Agents of Impact Call No. 8: Financial advisors spill their secrets of sustainable investing (audio)

ImpactAlpha, April 23 – Financial advisors are transforming themselves into “agents of impact” in order to deepen their relationships with existing clients, build their book of business – or stay in business at all. “This is a retention and recruitment conversation,” Morgan Stanley’s Noel Pacarro Brown said on ImpactAlpha’s Agents of Impact Call No. 8 last week. “There is no one

Developing community feedback tools to help investors manage positive – and negative – impact

Community-driven accountability tools, like the IFC’s “Compliance Advisor Ombudsman,” can provide affordable, relatively fast, and fair platforms for communities to raise grievances to investors, resolve disputes and remedy harm.

Frogtek is bringing Mexico’s one million mom-and-pop shops into the digital age (video)

“We’re trying to democratize the data information on the retail sector,” says Frogtek’s Montse Mora.

Advice for advisors recap, tilapia in Zambia, charter-school finance in Atlanta, accelerating impact in Latin America

Advice for advisors recap, tilapia in Zambia, charter-school finance in Atlanta, accelerating impact in Latin America

GoATL fund backs LIIF’s charter school finance program in Atlanta

The impact investment fund of Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta put $1 million into the Low Income Investment Fund to create a financing vehicle for earlier stage charter schools in Atlanta’s lower income communities.

New Ventures is accelerating impact entrepreneurs in Mexico and Latin America (video)

Rodrigo Villar and New Ventures Mexico are waking up private investors to the next wave of innovation taking hold in Mexican and Latin American startups: the one tackling mounting social and environmental challenges.

Sustainable tilapia farm in Zambia secures $10.5 million loan

Tilapia is a low-carbon, efficient source of protein and is conducive to aquaculture operations, which have a potentially “transformational effect for the availability and affordability of locally produced protein,” said Dutch development bank FMO, which issued the loan.

Community accountability tools, Serena Williams’ off-court impact, bridging indigenous finance in Canada, Frogtek’s tiendas

Community accountability tools, Serena Williams’ off-court impact, bridging indigenous finance in Canada, Frogtek’s tiendas