Impact Investing

Anatomy of an impact investment: Comcast’s partnership with Inclusiv

GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Treasury resources are a largely untapped source of capital for social impact investments and can significantly expand the reach and capabilities of community finance organizations.

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Crafting a global strategy for impact investment at Acumen

GreenBiz

MAY 30, 2023

Eighteen months into his new role focused at Acumen, Christopher Wayne talks about the critical role of agriculture in impact investing and what it takes to work in the field.

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How treasurers can lead their company’s impact investing

GreenBiz

APRIL 26, 2021

How treasurers can lead their company’s impact investing. When you think about who makes the greatest social and environmental impact with corporate dollars, you probably think of the head of ESG or the chief investment officer, not the treasurer. Catherine Berman. Mon, 04/26/2021 - 00:05. Pull Quote.

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Impact Investing for Social Justice: Looking Back and Moving Forward

3BL Media

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Like so many impact investors, we’ve hit an inflection point. For several years, our Foundation has taken steps to explore the terrain of impact investing, steadily learning how to complement and enhance our work to move toward positive value in this world. DESCRIPTION: by Adam Connaker, Surdna Foundation.

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Global Impact Investing Network on New Horizons for 2024

3BL Media

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

by Kate Walsh, Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN) For the last four years, the Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN) has engaged with faith-based organizations to increase their capacity to pursue impact through their investment strategies and align their financial choices with their organizational mission.

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Impact Investing Should Be Hard

Stanford Social Innovation

MAY 7, 2024

Think of all the time and effort that must be spent on understanding social and environmental problems, anticipating potential conflicts between business growth and mission fidelity, and analyzing impact data reported by investees. Many have recognized this issue of difficulty as a central challenge for impact investing.

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Maya Chorengel on building the impact investing industry

McKinsey Sustainabilty

JUNE 5, 2024

The Rise Fund’s Maya Chorengel discusses opportunities in impact investing today and how the sector has stayed ahead of changing expectations for DEI and ESG.

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Financial Times: Moral Money

MAY 29, 2024

Investors are increasingly focused on environmental and social issues, but how does impact investing compare with buying ESG funds? Plus: India’s VC impact funds, a boost for blue bonds, and the US entrepreneur helping former prison inmates

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The brilliant case for impact investing in America’s HBCUs

Impact Alpha

APRIL 16, 2024

The post The brilliant case for impact investing in America’s HBCUs appeared first on ImpactAlpha. Editor’s Note: This article is part of a partnership between ImpactAlpha and Mission Investors Exchange (MIE) to present new ideas and perspectives in.

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Addressing the broken child care system with impact investments

Impact Alpha

APRIL 25, 2024

This article is part of a partnership between ImpactAlpha and Mission Investors Exchange (MIE) to present new ideas and perspectives in impact investing. The post Addressing the broken child care system with impact investments appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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The impact investing opportunity in Puerto Rico’s economic comeback

Impact Alpha

APRIL 9, 2024

The plan for Oasis, a six-acre, The post The impact investing opportunity in Puerto Rico’s economic comeback appeared first on ImpactAlpha. In one of Puerto Rico’s poorest neighborhoods, you can find what economists might call a “green shoot.”

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The Week in Impact Investing: Climate+

Impact Alpha

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

TGIF, Agents of Impact! The post The Week in Impact Investing: Climate+ appeared first on ImpactAlpha. In today’s Brief: ? Climate beta. The flip side of climate risk is climate opportunity. The changing climate is.

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The Week in Impact Investing: Collaboration

Impact Alpha

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

TGIF, Agents of Impact! The post The Week in Impact Investing: Collaboration appeared first on ImpactAlpha. In today’s Brief: ? Winning combinations. Teamwork makes the dream work. In San Antonio and other cities, a new.

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Apax global impact managing partner David Su on impact investing

McKinsey Sustainabilty

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

David Su shares his perspectives on the evolution of impact investing and the importance of measurement. He also discusses portfolio company Swing Education to illustrate Apax’s philosophy.

