Opportunity zone advocates call for market transparency and impact accountability

Next up: the group is building a shared framework for measuring impact in opportunity zones.

Adapt to changing needs, and other lessons from Living Cities’ Pay for Success investments

"Overall, we’ve learned that Pay for Success is not the end in and of itself—it’s a means to the end of getting better outcomes for people."

Kashf Foundation secures $17 million for gender-lens microfinance in Pakistan

OPIC, MicroVest, and Germany’s Bank Im Bistum Essen have committed $17 million to support the organization in the mission it started in 1999: to provide microfinance services to women in low-income communities.

Community capital stacks bring the right money to the table in new ‘opportunity zones’

The abundance of equity capital that may be headed to America’s poorest communities through such tax-incentivised funds by itself won’t transform neighborhoods for the better.

Real estate funds move into opportunity zones, raising concerns about displacement

FundRise has called for “a joint initiative among all opportunity funds” to share data about the impact of investments, including building “a shared framework and combined database.”

Aye Finance brings on MicroVest and Triple Jump as debt investors

The Gurgaon-based small business lender focuses on designing financial products for small business owners at the base of the economic pyramid

Remembering Jeremy Nowak, pioneer of social finance and champion of “the New Localism”

The Philadelphia civic leader and social financier, died Saturday after a heart attack.