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Ramallah, West Bank
The Brief | February 17, 2022
The Brief: Supply-side policies, Palestinian tech, Flutterwave’s big haul, access to cash in Nigeria, Black-led real estate in Philly, upcycling plastic waste
Greetings, Agents of Impact! Featured: Policy Corner Impact investors show how ‘supply-side’ policies can leverage private capital for public good. With no shortage …
The Brief | January 28, 2022
The Week in Impact Investing: Performance
TGIF, Agents of Impact! 🗣 Proof of impact. Bitcoins are verified by a cryptographic approach known as “proof of work.” Other blockchains use …
The Brief | January 24, 2022
The Brief: Conflicted pensions in Canada, Azolla Ventures invests, SDG fund in Sweden, Black-led development in Philly, circular economy in Europe
Greetings, Agents of Impact! Featured: Institutional Impact O Canada, how do your pension plans get high ESG scores when you’re up to your …
Harry Halloran
Agents of Impact | January 14, 2022
Big vision and early bets: Harry Halloran leaves a legacy of business as a force for good
ImpactAlpha, Jan 14 – Harry Halloran had a big vision and tried to make it reality: Business could be a driving force for …
The Brief | January 14, 2022
The Week in Impact Investing: Bridges
TGIF, Agents of Impact! 🗣 The dialectics of impact. Bursting the bubbles that often float around ESG and impact investing is an easy …
The Brief | January 10, 2022
The Brief: Impact investors parody… themselves, Blackstone’s billions for clean energy, sustainable waste management, hyperlocal delivery in India, rent-to-own
Greetings, Agents of Impact! Featured: Creative Economy We’ll know impact investing has arrived when it snags its own parody series on Netflix. Maybe …
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Podcasts | December 24, 2021
ImpactAlpha’s Holiday List No. 1: Highlights from a year of podcasts
ImpactAlpha, Dec. 24 – “Too often impact investing is heavy on the investing and diet on the impact,” tweeted the Surdna Foundation’s Mekaelia Davis, …
The Brief | December 23, 2021
The Brief: Capitalism reimagined in 2022, expanding opioid treatment, accelerating lean impact data, remembering Harry Halloran
Greetings, Agents of Impact! What a year! We’ve arrived at the final human-powered Brief of 2021. But our algorithmic elves will be working …
Catalytic Capital | December 22, 2021
Catalytic Capital in 2022: Expanding the toolkit to crowd in capital for impact
‘Tis the season for our lookaheads to 2022 and, thanks to ImpactAlpha subscribers, we are able to make the roundups freely available. So …
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The Brief | December 17, 2021
The Week in Impact Investing: Multiracial
TGIF, Agents of Impact! It’s that time of year where we look back on our coverage for the year to look ahead for …
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The Brief | December 13, 2021
The Brief: The Port Royal Experiment, Black-led schools and housing development, global health tech, G7’s impact task force, Orange nature
Greetings, Agents of Impact! Featured: The Reconstruction The Port Royal Experiment and the moment America almost did the right thing. “We’re an odd …
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The Reconstruction | December 9, 2021
Investing in The Reconstruction to bridge the racial wealth gap and rebuild America
ImpactAlpha, Dec. 9 – These times “require moral policies aimed at fully addressing the interlocking injustices of systemic racism, poverty, the denial of health …
The Brief | November 12, 2021
The Week in impact investing: Consensus
TGIF, Agents of Impact! Going exponential. We tend to overestimate change in the short-term and underestimate change in the long-term. That truism comes …
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The Brief | November 9, 2021
The Brief: Disrupting small-business financing, Evergreen’s dream box, education lending, distributed solar, sustainable supply chains, equitable economic growth
Greetings, Agents of Impact! Signals: Financing Growing Businesses How technology is disrupting small-business financing in emerging markets – in a good way. The …
New York, NY
The Reconstruction | October 13, 2021
Racial equity planks in a new Community Reinvestment Act can expand the American Dream
When most Americans think about civil rights, we think about the violence perpetrated upon Black Americans and the nonviolence movement that finally helped …
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The Brief | October 7, 2021
