Healing People and the Planet by David Miller, co-founder and CEO, Iroquois Valley Farms We at Iroquois Valley Farms are pleased to announce a new corporate entity as we begin our 11th season of operations. In 2007 when we started the company, our idea was simple –growing healthy foods on organic soils would be good […]
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Investing with the Principles of Slow Money: Q&A with Claude Arpels
by Logan Yonavjak Slow Money was founded on a core set of principles that differ from the way most investors make decisions. These principles emphasize patient capital and investing in local community – whereas the mainstream typically highlights quarterly earnings and profit maximization. This series of three blogs seeks to better explain why some investors – […]
OpenInvest points its robo-advisors toward refugee inclusion
Smarter Money The investment screening theme is the tenth one to be added to the impact investing robo-advisor’s platform Photo credit: Starbucks OpenInvest has added a #WithRefugees investment screen to its impact investing platform. OpenInvest allows investors to back publicly-listed companies that have forward-thinking policies towards refugees, including Starbucks, which has committed to hiring 10,000 […]
Social investment in Asia: philanthropy’s new venture
‘How many people here don’t have their smartphone within easy reach?’ asked Ong Peng Tsin, Chair of Solve Education in the opening plenary of this year’s Asia Venture Philanthropy Network (AVPN) conference in Bangkok, 7-9 June 2017. Only one hand out of 700 went up. Mine. Most of my fellow delegates inferred from this – […]
Meet LOCUS Impact Investing – New Invest With Values’ Sponsor
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 […]
TBLI turns 20
20th Anniversary TBLI CONFERENCE. As we approach the 20th anniversary of TBLI I want to take a moment to look back on the journey that brought us here today and I want to thank you all for coming along with us. TBLI(Triple Bottom Line Investing) CONFERENCE started as a capacity building effort to change the […]
Grand challenges for impact investing
Smarter Money SOCAPs Good Capital Project seeks to streamline an unruly field Detail from Jonny Goldstein’s visualization of the Good Capital Project discussion With so many frameworks and schemas, the fragmentation of impact investing continues to frustrate. The latest to try their hand at coordination is today’s convening in New York of the Good Capital Project, […]
“In the future all investing will be impact”
Highlights from The Economist’s London impact investing event The Economist magazine put on its second impact investment gathering in a London still reeling from this week’s Grenfell Tower fire and recent terrorist attacks. Takeaways from the event: “Increasingly ‘impact’ is a measure of externalities embedded. So in the future all investing will be impact,” said […]
$30,000 and a platform: How Jeff Bezos and Amazon can revive small businesses and farmers
Inclusive Economics Keeping the pitchforks at bay Over the last 24 hours, Jeff Bezos has made news for two big things. And they’re related. Yesterday, the Amazon founder, not a publicly known philanthropist, took to Twitter to say: “I’m thinking I want much of my philanthropic activity to be helping people in the here and now — short term — at […]
How to Initiate a Local Foodshed Resilience Program
A Call to Action by Theo Ferguson; founder, Healing Living Systems and Stuart Valentine; founder, Centerpoint Investment Strategies Imagine you are seated on a patio in the Tuscan countryside. The fresh mozzarella coupled with sweet tomatoes, ripe from the warm sun, pairs beautifully with the garlic sourdough bread and crisp local wine. The setting […]
Economically Targeted Investments by U.S. Pension Funds
U.S.-based public and private pension funds have been making Economically Targeted Investments (ETIs)—investments that generate societal benefits in addition to the investment return—since the 1960s. Over this time, pension funds have sought risk-adjusted returns for their plan’s participants and beneficiaries through investments in worker-friendly affordable housing, in-state businesses, infrastructure, and other projects. The practice of […]
Employee ownership can pay dividends for investors, too
Inclusive Economics Employee owners are less likely to be laid off and are 92% wealthier Arizona Stingley, New Era Windows Cooperative l Photo credit: The Working World Employee-owned firms reduce the disconnect between workers and owners, but they still need significant investment to scale. Investment opportunities in employee ownership are limited but emerging, says a new report […]
Three Days in Vermont
Greetings RSF Community! Earlier this spring, Kate and I spent an eventful few days in Vermont, and I wanted to recap some of the highlights of our short, but geographically-intensive trip. Starting in Burlington, we zipped up and down the state by car, stopping to visit some of our borrowers, partners, and a slew of […]
100th Brief, green Apple bond, Goldman’s NextEra climate move
The Brief Jun. 13, 2017 Port-au-Prince, Haiti Greetings, ImpactAlpha readers! #Featured: The Brief №100 Blow out the candles. Today’s 100th issue of The Brief is itself a #Signal. When we launched ImpactAlpha, skeptics doubted deal activity in the impact investment marketplace would be robust enough to warrant daily coverage. You put that to rest. Since January alone, […]
Big Society Capital takes majority stake of Charity Bank
The U.K.-based financial institution invested £2.5 million ($3.2 million) on top of the £12 million it earlier put into Charity Bank, a lender dedicated to charities and social enterprises. That brings Big Society’s ownership share up to 60.5 percent. Charity Bank offers loans of £50,000 to £2.5 million. It has lent £140 million since 2002 and […]
Connect Fund launches to build impact investing infrastructure
