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The Brief | June 1, 2023
The Brief: Inside corporate impact reporting, green hydrogen for aviation, blueing Los Angeles, Africa’s low-carbon economy, May’s ESG madness
Greetings, Agents of Impact! Featured: Impact Management Impact reports from Tesla, Warby Parker and others tout climate and community solutions. Tired: ESG risk …
The Brief | May 31, 2023
The Brief: Proxy season’s big chill, securitizing off-grid solar payments, green Opportunity Zones, trucking cooperative in Nashville
Greetings, Agents of Impact! 👋 The Call: How asset allocators are driving racial equity in municipal bonds. ImpactAlpha’s “Muni Impact” calls have examined …
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The Brief | May 30, 2023
The Brief: Muni strategies for racial equity, outsourced impact investment officers, EVs in West Africa, Indigenous resilience in Indonesia
Greetings, Agents of Impact! 👋 Agents of Impact Call No. 51: How asset allocators are driving racial equity in municipal bonds. Audit the …
ImpactAlpha Open | May 30, 2023
ImpactAlpha Open: Ownership economy + carbon market correction
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The Brief | May 26, 2023
The Week in Impact Investing: Toolkits
🗣 Arrows in the quiver. Florida Gov. Ron Desantis made time during his spotty campaign rollout to take a shot at a favorite …
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Impact Careers | May 26, 2023
The Week’s Impact Jobs: May 26, 2023
ImpactAlpha, May 26 — Impact fund managers and investors are looking for new talent in big cities, including New York, San Francisco, Paris …
Philadelphia, US
The Brief | May 25, 2023
The Brief: Financing social determinants of health, neighborhood preservation bond in Philadelphia, tax credits for mothers, US SIF’s Lisa Woll’s exit interview
Greetings, Agents of Impact! Featured: Investing in Health Health is too important to be left to the health sector alone. Climate change, supply …
The Brief | May 24, 2023
The Brief: Perpetual purpose payouts for auto mechanics, employee ownership and quality jobs, smart heat pumps, lessons from financial activists
Greetings, Agents of Impact! Featured: Ownership Economy A Utah auto shop demonstrates a pathway to worker ownership via a perpetual purpose trust. The …
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The Brief | May 23, 2023
The Brief: Appalachia as a climate refuge, the science of circular materials, community ownership in California, 2X’s gender-smart mobilization, measuring enterprise impact on the SDGs
Greetings, Agents of Impact! Featured: Climate Resilience Appalachia emerges as a climate refuge – and its community infrastructure feels the strain. With its …
ImpactAlpha Open | May 23, 2023
ImpactAlpha Open: Outperforming on impact management + green nukes
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The Brief | May 22, 2023
The Brief: Women and the SDGs, solar cell towers, climate tech VC, dissing dollar stores, green nukes, solutions-oriented cinema
Greetings, Agents of Impact! Featured: Gender Smart Bringing women to the forefront of sustainable development. Sustainable Development Goal No. 5 underpins many if …
The Brief | May 19, 2023
The Week in Impact Investing: Alignment
TGIF, Agents of Impact! 🗣 Training day. It’s either comforting or alarming that just about every artificial intelligence company is spinning up teams …
Impact Careers | May 19, 2023
The Week’s Impact Jobs: May 19, 2023
ImpactAlpha, May 19 — Impact investors in the US, Asia, Europe, Africa and Latin America are hunting for talent, from impact associates to …
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The Brief | May 18, 2023
The Brief: Inclusive franchise ownership, low-carbon building materials, fundraising FUD at TPG, industrial water management, green hydrogen
Greetings, Agents of Impact! Featured: Ownership Economy With inclusive loans and business support, franchise ownership offers a path to wealth for entrepreneurs of …
The Brief | May 17, 2023
The Brief: Impact management leaderboard, ground-source heat pumps and direct-air capture, backing diverse fund managers, tying compensation to outcomes
Greetings, Agents of Impact! Featured: Impact Management 10 fund managers that are outperforming – in managing impact. Some fund managers link staff incentives to impact …
The Brief | May 16, 2023
