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The Brief | October 3, 2023
The Brief: Native- and women-led funds on The Liist, scaling alt-plastic, clean cooking in Rwanda, surge in small business starts, community-rooted sports
Greetings, Agents of Impact! 🎙️ Join us for Plugged In: A conversation with Black Farmer Fund. On the next Plugged In series of live conversations, host Sherrell …
ImpactAlpha Open | October 3, 2023
ImpactAlpha Open: Employee-ownership edge + community-rooted sports
Hi there, Agents of Impact! Welcome to this week’s ImpactAlpha Open, a specially curated newsletter of the top news and opportunities in impact investing and …
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The Brief | October 2, 2023
The Brief: Equitable homeownership, growing impact ventures in Africa, systemic investing post-affirmative action
Greetings, Agents of Impact! 🤝 Connect with us. Conference season is in full swing. Look out for ImpactAlpha’sZuleyma Bebell today at the GSG Global Impact …
The Brief | September 29, 2023
The Week in impact investing: Dueling Narratives
TGIF, Agents of Impact! The Week in impact investing: Dueling Narratives 🗣 Split screen. Covering the climate beat means holding opposing storylines in your …
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The Brief | September 28, 2023
The Brief: Plugged In with Sherrell Dorsey, deploying climate solutions, purpose-trust transitions, grid drones, indoor salmon farming, boosting Black ownership
Greetings, Agents of Impact! It was great to see so much interest in financing for employee ownership on yesterday’s Call. We’ll have a …
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The Brief | September 27, 2023
The Brief: Today’s Call: Ownership economy, previewing the GIIN forum, good jobs in South Africa, upcycling fruit waste, greening corporate cash
Greetings, Agents of Impact! 🎙️ Hop on today’s Call, “The employee-ownership edge.” Join Mosaic’s Ian Mohler, World Education Services’ Smitha Das, Apis & …
The Brief | September 26, 2023
The Brief: Community foundations’ local investments, San Diego school bond, corporate biodiversity credits, meaningful Internet connectivity
Greetings, Agents of Impact! 🎙️ Last chance to RSVP. Learn how to gain “the employee-ownership edge” on this week’s Agents of Impact Call. …
ImpactAlpha Open | September 26, 2023
ImpactAlpha Open: Climate Week takeaways + remembering Suzanne Biegel
Greetings, Agents of Impact, Impact- and gender-lens investing lost a champion last week. Suzanne Biegel, founder of GenderSmart (now part of 2X Global), passed away in …
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The Brief | September 25, 2023
The Brief: Call Preview: Financing worker ownership, agri-marketplace in Ghana, insurance tech in Singapore, policy headwinds and tailwinds
Greetings, Agents of Impact! Featured: Ownership Economy Financing transitions to employee ownership to deliver wins for workers and investors. It’s the age-old struggle: labor …
The Brief | September 22, 2023
The Week in Impact Investing: Legacy
TGIF, Agents of Impact! 🗣 Catalyst at large. When you put capital into the hands of women – as fund managers, as entrepreneurs, …
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The Brief | September 21, 2023
The Brief: Climate Week’s brighter outlook, naming rules for ESG funds, European climate tech VC, impact notes, messiness and mutuality in measurement
Greetings, Agents of Impact! 🎙️ Sign up for next week’s Call: The employee-ownership edge. Companies prosper when workers benefit from the value they …
The Brief | September 20, 2023
The Brief: Green accountability, zero-gap financing, microfinance in Rwanda, fossil-fuel writedowns, effective corporate engagement
Greetings, Agents of Impact! 👋 Next week’s Call: The employee-ownership edge. A growing set of fund managers are stepping up to finance companies’ …
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The Brief | September 19, 2023
The Brief: Employee-ownership edge, nature-based solutions, lower-carbon capital, financing Africa’s farmers, corporate impact investing
Greetings, Agents of Impact! 👋 Agents of Impact Call: The employee-ownership edge. Helping employees buy out the companies they have helped build can be …
ImpactAlpha Open | September 19, 2023
ImpactAlpha Open: On the ground for Climate Week NYC + charting the sustainability revolution
Hi there, Agents of Impact! Welcome to this week’s ImpactAlpha Open. In NYC for Climate Week? Connect with my colleagues Amy Cortese, Roodgally Senatus and Andrea Riquier who are …
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The Brief | September 18, 2023
The Brief: Five climate narratives, galvanizing climate solutions, Hawaii’s student housing bond, California takes on Big Oil
