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Impact Voices | October 2, 2023
Investing for a post-affirmative action economy
After the US Supreme Court decision curtailing affirmative action in college admissions, 21 Democratic attorneys general powerfully came together to take a stand: …
September 13, 2023
Events Manager
Position Overview: The Bezos Earth Fund is seeking a dynamic and experienced Events Manager to join our team and support the planning, organizing, …
Ownership Economy | September 6, 2023
Challenging wealth supremacy to realize the dream of systemic change
This essay is adapted from Marjorie Kelly’s forthcoming book, “Wealth Supremacy: How the Extractive Economy and the Biased Rules of Capitalism Drive Today’s …
The Brief | July 28, 2023
The Week in Impact Investing: Hot Streak
TGIF, Agents of Impact! You deserve a break, and so do we. The ImpactAlpha team will be off next week. We’ll be back …
Education Tech | May 9, 2023
Generative AI opportunities and risks for impact investing in education
OpenAI’s chatbot ChatGPT took just two months to reach 100 million users. As impact investors, we’re excited about how generative AI might contribute …
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The Brief | March 29, 2023
The Brief: Today’s Call: Metrics Madness, strengthening community finance, carbon-negative concrete, bonds for independent media and gender and racial equity
Greetings, Agents of Impact! 👋 Hop on The Call: Metrics Madness. The Southern Reconstruction Fund’s Napoleon Wallace put out a call for universal …
Impact Investing | March 29, 2023
How the U.S. can boost community financial institutions to counter bank consolidation and bridge racial wealth gaps
The collapse of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank sent depositors fleeing into the arms of large “Systemically Important Banks,” even after the …
Newly elected Speaker of the US House of Representatives Kevin McCarthy
Institutional Impact | January 11, 2023
GOP ditches ‘pro-business’ with attacks on ESG that hurt corporations, investors – and red states
Editor’s note: ImpactAlpha contributing editor Imogen Rose-Smith, a longtime senior writer for Institutional Investor, contributes a bi-weekly column on the policies, practices and …
The Brief | June 10, 2022
This week in Impact Investing: Out
TGIF, Agents of Impact! Coming up and coming out. The backlash to stakeholder capitalism and environmental, social and governance investing, or ESG, has …
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The Brief | June 9, 2022
The Brief: Impact compass, upskilling caregivers, edtech unicorn, rewarding regenerative agriculture, battery storage, gender-smart merger
Greetings, Agents of Impact! Featured: Frontiers in Social Innovation Five metrics to help investors point their investments toward impact. Less than half of …
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Smallholder Agriculture | March 31, 2022
Apollo Agriculture is out to show how financing smallholder farmers can boost production and profits
ImpactAlpha, March 31 – Smallholder farmers have long been the darling of development specialists, microfinance institutions and impact investors. Now, commercial investors are …
BlueMark's Christina Leijonhufvud
Agents of Impact | February 4, 2022
Christina Leijonhufvud, BlueMark: Creating a benchmark for impact integrity
ImpactAlpha, Feb. 4 – Of the nine “Operating Principles for Impact Management,” arguably the most important is the last one: “publicly disclose alignment” and …
The Brief | February 4, 2022
The Week in Impact Investing: Horizons
TGIF, Agents of Impact! 🗣 Slope of enlightenment. Students of tech’s “hype cycle” may recognize the same pattern in impact investing. From their …
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Faith-Based Investing | November 17, 2021
Higher risk, higher principles: A simple investment thesis for Christian impact investors
Are the world’s Christian investors the stakeholders uniquely positioned to bridge the $2.5 trillion funding gap for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals by …
News and Information | September 28, 2021
Media boomlet in climate and impact investing follows the money
ImpactAlpha, Sept. 28 – Media outlets cite the flow of capital to ESG and climate funds as evidence of the arrival of impact investing. …
Catalytic Capital | August 11, 2021
In search of existential answers and impact-first investors, Ceniarth finds religion
What good is it if someone says he has faith, but does not have works? – James 2:14 “I do not want followers …
Creative Economy | June 14, 2021
A Latin American ethical bank as the heart of the economy and the creative industries
Banca Ética Latinoamericana is a banking project led by Fundación Dinero y Conciencia, which seeks to understand the structural challenges in Latin America …
Creative Economy | June 14, 2021
Corporate venture capital: A risk and an opportunity for Latin America’s ‘orange economy’
The dynamic cultural and creative sectors of Latin America – recognized as part of the “orange economy” – are an untapped global resource …
The Brief | June 4, 2021
The Week in impact investing: Building forward
TGIF, Agents of Impact! 🎧 Impact Briefing. On this week’s podcast, host Monique Aiken looks back and looks forward, with highlights of her …
Present day Black Wall Street in Tulsa, Okla.
