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Echoing Green’s newest fellows span 21 countries
The racial equity-focused fellowship and social enterprise incubator in New York attracted a pool of more than 2,000 applicants tackling challenges in inclusion, …
The Call
Exclusive video calls with industry insiders
Call No. 12: How local early-stage funders are finding impact alpha in emerging markets
ImpactAlpha, February 5 – Small and growing businesses are the pillars of local economies, in both developed and developing economies. Startups are engines …
Call No. 9: Impact investors move “beyond trade-offs”
ImpactAlpha, June 3 – The early days of impact investing were all about proving that you didn’t have to sacrifice financial returns to do …
Impact Voices
Provocative opinions and insightful analysis from the community
Thoughts of a Black fund manager
I am a Black fund manager. There are not many of us: Less than 2% of AUM are managed by diverse-owned firms. I …
How a portfolio of inclusive businesses prioritized the poor through COVID
The spread of COVID-19 and the economic devastation in its wake have shown just how necessary for-profit approaches are to serving the poor …
Q&A with DPI’s Runa Alam: How Africa’s impact ventures became essential during Covid-19
As the Covid-19 pandemic began to spread around the world in early 2020, gloomy predictions about the coronavirus’s effects on Africa also made …
Non-bank lenders need capital to finance African small businesses rejected by banks
ImpactAlpha, October 29 – The clunky term “non-bank financial intermediaries” identifies a varied group of lenders only by what they are not. These …
Small vs. big – not blue vs. red – is the great battle of the next American century
ImpactAlpha, Dec. 16 – While I was running Village Capital a few years ago, I noticed two starkly divided realities in the U.S. Vilcap, …