The Brief
The Brief | March 18, 2024
The Brief: Green banks for community infrastructure
Greetings Agents of Impact! In today’s Brief: Featured: Muni Impact In Cleveland, stakeholders mobilize to deploy climate funds for community infrastructure. Chances might …
The Brief | March 15, 2024
The Week in Impact Investing: Deploy!
TGIF, Agents of Impact! In today’s Brief: 🗣 Shovel readiness. Believe me, we try to spare you as many acronyms as we can. …
The Brief | March 14, 2024
The Brief: Spoofing Vanguard’s climate commitment
Greetings Agents of Impact! In today’s Brief: Featured: Deploy! How loan guarantees and catalytic capital can amplify federal ‘green bank’ funds. The federal …
The Brief | March 13, 2024
The Brief: Off-grid energy’s high marks
Greetings Agents of Impact! In today’s Brief: ⚡ Hop on today’s Plugged In: Tech equity in action. Google-backed Tech Equity Collective is working …
The Brief | March 12, 2024
The Brief: Private equity’s role in managing impact
Greetings Agents of Impact! In today’s Brief: ⚡ Tomorrow’s Plugged In: Tech equity in action. Google-backed Tech Equity Collective is working to double …
ImpactAlpha Open | March 12, 2024
ImpactAlpha Open: Women-led impact funds + corporate climate disclosure
Greetings, Agents of Impact! Welcome to the latest ImpactAlpha Open, our free weekly newsletter on the news, deals and people powering impact investing and …
The Brief | March 11, 2024
The Brief: The Great Deployment runs through the muni bond market
Greetings Agents of Impact! In today’s Brief: ⚡ Plugged In: Tech equity in action. Google-backed Tech Equity Collective is working to double the …
The Brief | March 8, 2024
The Week in impact investing: State of the Impact
TGIF, Agents of Impact! In today’s Brief: ⚡ Plugged In: Tech equity in action. Google-backed Tech Equity Collective is working to double the …
The Brief | March 7, 2024
The Brief: Nudging climate action from disclosure to accounting
Greetings Agents of Impact! In today’s Brief: – David Bank Featured: Policy Corner New SEC rules may be just enough to push climate action …
The Brief | March 6, 2024
The Brief: Artificial intelligence and corporate governance
Greetings Agents of Impact! We hope you’re enjoying the clean new look of ImpactAlpha.com. We’re still shaking down the new site; if you …
The Brief | March 5, 2024
The Brief: Women-led funds seeking climate solutions
Greetings Agents of Impact! In today’s Brief: Featured: The Liist Every day is International Women’s Day for female fund managers driving climate solutions. …
The Brief | March 4, 2024
The Brief: Investor optimism and urgency in Latin America
Greetings Agents of Impact! 👋 In Austin for SXSW? Join ImpactAlpha’s Dennis Price for “An investor talk on AI: All-in or all-hype,” a …
The Brief | March 1, 2024
The Week in Impact Investing: ¡Adelante!
TGIF, Agents of Impact! Pa’rriba y pa’lante. The energy was palpable at this week’s Foro Latinoamericano de Inversión de Impacto, or FLII, in …
The Brief | February 29, 2024
The Brief: UK marketplace aims for ‘net gains’ in biodiversity
Greetings Agents of Impact! In today’s Brief: Featured: Carbon Markets Can the UK’s market for trading nature credits deliver ‘biodiversity net gain’? Governments are …
The Brief | February 28, 2024
The Brief: Social determinants of wealth
Greetings Agents of Impact! We’re at the FLII in Mérida. Follow us on Instagram. Today’s Agents of Impact Call: How fund managers drive alpha through impact. Join …
The Brief | February 27, 2024
The Brief: Value-creation playbooks for delivering alpha from impact
Greetings Agents of Impact! Thank you for the enthusiastic reception for this week’s launch of ImpactAlpha Latin America. Opt in to receive our special monthly newsletter …
ImpactAlpha Open | February 27, 2024
ImpactAlpha Open: AI for workers + Latam’s impact ecosystem
Greetings, Agents of Impact! Welcome to the latest ImpactAlpha Open, our free weekly newsletter with the top news and opportunities in impact investing in …
The Brief | February 26, 2024
The Brief: Latin America’s growing impact ecosystem
Greetings, Agents of Impact! Say hello to ImpactAlpha’s Dennis Price at the Neighborhood Economics gathering in San Antonio. And look out for him and ImpactAlpha’s Cesar …
The Brief | February 23, 2024
The Week in Impact Investing: Collaboration
TGIF, Agents of Impact! In today’s Brief: 🗣 Winning combinations. Teamwork makes the dream work. In San Antonio and other cities, a new …
The Brief | February 22, 2024
The Brief: New neighborhood economics
Greetings Agents of Impact! In today’s Brief: 📞 Next Week’s Call: How fund managers drive alpha through impact. Private fund investments tend to …
The Brief | February 21, 2024
The Brief: Fusing philanthropy and investing in multi-donor funds
Greetings Agents of Impact! In today’s Brief: Featured: Catalytic Capital Multi-donor funds emerge as a creative architecture for collaborative, catalytic capital. Heading for …
The Brief | February 20, 2024
The Brief: VCs betting on AI for workers
Greetings Agents of Impact! In today’s Brief: Featured: Impact Tech These VCs are betting on AI to upskill workers and expand pathways to …
ImpactAlpha Open | February 20, 2024
ImpactAlpha Open: Stewarding purpose + HBCU climate action
