, GE’s clean-energy transition

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

ImpactAlpha’s Big 9: Impact lens, famtech market, forest risk, better drones, valuable farmers, Valerie Red-Horse Mohl

The Brief | Dennis Price

The Brief: Female founders in Ethiopia and Uganda, clean water in India, vertical farms in Brazil, lifting new voters and voices, drones for development

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: New mom economy, sustainable salmon in Lesotho, bringing payments in-house, corporate forest risk, worker solutions

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Dutch impact fund-of-funds, heavy hitters back Mahmee, clean agritech, formerly incarcerated founders, Darren Walker confronts contradictions

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Sustainable Appalachia, affordable money transfers, farmer-focused Opportunity Fund, incubating racial equity, market shift in smallholder finance

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

ImpactAlpha’s Big 10: Big impact of small tech, post-coal economy, accelerating global development, Sonia Bashir Kabir

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Accelerating global entrepreneurship, scaling vertical farms, Bridges’ second pay-for-success fund, diligencing impact, social enterprise cities

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Appalachia’s post-coal economy, CalSTRS divvies up $750 million for sustainable investments, continuum for impact, impact-focused fintech

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Summer listening for your impact IQ, ultra-efficient solar tech, impact tech at Techstars Impact, India education impact bond update

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Impact Tech: South Africa, African DNA biobank, Bridges’ wind-energy stake, small-business bump, Lok backs insurance in India

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Shifting family money to impact, d.light’s debt financing, gender balance in Texas, no-cost tech skills, Wakanda’s lessons in inclusion

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Fifty Years’ $50 million, impact tech moonshots, Wunder’s solar secondaries, Christian Super’s responsAbility, ImpactAssets top $1 billion

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Solutions for Latin American migration, Acumen acquires CivicX, converting methane, barbershop businesses

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

ImpactAlpha’s Big 8: Refugee investing, sustainability inflection points, impact at art institutions, Climb Hire’s Nitzan Pelman

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Better blended finance, encouraging commercial solar in India, tech training co-op, financing inclusive growth

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Tracking impact in Opportunity Zones, nurturing neighborhoods, guaranteeing solar systems, matching Colombia farmers, Bill Nye on AI and climate

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Art investments in southern hometowns, financial health of the underserved, TPG backs Harlem Capital, Generation’s trendspotting

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Solutions for and by refugees, hailing Nigeria’s electric okadas, impact crowdfunding bellwether, gender-smart training

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

ImpactAlpha’s Big 9: Returns on inclusion, resistance meets revival, catalytic capital, retail investors, Bitwise’s Irma Olguin Jr.

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

New-majority capital, Kenya’s MPost delivery service, Philly’s food misfits, Harvard’s impact entrepreneurs, capital for global health innovation

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Interrupting implicit bias, Aunt Bertha’s connections, pay-by-the-hour insurance, Entrepreneurs Impact Summit

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Resistance meets revival, tech-for-good fund, the retail imperative, exits at Twiga Foods, 50 inclusive fintechs

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Catalyzing capital to prevent plastic waste, impact options for smaller investors, eye-care exit for Lok, refugee-crisis crowdfunding

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

ImpactAlpha’s Big 9: Trend watch, female fund managers, impact advocacy, Halloran’s field-building, Temasek’s Ho Ching

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Indigenous entrepreneurs in Canada, Blue Orange in Brazil, Finnovation in Minnesota, Opportunity Zones reporting, cataract surgeries in Cameroon

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Second-half trends, alternative payday loans, exit for Bain and Bridges, urban sustainability, tool for climate impact

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Smart subsidy for mini-grids, converting India’s air pollution, transitioning to renewables, gender investing at Soros Economic Development Fund

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Female fund managers in emerging markets; blockchain for small businesses, supply chains and elections; Halloran’s early money

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief’s Big 9: ESG at Goldman Sachs, women and entrepreneurship, listening better, restoring reefs, family values

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Standout women at Global Entrepreneurship Summit, energy-efficient buildings, new Echoing Green Fellows, listening to customers at 60 decibels

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Sit-down with Goldman Sachs’ Hugh Lawson, Temasek’s ‘ABC World Asia’ impact fund, London’s entrepreneurship push, expanding capital access

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Science + impact, coral reef economy, Canada’s Equality Fund, families’ ‘dry powder’ for impact

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Recapping Call No. 9, treating chronic disease in Africa, managing student debt in the U.S., smart place-based investing

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief’s Big 6: Blue Haven’s flexible family capital, ESG disconnect, sharing the wealth, the new fiduciary duty, Agent of Impact Sofia Hmich

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Accelerating co-op businesses, Breakthrough Energy Ventures Europe, access to dental care, the new fiduciary duty

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Q&A with George Serafeim, farmer financing in India, EcoEnterprises’ livelihoods fund, student-led impact funds, global goals in Pakistan

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Blue Haven’s flexible family capital, Canada’s women-led startups, weathering climate change, future of food dealflow

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief’s Big 9: What impact gets right, billion-dollar babies, north-bound innovation, buy back the block, climate shareholders as Agents of Impact

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Elevar Method, lending for off-grid solar, edtech merger, community ownership in Opportunity Zones, Al Jazeera’s impact play

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Zipline’s drone fleet, Haiti’s off-grid energy fund, learning the trades, Chief Opportunity Zone Officers, scouting impact startups at SEED

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Generation’s $1B sustainable solutions fund, Sorenson seeds Catalyst’s Opportunity Fund, getting to graduation, diversity in equity crowdfunding

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Ford Foundation’s mission-related investments, debt capital for Mexico’s Ejido Verde and Indonesia’s Nazava, new recipes for global goals

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief’s Big 8: The beyond-tradeoffs era, private-equity watch, impact integrity, acquiring impact customers, Agent of Impact Kelly McCarthy

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Lok Capital’s impact blend, health payments in Africa, agtech in India, TPG Growth acquires Abraaj health fund, making sense of IRIS+

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Pitching impact to retail investors, Impossible Foods’ $300 million haul, affordable-housing swaps, Ares’ climate infrastructure fund

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Business-model disruption in emerging markets, safer boda bodas in Uganda, recruiting talent in Germany, workforce housing in DC

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Prudential’s 80/20 rule for institutional investors, tech’ing up India shops, Virginia’s creative economy, career moves and openings

