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The Brief | April 18, 2023
The Brief: Embedded finance for inclusion, marketplaces for green tax credits, BlueMark’s impact integrity, equity for creatives, institutionalizing industrial policy
Greetings, Agents of Impact! Featured: Financial Inclusion Why ’embedded finance’ is emerging as the future of global financial inclusion. Borrowers and beneficiaries financed …
ImpactAlpha Open | April 18, 2023
ImpactAlpha Open: Climate and gender alpha + a just cannabis economy
Greetings, Agents of Impact! Welcome to this week’s ImpactAlpha Open, our free weekly newsletter read by more than 20,000 impact professionals and enthusiasts. In this …
The Brief | April 11, 2023
The Brief: Suzanne Biegel heads for change, blockable housing, Tesla’s master plan, the SDG second half, preserving ‘Green Book’ businesses
Greetings, Agents of Impact! A special shout out to all of you Agents and ImpactAlpha for Teams members that took to heart last …
The Brief | April 7, 2023
The Week in Impact Investing: Renewal
TGIF, Agents of Impact! We’ll be off Monday and back in your inboxes Tuesday, April 11. 🗣️ In good faith. This week’s convergence …
Impact Careers | April 7, 2023
The Week’s Impact Jobs: April 7, 2023
ImpactAlpha, April 7 — Foundations, wealth and fund managers, and investment banks in New York are dominating the impact jobs board. Just this week: …
The Brief | April 6, 2023
The Brief: Climate risk in the muni market, Indigenous women-led businesses, catalyzing food-waste solutions, faith-based investing for the holidays
Greetings, Agents of Impact! Featured: Muni Impact Mass migration, stranded communities and ‘chronic’ climate disruptions challenge the muni market. The municipal bond market …
The Brief | April 4, 2023
The Brief: The Liist of eight impact funds, livelihoods for Ukrainian refugees, renewables in South Africa, speaking up for workers in the Year of the ‘S’
Greetings, Agents of Impact! Featured: The Liist Impact managers craft fund strategies to restore lands and oceans. The 53rd annual Earth Day is …
The Brief | March 27, 2023
The Brief: Texas’ choice on climate, smart water-tanks, breast cancer screening in Latin America, AI for food waste, foundations and net zero
Greetings, Agents of Impact! Call No. 50: Metrics Madness. If what gets measured gets managed, which metrics make the most sense for managing …
The Brief | February 13, 2023
The Brief: Ariel’s Project Black (Q&A), developing diverse developers, digital prescriptions in Egypt, mini-grids in California, human rights in EV supply chains
Greetings, Agents of Impact! 👋 The Call: Year of the ‘S.’ Social factors have often taken a backseat to environmental and governance issues …
Return on Inclusion | February 13, 2023
Community Preservation Corp. invests $5 million in SHIFT Catalyst Fund to back diverse developers
ImpactAlpha, February 13 — SHIFT Catalyst Fund has secured a $5 million equity investment from Community Preservation Corp. to invest in real estate …
The Brief | January 27, 2023
The Week in Impact Investing: Integrity
TGIF, Agents of Impact! 🗣 Good faith. Microfinance. Opportunity zones. Carbon markets. Debt-for-nature swaps. Before most of the public even understands them, innovative …
The Brief | January 25, 2023
The Brief: Development finance transparency, electric pay-as-you-mow, diabetes care in India, Generate’s latest raise, impact policy lookahead
Greetings, Agents of Impact! 👉 Don’t miss next week’s call. ImpactAlpha is on the hunt for proactive strategies in the $4 trillion municipal …
The Brief | January 10, 2023
The Brief: Deploying community infrastructure, digitalizing India’s shops, sustainable real assets in Germany, inclusive corporate VC, fairness as a service
Greetings, Agents of Impact! Featured: Catalytic Capital Matching local projects with climate capital to deploy community infrastructure. The Great Deployment is on. The …
ImpactAlpha Open | January 10, 2023
ImpactAlpha Open: Inside impact reports + restorative capital
Hi there, Agents of Impact! Welcome to this week’s edition of ImpactAlpha Open, a sampling of the best of ImpactAlpha and other impact investing …
Place-Based Investing | December 1, 2022
Real estate developers in Baltimore test strategies for inclusive growth and community wealth
ImpactAlpha, December 1 – On the west side of downtown Baltimore, a $45 million rehabilitation of Lexington Market is turning the once-languishing food …
Return on Inclusion | November 28, 2022
Collective ownership, renter payouts and neighborhood trusts expand access to housing wealth
ImpactAlpha, Nov. 28 – Late in the afternoon on a Friday in September, a dozen or so Latina small-business owners gathered at the headquarters …
Impact Voices | November 21, 2022
How housing investments can create wealth for investors – and tenants
“E,” for environmental, gets most of the love in ESG investing. Investments in the “S” and “G,” for social and governance, particularly in …
ImpactAlpha Open | October 18, 2022
ImpactAlpha Open: “Climate never felt this dope.”