The Brief | May 28, 2021
The Week in impact investing: Remembering
We’re taking a Brief break on Monday for the U.S. holiday. We’ll be back in your inbox on Tuesday. Memorial Day. The U.S. …
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Institutional Impact | May 10, 2021
How do you solve a problem like MBS? Saudi Arabia presents a governance risk impact investors can’t ignore
Editor’s note: ImpactAlpha contributing editor Imogen Rose-Smith, a longtime senior writer for Institutional Investor, contributes a bi-weekly column on the policies, practices and …
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The Brief | April 30, 2021
The Week in impact investing: Opportunity
TGIF, Agents of Impact! Impact Briefing. On this week’s podcast, host Brian Walsh welcomes back Imogen Rose-Smith and David Bank to discuss truth …
The Brief | April 23, 2021
The Week in impact investing: Acceleration
TGIF, Agents of Impact! Going exponential. Greenhouse gas emissions fell about 7% last year as the COVID-19 pandemic shut down large parts of …
The Brief | April 16, 2021
The Week in impact investing: Talent
TGIF, Agents of Impact! 🎧 Impact Briefing. In this week’s podcast, host Brian Walsh takes stock of two of the premier showcases for …
The Brief | April 13, 2021
The Brief: Next-gen talent, eating worms, decarbonization partners, electric motorcycles in Africa, systems-level investing
Greetings, Agents of Impact! Featured: ImpactAlpha Original Next-gen talent is the winner at MIINT competition and Sustainable Investing Challenge. Sustainable investing assets have …
The Brief | April 9, 2021
The Week in impact investing: New rules
TGIF, Agents of Impact! Impact Briefing. On this week’s podcast, host Monique Aiken speaks with B Lab’s Andrew Kassoy about how impact-driven businesses …
The Brief | April 2, 2021
The Week in Impact Investing: Optimized
TGIF, Agents of Impact! Impact Briefing. On this week’s podcast, host Brian Walsh dissects former BlackRock exec Tariq Fancy’s recent takedown of ESG …
The Brief | March 19, 2021
The Week in Impact Investing: The crowd
TGIF, Agents of Impact! Madness and wisdom. Non-fungible tokens, or NFTs, broke into the public consciousness last week when a digital version of …
The Brief | February 3, 2021
The Brief: Climate-smart boards, net-zero electrofuels, inclusive fintech in Africa, supply chains in Brazil, Carmen Rojas on The Reconstruction
Featured: Corporate boards are not leading companies where they need to go
The Brief | February 2, 2021
The Brief: The Reconstruction podcast, lab-grown chicken, Backstage crowdfunding, sustainable rolling funds, Microsoft’s carbon capture
Greetings, Agents of Impact! Featured: The Reconstruction The moment when everything was possible… is now (podcast). The presidential election just finished had a …
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The Brief | February 1, 2021
The Brief: The Reconstruction, investing for climate justice, criminal justice reform, utility-scale solar, honest IPO
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The Brief | January 19, 2021
The Brief: Brief birthday, Yo-Yo Ma on culture and capital, energy inclusion in Africa, sustainable development SPAC, new books for a new era
Featured: Creativity connects us: Yo-Yo Ma on creating jobs, raising voices and building hope
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Creative Economy | January 19, 2021
Yo-Yo Ma: Culture connects us
Culture and creativity are already having a positive effect on the serious issues facing our society. But with the right support, they can …
Room full of flying books
Corporate Impact | January 19, 2021
New books on the new rules for a new era of business
ImpactAlpha, Jan. 19 – From the COVID pandemic and climate change to the racial justice uprising and assaults on democracy, the tumultuous events …
Looking Ahead to 2021 | December 18, 2020
Looking Ahead: Investors, asset managers and, yes, corporations, set their sights on impact outcomes in 2021
ImpactAlpha, Dec. 18 – The COVID-19 pandemic revealed global financial systems as one disruption away from disaster. If the markets’ legacies of shareholder …
Institutional Shift | December 18, 2020
A roadmap for building a financial system resilient to future disruptions
ImpactAlpha, Dec. 18 – The Covid-19 pandemic has revealed that financial systems are one disruption away from disaster. Financial markets’ commitment to shareholder primacy …
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Frontier and Growth Markets | December 14, 2020
Looking ahead: Helping small businesses in emerging markets survive and thrive in 2021
ImpactAlpha, December 14 – The stabilization and revival of the micro, small and medium-sized businesses sector has been the emerging markets story of …
Catalytic Capital | December 2, 2020
Texas foundations sets up fund for COVID-impacted health clinics
ImpactAlpha, Dec. 3 – Health facilities in many parts of the U.S., and particularly low-income and rural areas, are buckling under the weight of …
The Brief | November 12, 2020
The Brief: Climate reset, inclusive hardtech, operating principles disclosure, blended capital shortfall, green stimulus, who’s who in the Biden transition
Featured: Expected U.S. reset on climate action is a green light for allies and investors
Catalytic Capital | October 27, 2020
Impact America’s $55 million second fund is hunting for unicorns in the disruption of systemic racism
ImpactAlpha, Oct. 27 – Kesha Cash has raised $55 million to look for technologies that address one of the largest market inefficiencies of our …
Entrepreneurship | October 20, 2020
When founders of color prosper, so will entrepreneurship in the post-COVID economy
ImpactAlpha, Oct. 20 – Investors and advocates are increasing their focus on Black and Brown-owned businesses, which even before COVID struggled to access …
The Brief | October 20, 2020
The Brief: Recovery entrepreneurship, impact growth engine, paying for success in San Francisco and Colorado, Black-owned financial institutions
Greetings, Agents of Impact! Featured: Impact Voices When founders of color prosper, so will entrepreneurship in the post-COVID economy. Investors and advocates are …
Features | September 22, 2020
Changing the investment algorithm to advance racial justice
ImpactAlpha, Sept. 22 – It’s time to recode market systems that generate racial injustice. Last month’s Agents of Impact Call joined two conversations …
The Brief | September 22, 2020
The Brief: Today’s Call: Algorithms for racial justice, greenlighting off-grid solar, worker ownership in Cincinnati, climate stewardship leaders and laggards
Greetings, Agents of Impact! Hop on The Call. Today’s Agents of Impact Call No. 23 takes on racial justice investing (see below). Join …
Beats | September 16, 2020
Constructing ESG portfolios that go beyond stock selection to mitigate systemic risk
Can asset managers, RIAs and other fiduciaries act both as responsible fiduciaries as well as promote long-term societal good through their investment actions? …