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief’s Big 10: Moving beyond trade-offs, LeapFrog’s big raise, Kapor’s impact edge, Blackstone jumps in, Agents of Impact extinction alert

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Asset managers move ‘beyond trade-offs,’ house calls are back, AgDevCo in Sierra Leone, financing sustainable aquaculture, dealflow overflow

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Blackstone’s impact strategy, unshackling immigrant founders, fintech for low-income South Africans, donor-advised fund windfall with Beyond Meat IPO

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Hacking community lending, crop insurance in Africa, telehealth for veterans, smart growth for ‘impact alpha’ fund managers

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Beyond Trade-offs series, Ecosystem Integrity’s $100M fund, financing India’s micro-merchants, Africa’s entrepreneur pipeline, handworker economy

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief’s Big 8: Hiro’s journey, impact tranches, Pittsburgh’s prototype, migrant-inclusion alpha, smart-city startups, Beyond Meat rings the bell

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Rallying universal owners, Credly’s credentials, Urban X’s smart-city startups, the digital doctor is in in India

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Women ‘makers’ in Pittsburgh, scaling Indian agtech, digital skills in the UK, wearables for newborns, locals meet markets in Philadelphia

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Impact tranches, alt-protein ingredients, coding in Indian languages, investing in migrants in Mexico

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Signals of an institutional shift, attracting capital to Egypt, waste sensors in Sweden, civic tech opportunity

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief’s Big 9: Lower-cost capital, food disruption, BRAC’s bank, advice for advisors, impact accountability, Agent of Impact Serena Williams

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Beyond Beyond Meat, LearnStart early learning fund, streamlining emergency rooms, infrastructure-as-a-service, NY’s creative economy, forest revenues

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Sustainability linked loans, alt-lending in India, Atlanta’s affordable housing startup, BlackRock’s sustainability scorecard, inclusive climate jobs

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Advice for advisors recap, tilapia in Zambia, charter-school finance in Atlanta, accelerating impact in Latin America

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Community accountability tools, Serena Williams’ off-court impact, bridging indigenous finance in Canada, Frogtek’s tiendas

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief’s Big 9: Mitigating hidden risks, Opportunity Zone rules and tools, muni-bond makeover, McDonald’s of diabetes, Agent of Impact Mark Kahn

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Sexy impact munis, Acumen’s off-grid energy fund, rural childcare, alt-credit in the UK, flexible Opportunity Zone regulations

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Exposing hidden risks, Pearson’s edtech venture fund, at-home health diagnostics, LISC’s mission-related investment, local newspaper impact

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

One-stop diabetes clinics in Mexico, financing skills-training in India, Carbon Yield Fund’s sustainable investing prize, Opportunity Zones

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Sharing the wealth, tech-driven health services in the U.S., household energy trading in the U.K., impact principles from the IFC

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief’s Big 7: Beyond borders, climate-risk adjusted, impact en las Americas, revenue-based blended finance, Agent of Impact Hiro Mizuno

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Adjusting climate risk, housing rehab in Mexico, affordable housing for teachers, rural-revival investing, seeking inclusion alpha at Kresge Foundation

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Advice for advisors, making blended finance work, big bet on Branch, cashflow loans in Brazil, angel investing in the Pacific Alliance

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Demonstrating Central America impact investing, Bay Area workforce housing, pay-as-you-earn for undergrads, future of workers

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Laboratoria’s Latin American coding bootcamp, New Era closes $60 million fund, smallholder farming in Myanmar and Rwanda

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief’s Big 8: Doing the numbers, food revolution, carbon capture, purpose-driven disruption, Agent of Impact Nipsey Hussle

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Tips for financial advisors, small business in Latin America, Ellevest’s women’s investment platform, core characteristics of impact investing

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Capturing carbon, Aavishkaar’s agtech exit, women’s healthtech, impact mandates from European investors

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Cause capital for challenger brands, empowering education, super solar cells, European pension shifts, sustainable asset growth

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Sustainable disruption of food, Equilibrium’s greenhouse fund, inclusive future of jobs, a half-trillion dollars in impact assets under management

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief’s Big 7: Regenerating ecosystems and communities, Rise Fund letter, blue economics, equitable edtech, Monty Hamilton

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Blue economy investments, growing protein on trees, banking for migrants, equitable edtech, jobs in Mexico City, London and Washington D.C.

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Regenerative pine resin in Mexico, tech jobs in rural U.S., blockchain-based lending in India, ‘zebras’ unite for alt-capital

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Blending finance with blockchain, streamlining affordable housing, AI-fueled food in Chile, impact bonds in Latin America, co-investing with Backstage

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Private equity blues, i(x)’s impact holding company, pay-as-you-go solar in West Africa, stocking the pipeline for community investments

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief’s Big 7: Rise Fund recap, Techstars’ risk strategy, microcredit in the U.S., racial equity in cannabis, Grupo Bimbo’s agent of impact

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Beyond scandal, CNote’s fund for women-led businesses, New York’s co-investment fund, Oakland’s Hood Incubator

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Microcredit in New Jersey, NESsT’s impact loans, breaking the impact logjam

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Grupo Bimbo anchors Latin America impact fund, Kresge’s Opportunity Zone quid pro quo, Indian agricultural marketplaces, gender-balanced investing

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Techstars impact, SF Foundation’s $50 million mandate, professional women unite, reclaiming the impact narrative

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief’s Big 7: Scaling with integrity, Rise Fund’s Varsity Blues, catalytic capital club, underestimated founders, talent mobilization

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Talent training grounds, low-cost dialysis in East Africa, responsible hedge fund, Norway (sort of) divests from oil

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

McGlashan indictment rocks Rise Fund, impact-career alpha, syncing India’s food chain, Wells Fargo feels the private-prison heat

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Catalytic capital consortium, democratizing farm tech, navigating job benefits, cultivating an impact mindset, jobs in Ethiopia, Afghanistan & Denmark

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Israeli fund for the global goals, accelerating underestimated founders, Northwest foundations pool capital, talking racial equity at Confluence

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief’s Big 7: Mobilizing talent, dealflow-leading women, low-carbon platform, lessons in social risk, Agent of Impact Patricia Farrar-Rivas

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Women-led impact, student debt relief, small-ticket business loans in India, Nordic fund for the global goals

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

JPMorgan’s prison break, climate-risk analytics, Ola goes electric, catalytic loans for arts organizations

