Place-Based Investing
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 …
Call Recording | July 1, 2020
Call No. 20: 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.
Entrepreneurship | June 3, 2020
Local funds model the racial reckoning and renewal central to the COVID recovery
ImpactAlpha, June 3 – If the COVID crisis has laid bare longstanding inequities, the widespread protests over the police killing of George Floyd …
Agents of Impact | May 28, 2020
Agents of Impact call recap: 10x’ing community capital
ImpactAlpha, May 28 – Looking for a silver lining to the COVID crisis? It could be that the crisis is the catalyst to …
Catalytic Capital | May 26, 2020
New York’s $100 million loan fund for small businesses is a model for a $1 billion national fund
ImpactAlpha, May 26 – New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo may have been listening in to ImpactAlpha’s Agents of Impact call last week. The …
Entrepreneurship | May 13, 2020
France targets startups for COVID relief
ImpactAlpha, May 13 – HD Rain, a Paris-based startup that uses machine learning and tv satellite signals to offer low cost, high resolution …