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Common Future accelerates leaders for worker ownership, housing rights and ‘cannabis justice’
Common Future is keying in on good jobs and sustainable livelihoods for its 2024 accelerator cohort. Among the 10 Black and Latina-led organizations …
The Call
Exclusive video calls with industry insiders
Call No. 12: How local early-stage funders are finding impact alpha in emerging markets
ImpactAlpha, February 5 – Small and growing businesses are the pillars of local economies, in both developed and developing economies. Startups are engines …
Call No. 9: Impact investors move “beyond trade-offs”
ImpactAlpha, June 3 – The early days of impact investing were all about proving that you didn’t have to sacrifice financial returns to do …
Impact Voices
Provocative opinions and insightful analysis from the community
Thoughts of a Black fund manager
I am a Black fund manager. There are not many of us: Less than 2% of AUM are managed by diverse-owned firms. I …
How a portfolio of inclusive businesses prioritized the poor through COVID
The spread of COVID-19 and the economic devastation in its wake have shown just how necessary for-profit approaches are to serving the poor …
Q&A with DPI’s Runa Alam: How Africa’s impact ventures became essential during Covid-19
As the Covid-19 pandemic began to spread around the world in early 2020, gloomy predictions about the coronavirus’s effects on Africa also made …
Non-bank lenders need capital to finance African small businesses rejected by banks
ImpactAlpha, October 29 – The clunky term “non-bank financial intermediaries” identifies a varied group of lenders only by what they are not. These …
Small vs. big – not blue vs. red – is the great battle of the next American century
ImpactAlpha, Dec. 16 – While I was running Village Capital a few years ago, I noticed two starkly divided realities in the U.S. Vilcap, …