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Investing in China’s low-carbon transition, farmer financing in India, alt-consumer credit in Chile, six ideas for mobilizing climate finance

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Training impact-smart investors, conscious robo-investing, Vettivetpillai out at LGT, Bohigian in at OPIC, jobs at Obvious and Tideline

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief’s Big 6: Opportunity alpha, racial-equity cannabis investing, Philly steps up, media podcast, BNP Paribas’ Hervé Duteil

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Motif’s alternative proteins, education bond for bedouins, Landit lands WeWork, impact in public equities, overcoming investor bias

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Collaborative capital in Philly; coding schools in Hungary; small-business lending in South Africa; ethical headscarves; jobs at the GIIN and Toniic

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Inclusive cannabis investing, ImpactAssets 50, affordable breast cancer screening, water infrastructure in Cambodia, GSG goes to Chile

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Investing in news media; insect feed; transforming energy access; immigrant entrepreneurs; Luminate, Kapor and Emerson are hiring

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief’s Big 7: Impact alpha in Latin America, entrepreneurship in Opportunity Zones, beyond equity, Agent of Impact Clara Barby

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Beyond equity, Atlanta’s green impact bond, Root Capital’s social impact incentives, overheard at the FLII

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

50 deals in Latin America, coding bootcamp for migrants, Shell acquires solar-storage venture, ImpactAssets is hiring

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Second funds in Latin America, PG Impact’s global goals fund, launch pad for businesses in Opportunity Zones, Ben Jealous’ next act

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief’s Big 8: Green New Deal financing, impact co-investments, Opportunity Zone contrarian, Mexico’s Agent of Impact Rodrigo Villar

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

All in the KKR family, African SDG startups, ecosystems for entrepreneurs of color, Skoll’s new chief

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Financing the Green New Deal, safe ride-hailing in Latin America, South African impact ventures, overheard at #EconImpact

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Contrarian take on Opportunity Zones, entrepreneurs of color, global goals in Latin America, underwriting and optimizing impact

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Economist event lookbook, Zimbabwe’s rural loan fund, lease-to-own motorbikes in Uganda, boosting trucking livelihoods

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief’s Big 9: Follow the impact, Prudential’s racial-equity lens, greenhouse growth, impact media fund, Agent of Impact Bertrand Badré

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Journalism in tough markets, Orange’s alt-credit venture investment, Opportunity Zone transparency

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Narrowing the racial wealth gap, small-business lending in Asia, SocialSuite’s impact dashboard, Call No. 7

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Optimizing for impact, growing greenhouse food, improving the blend in blended finance, Techstars’ sustainability accelerator

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Gender-lens declaration, agtech in India, healthtech in Nigeria, BP’s climate concession, Agents of Impact in Mexico

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief’s Big 7: Local blueprints, making housing affordable, climate-risk signals, investor diversity, Ceniarth’s agent of impact

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Gender and venture capital, shortlisting talent in India and Kenya, Petal’s alt-credit cards, fast food at risk, Total Impact Philly redux

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Risky business, Brazil’s new neo-bank, raising Filipino graduation rates, blockchain for impact

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Exclusive: Ross Baird’s Blueprint for local investing, Kenya’s rural Amazon, raising affordable housing funds

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Seed equity for affordable housing, Owl Ventures’ third fund, mini-grids in Africa, the U.K.’s social investment diversity challenge

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief’s Big 6: Impact measurement, ESG’s impact, future of food, rebalancing local investing, climate activist Agent of Impact

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Rise Fund’s impact-measurement spinoff, development impact bond for refugees, Andela’s African talent play, energy efficiency tech

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

ESG backlash, first for Blue like an Orange, women on boards in Africa, Ujima’s power play, jobs in Nairobi

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Martin Luther King’s dream of economic justice, outracing antibiotic resistance, capital and mentors for African startups, the future of food

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief’s Big 8: Fink vs. Fink, climate-smart investors, mission-matching money, conservation finance takeaways, impact-first capital preservation

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Remembering I-DEV’s Jason Spindler, Prudential invests in Baltimore opportunity zone, fake Larry Fink letter gets real, seeking impact lawyers

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Climate reality bites PG&E’s investors, transit-mapping African cities, fintech for workers, impact-linked financial incentives

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Carbon credits and cacao in Peru, BBOXX’s off-grid growth capital, underpriced microfinance, matching money to mission

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Agents of impact in NY and Boston, Ceniarth’s impact-first capital preservation strategy, Kellogg backs Everytable, Gordon Brown joins Partners Group

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief’s Big 7: Pay-as-you-earn, change in the air, institutional shifts and impact multiples, Boston Ujima Project’s Agent of Impact

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Driving Opportunity Zone impact, Circularity Capital’s waste-reduction fund, Canadian impact bond for indigenous mothers

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Institutional shifts in 2019, Lambda’s pay-as-you-earn coding school goes global, fixing finance for Black entrepreneurs

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Reactions to Rise Fund’s ‘impact multiple of money,’ training leaders in Africa, streamlining health services in India

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

New day for Agents of Impact, Bain’s double healthcare impact, Lyme’s $300 million timber fund, 15+ new job openings around the world

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Impact Alpha: Year in Review. Standout stories, smart series, popular podcasts, All-star Agents of Impact

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Inclusion Alpha: Year in Review

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Gender Alpha: Year in Review

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Opportunity Alpha: Year in Review

The Brief | David Bank

The Climate Alpha: Twelve days of climate optimism

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief’s Big 7: The gift of impact, the impact alpha report, the case for climate optimism, stakeholder ownership, Agent of Impact Vineet Rai

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Debt financing for impact fintechs, KKR’s global impact investment, edtech in Brazil, Opportunity Zone coordination, Sankalp takeaways

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The impact alpha report, banking on good money, Accion’s exit, conservation in Latin America, the 10 drivers of impact alpha

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Crowdsourced solar in Myanmar, an app for rental housing, private capital for climate action, virtual fireside chat

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Climate signals blink red, insuring resilience in Nicaragua, digital credit unions and fintech banks, perpetual purpose-driven trusts

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief’s Big 8: Impact in a recession, alternative capital, cookie-cutter products, adaptation finance, Agent of Impact Paul Polman

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Blending finance for climate adaptation, Harlem Capital’s raise, New Zealand’s social enterprise fund, Paul Polman’s legacy

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The new alternatives, fintech in Brazil, veterans in the workforce, can impact survive the shakeout?

