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Impact Voices | August 18, 2022
How community investors are creating equitable approaches to climate finance
When it comes to climate change the stakes for all of us are high. But the evidence is clear that lower-income and communities …
Vivek Ramaswamy (photo: Wikipedia)
ESG | August 16, 2022
With his anti-ESG fund, Vivek Ramaswamy takes a page from the Infowars playbook
Alex Jones is getting his overdue comeuppance, but this godfather of conspiracy theories has spawned a new generation of acolytes with marginally more …
ImpactAlpha Open | August 16, 2022
ImpactAlpha Open: VC’s diversity dividend
Greetings, Agents of Impact! 🗣️ Happy Tuesday. Welcome to the hundreds of you who have signed up for ImpactAlpha Open. 🤝 Let’s connect! The ImpactAlpha team will be back at in-person events …
Impact Voices | August 15, 2022
Emerging impact fund managers tap ‘community rounds’ to overcome fundraising barriers
A new, more democratic approach to fundraising is putting wind in the sails of new impact fund managers. ‘Community-led investing rounds’ have the …
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Impact Voices | August 10, 2022
Fixed-income strategies can offer scalable impact with low risk and liquidity
For financial advisors, impact and investing continue to converge, with new concepts and momentum shaping the way investors view their participation. The desire …
ImpactAlpha Open | August 9, 2022
ImpactAlpha Open No. 3: Time to build
TGIT, Agents of Impact! 🗣️ Agents of Impact weren’t waiting for U.S. policy to get around to climate solutions. But they’ll take it. “Now, you …
Impact Investing | August 9, 2022
How four institutional investors use climate action plans to map their paths to net zero
New York State’s $279 billion pension fund understands the importance of planning. When the New York State Common Retirement Fund announced in 2020 …
M-Pesa | Photo credit: Vodafone
Frontiers in Social Innovation | August 8, 2022
Catalyzing new markets with early-stage impact investments
This post is part of ImpactAlpha’s “Frontiers in Social Innovation” series with Stanford GSB Center for Social Innovation. The posts in the series …
Photo credit: UNICEF Ukraine
Catalytic Capital | August 4, 2022
How UNICEF’s Bridge Fund is speeding the delivery of aid to Ukraine and other crisis zones
It took Yulia, a mother from Kharkiv, Ukraine, seven days to reach the Polish border with her one-year-old daughter and nine-year-old son. They …
Seeding Impact | August 3, 2022
Combating bias in asset management with catalytic capital and inclusive due diligence
Editor’s note: This blog is part of ImpactAlpha’s series, “Seeding Impact,” authored by participants in the Catalytic Capital Consortium (C3) Seeding Learning Labs. …
The Liist | August 2, 2022
The LIIST No. 1: Seven impact funds that are raising capital now (August 2022)
ImpactAlpha, August 2 – Between the launch and the close is the raise. Even impact fund managers with a compelling thesis, a solid pipeline …
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. …
Investing in Health | August 2, 2022
How to set social impact targets in an uncertain world
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 …
Impact Management | August 1, 2022
How one climate tech fund counts – and reports – the impact of its portfolio
At Energy Impact Partners, we just released our 2022 Impact and ESG report, our fourth consecutive public accounting for our environmental and ESG …
photo: Jens Cederskjold
Impact Voices | July 28, 2022
Energy efficiency is critical for climate goals and global security
Europe must wean itself off of Russian oil and gas. Energy efficiency can go a long way towards alleviating the pain. Energy efficiency …
Catalytic Capital | July 27, 2022
Impact investors collaborate to amplify the impact of their catalytic capital
Editor’s note: This blog is part of ImpactAlpha’s series, “Seeding Impact,” authored by participants in the Catalytic Capital Consortium (C3) Seeding Learning Labs. …
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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 …
Impact Voices | July 26, 2022
How NGOs are blending capital to amplify their impact
The typical employee within a non-governmental organization doesn’t talk a lot to commercial banks, pension funds and insurance companies. But like everyone else, …
Impact Voices | July 26, 2022
It’s time for mining companies to embrace ESG
Love it or hate it, environmental, social and governance, or ESG, is here to stay. Yet there is no one-size-fits-all strategy. No sector …
Baymiller Row Houses in Cincinnati. Photo: The Port
Muni Impact | July 25, 2022
How ‘The Port’ is drawing private investors to redress Cincinnati’s racial wealth gap
Driving through Cincinnati, Ohio’s Bond Hill neighborhood, Tony Jones pointed out the street his grandmother used to live on, and the corner where …
photo: Sam Bloxham
Impact Tech | July 21, 2022
Formula E: The hum of electric race cars signals the arrival of the EV era
ImpactAlpha, July 21 – There was no deafening roar of engines as 22 race cars careened along the Brooklyn waterfront last weekend. This …
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Frontier and Growth Markets | July 20, 2022
For ‘quick commerce’ startups, the pandemic giveth and taketh away
ImpactAlpha, July 20 – Airlift became a darling of Pakistan’s venture capital scene last year when it raised $85 million in Series B …
Henry Mobility e-bike.
Impact Voices | July 18, 2022
The diverging paths of climate tech in Europe and the U.S.