The Brief: Infrastructure in informal settlements, rooting out bias in asset management, pay-as-you-go in Africa, green steel in the Midwest, screening out guns
Greetings, Agents of Impact! Featured: Reimagining Slums The business case for infrastructure investments in informal settlements. Variously known as favelas, shantytowns, encampments, aashwa’i, campamentos and other terms, …
ImpactAlpha Open | May 16, 2023
ImpactAlpha Open: Exiting with impact alpha
Greetings, Agents of Impact! Welcome to ImpactAlpha Open, our free weekly newsletter to keep you up to date and in the know on impact investing and sustainable finance. ⚡️ …
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The Brief | May 15, 2023
The Brief: Assessing risk to impact, ESG data to measure outcomes, greening the digital economy, supporting caregivers, fusion ambitions
Greetings, Agents of Impact! Featured: Impact Management How investors can better assess risk to impact. Investors routinely examine the risk of not achieving …
The Brief | May 12, 2023
The Week in impact investing: Alpha
TGIF, Agents of Impact! 🗣 Leading with impact. When pitching big money investors, impact managers used to lead with “alpha” and downplay “impact.” …
Impact Careers | May 12, 2023
The Week’s Impact Jobs: May 12, 2023
ImpactAlpha, May 12 — One Acre Fund this week announced it will reduce staff in its Kenya operations by nearly half as the …
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The Brief | May 11, 2023
The Brief: Impact in private equity, greening the digital economy, edtech for Spanish speakers, STEM tools bond, climate project finance, ESG conundrum
Greetings, Agents of Impact! Featured: Impact in Private Equity Private equity firms embrace impact for a competitive edge. As the private equity field …
The Brief | May 10, 2023
The Brief: Carbon credits for social enterprises, accounting for nature, catalyzing women-led funds in Africa, bridging climate finance’s valley of death
Greetings, Agents of Impact! Featured: Carbon Markets How carbon credits are driving down the costs of climate-friendly goods in Africa. African social enterprises …
The Brief | May 9, 2023
The Brief: Impact alpha in exits, scaling community ownership, higher-ed finance, payment digitization in Central America, AI opportunities in education
Greetings, Agents of Impact! Featured: Impact Exits EverFi, Vital Farms and hundreds of exits provide fresh evidence of ‘impact alpha.’ When educational services …
ImpactAlpha Open | May 9, 2023
ImpactAlpha Open: Impact fundraising defies headwinds
Hi there, Agents of Impact! Welcome to the latest ImpactAlpha Open, our free weekly briefing of top impact-investing news and trends from ImpactAlpha and around the web. …
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The Brief | May 8, 2023
The Brief: Adapting social impact incentives, embedded lending in Latin America, energy access in Africa, rare earth recycling, impact unicorns
Greetings, Agents of Impact! Featured: Impact-Linked Finance How impact incentives brought a dental care startup back to its roots in rural Ecuador. When …
The Brief | May 5, 2023
The Week in Impact Investing: Basics
TGIF, Agents of Impact! 🗣 On the ground. There was no shortage of complex issues to dissect at this week’s Milken Global Conference, …
Impact Careers | May 5, 2023
The Week’s Impact Jobs: May 5, 2023
ImpactAlpha, May 5 — Impact organizations in the U.S., Europe and Asia are hunting for new talent, including analysts, associates and directors. Just …
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The Brief | May 4, 2023
The Brief: Impact liquidity crunch, corporate climate capital, rehabilitating homes in New England, solar for small business in India, overheard in Philadelphia
Greetings, Agents of Impact! Featured: Economic Volatility With rate hikes and bank woes, impact investors and entrepreneurs face a capital crunch. Like cartoon …
Chicago, IL
The Brief | May 3, 2023
The Brief: Investing in reproductive care, gender lens on fintech, clean cookstove acquisition, long-duration batteries, Chicago’s muni impact investors
Greetings, Agents of Impact! Featured: Investing in Health Opportunities for impact investors to champion reproductive care after Dobbs. The legal battles over access …
The Brief | May 2, 2023
The Brief: The Liist of inclusive community funds, Calvert’s billion-dollar notes, green hydrogen in India, neighborhood economics in Mississippi