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Six sources of gender alpha, ride-hailing in informal markets, U.K. community-impact fund, biotech in Japan,, Shell’s climate commitment

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The new trustbusters, online education in Southeast Asia, muni bonds for distributed green infrastructure, Unilever post-Paul Polman

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief’s Big 11: Climate-financing mismatch, uncorrelated emerging-market assets, raising the impact management bar, Agent of Impact Bobby Turner

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Being Bobby Turner, banking Asia’s unbanked, pay-as-you-go solar in Zimbabwe, Sir Ronald Cohen calls out the G20

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Stepping up sustainable investing, healthy childbirth in Nigeria, small-business lending in India, tradeoffs no more

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Climate-financing mismatch, Big Issue’s big exchange, sustainability startups in Chile, getting beyond tradeoffs

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Seeding social finance in Canada, sustainable peanut butter, online tutoring in India, optimizing impact to manage risks

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Emerging-market shelter in a stock-market storm, sustainable tuna farming in Baja, smallholder ag analytics, Shop for Good Sunday

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Getting over Amazon, Beyond Meat’s IPO, how to fire your advisor (and hire a new one), OPIC backs Global Partnerships

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Seeking gender alpha, raising the impact-management bar, inclusive fintech in Uruguay, direct public offering on SVX.US

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief’s Big 9: Gender-lens transparency, investing in students, Opportunity Zone tools, handmade economy, Agent of Impact Richelieu Dennis

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Income-share agreements for economic mobility, Sweetgreen’s fast-casual unicorn, sustainable-clothing-as-a-service, building the handworker economy

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Infrastructure pipe dreams, catalyzing employee ownership in Cleveland, Vulcan backs Capria, filling capital gaps in Opportunity Zones

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Applying a gender lens to gender-lens funds, securitizing social bonds, managing opportunity zone risks, better-world MBA rankings

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Gender-smart investing, Mayvenn’s stylist network, ranking Big Oil’s climate resilience, least-developed country financing

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief’s Big 10: Adventures in stakeholder capitalism, Opportunity zone experiments, innovations in donor-advised funds, CNote’s Agent of Impact

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Stakeholder capitalism, mitigating income-inequality risk, forest resilience bond, artificial intelligence for good

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Doing good and drinking well, business value of impact, Rise Fund goes long Chinese microfinance, John Legend on Opportunity Zones

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Raj Shah on opportunity zone experiments; Hamilton Lane, Aavishkaar and Polymath raise funds; Russell Family Foundation’s move to mission-investing

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Donor-advised impact investing, NYC opportunity zone opportunities, working capital in Colombia, CNote mobilizes $18 million

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief’s Big 9: Getting gender-smarter, tallying sustainable investments, SheEO’s Agent of Impact, podcast progress report

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Boston’s impact party, mainstreaming gender equality, screening out dark money, MicroVest’s liquidity play, #PoweringJobs in energy access

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

GIIN investor forum, tallying U.S. sustainable investing assets, pathways to work, Ethos’s raise, Capitalism 2.0

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Next-gen community financiers, doubling gender-lens assets, Vietnamese online education, mobile digital inclusion in Africa

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Investor forum in Paris, the business of ImpactAlpha, $2.3 billion in gender-lens funds, Novastar’s Africa startup fund, feeding farmed fish

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief’s Big 11: SOCAP’s best-dressed, racial-equity lens, refugee and creative economy funds, impact talent shortage, Agent of Impact Kesha Cash

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

SOCAP scene, accelerating refugee investing, missing middles, leaner development evaluation, PepsiCo circulates some capital

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Closing racial wealth gaps, energy-efficiency financing, scaling Village Capital, Bloomberg climate cities

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

100+ creative economy investors, Omidyar’s simple complexity, microfinance in Pakistan and Mexico, Clarmondial’s food fund

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Best-in-class impact talent, opportunity zone rules, Runway Project takes off, green bonds in Taiwan, Amazon backs Closed Loop

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief’s Big 9: The how of impact, Latin America’s leaders, North Carolina’s entrepreneurs, forest finance, Agent of Impact Andrew Kuper

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Inclusive fintech investors, Brazil in the spotlight, Cargill’s Borneo forest financing, Omidyar spins off Luminate

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Ode to intermediaries, beyond the metrics myth, streamlining urban mobility, equity crowdfunding acquisition, COCAP before SOCAP

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Capital flows in Latin America, listening to customers, North Carolina’s startup ecosystems, crypto solar, LadyAgri hub

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Measure Better kicks off, online nature products in Brazil, online domestic jobs in India, impact operating principles

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief’s Big 10: Climate-finance mobilization, institutional backlash, impact leaders of the year, financial re-plumbing, Agent of Impact

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Institutional hot seat, Lambda’s coding school, financial solutions for workers, alternative capital structures

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Global Health Investment Fund, in-home health care, too important to fail

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Firing up climate finance, youth unemployment in Australia, more lab-grown meat, and the GSG winners are…

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Investing in impact hardware, financing small-biz in Southeast Asia and Africa, GE’s green turnaround

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief’s Big 10: U.S. policy boosts, bond-market validation, fixed-income through a gender lens, impact as a second language

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Hello International Development Finance Corp., pay-for-success for veterans and forests, tobacco-free portfolios

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Gender-lens across asset classes, breakthrough energy investments, Urban-X’s city startups, Reinvestment Fund’s $75-million impact bond

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Teaching impact as a second language, investors in Paris, mini-grids in Bangladesh, Goldman’s proxy voting

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Opportunity zone signals, Alpbach fundamentals, $1bn for better batteries, Leapfrog Investments’ healthcare portfolio

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief’s Big 7: Going exponential, impact product pipeline, agent of the week, off-grid energy uplift, one foundation’s journey

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

ImpactAlpha’s European tour, Generation’s disruptive charts, open-book impact portfolio, lending to entrepreneurs of color

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Get a job! energy access podcast, Prodigy tops $1 billion, state of blended finance, managing and certifying impact

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Steps toward the global goals, Rise eyes Abraaj, investigating Big Tech, benchmarking corporate sustainability

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Fund Day Monday: Raising SDG funds, first closes for Blue Like an Orange, Townhall Ventures and WaterEquity, TPG’s Rise Fund thinks big

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief’s Big 10: Agents of the week, ImpactAlpha on Instagram, christening the reGeneration, the ‘why’ of impact investing