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British impact investing market gains steam

Impact Alpha

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Impact assets in UK surged more than 33% to almost £77 billion (nearly $102 billion) over three years through 2023, according to a new report. The post British impact investing market gains steam appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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The Week in impact investing: Inclusion alpha

Impact Alpha

JANUARY 5, 2024

TGIF, Agents of Impact! The Call: Compensating impact fund managers for… impact. The post The Week in impact investing: Inclusion alpha appeared first on ImpactAlpha. In today’s Brief: ? To explore the hows and whys (and.

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The Brief: Impact investments in Anthropic’s AI

Impact Alpha

APRIL 23, 2024

Greetings Agents of Impact! In today’s Brief: Featured: Responsible AI With stakes in Anthropic, impact investors seek a seat at the AI table. The post The Brief: Impact investments in Anthropic’s AI appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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The Week in impact investing: New realities

Impact Alpha

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

TGIF, Agents of Impact! The post The Week in impact investing: New realities appeared first on ImpactAlpha. We’ll be taking a Brief break for the Veterans Day holiday in the US. We’ll be back in your.

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Mastercard: Models of Impact - Investment, Philanthropy and Market-based Solutions

3BL Media

MARCH 26, 2024

To learn more, visit: globalinclusivegrowthsummit.com Originally Published July 14, 2023 by Mastercard : Social impact and development funding are continuing to evolve, employing a full spectrum of innovative tools and approaches to get resources in the hands of the people who need it most.

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The Week in impact investing: Fund discovery

Impact Alpha

JANUARY 26, 2024

TGIF, Agents of Impact! ? The post The Week in impact investing: Fund discovery appeared first on ImpactAlpha. Category curation. Diversification across asset classes is one of the things that makes the “ownership economy” an attractive.

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The Week in impact investing: Misplaced risk

Impact Alpha

OCTOBER 18, 2024

TGIF, Agents of Impact! Help us help you amplify your impact. Join other Agents of Impact and ImpactAlpha’s team of editors and journalists. The post The Week in impact investing: Misplaced risk appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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The Week in impact investing: Generalized reciprocity

Impact Alpha

AUGUST 30, 2024

TGIF, Agents of Impact! We’ll be back in your inbox on Tuesday, The post The Week in impact investing: Generalized reciprocity appeared first on ImpactAlpha. A reminder that we’ll be off Monday for the US holiday.

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Northwestern Mutual Sustainability and Social Impact: Investing in Our Communities

3BL Media

MAY 15, 2024

For more than a decade, we’ve partnered with Milwaukee’s Amani, Metcalfe Park, and Muskego Way neighborhoods to create long-term impact, investing more than $15 million toward sustainable transformation and economic empowerment.

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And the size of the impact investing market is $1.5 trillion…ish

Impact Alpha

OCTOBER 23, 2024

The gains in global impact assets under management are coming in bigger chunks. The post And the size of the impact investing market is $1.5 Pension and insurance funds that are increasing their allocations to. trillion…ish appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Next Year in impact investing: Betting on the future

Impact Alpha

DECEMBER 22, 2023

TGIF, Agents of Impact! The post Next Year in impact investing: Betting on the future appeared first on ImpactAlpha. You deserve a break. And so do we. ImpactAlpha will be OOO next week, but we’ve scheduled a few.

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The Week in Impact Investing: Sustaining the surge in entrepreneurship and ownership

Impact Alpha

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

TGIF, Agents of Impact! The post The Week in Impact Investing: Sustaining the surge in entrepreneurship and ownership appeared first on ImpactAlpha. We’re getting out and about. Connect with ImpactAlpha’s Amy Cortese, who will be sniffing out signs of the sustainability.

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Investing in Women, Impacting the World

3BL Media

APRIL 25, 2022

How Impact Investing moves capital to where it’s needed most. In my 15-year career working as a woman in impact investing and its various facets geared towards investing in women, I have learned that communities and families benefit greatly when women thrive economically. SOURCE: GreenMoney Journal.