Talent. Customers. And specialization. Transition-friendly policy and sentiment are helping set the European Union apart as a hub for climate tech. My colleague …
Frontiers in Social Innovation | July 14, 2022
Six strategies for crossing the valleys of death and scaling social innovations
This post is part of ImpactAlpha’s “Frontiers in Social Innovation” series with Stanford GSB Center for Social Innovation. The posts in the series …
Stewardship | July 12, 2022
Why did shareholder resolutions on climate action and racial equity fall short? Big asset managers.
Even amidst the short-term turmoil of turbulent markets, ongoing war in Ukraine, and political attacks against ESG, responsible investors in 2022 deepened their …
Genius Guild uses a venture studio model to build and invest in scalable companies led by Black founders.
Catalytic Capital | July 11, 2022
Maximizing the impact of catalytic capital when supporting emerging fund managers
Editor’s note: This blog is part of ImpactAlpha’s series, “Seeding Impact,” authored by participants in the Catalytic Capital Consortium (C3) Seeding Learning Labs. Key insights …
Policy Corner | July 7, 2022
The S.E.C.’s new rules (Part Two): Five features of the ESG proposal that warrant attention from investors
I recently wrote about the transformational pair of proposed rules from the SEC that would, at long last, lend clarity and comparability to …
Policy Corner | July 6, 2022
The S.E.C.’s new rules (Part One): An opportunity to rein in greenwashing in asset management
Fossil fuel industry-supported activist groups and politicians have launched a campaign to discredit ESG investing as “woke capitalism.” This new push appears to …
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Inclusive Economy | July 5, 2022
Is private equity’s employee ownership plan the real deal?
ImpactAlpha, July 5 — In April, 19 private equity firms committed to providing equity shares to employees at some portfolio firms, as part …
Impact Management | June 23, 2022
Overheard at GSG’s Global Impact Series
Regulators, CEOs, and investors the world over welcome enhanced disclosures. That was the message at the The Global Steering Group for Impact Investment’s …
Seeding Impact | June 14, 2022
Lessons for harnessing the power of catalytic capital from a growing community of practice
Editor’s note: This post is part of ImpactAlpha’s series, “Seeding Impact,” authored by participants in the Catalytic Capital Consortium (C3) Seeding Learning Labs. Key insights …
Seeding Impact | June 14, 2022
Catalytic Capital FAQ: How flexible capital can bridge financing gaps
Catalytic capital is a fast-growing subset of impact investing that addresses capital gaps left by mainstream capital. From reaching underserved populations and geographies, …
Agents of Impact | June 7, 2022
In Silicon Valley, talent follows the capital – and the optimists – into climate tech
ImpactAlpha, Jun. 7 – Where you stand on the incipient tech slowdown may depend on where you sit. Investors and executives in climate …
Stewardship | May 26, 2022
Engine No. 1 opts for accommodation over confrontation with Big Oil and big banks
ImpactAlpha, May 26 – A year ago, the tiny fund manager Engine No. 1 was The Little Engine That Could. This year, it’s …
Former vice president Mike Pence | Photo credit: Gino Santa Maria
Capitalism Reimagined | May 12, 2022
ESG opponents get political under the guise of getting politics out of investing
ImpactAlpha, May 12 – The war in Ukraine and high gas prices gave oil and gas interests an opening to push back against efforts …
Something Better Foods founder GW Chew
Inclusive Economy | May 3, 2022
Flexible and equitable financial tools for a more inclusive economy
Seemingly everyone is creating a fund to address themes ranging from reparations to crypto-enviro. As impact investors, redesigning our economic relationships is just …
BlocPower's Civilian Climate Corp workers with the owner of the building. Photo by Roodgally Senatus.
Green Infrastructure | April 7, 2022
Inside BlocPower’s mission to upskill workers and green New York City buildings (photo story)
ImpactAlpha, April 7 — On a recent early spring day, a half-dozen workers were installing heat pumps in a two-unit property on Ellis …
Image credit: Jacaranda Health
Investing in Health | April 5, 2022
Why Kenyan nonprofit Jacaranda Health spun out its hospital as a social venture
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 …
Impact Investing | April 1, 2022
Ten ways to help the people of Ukraine
ImpactAlpha has compiled from trusted sources a partial (alphabetical) list of organizations providing food, shelter, medical care and relocation assistance for the people …
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Capitalism Reimagined | March 22, 2022
How the SEC’s rules will – and won’t – solve climate change
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has proposed landmark climate-related disclosure requirements for public companies to inform investors about the risks a changing …
Policy Corner | February 16, 2022
Agents of Impact eye corporate disclosure rules on climate and human capital
Healthy and functioning markets depend on transparency and accountability. Impact investors have long understood that this extends to a need for information on …
Capitol Building in Washington DC.
Policy Corner | February 11, 2022
Progress on a dozen policies to mobilize private capital for public good
There is no shortage of challenges facing leaders in Washington. The coming midterm elections will increasingly dominate the headlines. But impact investors must …
Impact Investing | January 19, 2022
Institutional Shift: ‘Net-zero’ becomes ‘uh-oh’ and other sustainability trends to watch in 2022 (podcast)
Getting to net-zero greenhouse gas emissions is going to mean a deep re-engineering of every industry, every corporation, every community, Equilibrium Capital’s Dave …
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 …
Sponsored | January 10, 2022
Putting people first in the digital health revolution
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 …