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Watering food deserts, Jed-i master, financing climate startups, insuring smallholder farmers

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Little Jed Book, climate investor one, UBS’ development impact bond, environmental finance and other blockchain game-changers

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Private debt meets impact, incentives for opportunity fund impact, investing in racial equity

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief’s Big 8: Climate optimism, Bezos’ down-payment, waiting and worrying in opportunity zones and emerging markets, inside Abraaj

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Ahead of the climate storm, JPMorgan’s $500 million bet on inclusion, emerging market volatility, opportunity zone advisory

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Tribal forest carbon, filling news deserts, attracting opportunity fund capital, opportunity zone FAQ

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Commitments to climate action, tech solutions to labor abuse, state opportunity zone incentives, lean impact

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Impact-washing blues, Spyce’s robot kitchens, Unshackled’s immigrant entrepreneurs

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief’s Big 6: Rising reGeneration, small-business opportunity zones, accelerating founder diversity, first principles

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Opportunity fund for Main Streets, solar-powered WiFi, tipping point 2020, rush to judgment on impact investors

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Opportunity zone opportunity in small-biz investing, Kingo’s off-grid expansion, insect-based food, Fish 2.0

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Paying for green outcomes, World Bank oceans bond, water-friendly textile tech, SDG investing in Jordan

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief’s Big 6: Combating impact-washing, podcast smackdown, climate on deck

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Winner take all? Off-grid energy in Africa, health startups in India

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Collaboration for climate action, supply-chain transparency, What’s Next for impact investing

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Getting to yes, FINCA’s impact fund, priming the climate pipeline, ‘huge demand’ for impact debt

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

‘What’s Next’ for impact investing, Queen Latifah backs Essence fund, tapping ‘alternative capital’

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief’s Big 7: Remaining rich, looking through impact lenses, stakeholders stake their claim, terms sheets for the 80%

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Impact lenses and investment edges, Nigeria’s Allpro gains Microtraction, new demand for demand dividend

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Challenging financial exclusion, Finance in Motion’s sustainable forestry fund, UBS’ development-bank bond fund, the Fortune 56

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Scaling stakeholder capitalism, Rise Fund’s alt-credit play, growing pipeline of black and Latino-founded firms

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Ceniarth’s $200 million shift, Branson’s climate-smart accelerator, Warren’s mandate for stakeholder capitalism

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief’s Big 6: Looking ahead at O-Zones, looking back at Pay for Success, growing deal pipelines in inclusive fintech, Arctic tech, mini-grids

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Getting into the inclusive opportunity zone, BlackRock’s ESG debt funds, extreme-weather insurance

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Living Cities’ pay-for-success lessons, Shaq attacks gig-worker challenges, pipelines in renewable mini-grids and inclusive fintech

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Community capital stacks, Calvert backs One Acre Fund, Shuttl buses in India, gender-lens microfinance in Pakistan

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Alaska’s Arctic tech entrepreneurs, African poverty-alleviation bond, Tugende in Uganda, youth-driven impact in Southeast Asia

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief’s Big 7: New localism lives, three takes on the missing middle, off-grid solar dealflow, Southeast Asian impact

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Building markets for small-farmer finance, Nepal’s Dolma Impact Fund, Zonful in Zimbabwe, Al Gore’s impact keynote

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Opportunity zone protections, Rise Fund backs Dreambox, Southeast Asia pay-as-you-go solar, gender lens on ethical fashion

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Summer listening, corporate energy venturing, Capria’s network effects

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

“Missing middle” still missing, Zola’s off-grid financing, remembering Jeremy Nowak

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief’s Big 7: Opportunity zone opportunity, impact investing World Cup, gender-smart investing, expanding entrepreneurship

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Gender-lens moment, opportunity zone opportunity, raises for OpenInvest and Guild, bottom-up climate solutions

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Bono and Gates together again? smart energy storage, business financing for the other 81%

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

World Cup of impact investing, Americans get Even, Colombian affordable housing, top cities for female founders

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Alzheimer’s startup accelerator, Chance the Publisher, Blavity ramps up, Sorenson Impact Center’s new CEO

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief’s Big 10: FOMO on opportunity zones, moral revivalists; payoff for girl’s success, the Brest Test, reading up

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Call for moral revival, NAACP exchange-traded fund, alt-credit scoring, big tent for talent

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Opportunity zone early movers, LeapFrog adds to healthcare portfolio, online lending acquisition, oceans moment

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Paul Brest’s critique, Oprah’s food kitchen, carbon-capture tech, development impact bond outcomes in Rajasthan

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The failure podcast, Etsy competitor shuts down, community banking impact, ImpactAssets portfolio companies

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief’s Big 8: Vatican impact, global goals scorecard, beyond aid, sustainable oceans fund, racial-lens investing

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Keeping score on the global goals, Rise Fund’s edtech bet, racial-equity investing gets real, self-driving safety

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Impact opportunity in Brazil, water loans for El Salvador, refugee impact at the Vatican, artificial intelligence for the global goals

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Vatican points investors toward the poor, upskilling U.S. workers, humanitarian drones, business support for deeper impact

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Sustainable Oceans Fund, female founders of color, healthcare in Kenya, augmented workers

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief’s Big 7: Climate-action pressure, making impact popular, future of food, cities and Puerto Rico

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

$30 trillion of climate pressure, indoor farming, urban innovation, future of food distribution

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Social Israel, affordable Silicon Valley, impact opportunities in Puerto Rico, farmer waste-to-energy

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Populist podcast, water tech, Macquarie’s green bank, beyond CSR

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief’s Big 8: Agents of Impact step up, America 2030, private-equity hot seat, beyond ESG

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Billion-dollar (private-equity) babies, Call No. 2 today, vertical airplane food, secrets of impact investing professors

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

With or without Washington, U.K. arts impact, Indian edtech, beyond ESG, disrupting U.S. poverty

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

America 2030, Call No. 2, Canadian gender lens, Aavishkaar re-ups on waste management

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Global-citizen revival, lab-grown bluefin, financial planning for all, Laurene Powell Jobs’ impact strategy

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief’s Big 10: Abraaj sells out, Opportunity Zones gear up, DAF demand impact, a dirty dozen weekly columns

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Charting the impact investing narrative, blockchain ethics, alt-credit, Incofin’s India fund

