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21/08/2024

ImpactAlpha exclusive in today’s Brief.

Pension funds in red states with an “anti-ESG” stance have left $159 billion on the table over 12 years, a new study shows.

21/08/2024

Today in news:
✏️ ‘Blue state’ pension funds outperform their ‘red state’ peers.
✏️ Just Climate makes first investment in India.
✏️ Blended finance for clean energy in Asia.
✏️ Applying a behavioral lens for women’s financial inclusion.

A study of more than 200 US pension funds found that those in pro-ESG “blue” states tend to outperform their peers in “red” states

20/08/2024

Today in news:
✏️ Harris’s bottom-up economic revival.
✏️ Munis for water infrastructure in low-income North Carolina.
✏️ Economics of low-carbon cement.
✏️ Investing to narrow the racial wealth gap.

Featured: Beyond Chicago, Harris seeks to ride a revival in wages, entrepreneurship and ownership.

19/08/2024

Citi Impact Fund's Meredith Shields will discuss system-change framework and the proof of concept, traction and scalability she looks for when assessing teams tackling societal challenges.

Join Shields and ImpactAlpha's Sherrell Dorsey on Wednesday, Aug. 21st.

https://hubs.li/Q02LK1NR0

19/08/2024

🆕 Appalchian Community Capital was awarded $500 million from the EPA's Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund and promptly announced the formation of the Green Bank for Rural America.

The deployment constraints some awardees face.

As the EPA releases $27 billion in grants to jumpstart America's green transition, it's creating hurdles and challenges for lender and project developers.

19/08/2024

Today in news:
✏️ India’s residential solar push.
✏️ Gender inclusive clean energy.
✏️ Amazon reforestation-linked outcome bond.
✏️ Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund shifts into high gear.

Greetings Agents of Impact! ⚡Plugged In: Disrupting for good at Citi Impact Fund. In her latest conversation on LinkedIn Live, ImpactAlpha contributing editor ...

16/08/2024

Agent of Impact: The Boston Celtics' Jaylen Brown has vowed to use his wealth and influence to bridge racial wealth gaps through The XChange, a national nonprofit.

Brown and NBA Hall of Famer Jason Kidd seek to generate $5 billion in net wealth for historically marginalized communities.

https://hubs.li/Q02Ly37L0

16/08/2024

Today in news:
✏️ Fight for freedom.
☎️ New regulatory landscape.
🎧 HBO’s sleek, sexy and skeptical take on impact investing.
✏️ Boston Celtics’ Jaylen Brown’s XChange.

TGIF, Agents of Impact!  ⚡Plugged In: Disrupting for good at Citi Impact Fund. ImpactAlpha contributing editor Sherrell Dorsey hosts Meredith Shields, head of ...

15/08/2024

Sustainable food packaging maker Pakka raises $29.4 million and says it will open the world’s first compostable flexible packaging facility in .

Pakka raises $29.4 million to set up world’s first biodegradable packaging facility in India

15/08/2024

Today in news:
✏️ Attracting billions from retail impact investors.
✏️ Biodegradable packaging in India.
✏️ Mapping tech solutions for climate adaptation.

Featured: Retail investors have billions for impact – and few places to put them

14/08/2024

Cape Town-based Open Access Energy wants to support the country's transition to greener fuel sources by helping independent renewable energy producers link into the national grid.

South Africa is highly dependent on coal to meet its energy needs. Cape Town-based Open Access Energy wants to support the country’s transition ...

14/08/2024

Today in news:
✏️ Crypto as an onramp to opportunity.
✏️ Banking the unbanked in Mexico.
✏️ Greening South Africa’s grid.
✏️ Capitol Gains: Overcoming state pre-emption of local rule.

In today's brief, we explore how diverse founders are turning crypto from speculative gamble to inclusive opportunity

13/08/2024

🎬.’s dark and salacious trading floor drama brings social impact to a global audience.

Ex-bankers and showrunners Mickey Down and Konrad Kay take on impact investing.

Impact investing and ESG are a big part of the new season of HBO's industry. See how the writers are approaching it.

13/08/2024

Today in news:
✏️ Setting impact targets.
✏️ Echoing Green's climate and social impact fellows.
✏️ Impact investing meets Hollywood drama.

Featured: Are fund managers ready to set targets to hold themselves accountable for impact? (Q&A)

12/08/2024

Impact performance benchmark challenges energy investors to raise their game.

“Once you know how far off or ahead of the mark you are, it becomes hard to ignore the actions required to achieve meaningful impact results,” writes 's Dean Hand.

The GIIN's Impact Lab has been testing impact performance benchmarks using investor-reported performance data for over three years. These pilot benchmarks, built on a standard methodology for comparing impact metrics, offer a window into what is possible. Ultimately, they are a step in the right dir...