Greetings, Agents of Impact! Featured: Climate Narratives From scientific to doomsday, the five climate-change narratives shaping discourse and decisions. Some are scientific, others …
The Brief | September 15, 2023
The Week in Impact Investing: Getting Real
TGIF, Agents of Impact! 🗣 Gathering momentum. An under-the-radar survey of institutional investors from BNP Paribas this week showed a massive attitude-shift in …
The Brief | September 14, 2023
The Brief: Generation Investment charts sustainability, protest-invest at Climate Week NYC, waste-to-plastic alternatives, standing up to for diversity-focused funds
Greetings, Agents of Impact! Featured: Climate Week NYC Al Gore’s Generation Investment ‘calls a moment’ in the sustainability revolution. Climate change has moved …
The Brief | September 13, 2023
The Brief: Financing infrastructure in Africa, decarbonizing battery supermaterials, electric motorbikes in India, funding Black farmers
Greetings, Agents of Impact! 🤝 Meet up in Copenhagen. Kick off the networking at the GIIN Impact Forum with drinks with ImpactAlpha, Oxford’s …
The Brief | September 12, 2023
The Brief: Multiplying impact-first capital, homegrown solar manufacturing, European climate tech, hemp-based energy storage, bipartisan worker ownership policy
Greetings, Agents of Impact! Featured: Catalytic Capital How foundations can use impact investments to leverage their grant capital. Foundations using their endowments to …
ImpactAlpha Open | September 12, 2023
ImpactAlpha Open: Impact managers scaling up + Africa’s climate opportunity
Greetings, Agents of Impact! Welcome back to ImpactAlpha Open, where we collect resources and insights for the growing wave of professionals driving climate tech, inclusive …
The Brief | September 11, 2023
The Brief: Global reporting for US companies, infrastructure bond in Michigan, banking migrant workers in the Gulf, climate protesters raise the stakes
Greetings, Agents of Impact! 🤝 Meet up at the GIIN Impact Forum. Kick off the networking in Copenhagen with drinks with ImpactAlpha, Oxford’s …
The Brief | September 8, 2023
The Week in Impact Investing: Thinking Bigger
TGIF, Agents of Impact! 🗣 Utopia now. Burners are a resilient bunch. As they trickled back into normie life this week, many already …
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The Brief | September 7, 2023
The Brief: ImpactAlpha in Copenhagen, Africa’s climate opportunity, zero-emission steel, landscape restoration, acquisition of Energy Capital Partners
Greetings, Agents of Impact! 🤝 Let’s meet in Copenhagen. Heading to the GIIN Impact Forum next month? Kick off the networking with drinks …
The Brief | September 6, 2023
The Brief: Challenging wealth supremacy, Omnivore’s agtech exit, climate-adaptation Catalyst Fund, sustainable aviation fuel
Greetings, Agents of Impact! Featured: Ownership Economy Challenging wealth supremacy to realize the dream of systemic change. Shallow tweaks may not be enough …
The Brief | September 5, 2023
The Brief: September’s Liist of open impact funds, reducing livestock methane, replacing plastic packaging, repricing natural capital, Ryan Reynolds’ Wrexham model
Greetings, Agents of Impact! If you’re just making it back from Burning Man, congratulations! Drop us a note with your experiences and your …
ImpactAlpha Open | September 5, 2023
ImpactAlpha Open: Cautionary tales from East Africa’s disruptive darlings
Hi there, Agents of Impact! Welcome to ImpactAlpha Open, our free weekly newsletter with the top news and opportunities in impact investing. 🎉 Last Day: …
The Brief | September 1, 2023
The Week in impact investing: Second looks
TGIF, Agents of Impact! ImpactAlpha is taking a Brief break for the Labor Day holiday in the US. We’ll be back in your …
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The Brief | August 31, 2023
The Brief: ImpactAlpha’s Career Hub, promise and peril of Europe’s SFDR, upcycling aluminum and recycling textiles, dignified jobs for climate resilience
Greetings, Agents of Impact! 💼 Build your impact investing career on ImpactAlpha. The Brief has long brought together those seeking impact investing talent …
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The Brief | August 30, 2023
The Brief: Trouble at Twiga, battery-recycling billions for Redwood Materials, rooftop solar in the South, impact strategies for single-family rentals
Greetings, Agents of Impact! Featured: Digital Disruption Trouble at Twiga Foods… and Copia… and Sendy: Downturn hits East African disruptors. The pandemic-era impact …
The Brief | August 29, 2023
The Brief: Letter from Italy, Wisconsin social bond for affordable homeownership, convenient high-speed EV charging, AI and aquaculture, how Texas beat the heat
