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UN 2030 Sustainable Development Goals Increase Impact of Community Investment, November 2-3, 2017, at Inside Out

October 23, 2017 By 3BLmedia

TORONTO, October 19, 2017 /3BL Media/ – Companies are increasing their impact in community through program designs that reflect the UN 2030 Sustainable Development Goals. Christine Foster, Tata Consultancy Services, will share her experience in strategizing through an SDG lens. She will be joined by colleagues from IBM, IMPACT2030, the Taproot Foundation, and Imagine Canada. This knowledge-sharing will occur November […]

Filed Under: -Community Investing, -Impact Investing

The Local Crowd: Building a Crowdfunding Ecosystem Across Rural America

October 3, 2017 By Locavesting

Laramie, Wyoming may not be the first place you would look for an innovative experiment in digital age economic revitalization. And at first glance, Diane Wolverton and Kim Vincent might not fit the image of change agents. But the pair has been quietly building a crowdfunding ecosystem across rural America that is helping communities lift […]

Filed Under: -Community Investing

Cliff Feigenbaum: GreenMoney Turns 25 – The Evolution of Sustainable Business & Impact Investing

September 26, 2017 By LiftEconomy

Founder and Managing Editor Cliff Feigenbaum launched The GreenMoney Journal in 1992 and in 2013 was named “One of the Top 100 Thought Leaders in Trustworthy Business” by Trust Across America. In 2015 and again in 2017, Cliff was named one of the “Leaders in CSR & Sustainability” by Corporate Responsibility (CR) magazine. He has […]

Filed Under: -Community Investing, -Impact Investing, -Local Banking, -Sustainable-Responsible Investing, Beyond Investing

ComCap17: It’s About Democracy

September 25, 2017 By IWV Partner

“[T]his is a fundamentally pluralist vision, in which multiple forms of public, private, cooperative, and common ownership are structured at different scales and in different sectors to create the kind of future we want to see. The vision begins and ends with the challenge of community. If it does not meet the test of everyday […]

Filed Under: -Community Investing, -Impact Investing

We’ve Won A 2017 CDFI Fund Award

September 21, 2017 By IWV Partner

Great news! We’re excited to announce that Pacific Community Ventures has been awarded a 2017 CDFI Fund award, to support our programs delivering capital to small businesses across California that create good jobs for working people and build community wealth from the bottom up. In 2016, the small businesses in our lending program grew revenues by […]

Filed Under: -Community Investing, -Impact Investing

Why Financial, Legal, and Business Professionals Should be Champions of Community Capital

September 18, 2017 By IWV Partner

At this week’s ComCap17 Conference in Monterey, CA, one of the sessions that I participated in dealt with the roles of financial, legal, and business professionals as it relates to community capital. Our panel was moderated by my old friend, Michael Shuman, and we were joined by other professionals providing technology (Amy Wan), platforms (Youngro […]

Filed Under: -Community Investing, -Impact Investing

Will Chicken Soup for the Soul’s Reg A Inspire?

September 7, 2017 By Locavesting

If you were vacationing in late August, you might have missed a notable milestone in the young annals of crowd investing: the IPO of Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment, which raised $30 million in four weeks using Regulation A+. Not only is it one of the best known brands and social enterprises to date to […]

Filed Under: -Community Investing, -Impact Investing

Is it Time for State-Based Crowdfunding to Shine?

August 14, 2017 By Locavesting

What do Alaska, Florida, Texas and Vermont have in common? They’re among the 34 states that have passed state-based crowdfunding laws. When it comes to crowdinvesting, most of the attention goes to the JOBS Act, the 2012 federal legislation that gave us Regulation Crowdfunding, Regulation A+ and other provisions that make it easier for small companies […]

Filed Under: -Community Investing, -Impact Investing

GreenMoney’s 25 Year Journey – Influencing Capital and Corporations

July 19, 2017 By GreenMoney

The inside story on the award-winning publication from its founder   by Cliff Feigenbaum, founder and managing editor, GreenMoney Journal and GreenMoney.com Twenty-five years. Is that possible? Have I been publishing the GreenMoney Journal for 25 years? When I realized that 2017 was upon us, and that 25 years had passed, I knew it was time to take […]

Filed Under: -Community Investing, -Impact Investing, -Local Banking, -Sustainable-Responsible Investing Tagged With: GreenMoney Journal

WEBINAR: Economic Activism Starts at Home: The Impact of Community Investment Funds July 27, 2017 11 a.m. PT