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Tech for small farmers, Goldman Sachs’ bet on women, donor-advised impact investing, IMPACT principles

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Living in the materiality world, CapitalG backs Aye Finance, Asia impact investing takeaways, optimizing capitalism

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Rise Fund bets on Indian solar, Leapfrog bets on Nigerian pensions, 8,700 Opportunity Zones, impact carry

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief’s Big 10: What’s next for SDG investing, breakthrough energy, Opportunity Zone mobilization, spreading sustainability

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Lessons of Abraaj, Meow Wolf’s creative expansion, inclusive Opportunity Zones, Best for the World companies

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Neighborly’s muni-bond impact, JUST exchange-traded fund, immigrant auto insurance, India’s civic tech startups

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Sea of opportunity, $200M for Jessica Alba’s Honest Co., impact at Australia’s HESTA, inclusive Peru

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

$3 billion pledge to women, sustainable investing lag in Asia, fire-free slums, Backstage 100

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief’s Big 8: Record impact assets, tech finds impact, new economics

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Hybrid impact investors, Techstars debuts impact cohort, Brazil’s Vox exits TEM, financial health solutions

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Tallying impact assets, blockchain for social impact redux, Banco Solidario gives impact investors an exit

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Future-proofing long-term portfolios, Big Food’s sustainability leaders, Fig’s $2.6M for community lending, Indian farming supply chains

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Impact housing finance, milk sensors in India, electric-charging finance, ImpactAlpha subscriber conference call

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief’s Big 8: Impact is contagious and spreading, 7 corporate impact VC deals, private equity and the SDGs

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Impact’s infectious logic, Albert’s financial-planning app, GIIN finds $228 billion, overheard at Katapult

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Corporate impact strategies, private equity for the SDGs, equity for Indian food and housing startups, good jobs in Africa

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Growth finance for tech nonprofits, upskilling finance, alt-credit in Nigeria, accelerating flows of funding

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Impact investing’s theory of change, migrant-lens investing, China’s impact initiatives, African impact opportunities, new portfolio data

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Beyond neoliberalism, 100% impact network, Abraaj health fund in play, longevity economy

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Migrant-finance ecosystem, better farmer finance, crowdfunding health costs in India, workplace-safety in Mexico

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Impact in China, KL Felicitas’ portfolio performance, gender approaches to impact investing, Kaiser Permanente’s $200M impact fund

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Investing in inclusion + Newark, AI for inclusion in Africa, audacious submissions, Town Hall Ventures fund

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Climate-finance tipping point, Obvious Ventures goes B Corp, micro-biz lending, historically black colleges back Unusual Ventures

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief’s Big 9: Climate finance tipping point, place-based investment, first-loss protections, Opportunity Zone opportunity

The Brief | Roodgally Senatus

Opportunity and peril in Opportunity Zones, MIT’s Solve competition, women rising at VC firms, a solar plant for Mongolia

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Place-based impact, talking system-change at MIE, Rise Fund’s first Africa investment, Michigan fund-of-funds

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Catalytic capital, Social Finance India, global private equity, new pay-for-success fund

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief’s Big 9: The right tools to bridge capital gaps, investing from foundation endowments, China’s sponge cities, Dealflow roundup

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Bridging capital gaps, J.P. Morgan’s sustainable-investing lead, localizing impact investing, BlackRock’s EM impact fund

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Foundations going big in impact investing, a better way to bank, electric vehicles in rural China

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

A #MeToo moment for impact investing, unlocking refugee talent, a fund for black women founders

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

China’s sponge cities, Kingdom impact investing, Singapore’s inclusive fintech boom

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief’s Big Eight: Impact at Milken, private-equity watch, walking the impact talk, Al Gore’s sustainability trend report

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Beyond impact-washing, indexing financial inclusion, Bain’s bet on workforce development

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Whither impact holdcos? Al Gore’s track record, wage-gap activism, scaling energy access

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Addiction-lens investing, finance for peace, affordable housing in Palestine, TPG’s big deal in China

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

KKR’s billion-dollar impact fund, big banks’ transition risks, Amazon backs loans for Indian merchants

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief’s Big 10: PhilaImpact, impact multiple of money, life after Abraaj, ‘blockchain for good’ and mini-grids

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Materiality in the Trump era, financial advisor gateway, new fund for women’s financial inclusion

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Racial-lens investing, blended-finance action plan, global health-tech, fintech in Africa and India

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

‘Blockchain for Good’ hype-cycle, mini-grids in Africa, bond for U.S. women’s health

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

McGlashan on TPG Rise, testing social-impact incentives, African fintech startups

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief’s Big 9: Philadelphia-bound, the impact delta, follow the talent, private-debt benchmarks

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Impact Alpha, retirement plan for the gig economy, Hewlett’s sustainable banking push

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Welcome the suits to the impact party, new rules of sustainable finance, Virginia seed fund, financing fish

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Sustainable Investing Challenge and MIINT winners, Obama fellows, private impact debt returns, energy-efficiency-as-a-service

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Philly chases another championship, Apple’s clean energy, UBS goes for impact delta

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief’s Big 9: Mispriced risk, corporates grasp impact, investing in place, dealflow trends

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Mispriced risk, world’s largest B Corp, community impact investing, TED’s Audacious winners

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Bain Double Impact calls trend, NY’s activist pension fund, affordable private schools in India

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Corporate impact investing, returns on gender inclusion, Edovo aims at recidivism, Agents of Impact

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Investing in opportunity zones, water investments, Agents of Impact, dealflow

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief’s Big Ten: High impact, high return, impact bonds, smarter subsidies, the impact investing beat

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The impact investment beat, busting myths, Agents of Impact, Bain backs by Chloe

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

A better OPIC, Agents of Impact, emissions reduction potential, farmland impact

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Institutional shift, guns and fiduciary duty, smart subsidies, daily dealflow

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Special Agents, Impact Capital Managers, the new ImpactAlpha, readers react

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief’s Big 10: Impact maps, B Corp benefits, Opportunity Zone trials

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief: Green bonds and innovative finance, Omidyar’s Spero spinoff, paperless government, limits of…

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Wild fisheries investing, Jay Z’s alternative to bail, community capital magnets and opportunity…

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Impact roadmap, advice for Myanmar farmers, retail impact, B Corp value

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

European financial supertankers, Case Foundation impact, blockchain for social impact

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief’s Big Ten: Perils and promise of impact investing