Smarter Money The fund wants to improve due diligence, offer blended finance, and lower transaction costs Photo credit: Mike Wilson The Connect Fund has launched to build out impact investing infrastructure. The £1.8 million ($2.3 million) fund, a partnership between Barrow Cadbury Trust and the Access foundation, will invest in collaborative initiatives to improve due diligence, […]
National Geographic Society Commits $50 Million of Endowment to Impact Investments
Creation of new impact investment program, managed by CA Capital Management, will accelerate the organization’s funding of research, exploration and education, inspiring solutions for the global good WASHINGTON, Jun. 08 /CSRwire/ – The National Geographic Society today announced it is dedicating $50 million from its $1.1 billion endowment to impact investments, furthering its commitment to […]
ImpactUS Opens Impact Investing Platform
Financial technology provider and FINRA member broker-dealer ImpactusUS has announced the onboarding of the first issuers to its impact investing platform, ImpactUs Marketplace. The Marketplace is a community-driven, full-service platform offering institutions, individuals and financial advisors an extensive range of private impact investing opportunities. Currently, ImpactUs Marketplace has products only for accredited investors but hopes […]
Meet Some of the Speakers Lined Up for Intro to ESG, Sustainable & Impact Investment Training
Hosted by Zicklin School of Business at Baruch College/CUNY on June 15th June 2, 2017 /3BL Media/ – For professionals in the capital markets, and in the corporate sector, G&A Institute and Global Change Associates are teamed to present a one-day professional training program, hosted by Zicklin School of Business at Baruch College/CUNY, in midtown […]
Beyond the Money: The Impact of Community Capital
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 […]
Crowdfunding and The Investment Company Act of 1940
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 […]
First Impact Investing Fund Listed on Italian Exchange
On May 31, 2017, the “Investimenti Sostenibili” fund, managed by Sella Gestioni (Banca Sella Group) working exclusively with MainStreet Partners as sole investment advisor, marks nearly the half year point as a listed fund on the Italian Stock Exchange. Investimenti Sostenibili was the first listed fund that enabled Italian retail investors to directly access impact […]
What happens to the rest of it? How foundations make investments
Low-risk investment companies that channel a small percentage of their assets into philanthropy – that’s how Clara Miller, president of the Heron Foundation described foundations in an interview with Alliance a year ago. It’s on that ‘small percentage’ that the spotlight generally falls. What happens to the rest of it? How are those investments made […]
Why Do Social Enterprises Fail? New Research Reveals Three Reasons (And Some Surprises)
I will begin with a confession: I ran a social enterprise that failed and it took me more than a decade to realize with clarity the reasons for that failure. The first seven years after the failure I was in denial. Then, four friends and I founded the F*ckUp Nights movement and I realized how important it […]
Where Tourists Step Lightly, Biodiversity Flourishes
MONTREAL, Quebec, Canada, May 23, 2017 (Maximpact.com News) – “We share our planet with millions of species of wild animals and plants. They keep us alive through making fresh air, clean water and healthy soils; they are used every day to make medicine, food and furniture and they support cultural, recreational and tourism pursuits,” says […]
InvestorFlow Report: The First 151 Investors
Who, What, Where, and How: The First 151 Investors Who are these “so called” impact investors? Where do they live? Where do they invest? What sectors do they invest in? Which stages of growth? What investment structures do they use? Our first report attempts to answer those questions, based on the profiles of the first […]
Deborah Frieze: How to Create Healthy, Resilient, and Inclusive Communities [Podcast]
Deborah Frieze is co-founder and managing partner of the Boston Impact Initiative, an impact investing fund that partners with businesses and organizations throughout Eastern Massachusetts to create systemic shifts in opportunities for urban communities. Deborah is co-author with Margaret Wheatley of “Walk Out Walk On: A Learning Journey into Communities Daring to Live the Future […]
Nestlé Waters North America Announces $6 Million Investment in Closed Loop Fund
Joins with Other Leaders to Jump-Start Recycling Programs across the United States May 22, 2017 /3BL Media/ – Nestlé Waters North America today announced it is investing $6 million as part of a shared effort among business, government and community partners to fund comprehensive recycling infrastructure and programs in cities across the United States. Nestlé […]
Morgan Stanley Investment Management Raises More Than $125 Million for its First Global Impact Fund
May 17, 2017 /3BL Media/ – Morgan Stanley Investment Management has raised more than $125 million in final commitments for its first global impact fund, PMF Integro Fund I (“Integro” or the “Fund”). Launched in partnership with the Morgan Stanley Institute for Sustainable Investing (the “Institute”), Integro invests in private equity funds that offer the […]
Benefit Chicago Announces Its First Loans
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 […]
Women & Money
“Everyone has to make up their mind if money is money or money isn’t money and sooner or later they always do decide that money is money.” —Gertrude Stein My Legal Tender project was inspired in part by the Great Recession. Each day, I listened to NPR and almost never heard the female pronoun. All […]
A busy day
Impact investors are picky. They each have specific sectors, geographies, stages, and scale that have to match their interests, in addition to the standard needs of liking the team, the plan, and the opportunity. Case in point: today (April 26th 2017) we circulated a total of eight deals shared by lead investors. In total they matched […]
