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Community finance can close the digital divides federal programs keep leaving open
Residents of East Carroll Parish, Louisiana did everything they could. For six years, a coalition of faith leaders and local organizers ran door-to-door …
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Green lenders are all dressed up and ready to roll
The deals pencil. The pipeline is vetted. The projects are shovel-ready. Community lenders and green banks that had been set to deploy $20 …
Worker solutions, community insurance and other strategies for shared prosperity
Capital + services for businesses that employ working-class people in working-class places equals impact, says Damien Dwin of Washington, DC-based private lender Lafayette …
Employee ownership rides a wave of economic populism – and pragmatism
Ownership is in the air. Momentum for strategies that enable workers to share in the value they help create continues to build, despite …
‘Green bank’ groups plot next moves as EPA attempts to terminate grants
It’s been a head-spinning week for awardees of the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund. The Environmental Protection Agency has escalated its attacks against nonprofit …
Equity, ownership and the reconstruction of Black wealth
Speaking through his text-to-voice “eye pad,” Napoleon Wallace joined the discussion after the screening of ImpactAlpha’s mini-doc, “Napoleon Wallace and the Reconstruction of …
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Community finance can close the digital divides federal programs keep leaving open
Residents of East Carroll Parish, Louisiana did everything they could. For six years, a coalition of faith leaders and local organizers ran door-to-door …
Can big finance finally deliver on economic opportunity?
For years, corporate America has talked a big game about expanding economic opportunity in underserved communities. The rhetoric has been plentiful. The measurable …
Where investors are missing Asia’s sustainability transition
Sustainability investing in Asia is entering a more operational phase, but many global investors are still analysing the region primarily through ESG disclosures, …
It takes an ecosystem to raise an impact economy
We often talk about impact investing as a strategy. What increasingly excites me is the larger question: What does it actually take to …
Housing and energy costs are together fueling one affordability crisis
Families spend, on average, more than half their income on housing and transportation expenses. For many already stretched thin on housing costs, rising …
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