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Philadelphia, US
The Brief | May 25, 2023
The Brief: Financing social determinants of health, neighborhood preservation bond in Philadelphia, tax credits for mothers, US SIF’s Lisa Woll’s exit interview
Greetings, Agents of Impact! Featured: Investing in Health Health is too important to be left to the health sector alone. Climate change, supply …
Philadelphia, PA
Impact Muni Bonds | May 25, 2023
$80 million social bond in Philadelphia to tackle poverty and unlock growth
Editor’s note: ImpactAlpha has partnered with HIP Investor to highlight upcoming bond issues with social and/or environmental significance. Disclaimer: Nothing in this post or on …
Agents of Impact | May 5, 2023
John Moore, ImpactPHL: Stocking the pipeline of impact investments in Philadelphia
ImpactAlpha, May 5 – John Moore quit his corporate gig and moved to Philadelphia two decades ago. He found a city rich in …
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The Brief | May 4, 2023
The Brief: Impact liquidity crunch, corporate climate capital, rehabilitating homes in New England, solar for small business in India, overheard in Philadelphia
Greetings, Agents of Impact! Featured: Economic Volatility With rate hikes and bank woes, impact investors and entrepreneurs face a capital crunch. Like cartoon …
Inclusive Economy | May 4, 2023
Overheard in Philadelphia: Bridging capital gaps to build wealth in underserved communities
ImpactAlpha, May 4 — ImpactPHL’s Total Impact Summit gathered Agents of Impact in Philadelphia for the second consecutive year, following a three-year pandemic …
The Brief | October 12, 2022
The Brief: Patagonia’s private impact, clean hydrogen haul, propagating agroforestry, workforce housing in Philadelphia, small business lending in New Mexico
Greetings, Agents of Impact! 👉 Don’t miss “The Climate Finance Tracker: Catalytic Capital for Adaptation and Equity,” with ImpactAlpha’s Zuleyma Bebell and Eric …
The Brief | May 19, 2022
The Brief: Overheard in Philadelphia, Generation’s sustainable solutions, supply-chain financing in Africa, plant-based foods, Opportunity Zones and Covid recovery
Greetings, Agents of Impact! Featured: Returns on Inclusion Overheard at Total Impact: Diversify decision-making and shift power to communities. Agents of Impact convened …
Strawberry Mansion section of Philadelphia | Photo credit: Mosaic
Return on Inclusion | January 24, 2022
Black-owned developer Mosaic raises $10 million for equitable real estate in Philadelphia
ImpactAlpha, Jan. 24 – Led by Leslie Smallwood-Lewis and Greg Reaves, Mosaic focuses on projects in neighborhoods largely left out of Philly’s development boom. …
The Collective's Sandra Dungee Glenn, Steven Sanders and Tayyib Smith
The Reconstruction | April 27, 2021
How a collective of Black developers is raising equity for inclusive real estate in Philadelphia
ImpactAlpha, Apr. 27 – Decades of failed policies and extractive investments have left Black neighborhoods in Philadelphia with undervalued housing, underfunded services and a …
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The Brief | April 27, 2021
The Brief: Inclusive real estate in Philadelphia, community solar in NYC, scaling edtech in India, regulating greenwashing, insurgents at Exxon
Greetings, Agents of Impact! Featured: ImpactAlpha Original How a collective of Black developers is raising equity for inclusive real estate in Philadelphia. Decades …
The Brief | May 1, 2019
Women ‘makers’ in Pittsburgh, scaling Indian agtech, digital skills in the UK, wearables for newborns, locals meet markets in Philadelphia
Greetings, Agents of Impact! Series: New Revivalists A prototype for diversity in Pittsburgh’s tech scene. Erin Gatz has a novel idea for promoting equity …
Beats | May 1, 2019
Capital markets meets local stakeholders in Philadelphia
ImpactAlpha, May 1 – Capital markets are waking up to impact investments, while local champions are tapping capital markets to drive resilience, job and …
Creative Economy | March 11, 2019
Backstage accelerator backs 25 underestimated founders in Detroit, Philadelphia, L.A. and London
ImpactAlpha, March 11 – WhoseYourLandlord, founded in Philadelphia by Ofo Ezeugwu to empower and inform renters, is among the first 25 companies backed by Backstage Capital’s …
Entrepreneurship | February 27, 2019
Philadelphia’s impact investors step up to finance local job-creation and a storefront revival
ImpactAlpha, February 27 – First Step Staffing has a disarmingly simple impact strategy for integrating homeless and previously incarcerated people into the workforce. The …
Good Jobs | April 27, 2018
Philadelphia Model: Reinvestment Fund and Philadelphia Foundation commit $10M to place-based PhilaImpact fund
ImpactAlpha, April 27 – A community foundation and a longtime economic-development lender are teaming up to increase access to capital for schools, supermarkets, …
Entrepreneurship | April 24, 2018
Philadelphia Story: Good Capital Project, ImpactPHL and ImpactAlpha team up at Total Impact
There’s a reason ImpactAlpha has been publishing so many stories on Philadelphia, even beyond the fact that our own Dennis Price and his family moved back last …
Beats | April 20, 2018
The Brief’s Big 9: Philadelphia-bound, the impact delta, follow the talent, private-debt benchmarks
Happy Friday, ImpactAlpha readers! There’s a reason ImpactAlpha has been publishing so many stories on Philadelphia, even beyond the fact that our own Dennis Price and his family …
Creative Economy | April 16, 2018
Philadelphia’s poised for another championship: Civic revival and inclusive prosperity
ImpactAlpha, April 16 – The story a city tells itself can shape what happens in the next chapter. In Philadelphia, the NFL’s Eagles and …
Entrepreneurship | February 6, 2018
Philadelphia underestimated no more, Swell’s $30 million, The Worker’s Lab, tragedy of the horizon