The Brief: Place-based fixed income, private-markets ESG, European foodtech, agri-marketplace in Pakistan, Black and Latinx tech founders, Detroit’s EV dreams
Greetings, Agents of Impact! ⚡Next week’s Call: Black tech, green solutions. Kameale Terry and ChargerHelp are making “electric vehicle service technician” a middle-class …
Cathy Clark, Duke's Fuqua School of Business
Agents of Impact | September 24, 2021
Cathy Clark, Duke’s Fuqua School of Business
ImpactAlpha, Sept. 24 – Before she herself began teaching 20 years ago, Cathy Clark helped her father run a summer program in Philadelphia that …
The Brief | September 24, 2021
The Week in impact investing: The Great Unf**kening
TGIF, Agents of Impact! Dead serious. If you don’t like our language, you’ll really hate comedian Jimmy Kimmel’s take on the state of …
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The Brief | September 3, 2021
The Week in impact investing: Stewardship
TGIF, Agents of Impact! We’re taking a Brief break for the Labor Day holiday here in the U.S. We’ll be back on the …
The Brief | September 2, 2021
The Brief: Beta stewardship, sustainable public equity offerings, duckweed protein, cybersecurity apprenticeships, inclusive community finance
Greetings, Agents of Impact! Featured: Universal Owners Chasing alpha is fine, but long-term returns for universal owners require beta stewardship. We’re all universal …
The Brief | August 20, 2021
The Week in impact investing: Persistence
TGIF, Agents of Impact! Reality bites. System change, like nation building, relies on a large dose of magical thinking. That innovation is welcome, …
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The Brief | August 19, 2021
The Brief: Impact-first debt, career impact bonds, community solar, beta stewardship, vaccine justice
Greetings, Agents of Impact! Dealflow: Follow the Money Global Partnerships’ impact-first debt fund raises $45.5 million for the COVID recovery. The firm’s ninth …
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The Brief | August 12, 2021
The Brief: Community investment funds, Black fund managers, cleantech debt, green batteries, accelerating community finance, introducing Policy Corner
Greetings, Agents of Impact! Featured: Community Finance The funds they are a-changin’ – and outdated regulations should, too. Small, place-based, and designed by …
Baltimore, Maryland | Jon Bilous
The Reconstruction | August 9, 2021
The Reconstruction: An equitable path forward to redress racial injustice in real estate
ImpactAlpha August 9 – Black Americans make up nearly half of the people living in affordable homes financed by the federal government. But …
Impact Voices | August 9, 2021
Redefining risk to catalyze capital for community-based real estate developers
Corporate America’s diversity problem is well-established. The disparities in the real estate industry, which controls the levers of how entire communities are shaped, …
The Brief | July 23, 2021
The Week in impact investing: Design
TGIF, Agents of Impact! Design matters. Agents of impact are transforming finance and reshaping the economy through intentional design for inclusion, climate action …
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The Brief | July 22, 2021
The Brief: Incentivizing impact, healthcare apprenticeships, wellness solutions in India, health clinics in Africa, sustainable infrastructure, ESG reporting solutions
Greetings, Agents of Impact! Impact Voices: Incentivizing Impact Four ways investors can structure financing to incentivize positive impact. A loan to Jacaranda Maternity …
The Brief | July 16, 2021
The Week in impact investing: Restructuring
TGIF, Agents of Impact! Restructuring finance. What kind of financial system are Agents of Impact building? One that values diversity, rewards sustainability, centers …
Baltimore, Maryland
The Brief | July 14, 2021
The Brief: Charting sustainability trends, returns on inclusion, climate tech, edtech in Chile, centering communities in the COVID recovery
Greetings, Agents of Impact! Featured: Sustainability Trends Two dozen charts map the trajectory of sustainable finance, food, energy and mobility. San Francisco and …
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Community Finance | July 14, 2021
Investing in marginalized communities to drive the COVID recovery
ImpactAlpha, July 14 – The two-track recovery threatens to leave distressed communities even further behind. Consider Philadelphia’s Kensington neighborhood: “A community that was …
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The Brief | July 12, 2021
