Place-Based Investing
Community Finance | February 22, 2021
Opportunity Zones await makeover – and impact
ImpactAlpha, Feb. 22 – Tens of billions of dollars have been raised by opportunity funds. But most of the nearly 8,000 low-income opportunity …
Community Finance | February 9, 2021
Big companies back small businesses and the community development financiers that serve them
ImpactAlpha, Feb. 9 – Small businesses got a boost from Alicia Keys’ post-Super Bowl concert, sponsored by Verizon, which committed $10 million in …
Dealflow | February 1, 2021
Circuit Clinical raises $500,000 for COVID-19 tests and medical research
ImpactAlpha, February 1 – Buffalo, N.Y.-based Circuit Clinical supports clinical trials for medical research initiatives, including a saliva-based COVID-19 test. It received a $500,000 …
Community Finance | December 16, 2020
Entrepreneur Backed Assets Fund aims to provide liquidity for community lenders
ImpactAlpha, Dec. 16 – The nonprofit Entrepreneur backed Assets Fund will buy loans originated by a half-dozen members of a collaborative of community …
Dealflow | December 2, 2020
Inclusio seeks to anchor its social mission by going public
ImpactAlpha, December 2 – Brussels-based Inclusio develops and manages affordable housing, schools, reception centers for asylum-seekers and other social housing and infrastructure projects. …
Community Finance | November 19, 2020
LISC looks to “10X” investment in closing racial wealth gaps
ImpactAlpha Nov. 19 – The Local Initiatives Support Corp. wants to scale up the response to addressing persistent disparities in wealth, health and …
Community Finance | November 17, 2020
Blueprint Local and LISC are using Opportunity Zones to bridge divisions, beginning in the Southeast
As we move beyond a difficult election cycle, it is time to focus on an ambitious community investment agenda that has a meaningful …
Place-Based Investing | October 26, 2020
How place-based strategies in Virginia and other states are leveraging private capital for public good
ImpactAlpha, Oct. 26 – Virginia Community Capital has turned a $15 million seed investment from the state in 2006 into more than $600 …
Entrepreneurship | October 20, 2020
How corporations can make good on their racial equity pledges
Netflix and Goldman Sachs are in vastly different businesses, but in formulating their responses to the racial crisis facing America, these corporations came …
Dealflow | September 22, 2020
Co-op Cincy and Seed Commons launch $3 million worker ownership fund
ImpactAlpha, Sept. 22 – Even before the COVID pandemic, more than 5,500 businesses in the region were at risk of closing due to …
Capital Impact Partners helped finance the renovation of the Garland Building in Detroit's West Village.
Place-Based Investing | August 19, 2020
Can real estate financing + small-business lending = equitable community growth?
ImpactAlpha, Aug. 19, 2020 –– Arlington, Va.-based Capital Impact Partners, a community-development real estate lender, and CDC Small Business Finance in San Diego …
Catalytic Capital | August 17, 2020
Creative financing to unlock COVID aid in Alabama
ImpactAlpha, August 17 – The financial strains the COVID pandemic has caused in many cities and states can be seen in sharp relief …
Clean Energy | July 21, 2020
Grassroots platforms are not waiting for Washington to invest in a green new deal
ImpactAlpha, July 21 – Stimulus measures pushed by Joe Biden and other Democrats could channel billions or even trillions into clean energy, green …
Entrepreneurship | July 13, 2020
Let the needs of small business drive impact investing in local economies
Impact investors dedicated to strengthening local economies must change how they support local businesses—starting with redefining the problem the investors are trying to …
Asia | July 9, 2020
Proximity Finance secures $14 million for loans to Myanmar’s farmers
ImpactAlpha, June 9 – Nearly 40% of Myanmar’s rural population lives in poverty. Proximity Finance, the microfinance arm of agriculture services provider Proximity …