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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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JPMorgan puts $39 million towards small business entrepreneurs and job creation
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Boston Impact Initiative raises $22 million to invest in New England’s small businesses
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Reinvestment Fund taps the bond market for $70 million for housing, education and HBCUs
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Vox Capital raises $50 million to help farmers restore Brazil’s degraded farmland
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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 …
How green banks are blending finance for community infrastructure and greenhouse gas reduction
In New Orleans, the city’s housing finance agency has become a “green bank” to underwrite community solar, water treatment projects, and resilience hubs. …
Engaging racial-equity risks and opportunities in municipal finance
ImpactAlpha, Feb. 9 – The fatal beating by police of Tyre Nichols in Memphis last month exposed risks to the city’s finances that have …
Mispriced risks, investor demand and community power center racial equity in municipal bonds
ImpactAlpha, Nov. 18 – Cities around the U.S. are raising low-cost capital in the municipal bond markets by highlighting intentional efforts to address long-standing …
Investors share experiences in getting their assets off the sidelines
“It’s a great time for new entrants, but for those of us who’ve been doing this for a while it is equally urgent to raise our game right and to not get complacent,” said Margot Brandenburg of the Ford Foundation.
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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 …
The future of place-based investing depends on the future of CDFIs
Editor’s note: This article is part of a partnership between ImpactAlpha and Mission Investors Exchange, or MIE, to present new ideas and perspectives …
Centering community investment in impact investing portfolios
For years, community investment notes have existed at the edges of impact investing conversations — familiar to practitioners and committed investors, but rarely …
Local and replicable solutions for shared prosperity and economic justice
Markets evolve. Innovations that initially seem like rocket science become replicable templates. For those repairing local economies, making them fair places where people …
How investors are refining their impact focus: Four trends in impact by 2030
Impact investing, like the rest of us, has come a long way over the past two decades, when faith-based groups and mission-driven pioneers …
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