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The Brief: Playing mispriced muni risks, small business resilience in Africa, rooftop solar in India, crunch time at COP28, India’s climate investors
Greetings, Agents of Impact! Featured: Muni Impact Muni investors see through mispriced risks to find alpha and impact. Lower risk: Bonds issued by high-performing school districts that serve ...
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The Week in Impact Investing: Volatility
TGIF, Agents of Impact! The Week in Impact Investing: Volatility 🗣 Ups and downs.Gas started flowing to Europe again this week. Stock markets mostly turned upwards. But the relief may be fleeting ...
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Getting real about racial-equity investing
Racial equity investing isn’t about ticking a diversity box. It’s about understanding and investing to tackle social inequities in the U.S. – from education to healthcare, transportation and housing, ...
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Early movers are getting a jump on opportunity zones – and the future of community investing
A tweak to the tax code has set off a race between rival approaches to investing in some of America’s poorest urban and rural neighborhoods. ImpactAlpha has identified at least 10 impact fund managers ...
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The Brief: Housing solutions in Los Angeles, food access in Latin America, EV components, microfinance index, tracking policy reforms
Greetings! It was great to see so many Agents of Impact on yesterday’s Call, the last of our spring season. We’ll share the recap and replay in Friday’s Brief, and kick off our fall lineup of calls in ...
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The Week in impact investing: Trillions
TGIF, Agents of Impact! Private capital for public good. It’s hard to overstate the economic carnage: 22 million jobs have been lost in the ...
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Capitol Gains: Utah’s Ben McAdams on local solutions to political division (podcast)
Editor’s Note: Capitol Gains is a member of the ImpactAlpha Podcast Network. The show is made possible by Court Street Group. Local governments accountable to everyday citizens may be the antidote to ...
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The Brief: Gender-smart capital, tallying sustainable assets, healthy living SPAC, access to electric vehicles, accelerating justice tech
Greetings, Agents of Impact! Signals: Ahead of the Curve With billions as bait, development financiers seek to hook private investors on gender-lens investing. Private equity and venture capital fund ...
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The Brief: Climate adaptation innovation, female food founders of color, sustainable textiles, lending to farmers in India, solutions at scale in Latin America
Social ‘co-benefits’ and ecosystem restoration begin to make climate adaptation investable. Climate-smart investments that restore ecosystems, improve women’s lives, reduce damage from storms and ...
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MIT-spinoff SiTration snags $11.8 million to recover critical metals from mining waste streams
Jeffrey Grossman, a professor in MIT’s materials science and engineering department, and his then-postdoctoral associate Brendan Smith came up with the idea for their silicon membrane technology from ...
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CNote snags $3 million to support COVID-impacted underserved communities
ImpactAlpha, December 15 — Oakland-based CNote secured $3 million in equity funding to meet the increased capital needs from community development financial institutions, ...
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Redesigning due diligence for a deal pipeline in lockdown
Constraints breed creativity. Investors with the determination (or mandate) to keep capital flowing through the COVID crisis are turning physical constraints into opportunities to address ...