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Roadmap of Memphis, Tennessee
Muni Impact | January 31, 2023
Activest’s FIRE strategy seeks to bend the arc of municipal finance toward ‘fiscal justice’
ImpactAlpha, Jan. 31 – It’s distressingly easy to find places where city finances are distorted by systemic racism or outright bigotry. It’s harder …
ImpactAlpha Open | January 31, 2023
ImpactAlpha Open: Quality carbon credits + Black-worker ownership
Greetings, Agents of Impact! Welcome to ImpactAlpha Open. Two quick action items: 👋 Join Agents of Impact Call No. 48. Ryan Bowers of Activest, Diane Manuel of Adasina Social …
Impact Voices | January 31, 2023
How Fair Food Network is reshaping investment norms to fight wealth inequity
Despite the good intentions and creative strategies of impact investors, extreme wealth inequity persists. The climate crisis will only deepen the divide, unless …
Oklahoma on the map of USA
Impact Voices | January 30, 2023
Is ESG an emergency from which the public needs protection? Oklahoma legislators ride to the rescue.
Scores of anti-ESG bills were introduced in Republican-led states in January. The onslaught continues despite the more than $1.1 billion in financial costs …
Investing in Health | January 30, 2023
Trust, not technology, bonds patients and providers
Editor’s note: This article is sponsored by Johnson & Johnson Impact Ventures, which supports ImpactAlpha’s Investing in Health coverage. In partnership with J&J Impact Ventures, ImpactAlpha is exploring the …
Policy Corner | January 25, 2023
The state of impact investing public policy – and opportunities for 2023
The past year has been one of both exciting growth and unexpected challenges for the impact investing industry. Amid an uncertain macroeconomic forecast …
Eric Glass
Muni Impact | January 24, 2023
‘You can’t do impact on a passive basis’: Q&A with activist muni-investor Eric Glass
ImpactAlpha, Jan. 24 – After 15 years as an analyst, trader, and portfolio manager at AllianceBernstein, Eric Glass was asked in 2015 to develop …
Muni Impact | January 24, 2023
Market hypocrisy, political opportunism, and the common good
The attorney general of Texas earlier this month accused Citigroup of running afoul of a state law that “bars most government contracts with …
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp announcing Rivian's $5 billion electric vehicle factory.
ESG | January 24, 2023
Local economic benefits spur GOP governors to tack toward the center on ESG
Last year’s attacks on ESG seemed to be a final nail in GOP’s “pro-business” coffin. The backlash to consideration of environmental, social and …
ImpactAlpha Open | January 24, 2023
ImpactAlpha Open: New capital decision-makers + inclusive crowdfunding
Happy Tuesday, Agents of Impact! Welcome to ImpactAlpha Open, your weekly dose of ImpactAlpha and other impact investing news and trends. 👋 You’re invited to Call No. 48: …
KAMPALA, UGANDA
Scaling Impact | January 23, 2023
How to get more international money flowing in local currency
When considering catalytic capital investments in emerging markets and specifically Africa, a persistent and material challenge is the need to increase local currency participation …
Climate Finance | January 23, 2023
Variations on a theme: Securitizing fees and taxes to finance climate adaptation
Ghana securitized an education tax to improve access to education and a petrol tax to pay off legacy debts in the banking sector. …
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Low-carbon transition | January 20, 2023
ImpactAlpha Deal Spotlight: Nature-based biotech
ImpactAlpha, January 20 — Forests, oceans and soils play a crucial role in absorbing greenhouse gas emissions – and they could use some …
Impact Voices | January 18, 2023
CEOs are signaling their corporate impact – with their political contributions
There are many important metrics that can be used to measure a company’s impact. But none are more important than the company’s and …
ImpactAlpha Open | January 17, 2023
ImpactAlpha Open: Structuring finance for impact + climate SPACs
Greetings, Agents of Impact! Welcome to this week’s edition of ImpactAlpha Open, our free weekly newsletter of careers, connections and capital opportunities for Agents of …
Scaling Impact | January 12, 2023
Indispensable growth factor for impact funds, strategies and fund managers: catalytic capital
Editor’s note: This blog is part of ImpactAlpha’s “Scaling Impact” series, authored by participants in the Catalytic Capital Consortium (C3) Scaling Learning Labs. Key insights …
Human Rights | January 11, 2023
A human rights approach in impact investing
Overcoming today’s global challenges and creating positive change requires collaboration and innovative solutions from every sector and corner of society to enable all …
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 …
Photo by Roodgally Senatus, ImpactAlpha.