July 11, 2017 By IWV Partner

Work for or operate a nonprofit organization, innovation hub, accelerator, or incubator? Are you a community leader or economic development specialist? Do you want to learn about community investment funds and community capital raising? Join Cutting Edge Capital’s webinar on July 27th at 11 a.m. PT with Kim Arnone and Brian Beckon to learn in depth about community investment funds and how […]

Filed Under: -Community Investing

TriLinc Joins Forces with SOCAP in Good Capital Project Launch

June 21, 2017 By IWV Partner

TriLinc Joins Forces with SOCAP in Good Capital Project Launch On June 19th New York City, the epicenter for capitalism, provided the setting for the launch of the Good Capital Project (GCP), a two-year impact investment initiative spearheaded by Social Capital Markets (SOCAP) to increase the flow of capital into purpose-driven investments. Over the past […]

Filed Under: -Community Investing, -Sustainable-Responsible Investing

Meet LOCUS Impact Investing – New Invest With Values’ Sponsor

June 21, 2017 By Brian Kaminer

Great work by our newest sponsor – Locus Impact Investing LOCUS Impact Investing Launched In May To Empower Foundations To Do More To Build Prosperous, Vibrant Communities New consulting, financial advisory and services organization offers comprehensive solutions to help foundations unlock new sources of capital, generating more impact in local economies ICHMOND, Va.,  — Leading […]

Filed Under: -Community Investing, -Impact Investing

Innovators Face Challenges in Breaking Down Barriers to Capital for Underserved Entrepreneurs

June 5, 2017 By Locavesting

In just a few short years, MORTAR, a small business incubator in Cincinnati, has made impressive strides in helping longtime residents in fast-gentrifying neighborhoods start businesses and grow in tandem with their neighborhoods’ fortunes. Since 2014, the incubator has expanded from its original location in Over-the-Rhine to include three other Cincinnati neighborhood programs as well […]

Filed Under: -Community Investing

Beyond the Money: The Impact of Community Capital

June 2, 2017 By IWV Partner

I was recently at Women and the Environment, an amazing conference in Santa Barbara hosted by Pacific Standard Magazine and the awesome folks at LoaCom. I was fortunate to attend, speak, and  hear about the great work being done, and the great work still to do, on environmental and social justice issues, much of which […]

Filed Under: -Community Investing, -Impact Investing

Crowdfunding and The Investment Company Act of 1940

May 31, 2017 By Locavesting

One of the bugbears of investment crowdfunding is the fact that the laws do not allow special purpose vehicles—legal structures that allow investors to be pooled into a single entity, which streamlines investor communications and management. You also cannot crowdfund an investment fund. That said, there are exceptions to every rule. Real estate crowdfunding platforms […]

Filed Under: -Community Investing, -Impact Investing

Benefit Chicago Announces Its First Loans

May 17, 2017 By IWV Sponsor

by Katharine Tengtio on May 16, 2017 Sweet Beginnings, a honey-based production company that offers employment to the formerly incarcerated, is one of the first organizations to receive financing from Benefit Chicago.   Today Benefit Chicago announces its first beneficiaries. Benefit Chicago is a collaboration between MacArthur Foundation, Chicago Community Trust, and Calvert Foundation to mobilize $100 […]

Filed Under: -Community Investing, -Impact Investing Tagged With: Sponsor

As Regulation Crowdfunding Turns One, Progress For Women and Minority Entrepreneurs

May 17, 2017 By Locavesting

As its first full year draws to a close, Regulation Crowdfunding is making progress in breaking down barriers to capital for a wide range of entrepreneurs. But the flow of capital to women, minorities and rural entrepreneurs who stand to benefit the most from the new law is still just a drop in the bucket. […]

Filed Under: -Community Investing

For Impact Investor Kristin Hull, There Are Many Ways to Effect Change

May 10, 2017 By Locavesting

The California Bay Area has a well-developed impact investing ecosystem. But trace any one initiative, and chances are it will lead back to Kristin Hull. A Bay Area native and former educator, Hull drew on her insights from education, grad school and the family investment business to become an influential voice and leader in the […]

Filed Under: -Community Investing, -Impact Investing

Impact Investing Marketplace ImpactUS Launches First Four Offerings

May 8, 2017 By Locavesting

Impact investors often complain they can’t find enough viable social enterprises to invest in. And entrepreneurs bemoan a lack of available funding. A recently introduced online impact investing marketplace hopes to address that problem. ImpactUs, a Washington, D.C.-based platform, aims to provide a place where investors can find out about, research and connect with funds, […]