Greetings, Agents of Impact! Featured: The Liist Inclusive community funds finance local businesses, affordable housing and pathways to wealth creation (The Liist, May …
ImpactAlpha Open | May 2, 2023
ImpactAlpha Open: Impact CEOs + employee ownership
Greetings, Agents of Impact! Welcome to this week’s ImpactAlpha Open. 👋 Connect with us. Say hello to ImpactAlpha’s Amy Cortese this week at the Milken Global Conference in Los …
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The Brief | May 1, 2023
The Brief: Creative economy investment pipeline, coffee and climate, waste-to-fuel in California, employee ownership ecosystem, decarb bros take on the doomers
Greetings, Agents of Impact! 👋 Connect with us. Say hello to ImpactAlpha’s Amy Cortese this week at the Milken Global Conference in Los …
The Brief | April 28, 2023
The Week in Impact Investing: Maturity
TGIF, Agents of Impact! 🗣 Growing up. You know the market for impact and sustainable investments is maturing when CEO succession becomes a …
Impact Careers | April 28, 2023
The Week’s Impact Jobs: April 28, 2023
ImpactAlpha, April 28 — Impact-focused investments banks, impact funds and other impact investors are hunting for talent. Just this week: In New York …
The Brief | April 27, 2023
The Brief: Today’s Call: Good green jobs, opportunity for impact CEOs, Arizona State’s green bond, smallholder farmers in Brazil, financing small businesses
Greetings, Agents of Impact! 📞 Hop on today’s call: Good green jobs. Join ImpactAlpha and Jobs for the Future on LinkedIn Live to …
The Brief | April 26, 2023
The Brief: Clean energy transformation, new age nukes, AI in the Global South, launch Africa, banking on climate chaos
Greetings, Agents of Impact! Featured: Energy Transition How Biden’s climate policies are driving a clean energy transformation. The trio of climate and economic …
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The Brief | April 25, 2023
The Brief: CDFI bonds + inflation, electrifying dollar rides, modular fusion reactors, trillion dollar bank, the Inflation Reduction Act so far
Greetings, Agents of Impact! Three quick reminders: Heading for Change. 2X Global’s Suzanne Biegel will share details about Heading for Change, a donor-advised climate + …
ImpactAlpha Open | April 25, 2023
ImpactAlpha Open: Human rights in VC + mapping climate investments
Hi there, Agents of Impact!Welcome to the latest ImpactAlpha Open, your weekly roundup of news, trends and actionable opportunities in impact investing. Two quick invitations: …
The Brief | April 24, 2023
The Brief: Financing fintechs in emerging markets, green earth impact fund, plant-based home goods, data centers in Africa, cultural impact bonds
Greetings, Agents of Impact! 👋 Connect with us. Catch ImpactAlpha’s David Bank at Neighborhood Economics this week in Jackson, Miss. Dennis Price is …
The Brief | April 21, 2023
The Week in Impact Investing: Earth
TGIF, Agents of Impact! 🗣 Visualize. On the eve of Earth Day, the youth group Fridays for the Future released an ad that …
Impact Careers | April 21, 2023
The Week’s Impact Jobs: April 21, 2023
ImpactAlpha, April 21 — Large tech companies including Google, BestBuy, Disney and Facebook are laying off tens of thousands of workers, citing concerns …
The Brief | April 20, 2023
The Brief: Climate co-investing map, sustainable aquaculture, Dutch impact fund-of-funds, avocado farming in Kenya, circular solutions for plastic
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The Brief | April 19, 2023
The Brief: Lafayette Square’s worker solutions, impact muni to expand home ownership in North Carolina, scaling climate tech, measuring investors’ contributions
Greetings, Agents of Impact! ✅ Subscriber Survey: Making impact investing easier. ImpactAlpha has grown to become the leading daily news platform serving impact investing practitioners. Our …
The Brief | April 18, 2023
The Brief: Embedded finance for inclusion, marketplaces for green tax credits, BlueMark’s impact integrity, equity for creatives, institutionalizing industrial policy
Greetings, Agents of Impact! Featured: Financial Inclusion Why ’embedded finance’ is emerging as the future of global financial inclusion. Borrowers and beneficiaries financed …
ImpactAlpha Open | April 18, 2023
ImpactAlpha Open: Climate and gender alpha + a just cannabis economy
Greetings, Agents of Impact! Welcome to this week’s ImpactAlpha Open, our free weekly newsletter read by more than 20,000 impact professionals and enthusiasts. In this …