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Omidyar Network leadership, energy-efficient buildings, donor-advised impact, mobile money…

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The milkman cometh, tree-free paper, demystifying impact investing, innovative financing for global…

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Cummings Foundation’s mission alignment, Indonesian wicker weavers, disease care in India

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Ecosystem payments, Vietnamese maternal care, farmed fish funding, corporate impact…

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief’s Big Ten: Revolution in finance, impact at SXSW, gender portfolio risk, badass…

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Gender podcast, New Revivalists’ badass women, OPIC and Gates invest in women, International…

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

South by Social, vegan dairy, incubating fintech, billion-dollar energy initiatives

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Gender risk, precision watering, fighting fake news, labor lens investing

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Women’s leadership for all, soft commodity risks and soft skills, Canadian aid innovation

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief’s Big Eight: Gun money, billion-dollar babies, alt-credit, values of inclusion

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Fallacies of impact investing, DC’s founders of color, sustainable rubber in Indonesia, impact…

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Alternative credit scoring, direct investing in Philly, reducing investor bias

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Latin American impact, Islamic ethical economy, fixing finance

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Navajo entrepreneurship, Ontario startups, new ImpactAssets 50, restoration investment landscape

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief’s Big Nine: Lessons from New Revivalists, Abraaj’s Naqvi steps back, financial…

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Inclusive venture capital, high-growth Ethiopian businesses, India’s electric vehicle market

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The California Model, financing the missing middle, nonprofit working-capital loans, CalPERS: SDGs…

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Rural revival, financial products for underserved populations and low-carbon solutions…

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief’s Big Nine: Data-driven, unlocking value, low-carbon banking, economic imperatives

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Low-carbon banking, creative impact, Virginia is for Entrepreneurs, overheard at The Economist

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Economist conference preview, Rise of the Rest startups, the end of the middle class?

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Online matchmaking flops, Omnivore and Omidyar in India, Living Cities’ racial-equity lens…

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Pay-for-success budget, Calvert’s syndicated debt, uMunthu fund for Africa, Launch Tennessee

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief’s Big Six: What’s an impact investment, Abraaj-Gates update, New Revivalists lens, East…

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Opportunity zones, Big Society’s community fund, credit in Brazil, Kenya’s impact glut

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Transforming coal country, Sino-Latin America investing, emerging market for fintech, view from…

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Abraaj fund flap, Jibu’s water franchises, better small-biz lending, baby steps toward parental…

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Philadelphia underestimated no more, Swell’s $30 million, The Worker’s Lab, tragedy of the horizon

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief’s Big Ten: Entrepreneurial revival, climate-risk reckoning, Cape Town’s Day Zero, PGGM’s…

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

BlackRock podcast, Indie.vc’s burning unicorn, tablets vs. recidivism, journalism is impact

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Pension funds demand climate risk disclosure, a New Orleans revival, Mark Cuban’s student debt…

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Humanity United’s anti-slavery fund, Philly entrepreneurship, social impact bond update

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Underestimated entrepreneurs, Tyson’s alt-meat play, Cape Town water, Dutch impact management

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief’s Big Ten: American entrepreneurship, private capital for global development, farmer…

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The New Revivalists, backing women-run businesses, SoftBank invests in a B Corp

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Tailored financing for small farmers, gender pay gap in banking, the singularity is sustainable

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Inclusive growth in focus at Davos, a new fund for African tech, private finance and the Global…

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief turns one, farmers’ climate insurance, private wealth for 2030 development debt

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief’s Big Ten: BlackRock’s impact, off-grid finance, environmental risks and returns

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Nature reduces risk, edtech deals in India, investment exits with impact

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Trillions for Global Goals, robot nurses, solar in the Congo

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

BlackRock makes impact a necessity for companies, India’s fintech rush, China pushes toward…

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief’s Big 10: Local economy, conservation finance, the regenerative economy

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Democratizing impact investing, gender-equity ETF, regenerative economy, digital solutions for…

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

New economics of menstrual pads, let the #dealflow roll, flood-risk indicators, people-centered…

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Conservation investments, Acumen America’s inclusion bet, local impact investing, Olympic impact

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Philadelphia: Incubator City, Jana adds ‘impact’, making climate deals work, harnessing tourism for…

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief’s Big Five: tax bill opportunity, a greener New York, holiday #dealflow

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Vaccine finance, church funds for off-grid solar, venture debt for Indian startups, NY’s…

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Financial technology trends, off-grid community ventures, China’s social-value 99, vulnerable…

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Investing for opportunities, alternative protein, 2018 optimism, immigration and population growth

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Impact Investing: Year in Review. New entrants, increasing evidence, uncertain future

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

2030 Finance: Year in Review. New narratives, financial innovations, global goals

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Inclusive Economy: Year in Review. Overlooked assets, local ecosystems, economic revival

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Impact Tech: Year in Review. Big challenges, falling costs, solutions at scale

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Women Rising: Year in Review. Money moving, norms changing, more to come

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief’s Big Ten: 2030 Finance, tax-cut casualties, investing in Detroit, Colorado and Virginia

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Lessons in early-stage investing, entrepreneurs of color in Detroit, aim healthy, tax-bill hurt

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Introducing 2030 Finance, Aspiration’s $47 million raise, five Breakthrough energy innovations

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

One Planet, coal’s last gasps, Rise Fund in Latin America, value of measurement, green…

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Climate action in Paris, affordable housing in Colorado, entrepreneurial ecosystem in Virginia

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Own Your Impact edition: Steve Case’s impact argument, gender lens culture shift, beyond…

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Own your gender lens, unlocked futures, Greenlight Planet’s $60 million raise, Jewish-lens…

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Why Rise of the Rest should own impact, Propel Capital’s civic tech fund, cleantech investing 2.0,

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

India’s one-line revolution, big-name backers for Rise of the Rest, fintech in LATAM and MENA…

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Tax cut complicity, social justice ETFs, finding Einsteins, the $600B global goal opportunity in…

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief’s Big Ten: Women rising higher, brain gain in Latin America, upping the philanthropic…

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Comparing online impact advisors, maternal health impact bond, West Africa’s startup landscape…

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Philanthropy’s saving graces, Nobel sustainability fund, talent-tech merger, day two at GES, future…

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Follow the (female) talent in India, $100M fund for women founders of color, notes from the global…