Filed Under: -Community Investing, -Impact Investing

Introduction to MFIs Part II: Microfinance Networks

May 5, 2017 By IWV Sponsor

This blog is the second in a series we are doing on microfinance. Before you read this, I suggest you see Part I Introduction to Microfinance Institutions (MFIs). Here in Part II, I make an introduction to microfinance networks. What’s the difference between microfinance networks and microfinance institutions? Keep reading for an explanation. There are […]

Filed Under: -Community Investing, -Impact Investing Tagged With: Sponsor

Regenerative Future Summit

May 2, 2017 By Brian Kaminer

Regenerative Future Summit: New Economy World Leaders Gather in Boulder, Colorado 15 – 17 May 2017 Natural Capitalism Solutions and Alliance for Sustainable Colorado announce the Regenerative Future Summit. Held 15-17 May at the Sustainability, Energy and Environment Complex on the University of Colorado campus in Boulder, it will feature leaders who have created the […]

Filed Under: -Community Investing, -Impact Investing, Beyond Investing

Introduction to Microfinance Institutions (MFIs)

April 28, 2017 By IWV Sponsor

by Songbae Lee, Sr. Investments Officer on March 14, 2017 I joined the Calvert Foundation investments team in 2012 to manage our microfinance portfolio. Given how long it took me to sort out all the different players, I thought I’d try to make it easier for other microfinance newcomers by writing a series of blogs on the […]

Filed Under: -Community Investing, -Impact Investing Tagged With: Sponsor

A Fund Where Investors and Homeowners Both Win

April 25, 2017 By Locavesting

The mortgage crisis might seem like a distant memory, but in some ways, American families are more vulnerable than ever. More than 83,000 new families are impacted by foreclosure every month. Nationwide, one in every 200 homes goes into foreclosure. Jorge Newbery is out to change that. His company, American Homeowner Preservation (AHP), buys distressed mortgages […]

Filed Under: -Community Investing, -Impact Investing

The Path Forward for Impact Investing in the Trump Presidency

April 18, 2017 By ImpactAlpha

How will impact investing fare in the Trump administration? I’m not the first, and undoubtedly won’t be the last, to write about this. Erika Karp at Cornerstone Capital wrote a letter to her investors after the 2016 election and Stephanie Cohn Rupp and Ron Albahary penned a thoughtful and tactical piece last December on the […]

Filed Under: -Community Investing, -Impact Investing

World Bank passes $10 billion green bond milestone

April 17, 2017 By ImpactAlpha

With a sale last week of two bonds to Swedish insurance company Folksam, the World Bank passed the $10 billion mark for its issues of green bonds [paywall]. The bank, which launched the first green bonds in 2008, is now the world’s third largest green bond issuer after European Investment Bank and German development bank […]

Filed Under: -Community Investing, -Impact Investing

A Child’s Right to Savings

April 17, 2017 By MaxImpact

By Sunny Lewis MUMBAI, India, April 14, 2017 (Maximpact.com News) – Gone are the days when the only financial education a child would receive was a piggy bank with a coin or two tucked through the slot and parental instructions to save his or her loose change. Now young people, even street kids, can have […]

Filed Under: -Community Investing, -Local Banking, -Sustainable-Responsible Investing, Beyond Investing

What’s New In Impact Investing? March Roundup

April 4, 2017 By IWV Partner

Impact investing is about using markets and money for social good. Impact investing is built on the belief that private capital can play a powerful role in solving the massive global challenges of our day, and that capital markets should work for good as well as profit. This vision is realized through investments made into […]

Filed Under: -Community Investing, -Impact Investing

Hey New Yorkers – Move Your Money and Invest Locally

March 22, 2017 By Brian Kaminer

Your money and investments can make the world a better place. A special workshop offers an evening of inspiring & interactive discussion, meet new friends, hear about local investments and leave with actionable ideas for making your money matter. There are numerous ways you can be an impact investor and invest locally in your community. You […]

Filed Under: -Community Investing, -Impact Investing, -Local Banking, -Sustainable-Responsible Investing

What’s a Successful Crowdfunding Exit, Anyway?

