ImpactAlpha, Dec. 16 – While I was running Village Capital a few years ago, I noticed two starkly divided realities in the U.S. Vilcap, …
ImpactAlpha, Dec. 16 – The people are rising up. Protests erupted this year in cities around the globe, sparked by price hikes and …
ImpactAlpha, July 30 – Illinois’ economy is generally on the up, but manufacturing employs only half as many people as it did three decades …
ImpactAlpha, July 15 – Evidence of unsustainable value creation and neglect mar Appalachia’s coal country. But the region is determined to cut a path …
In a two-part series, we explore how local leaders are blending capital and piloting projects to reinvent Appalachia’s coal-impacted communities. In April, the …
ImpactAlpha, June 3 – A set of briefs from Urban Institute and Mission Investors Exchange round up the ‘tricks of the trade’ in local …
ImpactAlpha, May 30 – Greg Brodsky grew up watching his father build a local carpet store into a 2,000-store chain that buys and sells …
ImpactAlpha, May 1 – Erin Gatz has a novel idea for promoting equity in tech: Priming female ‘makers’ for entrepreneurship in Pittsburgh’s buzzing startup …
ImpactAlpha, April 23 – The impact investment fund of Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta put $1 million into the Low Income Investment Fund …
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 …
ImpactAlpha, February 27 – First Step Staffing has a disarmingly simple impact strategy for integrating homeless and previously incarcerated people into the workforce. The …
ImpactAlpha, February 5 – Place-based, blended finance through a racial lens. A $100 million commitment from Prudential Financial is a trifecta of impact …
Austin, TX – The idea is simple but execution has been hard: helping local investors invest in local entrepreneurs to revive local communities, all across …
Greetings, ImpactAlpha readers! The Opportunity Alpha The maximum opportunity, we wrote last summer, is “to flip the switch from scarcity to an abundance …
Now that Amazon’s beauty pageant is finally over, runners-up like Birmingham, Kansas City, Baltimore and 200 other cities can move ahead on their …
ImpactAlpha, November 13 – Evergreen Cooperatives builds worker-owned businesses, giving low-income, low-skilled workers access to new economic opportunities. The Cleveland-based cooperative employs 250 …
When Jessica Brooks started at Boston Community Capital, it was one in a handful of impact investors in Boston. The kind of work …
New Revivalists is a series from ImpactAlpha and Village Capital profiling the people, places and policies reviving entrepreneurship — and the American Dream. New Revivalist: …
A healthy environment for startups begins with a targeted investment in the systems nurturing founders and budding entrepreneurs. That’s been the driving philosophy …
ImpactAlpha, October 1 – The Western New York Impact Investment Fund has backed Cleanfiber to add a new production facility and create dozens of …
ImpactAlpha, September 19 – The $70 million Bloomberg climate challenge seeks to promote sustainability and climate change awareness in 20 American cities. Seattle …
ImpactAlpha, September 6 – The Backstage Accelerator for diverse founders is launching in four cities: Los Angeles, Philadelphia, and London; the fourth city …
ImpactAlpha, August 20 – LaunchTN, an organization that supports Tennessee-based startups, has made its first investment from its $1.7 million seed-stage impact fund, …
The future, Jeremy Nowak liked to say, “belongs to the problem-solvers.” The Philadelphia civic leader and social financier, died Saturday after a heart …
ImpactAlpha, June 12 – Municipal bonds are literally private investments in public goods, making them perhaps the original impact investments. About $435 billion in …
ImpactAlpha, June 8 – Here’s a statistic that may surprise you: One in four working-age individuals in Peru was involved in an early-stage company last …
ImpactAlpha, May 15 – Everything old is new again, including the notion that investors have a role to play in creating thriving economies …
This time of year, people from all over the country don their best hipster duds, dust off their cowboy boots and descend on …
New Revivalists is a series from ImpactAlpha and Village Capital profiling the people, places and policies reviving entrepreneurship — and the American Dream. New Revivalist: Melissa …
New Revivalists is a series from ImpactAlpha and Village Capital profiling the people, places and policies reviving entrepreneurship — and the American Dream. New Revivalist: Daryn …
New Revivalists is a series from ImpactAlpha and Village Capital profiling the people, places and policies reviving entrepreneurship — and the American Dream. New Revivalist: Heather …
With David Bank When you meet and and talk with dozens of leaders working to revive entrepreneurship in cities and towns across the U.S., …
New Revivalists is a series from ImpactAlpha and Village Capital profiling the people, places and policies reviving entrepreneurship — and the American Dream. New Revivalist: Brian …
By Amy Hartzler, BALLE “Y’all lost?” The first words to welcome us to De Witt said so much, offered by an older gentleman …
New Revivalists is a series from ImpactAlpha and Village Capital profiling the people, places and policies reviving entrepreneurship — and the American Dream. New Revivalist: Bryce …
New Revivalists is a series from ImpactAlpha and Village Capital profiling the people, places and policies reviving entrepreneurship — and the American Dream. New Revivalist: Sen. …
New Revivalists is a series from ImpactAlpha and Village Capital profiling the people, places and policies reviving entrepreneurship — and the American Dream. New Revivalist: Lisa …
New Revivalists is a series from ImpactAlpha and Village Capital profiling the people, places and policies reviving entrepreneurship — and the American Dream. New Revivalists: Ben …
New Revivalists is a series from ImpactAlpha and Village Capital profiling the people, places and policies reviving entrepreneurship — and the American Dream. New Revivalist: Charlie …
New Revivalists is a series from ImpactAlpha and Village Capital profiling the people, places and policies reviving entrepreneurship — and the American Dream. New Revivalists: John …
New Revivalists is a series from ImpactAlpha and Village Capital profiling the people, places and policies reviving entrepreneurship — and the American Dream. New Revivalist: Brandon …
New Revivalists is a series from ImpactAlpha and Village Capital profiling the people, places and policies reviving entrepreneurship — and the American Dream. New Revivalist: Jacob …
New Revivalists is a series from ImpactAlpha and Village Capital profiling the people, places and policies reviving entrepreneurship — and the American Dream. New Revivalist: Carmen …
New Revivalists is a series from ImpactAlpha and Village Capital profiling the people, places and policies reviving entrepreneurship — and the American Dream. New Revivalists: Bryce …
New Revivalists is a series from ImpactAlpha and Village Capital profiling the people, places and policies reviving entrepreneurship — and the American Dream. New Revivalist: Andrea …