Greetings, Agents of Impact! ✅ Get featured on The Liist. Are you an impact fund manager raising capital, or know someone that is? …
ImpactAlpha Open | August 29, 2023
ImpactAlpha Open: Investing in resilience in Maui + wither anti-ESG
Hi there, Agent of Impact! Welcome to the latest ImpactAlpha Open, our free weekly newsletter of top news and opportunities in impact investing. …
The Brief | August 28, 2023
The Brief: Wall Street’s willful ignorance, alt-pesticides for African farmers, rooftop solar in Vietnam, World Water Week, fall conference circuit
Greetings, Agents of Impact! Featured: Institutional Impact Wall Street CEOs fiddle while Maui burns. The devastating wildfire in Maui is the kind of …
The Brief | August 25, 2023
The Week in Impact Investing: How anti-ESG ends
TGIF, Agents of Impact! 🗣 Beyond the backlash. The culture wars are far from over, but on at least one battlefront the politicians …
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The Brief | August 24, 2023
The Brief: Investing in resilience in Maui, jobs in South Africa, culturally-sensitive mental healthcare, farmer training in Ghana
Greetings, Agents of Impact! It was great to see so many of you on yesterday’s Call, “Mobilizing capital in Indian Country.” We’ll have …
The Brief | August 23, 2023
The Brief: Today’s Call: Indigenizing catalytic capital, stabilizing homeownership, affordable cancer care, Ramaswamy’s anti-woke revolution
Greetings, Agents of Impact! 👋 Hop on today’s Call: Indigenizing catalytic capital. Effective catalytic capital requires terms and timelines tailored for the needs …
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The Brief | August 22, 2023
The Brief: Native-led lenders and fund managers, VC for employee ownership, disability services, Engine No. 1’s retreat, LGBTQ+ investing, hardware advantage
Greetings, Agents of Impact! Featured: Catalytic Capital To finance Indigenous communities, capitalize Native-led investment funds and nonprofits. A loan for sustainable eel farming …
The Brief | August 22, 2023
ImpactAlpha Open: Acumen’s Indian zebras + investing in hardware
Greetings, Agents of Impact! Welcome to this week’s ImpactAlpha Open, our free weekly roundup of top news and opportunities in impact investing. 👉 Ready to …
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The Brief | August 21, 2023
The Brief: Gender bonds in Latin America, financing small truckers, renewable heat batteries, last-mile distribution in India, pro-ESG narratives
Greetings, Agents of Impact! 👋 Join Wednesday’s Call: Indigenizing catalytic capital. Effective catalytic capital requires terms and timelines tailored for the needs of …
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The Brief | August 18, 2023
The Week in Impact Investing: Ingenuity
TGIF, Agents of Impact! 🗣 Renewable resourcefulness. The Bay Area humorist and journalist Wes Nisker, who died this month at 80, was known …
The Brief | August 17, 2023
The Brief: India’s e-mobility transition, Occidental’s carbon-capture play, farmland upgrades, sustainable fertilizer, Acumen’s Indian zebras
Greetings, Agents of Impact! 👋 Agents of Impact Call: Indigenizing catalytic capital. Change Labs’ Heather Fleming and MacArthur Foundation’s John Balbach will join …
The Brief | August 16, 2023
The Brief: Grid resilience on Long Island, blue bond in Gabon, sustainable mineral supplies, health equity in Los Angeles, carbon credits in Africa
Greetings, Agents of Impact! 👋 Agents of Impact Call: Catalytic capital in Indian Country. Partners of the Wolakota Buffalo Range on Rosebud Sioux …
The Brief | August 15, 2023
The Brief: Inflation Reduction Act turns one, investing in decarceration, building green in Africa, youthful climate victory, KKR’s employee ownership edge
Greetings, Agents of Impact! 👋 Join The Call: Indigenizing catalytic capital. Patient, flexible and long-term capital can enable Native enterprises to evolve and …
ImpactAlpha Open | August 15, 2023
ImpactAlpha Open: Africa’s solar standouts + Hiro Mizuno’s next act
Hi there, Agents of Impact! Welcome to the latest ImpactAlpha Open, your weekly dose of top news and opportunities in impact investing. Two …
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The Brief | August 14, 2023
The Brief: Indigenizing catalytic capital, Big Solar securitizations, pursuing perovskites, Charlotte’s affordable housing, getting started with impact ratings
Greetings, Agents of Impact! 👋 Agents of Impact Call: Indigenizing catalytic capital. A new crop of investors and entrepreneurs is flipping the outworn …
The Brief | August 11, 2023
The Week in impact investing: Fearless
TGIF, Agents of Impact! 🤝 Let’s meet up. The fall conference season is around the corner and ImpactAlpha is on the beat. Fill …