March 22, 2017 By Locavesting

Exits. The stuff that crowdfunding investor dreams are made of. Or not? A story we ran recently has prompted us to think more about this topic. It was about the acquisition of Scotty’s Brewhouse, a mini-chain of midwestern brewpubs that is one of the few crowdfunded companies (in this case through Indiana’s intrastate exemption) to […]

Filed Under: -Community Investing, -Impact Investing

Three Women-Owned Startups That You Can Invest In Today

March 10, 2017 By Locavesting

Women entrepreneurs are at a disadvantage when it comes to raising capital for their businesses. They’re turned down more often than men and, when they do raise money, they raise smaller sums. (It’s a good thing they know how to do more with less). That’s starting to change, as new funding options that bypass the […]

Filed Under: -Community Investing, -Impact Investing

Your Money and Investments Matter – Workshop

March 9, 2017 By Brian Kaminer

Workshop March 28th NYC All Investors Have the Power – now more than ever Climate change. Inequality. Global finance. Politics. It’s enough to make anyone feel pessimistic. But as investors, we have the power to direct our money towards businesses and initiatives that are doing good in our communities and the world. Aligning Your Investments With […]

Filed Under: -Community Investing, -Impact Investing, -Local Banking, -Sustainable-Responsible Investing

The Role of SMEs in Global Economic Development

March 2, 2017 By Brian Kaminer

The Reality on the Ground – Free Talks Hear from leading practitioners in the field about the opportunities and challenges for SME (Small and Medium Enterprises) investment in the US and Internationally. SMEs, often described as too large for microfinance but too small for corporate banking, represent an important economic sector in any country. SMEs […]

Filed Under: -Community Investing, -Impact Investing

5 Ways to Be a Clean Money Revolutionary in 2017

February 27, 2017 By IWV Partner

A SOCAP Guest Post by Joel Solomon My first book, The Clean Money Revolution, is coming out in May. So, you may be asking, what is clean money?  Clean Money is money aligned with purpose: money that is about more than self-interest; money that prioritizes the commons; money that makes the world better. Clean money […]

Filed Under: -Community Investing, -Impact Investing, -Local Banking, Beyond Investing

Happy Birthday, Ours To Own Baltimore

February 23, 2017 By IWV Sponsor

by Beth Bafford, Investments Director, and Rodney Foxworth, Invested Impact on February 21, 2017 This month we celebrate the one-year anniversary of Ours To Own in Baltimore. Ours To Own is an investment initiative created to engage individual investors in the creation of local economic and community value in the Charm City with the belief that small […]

Filed Under: -Community Investing, -Impact Investing Tagged With: Sponsor

Positive Impact Finance Stands on Principles

February 23, 2017 By MaxImpact

PARIS, France, February 21, 2017 (Maximpact.com News) – Nineteen global banks and investors, worth a total of US$6.6 trillion in assets, have agreed on a set of standards for financing sustainable development framed as the first-ever Principles for Positive Impact Finance. On the last Monday in January, the set of four unpublished Positive Impact Principles […]

Filed Under: -Community Investing, -Impact Investing

Not All Crowdfunding Strategies Are Created Equal

February 17, 2017 By IWV Partner

There has been a lot of controversy lately surrounding Title III platforms that has been giving crowdfunding a bad name. To offer some clarity, it is helpful to understand the difference between crowdfunding, the JOBS Act, and Direct Public Offerings. The Jumpstart Our Business Startups (JOBS) Act, was initially signed into law on April 5, […]

Filed Under: -Community Investing, -Impact Investing

ImpactAssets Releases Annual IA 50 Impact Investment Fund Showcase

February 15, 2017 By CSRwire

Industry’s only free, searchable database of outstanding impact investing fund managers features firms that manage $10.6 billion in assets. BETHESDAY, M.d., Feb. 14 /CSRwire/ – ImpactAssets has released its 2016 impact investing showcase, the ImpactAssets 50 (IA 50), a free online resource for investors and financial advisors. The sixth annual list provides a diversified overview […]

Filed Under: -Community Investing, -Impact Investing, -Sustainable-Responsible Investing

Impact Investing Rise Good News for Women and Benefit Corps

February 9, 2017 By Locavesting

Impact investing is expanding, and that is creating new opportunities for social enterprises, including Benefit Corporations, women-led firms and community-based ventures. Those are some of the implications of a recent study conducted by the Forum for Sustainable and Responsible Investment (US SIF) Foundation. “There are encouraging signs for social entrepreneurs,” says Meg Voorhes, director of research for […]

Filed Under: -Community Investing, -Impact Investing

Invest Northwest: Ten-Year Final Performance Review

February 8, 2017 By IWV Partner

For ten years Pacific Community Ventures has worked with the Northwest Area Foundation (NWAF) and the Annie E. Casey Foundation (AECF) to annually evaluate the social performance of Invest Northwest, a place-based mission-related private equity fund. Invest Northwest was created in 2004 with the twin objectives of generating market-rate financial returns and social returns aligned […]