12/08/2024

Today in news:
✏️ Supreme Court rulings raise the stakes for shareholder engagement.
✏️ Climate-smart biotech investing in India.
✏️ Impact performance benchmarks show energy impact investors fall short.

Greetings Agents of Impact! 👋 Meet up tomorrow: Please introduce yourselves. Build your network, and ours. As part of the ImpactAlpha community, you ...

09/08/2024

See and share more than a dozen new impact jobs posted this week on ’s Career Hub.

Impact investing jobs opportunities and resources for people looking to grow their career in impact investing.

09/08/2024

Today in news:
✏️ The business case for inclusive prosperity.
🎧 Blended finance in Africa and popular revolt in Bangladesh.
✏️ How EPA’s Jahi Wise designed a green bank.
✏️ The ethical fashion of Black VCs.

TGIF, Agents of Impact!  👋 Join the conversations. We’ve got two exciting call opportunities lined up for ImpactAlpha subscribers next week: In today’s ...

08/08/2024

Today in news:
✏️ VCs ♥️ Kamala.
✏️ Solar in low-income communities.
✏️ Making Indonesia’s microfinance providers more efficient.

Featured: VCs embrace Kamala Harris’s vision for an economy that works for all

07/08/2024

Up now at the Career Hub: Conservation finance non-profit Blue Forest seeks a Utility and Corporate Engagement Senior Manager or Director.

https://hubs.li/Q02KgPx30

07/08/2024

Today in news:
✏️ Three Africa-led blended finance models.
✏️ Pan-African sustainable infrastructure.
✏️ Purpose rounds’ and crowdfunding for solar.
✏️ Youth movement powers Yunus’s rise in Bangladesh.

In today's brief, we explore how three Africa-led, innovative blended finance models are mobilizing billions for development

07/08/2024

😎ICYMI: Hot impact management summer!

ImpactAlpha, Apr. 30 – The first annual assessments of impact investors are coming in under the International Finance Corporation’s Operating Principles for Impact ...

06/08/2024

Today in news:
✏️ Open funds on this month’s Liist.
✏️ Flurry of fusion funding.
✏️ Streamlining agricultural supply chains in India.
✏️ Community foundations go regional.

Featured: These fund managers incentivize impact and share profits with communities and founders.

05/08/2024

Today in news:
✏️ Bonds to build climate resilience.
✏️ Nutritious food finance in Africa.
✏️ Supporting Africa’s climate-smart entrepreneurs.
✏️ Looming housing crisis.

Greetings Agents of Impact! Welcome back from our Brief summer break. Hot enough for you? With the heat dome that has been causing ...

26/07/2024

Today in news:
✏️ The fierce urgency of delivering impact now.
🎧 Reclaiming the narrative.
✏️ Plastic credits to help finance collection and recycling.

TGIF, Agents of Impact! In today’s Brief: 🗣 Summer of impact. “All of the things we’ve been talking about: Build wealth. Create jobs. ...

25/07/2024

🆕 Deadly protests against proposed tax hikes have crippled Kenya for weeks. Impact investors and development finance institutions recently convened at the Africa Impact Summit in Nairobi to discuss job creation, women empowerment and energy access.

How the MasterCard Foundation, Shortlist and the African Development Bank are focusing on youth lens investing in .

Young people have been at the forefront of Kenya’s six weeks of protests against proposed tax hikes that have left at least 50 ...

25/07/2024

Today in news:
✏️ Putting youth on the impact agenda in Africa.
✏️ Self-driving e-tractors for farmers.
✏️ Student success bond in Michigan.
✏️ Securing quality, green jobs while we can.

Greetings Agents of Impact! In today’s Brief: Featured: Youth Dividend Protests in Kenya present an impact opportunity to invest in Africa’s youth. Young ...

24/07/2024

Today in news:
✏️ Circulate Capital brings its recycling strategy to Latam.
✏️ Private capital to transition veterans and others out of homelessness.
✏️ Boosting small business lending in Africa.
✏️ Optimizing solar installations in Mexico.

Greetings Agents of Impact! The latest edition of our specialty newsletter, ImpactAlpha Latin America, is out later today. As an ImpactAlpha subscriber, you ...

23/07/2024

🆕 Pro-climate, pro-diversity, and even pro-immigration investors are feeling revitalized.

“We have this opportunity, a second bite at the apple, to really do a transformative green infrastructure program,” says ’s .

This week, the suddenly reset presidential race has given voice to a different cast of tech investors and entrepreneurs who are just as resolutely pro-climate, pro-diversity, and even pro-immigration.