The Brief: Kinder capital, business digitization in the U.S. and Kenya, solar tech SPACquisition, KKS Advisors gets acquired, fungi-based protein
Greetings, Agents of Impact! Featured: The Reconstruction Kind and usable: Two takes on the restructuring of finance and investment. Systemic flaws in traditional …
The Brief | June 29, 2021
The Brief: Fiduciary duty to Africa, consolidating impact managers, back to work in America, conservation in Peru, voting rights for small shareholders
Greetings, Agents of Impact! Hop on The Call: Capitalism Reimagined. Today’s Agents of Impact Call will take up the challenge of “Rewriting rules …
The Brief | June 18, 2021
The Week in impact investing: Juneteenth
TGIF, Agents of Impact! Independence day. This three-day weekend may have caught you by surprise, but the first federal Juneteenth holiday was a …
The Brief | June 17, 2021
The Brief: Closing racial wealth gaps, European solar assets, access to medicine in India, recycling electronics, catalyzing climate capital
Greetings, Agents of Impact! The Call No. 29: Capitalism Reimagined. Chris Jurgens of Omidyar Network outlined a strategy for reimagining capitalism in last …
Catalytic Capital | June 2, 2021
Call No. 28: For these wealthy families, deploying catalytic capital for impact is a privilege and responsibility
ImpactAlpha, Jun. 2 – The very rich are different, as F. Scott Fitzgerald once observed. One of those differences is the prerogative to put …
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The Brief | June 2, 2021
The Brief: Catalytic family capital call recap, cheaper smallholder finance, Kenyan farmer training, carbon accounting in China, rebuilding Black
Greetings, Agents of Impact! A reminder of these ImpactAlpha partner events this week: U.S. Impact Investing Alliance and the Federal Reserve Bank of …
Present day Black Wall Street in Tulsa, Okla.
The Brief | May 28, 2021
The Week in impact investing: Remembering
We’re taking a Brief break on Monday for the U.S. holiday. We’ll be back in your inbox on Tuesday. Memorial Day. The U.S. …
The Brief | May 24, 2021
The Brief: Cheat sheet for The Call, sustainability-linked loans, agtech in Indonesia, climate intelligence, impact measurement and management
Greetings, Agents of Impact! Featured: Agents of Impact Call The Call: Committing family capital to reconstruction and regeneration. We’ve been scribbling a cheat …
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Catalytic Capital | May 21, 2021
Family office opportunities for impact-first investments in racial equity and justice
The COVID-19 pandemic’s devastating toll on communities of color and concurrent national protests against recurring police violence toward Black people have sparked a …
The Brief | May 6, 2021
The Brief: Community collaboration in Minnesota, EnCap goes green, racial justice collaborative, Solve’s innovation future, mangroves carbon
Greetings, Agents of Impact! Featured: ImpactAlpha Original Helping communities acquire assets and rebuild small businesses in Minnesota. The conviction of former officer Derek …
The Brief | May 5, 2021
The Brief: Upskilling workers, democratizing investing, pay later in Latin America, accessible plant-based protein, indoor feed farming
Greetings, Agents of Impact! Featured: Impact Voices Three ways to invest in upskilling workers for the post-COVID economy. Among the reasons for the …
Kelli Saulny of Camelback Ventures
The Reconstruction | May 3, 2021
The Reconstruction: Accelerating Black entrepreneurship to build wealth across generations
ImpactAlpha, May 3, 2021 – Inheritance is not only about the wealth we pass down from grandparents to parents to children. It is …
Big Creek Lake in Semmes, Ala.
The Brief | April 30, 2021
The Week in impact investing: Opportunity
TGIF, Agents of Impact! Impact Briefing. On this week’s podcast, host Brian Walsh welcomes back Imogen Rose-Smith and David Bank to discuss truth …
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Impact Voices | April 20, 2021
Centering community voices and power in investment processes
The increased investor attention to racism and the inequality laid bare by the ongoing COVID-19 crisis has intersected, at long last, with the …
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The Brief | April 20, 2021
The Brief: Real estate co-op in Oakland, community decision-making, Indigenous entrepreneurs in Canada, e-bikes in Vietnam, 3D-printed salmon
Greetings, Agents of Impact! Featured: ImpactAlpha Original Reviving a Black cultural corridor in West Oakland – as a community-led cooperative. In another era, …