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The Week in Impact Investing: Love as courage

Impact Alpha

JANUARY 17, 2025

TGIF, Agents of Impact! The post The Week in Impact Investing: Love as courage appeared first on ImpactAlpha. Well be taking a Brief break to honor the birthday of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.,

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The Brief: Investing in women’s leadership in impact investing

Impact Alpha

JUNE 20, 2024

The post The Brief: Investing in women’s leadership in impact investing appeared first on ImpactAlpha. In today’s Brief: Featured: Gender Smart Transferring women’s wealth to women-led funds to build a more equitable economy.

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How I Found My Way To Impact Investing & Why I Hope More Women Will Join Me

3BL Media

DECEMBER 9, 2024

And not only is Calvert Impact led by a woman, 80% of our senior leadership team are women. When impact investing focuses on women, its typically as beneficiaries of capital and thats very important. We also stand out in another way that is often overlooked: we are one of only 18% of all financial firms managed by women.

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The Brief: Impact investing in water – let it flow!

Impact Alpha

AUGUST 28, 2024

Greetings Agents of Impact! The post The Brief: Impact investing in water – let it flow! This month’s edition of ImpactAlpha Latin America comes out later today. As an ImpactAlpha subscriber, you get the top. appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Australian Impact Investment’s Neeraj Aggarwal: Find your ‘impact DNA’

GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

Here's what he first looks for when hiring in the fast-evolving impact investment space.

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How startups might use impact cash

GreenBiz

APRIL 12, 2023

In the wake of the Silicon Valley Bank collapse, here’s how startups could incorporate impact investing into their treasury management.

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The Week in impact investing: State of the Impact

Impact Alpha

MARCH 8, 2024

TGIF, Agents of Impact! The post The Week in impact investing: State of the Impact appeared first on ImpactAlpha. In today’s Brief: ⚡ Plugged In: Tech equity in action. Google-backed Tech Equity Collective is working to double the.

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Making impact investments to help communities maximize historic federal funding for water infrastructure

Impact Alpha

AUGUST 28, 2024

The post Making impact investments to help communities maximize historic federal funding for water infrastructure appeared first on ImpactAlpha. Droughts, floods and toxic runoff are overwhelming the country’s aging water infrastructure. The $50 billion in funding earmarked for water in the 2022.

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ImpactAlpha Latin America: Building Central America’s market for impact investing

Impact Alpha

OCTOBER 30, 2024

The post ImpactAlpha Latin America: Building Central America’s market for impact investing appeared first on ImpactAlpha. It was great to see Carmen Correa, Laura Ortiz, Rodrigo Villar, Justin Schwartz, Aldo Soto, Corentin Larue and so many other Latin.

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The talk outpaces the walk: Three tough truths about impact investing

Impact Alpha

MAY 9, 2024

impact investors, we have a problem. The post The talk outpaces the walk: Three tough truths about impact investing appeared first on ImpactAlpha. In truth, there are several, and they all center around just how challenging it is to.

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The Week in impact investing: Reality premium

Impact Alpha

JANUARY 10, 2025

TGIF, Agents of Impact! The post The Week in impact investing: Reality premium appeared first on ImpactAlpha. Disinformation risk. Freedom of speech underpins free societies and productive markets. So too does trusted information rooted in.

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AllianceBernstein: How Impactful Are Your Munis? Five Questions To Ask Your Manager.

3BL Media

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Impact investing is one way. Muni managers may bill themselves as impact investors. But their approaches could be other forms of ESG investing in disguise—some just greenwashing or social washing—or they don’t have the roadmap, experience and resources to meet your impact goals. SOURCE: AllianceBernstein.

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Impact Investing Negative Screening Greenwashing Academics

Impact investing vs ESG: which produces the better results?