Hi there, Agents of Impact! Next week I’ll be at Neighborhood Economics in San Antonio, and then at the Latin America Impact Investing …
The Brief | February 16, 2024
The Week in Impact Investing: New Narratives
TGIF, Agents of Impact! In the Brief: 🗣 Flipping the script. “Don’t get too flipped out,” one Federal Reserve banker urged investors when …
The Brief | February 15, 2024
The Brief: Abundance as an antidote to inflation
Greetings Agents of Impact! In today’s Brief: Featured: Macro Impact To tame inflation, promote abundance. “Let’s not get too flipped out,” Austan Goolsbee, …
The Brief | February 14, 2024
The Brief: Private financing to house homeless Californians
Greetings, Agents of Impact! And the answer is yes: we’ll be your Valentine! In today’s Brief: Featured: Impactful Real Estate SDS Capital deploys …
The Brief | February 13, 2024
The Brief: Stewarding purpose through a perpetual trust
Greetings, Agents of Impact! In today’s Brief: Featured: Ownership Economy This sustainable investing firm is stewarding its purpose with a perpetual trust. Natural …
ImpactAlpha Open | February 13, 2024
ImpactAlpha Open: Confronting bias in asset management + immigration alpha
Greetings, Agents of Impact! 👋 Welcome to Open, ImpactAlpha’s free weekly newsletter with exclusive features and valuable resources in impact investing and sustainable …
The Brief | February 12, 2024
The Brief: Systemic risks of the Magnificent Seven
Greetings, Agents of Impact! In today’s Brief: Featured: Systemic Risks Rising risks as the S&P 500 is outsourced to the ‘Magnificent Seven.’ When …
The Brief | February 9, 2024
The Week in Impact Investing: The Wood Dragon
TGIF, Agents of Impact! In today’s Brief: 🗣 Year of the Wood Dragon. ImpactAlpha wishes happiness and prosperity to all who are celebrating …
The Brief | February 8, 2024
The Brief: Climate signals from the insurance industry
Greetings, Agents of Impact! In today’s Brief: Featured: Climate Finance California’s climate-risk pioneer Dave Jones on our ‘march toward an uninsurable future’ (Q&A). …
The Brief | February 7, 2024
The Brief: How impact fund managers create value
Greetings, Agents of Impact! In today’s Brief: Featured: Value Creation After the investment and before the exit, how fund managers drive alpha through …
The Brief | February 6, 2024
The Brief: Fund strategies for inclusive communities and building wealth
Greetings, Agents of Impact! In today’s Brief: Featured: The Liist Fund strategies for building inclusive communities and wealth. ImpactAlpha called out expanded ownership …
ImpactAlpha Open | February 6, 2024
‘Impact alpha’ investors + six inclusive economy funds
Hi there, Agents of Impact! Welcome to Open, ImpactAlpha’s free weekly newsletter with the top news and opportunities in impact investing and sustainable …
The Brief | February 5, 2024
The Brief: Confronting bias in asset management
Greetings, Agents of Impact! In today’s Brief: Featured: Returns on Inclusion Confronting real bias in asset management to set the record straight on …
The Brief | February 2, 2024
The Week in Impact Investing: Climate+
TGIF, Agents of Impact! In today’s Brief: 🗣 Climate beta. The flip side of climate risk is climate opportunity. The changing climate is …
The Brief | February 1, 2024
The Brief: Africa’s green jobs boom
Greetings, Agents of Impact! Thanks to the hundreds of you who tuned in to yesterday’s Plugged In call. Look out for the recap …
The Brief | January 31, 2024
The Brief: The Brief: Is the EV glass half-full or half-empty?
Greetings Agents of Impact! In today’s Brief: 🔌 Get Plugged In today. Join Sherrell Dorsey on LinkedIn Live for “Training AI in Black …
The Brief | January 30, 2024
The Brief: Climate + gender investment strategies
Greetings Agents of Impact! In today’s Brief: 🔌 Last chance to RSVP: Training AI in Black and Brown history. In the next conversation …
ImpactAlpha Open | January 30, 2024
ImpactAlpha Open: AI in impact finance + changing systems
Greetings, Agents of Impact! Welcome to Open, ImpactAlpha’s free weekly newsletter with the top news and opportunities in impact investing and sustainable finance. Ready to go deeper …
The Brief | January 29, 2024
The Brief: Land-sharing to accelerate the energy transition
Greetings Agents of Impact! In today’s Brief: 🔌 Join this week’s Plugged In: Training AI in Black and Brown history. Latimer.ai’s John Pasmore …
The Brief | January 26, 2024
The Week in impact investing: Fund discovery
TGIF, Agents of Impact! 🗣 Category curation. Diversification across asset classes is one of the things that makes the “ownership economy” an attractive …
The Brief | January 25, 2024
The Brief: Changing systems from inside and out
Greetings Agents of Impact! In today’s Brief: 🔌 Plugged In: Training AI in Black and Brown history. Latimer.ai’s John Pasmore will join Plugged In host Sherrell Dorsey to explore how thoughtful …
The Brief | January 24, 2024
The Brief: AI in impact finance
Greetings Agents of Impact! Today is AI day at IA. Dig into stories of how leaders at Village Capital, RSF Social Finance, LISC …
The Brief | January 23, 2024
The Brief: GE’s Scope 3 disclosure dance
Greetings Agents of Impact! In today’s Brief: Featured: The Transition Energy spinoff GE Vernova may have a bigger carbon footprint than GE claims. GE …