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The Brief: Investing in refugee entrepreneurs as an economic opportunity
Greetings Agents of Impact! ☎️ The Call: Crafting a positive agenda for faith-based investors. Can faith-aligned investors become known for what they are …
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Aqua-Spark aims to build an African value chain around ‘aquatic chicken’
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UK’s Manufacturing Africa to launch $200 million fund for green manufacturing startups
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The ‘ethical nature’ of Islamic finance opens new markets
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With working capital and warehousing, Small Foundation boosts emerging fund managers in Africa
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Impact experts ‘words of wisdom’ on landing an impact career (video)
Kimberlee Cornett’s inbox has in recent weeks been flooded with messages from recent university and graduate school graduates hoping to get career advice …
Laying bets on entrepreneurial households in industrious communities
Among the misperceptions that have kept capital from flowing to broad sectors of emerging markets: Risks are too high. Customers are too poor. …
Agents of Impact converge on financing solutions to ‘light every clinic’
The people and principles needed to solve the challenges of financing solar power for frontline health clinics were represented on ImpactAlpha’s Agents of …
Changing investment algorithms to advance racial justice
ImpactAlpha, Oct. 1 – What got us here won’t get us where we need to go. Guidelines that govern global finance need to …
Rooting out racism as a systemic risk
ImpactAlpha, Aug. 27 – Investors have been talking about systemic risks at least since the Great Financial Crisis of 2008. More recently, climate …
Impact Voices
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“Harvest” casts a rare spotlight on rural farming at Tribeca Festival premiere
The US was once a nation of farmers. In 1870, nearly half of the employed US population worked in agriculture. Today, there are …
More than a dozen climate and biodiversity collaboratives advance system-change in Latin America
Climate change, biodiversity loss, inequality, and financing gaps are deeply interconnected. No single organization, investor or source of capital can address them alone. …
When farm credit fits the producer, it doubles as climate finance
Brazil is the world’s largest poultry exporter and one of its biggest dairy producers, yet the small and mid-sized farmers who supply those …
Debt funds have more influence over gender inclusion than they think
Ask a debt fund manager about gender-lens investing in their portfolio, and you’ll likely hear the same refrain: “We care, but our hands …
The impact portfolio hiding inside US Islamic finance
Impact investors have spent a decade looking for the qualities US Islamic finance was built on: non-extractive returns, real-asset backing, shared risk, ethical …
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