Greetings, ImpactAlpha readers! #Featured: ImpactAlpha original The Patriots (and Vikings and Falcons) underestimated the Eagles, just as investors have misjudged Philadelphia and other …
Entrepreneurship | February 6, 2018
Philadelphia Eagles: Angry birds? Nah, hungry birds
An underdog Super Bowl victory provides an all-too-easy opportunity for metaphors and deep thoughts. C’mon, it’s only been 24 hours –indulge me. Last night, …
Industry News | January 31, 2018
Margaret Bradley: Turning Philadelphia institutions into impact investors
New Revivalists is a series from ImpactAlpha and Village Capital profiling the people, places and policies reviving entrepreneurship — and the American Dream. New Revivalist: Margaret …
2030 Finance | January 9, 2018
Philadelphia: Incubator City, Jana adds ‘impact’, making climate deals work, harnessing tourism for…
Greetings, ImpactAlpha readers! #Featured: ImpactAlpha Original Philadelphia rings the bell on a 21st-century revival. Almost 250 years ago, Philadelphia incubated a world-changing startup: …
Entrepreneurship | January 9, 2018
Philadelphia rings the bell on a 21st-century revival
Almost 250 years ago, Philadelphia incubated a world-changing startup: the United States of America. The rest is, well…history. Now, Philadelphia is incubating a …
2030 Finance | August 10, 2017
Reinvestment Fund backs solar project for Philadelphia Navy Yard
Reinvestment Fund, a Philadelphia-based community-development finance institution (and GSG Honors awardee), is providing $1.1 million in debt to construct a two-phase rooftop-solar project …
Conservation | July 26, 2017
Philadelphia leaders commit $15 million to one-stop investor for social startups
Rather than approach investors separately, social startups in Philadelphia can go directly to ImpactPHL Ventures, a new initiative from ImpactPHL, the year-old impact …
exclude from paywall | April 16, 2024
ImpactAlpha Open: Climate risk at insurance companies + investing in food waste solutions
Greetings, Agents of Impact! 🎉 Celebrating 10 years. For 10 years, leaders have trusted ImpactAlpha to guide them to the ‘alpha in impact.’ To celebrate our first …
The Brief | April 15, 2024
The Brief: Catalyzing climate resilience for small farmers
Greetings Agents of Impact! In today’s Brief: Featured: Adaptation Finance For these tech startups and investors, the next big thing is climate adaptation …
Deploy! | April 12, 2024
Private sector sees opportunity in federal ‘green bank’ fund
The EPA’s $27 billion Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund is intended to bring in at least seven times as much in private capital for …
ImpactAlpha Open | April 9, 2024
ImpactAlpha Open: Billion-dollar blended deals + ‘systems level’ stewardship
Greetings, Agents of Impact! This week, catch ImpactAlpha’s Roody Senatus in DC at the Aspen Institute’s Employee Ownership Ideas Forum, Amy Cortese in New York at TIIP’s System-level Investing …
The Brief | April 8, 2024
The Brief: Totality
Greetings Agents of Impact! Curious about today’s alignment of the earth, the moon and the sun? Good! Solar eclipses in history seem to …
Impact Careers | April 5, 2024
The Week’s Jobs: April 5, 2024
Foundations, private equity investors and fund managers are on the hunt for impact talent around the world. Just this week: US Jobs Emerson …
April 3, 2024
Senior Associate, Climate Justice
We have made it a priority to meet with, and hire from, a diverse pool of candidates – as we believe that a …
The Brief | April 3, 2024
The Brief: Billion-dollar blended-finance transactions
Greetings Agents of Impact! In today’s Brief: Featured: 2030 Finance Blending billions: Lessons from more than three dozen big blended finance transactions. Deal …
ImpactAlpha Open | April 2, 2024
ImpactAlpha Open: US ‘green bank’ takes shape + Brazil’s impact ecosystem
Greetings, Agents of Impact! Welcome to the latest ImpactAlpha Open, our free weekly newsletter on the news, deals and people powering impact investing and sustainable …
The Brief | April 1, 2024
The Brief: Unlocking ownership to close racial wealth gaps
Greetings Agents of Impact! In today’s Brief: Featured: Ownership Economy Wanted: First-time fund managers with strategies to ‘Unlock Ownership.’ A group of mission-aligned …
ImpactAlpha Open | March 26, 2024
ImpactAlpha Open: De-risking The Great Deployment + clean cooking’s carbon credits
Greetings, Agents of Impact! Welcome to the latest ImpactAlpha Open, a free weekly newsletter on the news, deals and people powering impact investing and sustainable …
The Brief | March 25, 2024
The Brief: Smarter catalytic capital
Greetings Agents of Impact! In today’s Brief: Featured: Catalytic Capital How smarter targeting of capital gaps can make catalytic capital more effective. Some …
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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 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 …
exclude from paywall | March 8, 2024
Beth Bafford, Calvert Impact Capital: Everyone deserves a chance to fly
Editor’s Note: On this International Women’s Day, we’re pleased to share important moments in the lives and careers of five women in impact …
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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 …
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Community Finance | March 1, 2024
Deal spotlight: San Antonio’s ESTAR West targets $25 million for real estate fund
On San Antonio’s majority-Latino west side, ESTAR West is revitalizing underserved neighborhoods with mixed-use real estate and small business support. Entrepreneurs and Small …
Neighborhood Economics conference, San Antonio | Photo credit: Neighborhood Economics
Inclusive Economy | February 28, 2024
Addressing the social determinants of wealth at Neighborhood Economics
ImpactAlpha, Feb. 28 – The zip code in which a person grows up in America is more a determinant of their health than their …
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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 …