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Brain gain in Latin America + LatAm’s women VCs, Zurich boosts climate-investment pledge, Bamboo…

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Art for change in India, trillion-dollar question, microlending for minority…

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

China’s climate leadership, $50M sustainable land fund, impact due diligence, waste-to-profits

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief’s Big Ten: Climate action, assets and data, local movement

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Fintech for the next billions, Aavishkaar’s Bharat fund, public gender-lens vehicles, financing…

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Blending finance for global goals, gender equity bond, Fish 2pt0 winners, performance pocket guide…

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Fiji’s women on the front lines of climate change, reducing the poverty premium, pro-poor…

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

(Almost) all-in on climate, indigenous economics in Australia, media goes impact, climate-smart…

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief’s Big Ten: Climate tensions, inclusion opportunities, veteran bets

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Priming climate innovation, Builders’ MPOWERD stake, finding impactful edtech, growing off-grid…

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Universal impact investors, recycling cell phones, Nigeria’s startup sector

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Bluffer’s guide to the climate talks, Panorama raises $16M, Argentina’s impact ambitions, managing…

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Climate markets beyond renewables, microfinance exit, driving inclusive growth, banking on climate…

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief’s Big Ten: American entrepreneurship, institutional tipping point, real impact

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Impact tax hacks, Milwaukee startups, China’s impact ecosystem, closing the 2°C climate action gap

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Central America’s growth opportunity, AquaSpark’s aquaculture deals, VCs back immigration-tech…

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Women startup founders in India, $100M Rise of the Rest fund, scaling OPIC, economic toll of…

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Universal ownership, backing women of color, viable BOP business, fossil fuel-free cities

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

The Brief’s Big Ten — Women, Latin American social ventures, universal owners

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Impact drives growth, artisan marketplaces, free-trade carbon, tapping the $12 trillion…

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

58 gender-lens funds and 25 responsible universal owners, Standard Life’s SDG fund, China’s climate…

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Financing Mexico’s missing middle, pay-as-you-go solar in Rwanda, startup (racial) equity…

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Accelerating ImpactAlpha, Fiji’s green bond, deals Down Under, clean cooking to end energy poverty

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Women Rising in India, Techstars’ impact accelerator, venture capital womans up, ready for change

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Connecting with ImpactAlpha, Fenix acquisition, kickstarting sustainable ag, family affairs…

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Community capital channels, Soros’ billions, tech stop: Middle America, long-term stock exchange

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Unlocking the blue economy, microfinance exit, Make Our Planet Great Again, scaling mini-grids

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Tim O’Reilly asks WTF?, Shell’s electric-car charger, impact measurement brain trust, #MeToo

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

SOCAP’s best-dressed, fighting blindness, entrepreneurship for all, blockchain exuberance

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

‘Impact-rated’ mutual fund, Tiedemann acquires Threshold, `impact investing’ turns 10, closing the…

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

SOCAP signals, calling early-childhood innovators, SDGs as a ‘declaration of interdependence’

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Six impact storylines, Andela’s African coders, creative economy, climate job-loss

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Top-ranked impact funds, blue bonds, nudges for good, super abundant capital

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Getting talent right, $150 million for diversity in films, Connovo’s replication innovation, Puerto…

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Find us at SOCAP, fintech and edtech raises, racial-equity growth market, big brands in 2030

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Social-change economics, Rise Fund hits $2B, JP Morgan in DC, environmental impact investors…

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Big asset managers, Salesforce impact fund, financing education in India, open data privacy

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Climate-resilience for Puerto Rico, CNote’s impact savings, ADAP’s real-time deals, future of…

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Betting on women in Southeast Asia, regenerative agriculture, beyond impact apologetics

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Big-league impact, sustainable cellphones, urbantech startups, next billion air conditioners

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Impact storytelling, disaster recovery capital, where community-development finance goes, beating…

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Buffalo’s impact fund, Jopwell & job diversity, pension funds can’t hide, ag’s water-risk hotspots

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Gender-diversity outperformance, Mitsui and minigrids, food-tech investing, India’s water challenge

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Impact Indonesia, CARE’s women’s fund, ride-sharing for refugees, UN’s Guterres takes aim at…

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Financing resilience, Ford MRI for Detroit housing, six climate-finance innovations, solar for…

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Bloomberg’s global initiative, school-in-a-box, epidemic insurance, SIINC’ing portfolios…

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

SDG-finance unicorns, Barclays impact fund-of-funds, climate mitigation opportunities, goalkeepers’…

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

SDG Week, JP Morgan in Chicago, development impact bonds, farm tech and talent

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

B Corp list, Rise Fund’s data deal, Rise of the Rest finalists, India’s $8B impact market, paradox…

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Mirova land fund, women’s entrepreneurship in India, carbon-capture tech, energy efficiency =…

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Impact data flywheel, African agribusiness deals, corporate renewables push, Blade Runner through…

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Alaska’s universal income, immigrant innovation, carbon budgets, Made in China 2025

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Overcoming investment blind spots, senior-care incubator, test for Unilever, China’s electric car…

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Domestic violence as a material risk, Red Cross’ war-zone bond, beyond credit history, denser and…

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Fortune 50, Harvey fund, blending finance for health and education, impact MOOCs, sustainable…

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Blockchain for impact, developing the UK workforce, uncommon cacao, after the rains stop (part 2)

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Dreamer economics, big biz needs small biz, driving financial inclusion, Asia’s sustainable food…

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Resilience in Provence, ICYMI, affordable housing and education, China’s solar boom

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Women rising in Southeast Asia, impact IRAs, financing water infrastructure, smarter Singapore

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Can business go high, South Africa’s independent media, globalization and social entrepreneurship…

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Unnatural disasters, unshackled immigrants, rise of the global rest, self-taxing cars

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Useful impact data, lab-grown meat, Rise Fund’s under-30 challenge, Mexican impact bonds

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

ICYM the Brief, Nigeria’s Releaf to Y-Combinator, global goal preferences, investing in…

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Friends of ImpactAlpha, dance incubator, uncharted food access, sustainability signals, bitcoin’s…

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Blue Haven opens up, inclusive ag #dealflow, how enterprises view impact measurement, LED…

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Smallholder farmers are investable, boosting internet access, neighborhood economics, battling…

The Brief | ImpactAlpha

Busting the metrics myth, Obama staffers back “political tech,” Nobel for impact, forests are a…

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