Hi there, Agents of Impact! Welcome to this week’s ImpactAlpha Open. ImpactAlpha’s David Bank, Zuleyma Bebell and I are at SOCAP this week in San Francisco. Say hi! And find Amy Cortese and Jessica Pothering at the …
The Brief | October 14, 2022
The Week in Impact Investing: Swagger
TGIF, Agents of Impact! 🗣 Fake it ‘til you make it. When ImpactAlpha launched The Brief five years ago, skeptics scoffed there weren’t …
The Brief | October 11, 2022
The Brief: Klean energy kulture, Common Future’s stake in SOCAP, Amazon’s catalytic capital, blending finance for smallholder farmers
Greetings, Agents of Impact! 🤝 Catch up with ImpactAlpha’s Amy Cortese and Jessica Pothering this week at the GIIN Investor Forum in The Hague and with David Bank, Zuleyma Bebell and Dennis …
The Brief | September 30, 2022
The Week in Impact Investing: Reality Check
TGIF, Agents of Impact! 🗣 Cognitive lag. This is no time to go wobbly, as former U.K. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher said in …
The Brief | September 29, 2022
The Brief: Actionable impact data, clean mobile power, working capital for African enterprises, inclusive real estate developers, climate-resilient timber
Greetings, Agents of Impact! 🍸 Join us for drinks in The Hague. Are you making the scene at next month’s GIIN Investor Forum …
The Brief | September 23, 2022
The Week in impact investing: Trillions
TGIF, Agents of Impact! 🗣 Opportunity knocks. Policy signals shifted this year’s Climate Week conversation from risks, costs and obstacles, to growth, solutions …
The Brief | September 19, 2022
The Brief: Kicking off Climate Week, scaling good jobs, pooling capital for emerging VCs, Indigenous enterprises, Builders Vision for mission-related investing
Greetings, Agents of Impact! Featured: Climate Week New momentum and stubborn challenges as Climate Week kicks off. Investors, entrepreneurs, corporate executives and world …
The Brief | September 16, 2022
The Week in Impact Investing: Bridges
TGIF, Agents of Impact! 🗣 Mind the gaps. There is a tendency to overestimate change in the short term and underestimate it in …
The Brief | September 13, 2022
The Brief: Greening every neighborhood, lab-grown pet food, cheaper energy in Europe, creating independent creators, rethinking work
Greetings, Agents of Impact! Featured: Catalytic Capital Bringing the energy transition to every building and neighborhood, with public and private capital. Green jobs …
ImpactAlpha Open | August 2, 2022
ImpactAlpha Open No. 2: Impact funds raising capital now
🗣️ Happy Tuesday, Agents of Impact! It’s Week Two of ImpactAlpha Open, our brand spanking new – and free – weekly newsletter for Agents of Impact. …
The Brief | July 29, 2022
The Week in Impact Investing: Deflation
TGIF, Agents of Impact! 🗣 Cost curves. The green premium is giving way to the green discount. Calling the proposed $369 billion energy …
The Brief | July 28, 2022
The Brief: Energy efficiency opportunity, treating diabetes in Mexico, reducing plastic waste, managing carbon footprints, seeding emerging managers (podcast)
Greetings, Agents of Impact! Featured: Electrify Everything Energy efficiency is critical for climate goals and global security. Russian natural gas had barely resumed …
Catalytic Capital | July 28, 2022
Margot Kane: Clearing obstacles to mobilize capital for emerging fund managers (podcast)
“There’s an inherent power dynamic in investing. Full stop.” That’s Margot Kane, the chief investment officer of Spring Point Partners, in an Agents …
Agrifood Tech | July 27, 2022
Food banks and food donors get a tech makeover to reduce hunger – and food waste
We are living in the technological age, and a trend ReFED has been watching closely is how this is affecting food rescue, which …
The Brief | July 27, 2022
The Brief: Streamlining food rescue, sustainable herbicides, accelerating health equity, renewable drinking water, collaborative catalytic capital
