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IMPAQTO Capital provides revenue-based financing for tuGerente in Bolivia
Santa Cruz-based tuGerente provides digital inventory and financial management support for Bolivia’s informal and small businesses to help them streamline operations, boost capacity …
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The Call: 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. …
Metrics Madness: Wealth, ownership and ‘quality adjusted life years’ (video)
ImpactAlpha, Mar. 31 – The search for a universal metric to guide investments in racial justice and equitable wealth-building was…aspirational. “We are still a …
Call No. 31: Making sense of the ABCs of measurement to optimize for impact
ImpactAlpha, Oct. 1 – Metrics. Standards. Dimensions. Frameworks. SDGs. Cathy Clark of the Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship at Duke University’s Fuqua …
Impact management is hot: Recapping Call No. 15
ImpactAlpha, Apr. 30 – The first annual assessments of impact investors are coming in under the International Finance Corporation’s Operating Principles for Impact …
Underwriting – and optimizing – for impact on Call No. 7
ImpactAlpha, February 12 – Limited partners are demanding more rigorous impact underwriting by fund managers. Successful projects also require ongoing impact management. On …
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Stuck in the mud: When impact gets complicated
Author’s note: As an undergraduate studying economics and entrepreneurship, I was surprised to discover that very few people were leveraging the power of …
How SJF Ventures seeks to bend the impact curve
The culture of SJF Ventures empowers members of our team to identify new compelling investment themes and work on problems that matter to …
Using data to mitigate risk perceptions of impact investing in Latin America and the Caribbean
In recent years, impact investing has gained traction globally as investors increasingly seek opportunities that generate positive social or environmental impact alongside financial …
Measuring impact by listening to smallholder farmers at scale in Latin America
It’s no secret that evaluating and measuring impact is essential for ensuring the success of social projects. It aids in informed decision-making, assesses …
Elevating impact reporting to raise the performance of impact fund managers
“One million lives touched.” “800 jobs created.” “50,000 acres of land restored.” Capital allocators often see these types of punchy headlines in the …
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