Financial Times: Moral Money

MAY 29, 2024

Some investors believe direct backing for enterprises is more positive than using a risk-focused fund manager

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Billions of low and middle-income consumers represent trillions in impact investment opportunities

Impact Alpha

MAY 21, 2024

The post Billions of low and middle-income consumers represent trillions in impact investment opportunities appeared first on ImpactAlpha. Off-grid solar companies were once dependent on grants and highly-concessional capital to prove that low-income and energy-disconnected households make good and reliable business.

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How this Capital Group manager switched from a career in financial consulting to impact-driven investing

GreenBiz

JUNE 19, 2023

Amy Danner, project manager at Capital Group, on the big divide between North America and Europe when it comes to impact investment and the challenges of working for one of the world’s largest investment management organizations.

Impact Investing

A History of the Women Who Nurtured the Roots of CDFIs

3BL Media

DECEMBER 30, 2024

by Amy Domini of Domini Impact Investments Did you know that today our nation has a healthy CDFI network that makes financial services accessible and economic prosperity possible for millions?

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Overcoming Barriers to Impact Investment in Africa: Interviews with Fund Managers Reveal Three Promising Solutions to the Continent’s Funding Gap

James Militzer

OCTOBER 23, 2023

“It’s hurdle, after hurdle, after hurdle, after hurdle,” says Polo Leteka, founder and chairman of IDF Capital , a Johannesburg-based investment and advisory firm. And that’s what makes it prohibitive for a lot of fund managers, or potential fund managers, to get into this (impact investing) space.”

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Anatomy of an impact investment: Comcast’s partnership with Inclusiv

Crafting a global strategy for impact investment at Acumen

Trending Sources

How treasurers can lead their company’s impact investing

Impact Investing for Social Justice: Looking Back and Moving Forward

Global Impact Investing Network on New Horizons for 2024

Impact Investing Should Be Hard

Maya Chorengel on building the impact investing industry

The brilliant case for impact investing in America’s HBCUs

Addressing the broken child care system with impact investments

The impact investing opportunity in Puerto Rico’s economic comeback

The Week in Impact Investing: Climate+

The Week in Impact Investing: Collaboration

Apax global impact managing partner David Su on impact investing

British impact investing market gains steam

The Week in impact investing: Inclusion alpha

The Brief: Impact investments in Anthropic’s AI

The Week in impact investing: New realities

Mastercard: Models of Impact - Investment, Philanthropy and Market-based Solutions

The Week in impact investing: Fund discovery

The Week in impact investing: Misplaced risk

The Week in impact investing: Generalized reciprocity

Northwestern Mutual Sustainability and Social Impact: Investing in Our Communities

And the size of the impact investing market is $1.5 trillion…ish

Next Year in impact investing: Betting on the future

The Week in Impact Investing: Sustaining the surge in entrepreneurship and ownership

Investing in Women, Impacting the World

The Week in Impact Investing: Love as courage

The Brief: Investing in women’s leadership in impact investing

How I Found My Way To Impact Investing & Why I Hope More Women Will Join Me

The Brief: Impact investing in water – let it flow!

Australian Impact Investment’s Neeraj Aggarwal: Find your ‘impact DNA’

How startups might use impact cash

The Week in impact investing: State of the Impact

Making impact investments to help communities maximize historic federal funding for water infrastructure

ImpactAlpha Latin America: Building Central America’s market for impact investing

The talk outpaces the walk: Three tough truths about impact investing

The Week in impact investing: Reality premium

AllianceBernstein: How Impactful Are Your Munis? Five Questions To Ask Your Manager.

Impact investing vs ESG: which produces the better results?

Billions of low and middle-income consumers represent trillions in impact investment opportunities

How this Capital Group manager switched from a career in financial consulting to impact-driven investing

A History of the Women Who Nurtured the Roots of CDFIs

Overcoming Barriers to Impact Investment in Africa: Interviews with Fund Managers Reveal Three Promising Solutions to the Continent’s Funding Gap

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