Filed Under: -Community Investing, -Impact Investing

Harvesting Capital for Maine’s Food Economy

January 27, 2017 By IWV Sponsor

By John Meyers With eight thousand plus farms in Maine, New England’s northernmost state is also its most agricultural. Since 2007, agricultural sales in the Pine Tree State have grown an astonishing 24 percent. But before you celebrate, consider this: financing small farms and food businesses in Maine remains restrictive. Commercial financial institutions continue to […]

Filed Under: -Community Investing, -Local Banking Tagged With: RSF, Sponsor

After the Women’s March: Make the Most of Where You Shop, Save and Invest

January 27, 2017 By ImpactAlpha

We marched. We came together in cities across the globe to protest the inauguration of a president who does not embody the values we espouse. So many of us marched, it was the largest recorded protest in U.S. history. There were so many thoughtful messages and humorous signs, and many different issues to embrace and hold […]

Filed Under: -Community Investing, -Impact Investing, -Local Banking, -Sustainable-Responsible Investing

Muni Bonds and Social Justice Webinar

January 26, 2017 By Brian Kaminer

Muni Bonds and Social Justice Part II: What can we do? How can we know factually which muni bond issuers are actually creating a net benefit for society and the environment — and which might be subpar from an impact allocation perspective? And can even everyday investors help rebuild their communities via muni investing? And […]

Filed Under: -Community Investing, -Impact Investing, -Sustainable-Responsible Investing

Is Microcredit a Vaccine or an Antibiotic?

January 25, 2017 By NextBillion

I believe there’s a strong case for social investment in microcredit, but that the best case is built on new theories of change. Historically the standard microcredit theory of change has been that many (if not most) households are eager to start their own microenterprise but are stymied by a lack of access to credit, […]

Filed Under: -Community Investing, -Impact Investing

Community Capital Makes Strange Bedfellows

January 25, 2017 By IWV Partner

These past few months have shown us an America more politically polarized than ever. Any proposed solution is viewed through a conservative vs. liberal lens, and each side vows to oppose any proposal by the other. So it may be worth asking where community capital fits on that spectrum. As our readers know, the term […]

Filed Under: -Community Investing

A Progressive Investor’s Action Guide for the Next Administration

January 23, 2017 By Locavesting

Concerned about the direction of the country? Make your voice—and money—heard, argues financial advisor James Frazier in this guest post.  Now that the 2016 presidential election is in the history books, the rough outlines of the next few years are starting to become a little clearer. We can reasonably expect a federal government with less […]

Filed Under: -Community Investing, -Impact Investing, -Sustainable-Responsible Investing

Slow and Steady Does it for Regulation Crowdfunding

January 13, 2017 By Locavesting

It wasn’t quite the fireworks that some had hoped for, but Regulation Crowdfunding closed the year with a respectable showing.  In 2016, 186 companies launched Reg CF campaigns, attracting $19 million in capital commitments, according to year-end data compiled by Crowdfund Capital Advisors (CCA). Investor interest and investment have increased steadily since the law went […]

Filed Under: -Community Investing, -Impact Investing

Read This if You are Not a Zillionaire: Impact Investing For the Rest of Us

January 4, 2017 By ImpactAlpha

Supply is beginning to catch up with demand for impact investing products for “retail” investors. Ample research indicates that everyday investors increasingly care about the impact of the investments they make. But impact investing products – funds, direct deals, social impact bonds and the like – have mostly been geared to high net worth individuals and […]

Filed Under: -Community Investing, -Impact Investing, -Sustainable-Responsible Investing

Crowdfunding: What’s in Store for 2017?

January 2, 2017 By Locavesting

Year-end predictions are always a dicey game, and that’s especially true as we close out a tumultuous year that turned conventional wisdom (and decorum) on its head. But there’s one thing we can say with a modicum of assurance: crowdfinance will continue to pick up steam in 2017, especially in a deregulatory environment. At Locavesting, […]

Filed Under: -Community Investing, -Impact Investing

Four Ways to Create a Community-Scale Investment Fund in 2017

December 28, 2016 By Locavesting

Community capital is about empowerment of communities. It is a set of strategies that allows ventures to raise capital from their ideal investors within their own community, allows anyone of virtually any economic class to invest in their community, and allows communities to build wealth though a cycle of investment, growth, profit, and reinvestment. Community […]

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Community Capital: Impact Investing, By and For the People

December 20, 2016 By Locavesting

There’s a refrain we’ve been hearing recently at gatherings of community organizers: “Nothing about us without us is for us.” While these words echo a centuries-old Latin slogan (“nihil de nobis, sine nobis”), they reflect a profound truth as relevant today as it has ever been. Their meaning is something like this: “Don’t try to […]

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