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WEBThe Week’s Podcasts. 🎧 This Week in Impact: A near climate-free debate. Host Brian Walsh takes up some of the week’s top stories with ImpactAlpha’s editorial director Amy Cortese.Up this week: The scant attention to climate change and the Inflation Reduction Act in the US presidential debate, the sustainable side of fashion week in New York, and a look at the rising number of student ...
What we know about KKR’s $1 billion Global Impact Fund
WEBImpactAlpha, April 30 – KKR, the latest private-equity giant to move into impact investing, has launched fundraising for what it expects to be a $1 billion Global Impact Fund, led by KKR veterans Ken Mehlman and Robert Antablin. The fund managers expect to make 12-15 investments in sustainable business development, next-generation energy, agriculture and food and other sectors aligned with ...
A market map of tech solutions for climate adaptation and resilience
WEBAug 15, 2024 · Annual record-setting in the climate crisis is becoming the new normal. This year is on pace to be the hottest ever recorded. Last year saw a record number of weather events that caused more than a billion dollars in damages.. Investing in climate mitigation strategies is essential to, well, mitigating climate impacts.
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Uncovering the Latest Impact Investing News and Trends
WEBDavid co-founded ImpactAlpha to cover impact investing as a serious beat in the expectation it would become one – and it has. A veteran journalist, he has spotted big trends at The Wall Street Journal (and before that, the San Jose Mercury News and other newspapers), breaking stories on technology, social innovation and finance.
Africa-led blended finance models mobilizing billions for …
WEBAug 7, 2024 · In 2022, the Eastern and Southern Africa Trade and Development Bank launched a novel financial instrument, dubbed “Class C shares” to reduce reliance on donor funding and provide a pathway to attracting institutional investors with investment-grade exposure. Class C shares mobilized an additional $1.5 billion into the bank’s authorized ...
How a collective of Black developers is raising equity for inclusive ...
WEBImpactAlpha, Apr. 27 – Decades of failed policies and extractive investments have left Black neighborhoods in Philadelphia with undervalued housing, underfunded services and a lack of access to financing.. A group of seasoned Black developers, along with investment professionals and public policy experts, have teamed up around a more inclusive vision and a new investment vehicle to fund its ...
JFF Ventures aligns VC with nonprofit to invest in the future of …
WEBImpactAlpha, Nov. 16 – Creating the tools and technologies to move more than 100 million low-income Americans comfortably into the middle class with new skills and quality jobs is a large and growing investment opportunity.. JFF Ventures (formerly ETF@JFFLabs) has been one of the most active venture investors in “inclusive workforce” from its position within Jobs for the Future, a 40 ...
A primer for investors branching into employee ownership
WEBAug 8, 2024 · As of June, Transform Finance identified 53 funds that finance employee ownership in the US and Canada. Nearly a quarter of these funds, which aim to manage a combined $1.6 billion in assets, invest exclusively in employee-owned businesses or businesses that become employee-owned through a conversion. Three quarters of the funds include ...