For Impact Investor Kristin Hull, There Are Many Ways to Effect Change
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 […]
Impact Investing Offers Opportunity to Wealth Managers
by Robert Rubinstein, Chairman & Founder of TBLI Group. I have had many conversations with private bankers who manages wealth portfolios, and they all lamented the difficulty of getting HNW clients interested in Impact Investing. They all recount to me the challenges they face in getting HNW clients to become interested in Impact Investing. I […]
Impact Investing Marketplace ImpactUS Launches First Four Offerings
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, […]
Tom Steyer: Climate Change, Trump, and How to Create Prosperity for All Americans [Podcast]
Tom Steyer is an active citizen, business leader and philanthropist working to ensure that everyone shares the benefits of economic opportunity, education, and a healthy climate. If you only have two minutes, click here for a highlight from the interview. Tom’s dedication to public service is greatly inspired by his wife, Kat, the co-CEO of […]
Millennial philanthropists are breaking tradition, research finds
Millennial philanthropists are unafraid of breaking tradition to achieve social impact according to a new report, sponsored by French bank BNP Paribas. The report, written by the Economist Intelligence Unit, is based on research and in-depth interviews with 15 philanthropy experts and millennial philanthropists around the world. The report revealed that millennials are turning away […]
Introduction to MFIs Part II: Microfinance Networks
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 […]
Announcing Capital Aggregration
Today we announced Capital Aggregation, our service to more actively aggregate and facilitate capital to meet the evolving needs of the communities we serve. Currently, growth-stage organizations seeking larger capital rounds face a complex, time-consuming process. At the same time, institutional and accredited investors are increasingly challenged to find impact investments that meet the needs […]
PCV Reaffirms Our Support For The Small Business Borrower’s Bill of Rights
We work with small business owners who have a dream, but who don’t have big built-in networks or access to enormous sums of capital. For example, the fastest-growing group of Americans starting new ventures is African-American women. But you’d never know that based on where the money is going. Sarah Kersten Studio in Berkeley has […]
Conversations With Our WIN-WIN Borrowers
Najada Kumbuli looks at ‘Kazi na Zola’, the solar energy kits that are being distributed in Tanzania through the support of Calvert Foundation borrower Off Grid Electric International Women’s Day in March of this year marked the fifth year of our Women Investing in Women initiative (WIN-WIN). It was a celebration that was particularly important […]
A second look at the Ford Foundation’s big shift toward impact investing (podcast)
Ford Foundation president, Darren Walker, broke through a barrier of sorts recently with the announcement the foundation would commit $1 billion from its roughly $14 billion endowment to so-called mission-related investments (see, “Ford Foundation to tap endowment for $1 billion to fight injustice and inequality“). That it would make news that a foundation, especially one […]
Regenerative Future Summit
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 […]
Expanding OPIC is Good for America and the World
Congress will soon begin debate on the recently released Trump Administration “budget blueprint.” This blueprint includes a dizzying array of choices that lay waste to efforts aimed at fighting poverty, improving education and health for vulnerable populations, and engaging in smart global development. One of the most inexplicable proposals included in the “budget blueprint” is […]
What’s New In Impact Investing? April Roundup
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 […]
Dear Diary: New Financial Diaries Research Explains Why Many Americans are So Angry
Would you rather have more money or a more stable financial life? A striking 92 percent of Americans in a recent survey chose stability – a sign of the deep undercurrent of financial insecurity running through the world’s richest country. A new book by Rachel Schneider of the Center for Financial Services Innovation, and Jonathan Morduch of […]
Introduction to Microfinance Institutions (MFIs)
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 […]
More credit guarantees could mean more capital for education, health and conservation investments
Credit guarantees, typically provided by philanthropic organizations, are designed to encourage new investors or commercial capital to enter “risky” or undercapitalized investment sectors. Although not a new tool in impact investing, guarantees are “extremely underutilized,” according to a new report from the Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN). Recent examples show their promise: A $5 million […]
Openimpact.ca profiles more than 150 Canadian impact investing products
Openimpact.ca debuted with information on more than 150 Canadian impact investing products. The public database provides a detailed look into Canada’s C$9 billion ($6.6 billion) market for impact investing. Built by Purpose Capital, a Toronto-based impact-investing advisory firm, and University of Toronto’s Lee-Chin Institute for Corporate Citizenship, the database includes searchable information on products across asset […]
Sustainable aquaculture is a $100 billion opportunity for feed producers
Farm-raised fish every year devour 30 million tons of wild-caught fish worldwide. With seafood consumption hitting record levels in recent years – more than 20 kilograms per person per year, according to the latest FAO research – it will take 20 to 30 new feed products to achieve a sustainable seafood industry this century, says […]
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