Follow the Talent: Agents of Impact Special Report for May. 24

Follow the talent with ImpactAlpha’s weekly report on career moves, job openings, events and opportunities.

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’s Big 9: What impact gets right, billion-dollar babies, north-bound innovation, buy back the block, climate shareholders as Agents of Impact

The Elevar Method, lending for off-grid solar, edtech merger, community ownership in Opportunity Zones, Al Jazeera’s impact play

The Elevar Method, lending for off-grid solar, edtech merger, community ownership in Opportunity Zones, Al Jazeera’s impact play

Elevar Equity: Growing demand, growing companies and growing opportunities for impact at scale

In Episode Six, Elevar's Sandeep Farias offers a tour of the “Elevar Method,” the investment firm’s methodical approach to achieving impact and financial returns by backing companies catering to low-income customers.

Empowering communities to take ownership of their own Opportunity Zones

A common thread throughout the Forbes Opportunity Zones Summit in Newark this week: Ensuring those living and working in Opportunity Zones are empowered to use the tax incentive to take an ownership stake in their own neighborhoods.

Oikocredit invests in responsible coffee company Caravela, while Annona exits

Oikocredit is buying out its fellow Dutch impact investor Annona from its investment in Caravela.

Off-Grid Energy Access Fund makes local-currency loan to BBOXX

The Off-Grid Energy Access Fund has issued BBOXX an $8 million loan (roughly 7.3 billion Rwandan francs) to expand sales of its solar home systems in Rwanda, where it currently has 800,000 systems installed in homes and businesses.