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Community Capital Management backs LEBEC to boost innovative finance in the private impact market
Miami-based LEBEC guides funders and social entrepreneurs on innovative finance strategies and value propositions to multiply their impact, using financial tools across the philanthropy and …
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Community Capital Management backs LEBEC to boost innovative finance in the private impact market
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Climate First raises $67 million to combine impact retail banking and solar lending
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Fibers Fund and Invest Appalachia provide loans and grants for hemp production in North Carolina
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Swiss-German impact fund offers patient capital for Europe’s early impact ventures
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Emerging fund managers’ back office may be the unsung hero of impact investing (video)
If you’re starting an impact fund, chances are you’ve got a bold investment thesis, a strong desire to create positive change in the …
Starting with the problem, impact-first managers are returning impact investing to its roots (video)
After two decades spent coaxing cautious capital off the sidelines with the promise of “market rate” returns, some impact fund managers are going …
Huge opportunities and trickle of capital make Brazil an impact growth market
A mismatch of demand for and supply of impact capital in a country roughly the size of the United States has created one …
How commercial investors are streamlining blended fund structures
Blended finance is rebounding, but this time with a twist. Commercial investors are stepping up to drive some of the biggest blended-finance funds …
Moving from the ‘why’ to the ‘how’ of impact incentives
ImpactAlpha, January 19 – Impact investors have for years debated the need for embedded structures to incentivize impact outcomes for impact fund managers. …
Impact Voices
Provocative opinions and insightful analysis from the community
Why health investors should measure impact (even if they start small)
Investing in health does not automatically optimize health impact. While investee success can often correlate with better patient outcomes, the picture remains incomplete …
It takes an ecosystem to raise an impact economy
We often talk about impact investing as a strategy. What increasingly excites me is the larger question: What does it actually take to …
A beginner’s guide to impact investing for wealth holders
Paolo Fresia is a father, a husband and a steward of wealth. He and his relatives inherited hundreds of millions of dollars from …
Moving impact capital from safe bets to ‘impact by design’
A long-standing fault line once again cracked this year, splitting investors in the impact community. On one side are “impact-first” investors who accept …
Beating the drum for impact-first investing, Ceniarth shares its catalytic dealmaking
Back in October, ImpactAlpha hosted an Agents of Impact call entitled “The surprising resurgence of impact-first investing.” At the time, we joked that, …
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