Greetings, Agents of Impact! Featured: Food Tech Food banks and food donors get a tech makeover to reduce hunger and food waste. Food …
Catalytic Capital | July 26, 2022
BlocPower secures a $3 million guarantee from Kresge Foundation to green and electrify buildings
ImpactAlpha, July 26 — Troy, Mich.-based Kresge Foundation has committed a $3 million guarantee to BlocPower. The foundation’s commitment supports a loan-loss reserve …
The Brief | July 26, 2022
The Brief: Supplying sustainable lithium, decarbonizing whole cities, seeding agtech in Argentina and India, blended finance for NGOs
Greetings, Agents of Impact! Featured: Better Batteries EnergyX and its rivals raise resources for the sustainable lithium race. Lithium, a key input for …
The Brief | July 11, 2022
The Brief: Bboxx’s down-market growth (Q&A), EVs in India, digitalizing farms in Latin America, trading environmental commodities, seeding emerging fund managers
Greetings, Agents of Impact! Featured: Base of the Pyramid Off-grid solar pioneer Bboxx is following the data to down-market growth (Q&A). Mansoor Hamayun …
The Brief | June 23, 2022
The Brief: Alt-corporate structures, overheard at GSG, future of work fund, Brookfield’s big haul, impact real estate
Greetings, Agents of Impact! Featured: Frontiers in Social Innovation New corporate forms to protect your investment in impact. Mission-driven entrepreneurs and impact investors …
Return on Inclusion | June 23, 2022
Ebiara secures $10 million to help Black and Brown developers scale in Detroit
ImpactAlpha, June 23 — Ebiara, a partnership between nonprofit lender Invest Detroit and URGE Imprint, has received a $10 million program-related investment from …
Impact Investing | June 21, 2022
Sorenson takes over SOCAP to restructure its finances and produce its flagship event
ImpactAlpha, June 21 – SOCAP, one of the earliest and biggest impact investing events, is under new management. A cash crunch caused by …
The Brief | June 16, 2022
The Brief: Transforming food systems, waste to value, climate careers, disability startups, investing in justice, Van Jones’ social enterprises
Greetings, Agents of Impact! Featured: Food Systems Investing to transform food systems in the face of a global crisis. The food crisis has become a …
Impact Tech | June 16, 2022
Strella Biotechnology secures $8 million to reduce produce waste
ImpactAlpha, June 16 — Investments in “demand planning,” to better understand the perishability of food products, for example, are on the upswing, ReFED’s …
Podcasts | June 6, 2022
New leadership at Kapor Capital doubles down on diversity and impact (podcast)
ImpactAlpha, June 6 – Pro tip for entrepreneurs or fund managers getting ready to pitch Oakland-based Kapor Capital: Don’t leave diversity out of …
Capitalism Reimagined | May 25, 2022
Risk off? Savvy investors go ‘impact on’ to stay on track in a volatile market
ImpactAlpha, May 25 – Markets have gone risk off. Savvy investors who have gone impact on are weathering the economic downturn. Speculators in crypto, …
The Brief | May 23, 2022
The Brief: Davos watch, healthy childbirth in the U.S., impact tech in Latin America, consumer solar in Germany, optimizing EV charging
Greetings, Agents of Impact! Featured: Davos Returns At elite World Economic Forum, Davos Man and Davos Woman will talk sustainability, inclusion and action. …
Investing in Health | May 23, 2022
Black-led Cayaba Care raises $12 million to reduce maternal morbidity
ImpactAlpha, May 23 — Maternal morbidity describes short- or long-term health issues during and after pregnancy, labor and delivery. In the U.S., more …
The Brief | May 20, 2022
The Week in impact investing: Building
TGIF, Agents of Impact! 🗣 Time to build. Silicon Valley has long been mocked for building solutions to problems of the privileged. Taxis …