Agent of Impact: John O’Shaughnessy, Franciscan Sisters of Mary

John O’Shaughnessy walked away from his first Social Capital Markets, or SOCAP, conference with a sense of shared values with impact investors in attendance. "This was our community, faith-based or not,” he told ImpactAlpha. "It didn’t, quite frankly, matter.”

Investing with a ‘nutrition lens’ to drive progress on the Sustainable Development Goals

Solving malnutrition will require a significant capital infusion in a more local, more sustainable, global food system able to deliver more affordable healthy food. That’s a big opportunity for impact investors.

The Week in impact investing: Expanding the mission

‘Public banks’ for the public good.
Retail investing in local farms.
Accounting for the stakeholder era.

The Brief: Nutrition lens investing, Bristol’s place-based fund, faith in Atlanta housing, impact in emerging markets, de-risking Japan’s economy

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Can sustainable seafood and energy de-risk Japan’s economy?

Japan has been staking out a leadership position in sustainable investing. Still, two of its largest industries, energy and seafood, have been slow to follow. Two recent reports call out environmental-related risks for Japan’s economy.

Bristol’s place-based fund secures £10 million to tackle hunger, inequality and climate

The place-based impact fund strives to support the U.K. city's vision to be “a fair, healthy and sustainable city and a city of hope and aspiration” by 2050.

Faith-based nonprofit to invest in affordable housing in Atlanta

The non-profit will use a $500,000 loan support the acquisition and conversion of single family homes into affordable and workforce housing in South Atlanta.