Climate and Clean Tech | January 5, 2023
Electrifying ‘dollar vans’ to boost livelihoods and cut carbon in New York’s transit deserts
ImpactAlpha, January 5 — Along Flatbush Ave. in Brooklyn, several informal “dollar vans” pass by for every city bus. The rides are more …
Impact Investing | January 5, 2023
Three ways product resale is making the circular economy sexy
You and me baby, we’re nothing but animals trying to deny our preternatural reuse instincts by confining ourselves to linear economy rules. And …
Climate Finance | January 4, 2023
Investing in climate entrepreneurs who think like project developers
Progress is as much about implementation as it is about invention. I wish I could lay claim to these profound words. They were …
Looking Ahead to 2023 | January 3, 2023
Big ideas and predictions for ESG in 2023
ImpactAlpha, Jan. 3 – ESG – for enterprise operations and investment decision-making that account for environmental, social and governance considerations – took a beating …
ESG | January 2, 2023
A baker’s dozen of shareable studies that make the case for ESG
ESG will continue to be a hot button in 2023. But research over the past year showed that environmental, social and governance investments …
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Looking Ahead to 2023 | December 30, 2022
Holiday List No. 3: Seven dealflow trends to keep an eye (or two) out for in 2023
ImpactAlpha, Dec 30 — Impact fund managers showed surprising resilience in a tough year for fundraising. That gives them dry powder to deploy …
Looking Ahead to 2023 | December 28, 2022
Holiday List: No. 2: Ten ImpactAlpha podcasts worth another listen in 2023
ImpactAlpha, Dec. 28 – ImpactAlpha produced nearly 50 weekly podcasts and more than a dozen longer-form interviews with Agents of Impact. VC Includes Bahiyah …
Looking Ahead to 2023 | December 23, 2022
Next Year in Impact Investing: Abundance
ImpactAlpha, Dec. 23 – “Americans will always do the right thing, after they have tried everything else,” as Winston Churchill (may have) once said. …
"The Fearless Girl" statue facing Charging Bull in Lower Manhattan
Looking Ahead to 2023 | December 22, 2022
Using ESG and impact to sort leaders from laggards in 2023
ImpactAlpha, Dec. 22 – It’s not about the scores. It’s about the solutions. ESG – shorthand for the consideration of environmental, social and governance considerations …
Looking Ahead to 2023 | December 21, 2022
Abundance, ownership and inclusion hold keys to shared prosperity in 2023
ImpactAlpha, Dec. 21 – Real solutions. Real revenues. Real places. While other investors chased crypto and other tech fads, inclusive investors were finding …
Community Finance | December 20, 2022
Treasury investments in CDFIs pave the way for strong impact and financial returns
Almost two years ago, we mourned what appeared to be a lost opportunity for community lenders and impact investors. We were wrong! ECIP …
Frontier and Growth Markets | December 20, 2022
2023 emerging market opportunities are locally-rooted, gender-smart and climate-friendly
ImpactAlpha, December 20 – Impact investing’s early advocates imagined a trillion-dollar industry. This year, by one estimate, the industry surpassed that target. Big …
ESG | December 19, 2022
Elon’s reputation tanks along with his credibility on ESG
Crypto-evangelist Dan McArdle was apparently peeved with ESG when he tweeted: “Clothes dryers in the US use more energy than all bitcoin mining… …
Climate Finance | December 19, 2022
Deadline 2030: Midway to climate marker, time to take deployment exponential
ImpactAlpha, Dec. 19 – Halfway there. When the ball drops in Times Square this year, it will ring in the critical midpoint in the …
Sponsored | December 15, 2022
How impact investments are helping build healthy communities
Our zip codes play a big part in how long and well we live. It’s easier to lead a healthy life when you …
Impact Voices | December 15, 2022
Six tips for bringing family office capital to impact funds and enterprises
Family offices (FOs) play an important role in the impact-investing world, but there remains a lot of mystery around how to best navigate …
ImpactAlpha Open | December 13, 2022
ImpactAlpha Open: Manage the impact of investments, better
Hi there, Agents of Impact! Impact investors gathered at the Mission Investors Exchange conference in Baltimore last week to regroup and reimagine investment strategies …
The Liist | December 6, 2022
The Liist: Seven impact funds that are raising capital now (December edition)
ImpactAlpha, December 6 – It’s been a difficult year for run-of-the-mill tech funds seeking fresh powder. Fundraising for impact funds has been more …
ImpactAlpha Open | December 6, 2022
ImpactAlpha Open: AI chatbots know impact investing + December’s Liist
December greetings, Agents of Impact! You may be pleased to learn that our new artificial-intelligence overlords are hip to impact investing. Take a …
Catalytic Capital | December 6, 2022
Overheard at MIE: Impact investing’s favorite son
Editor’s note: ImpactAlpha is the media partner for the 2022 Mission Investors Exchange conference. Catch up on our series, including: “Real estate developers …
Source: Amplify ESG
Policy Corner | December 5, 2022
Pro-ESG forces rally to confront backlash against corporate accountability, workers rights and risk management
ImpactAlpha, Dec. 5 – It took a while, but advocates for the integration of environmental, social and governance factors in investment decisions are …
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Impact Management | December 5, 2022
For comparability’s sake, let’s really move impact measurement from outputs to outcomes
Designing meaningful, appropriate and comparable impact investment performance instruments that do not stop at outputs, but get all the way to outcomes, was …
Return on Inclusion | December 1, 2022
Six ways to build the Long COVID economy
One hundred million. That’s the number of people globally who never recovered from the Coronavirus. COVID Long Haulers, as we are known, experience …
Sponsored | November 30, 2022
How shared accountability can increase the social impact of healthcare investing
Editor’s note: This article is sponsored by Johnson & Johnson Impact Ventures, which supports ImpactAlpha’s Investing in Health coverage. In partnership with J&J Impact Ventures, ImpactAlpha is exploring the …
ImpactAlpha Open | November 29, 2022
ImpactAlpha Open: ESG and crypto + three drivers of ‘inclusion alpha’
Hi there, Agents of Impact! Welcome to this week’s edition of ImpactAlpha Open, our free weekly roundup of news, views and trends from ImpactAlpha and elsewhere to …
Sponsored | November 28, 2022
How the MacArthur Foundation is leveraging the ‘full continuum’ of capital to address the climate crisis
This interview is part of a partnership between ImpactAlpha and Mission Investors Exchange to present new ideas and perspectives in impact investing. Join …
Smallholder farmers in Ghana. Source: Miller Center
Impact Voices | November 23, 2022
Five insights into the future of social entrepreneurship
In some ways, a quarter of a century is a long time to be at the forefront of social entrepreneurship. But in other …