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The Week in Impact Investing: ImpactAlpha’s First Decade

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🎧 This Week in Impact. Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank. Up this week: the opportunities for family offices to invest in the climate transition; three leading foundations' investment in responsible AI; and the debate over the changing approach to carbon credits as a path to net zero. Bonus: Audio highlights from 10 years of ImpactAlpha. 

The Week’s Agent of Impact

Trenton Allen, Sustainable Capital Advisors: Bringing green infrastructure to Black and Brown communities. (Q&A). Networks of nonprofit lenders are looking to seed green projects in low- and middle-income communities by leveraging the $27 billion Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund that is part of the US Inflation Reduction Act. For-profit companies are playing a role as well. Washington, DC-based Sustainable Capital Advisors, founded by finance industry veteran Trenton Allen, helped the Justice Climate Fund and other organizations craft their strategies for the federal funds. The firm’s Sustainable Infrastructure Finance Academy aims to give community lenders, local governments and project developers affordable access to the specialized knowledge and skill sets they need for the massive deployment effort. They “already know how to do the hardest part, which is lending and capital deployment and underwriting,” he says. “The green piece is just another type of project or project activity.” To those who doubt whether such lenders are up to the task he says, “Recognize the experience and the depth of financial understanding that exists within these organizations.” 

The Week’s Deal Spotlight

Blending finance to bring broadband to remote communities. The lack of high-speed Internet service in rural and mountainous regions of the US exacts a socio-economic toll, limiting access to jobs, education, healthcare and other opportunities and services. The Biden Administration’s $700 million ReConnect initiative, funded through the bipartisan infrastructure law, aims to extend affordable broadband to all Americans by 2030. Public investment is “necessary but insufficient,” said Brian Vo of Connect Humanity, a nonprofit impact investor helping local internet service providers, or ISPs, bridge project financing gaps. The organization is raising a $25 million fund to bring services to remote communities in Appalachia. The fund was seeded with first-loss capital from Microsoft.

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