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The Brief | December 16, 2020
The Brief: Racial justice lookahead, equitable path forward, liquidity for lenders, affordable residential solar, microbial engineering
Greetings, Agents of Impact! Agents of Impact Call No. 26: Looking ahead to 2021. New year, new possibilities. With our year-end roundups behind …
The Brief | December 15, 2020
The Brief: Catalytic capital lookahead, resilience ROI, classifying impact strategies, CNote’s millions, financing India’s farmers, impact policy planks
Featured: Catalytic investors sharpen their tools for deep impact in 2021
The Brief | December 14, 2020
The Brief: Emerging markets lookahead, women in safe homes, off-grid revival, value-based health care, green policy proposals
Featured: Helping small businesses in emerging markets survive and thrive in 2021
The Brief | December 11, 2020
The Week in impact investing: Science
Featured: The Week’s Agents of Impact: Scientists
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The Brief | December 10, 2020
The Brief: Creative portfolios, digitizing doctors, women’s livelihoods, immigrant founders, plastic waste, moves from Bridgewater, BlackRock and New York Common
Featured: Building a personal portfolio of impact investments in the creative economy
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The Brief | December 9, 2020
The Brief: Deep tech impact, workforce housing, battery breakthrough, small businesses in India, tilapia farming in Mozambique, banking racial equity
Featured: Fifty Years’ bets on ‘deep tech’ – for high impact and high returns – are starting to pay off
The Brief | December 8, 2020
The Brief: Activist hedge funds, climate fintechs, impact benchmarks and classes, SoLa’s Black Impact Fund, Latin America’s gig workers
Featured: There’s a new impact sheriff in town: activist hedge funds
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The Brief | December 7, 2020
The Brief: Business lending in Indian Country, green startups in South Africa, pay-for-success in Memphis, environmental impact bond in Virginia, EVs in N.C.
Featured: Native-led financial institutions tackle challenges of lending to businesses in Indian Country
The Brief | December 4, 2020
The Week in impact investing: Shifts
Featured: The Week’s Agent of Impact, Tony Hsieh, Zappos and Downtown Project (1973 – 2020)
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The Brief | December 3, 2020
The Brief: Cultural endowments, climate financing gap, digitizing small businesses, inclusive cannabis, shelter tech, impact accountability
Featured: Cultural institutions start to put their assets to work for mission
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The Brief | December 2, 2020
The Brief: Reporting on impact, impact goes public, banking Mexico’s unbanked, Texas health clinics, Total vs. Neste Oyj, Nasdaq’s diversity mandate
Featured: Inclusio seeks to anchor its social mission by going public
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The Brief | December 1, 2020
The Brief: Blueprints for refugee investing, accelerating climate tech, alt-pesticides, U.K. affordable housing, Domini goes global
Featured: Refugee investments provide blueprints for Biden’s reset on immigration
The Brief | November 30, 2020
The Brief: Updated ‘exclusion lists,’ corporate impact in Canada, digitizing solar installations, democratizing donor-advised funds, setback for private prisons
Featured: Updating investment ‘exclusion lists’ for deeper social and environmental impact
The Brief | November 25, 2020
The Brief: Gender-smart recovery (Call No. 25 recap), serving COVID’s new entrepreneurs, Heartland founders, funding democracy, curbing astroturfing
Greetings, Agents of Impact! We’re taking a brief break for the Thanksgiving holiday here in the U.S. We’ll be back in your inbox …
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The Brief | November 24, 2020
The Brief: Proof points for Africa’s solar market, home solar in the DRC, sustainable food and agtech, Revolution Acceleration SPAC, lessons in impact management
Greetings, Agents of Impact! Featured: ImpactAlpha Original CrossBoundary Energy’s fund exit is a proof point for Africa’s commercial solar market – and catalytic …