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, ...

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 ...

ImpactAlpha’s deal news coverage for the week: Investing in health. Chile’s FarmaLoop raised $900,000 to curb pharmaceutical waste and help chronic disease patients reduce their drug spending costs.

ImpactAlpha, Sept. 21 – Mastercard has committed $500 million over five years to reduce racial wealth and opportunity gaps. “The economic costs of structural racism are too high to ignore,” says ...

ImpactAlpha, July 26 – Retail impact investing platform Swell says it was “not able to achieve the scale needed to sustain operations in the current market,” and is ceasing operations Aug. 30.

ImpactAlpha’s What’s Next series, produced in partnership with the Global Impact Investing Network, provides a platform for practitioners and experts to reflect on the future of impact investing.

Below market, concessional and subsidized, make way for smart, strategic… and catalytic. A year ago, the Catalytic Capital Consortium was ready to declare success and move on. At a side event to last ...

ImpactAlpha, March 2 — Revenue-based financing investment firm Founders First Capital Partners invests in underfunded and underrepresented small businesses across the U.S. “We have reached a critical ...

Since the U.S. government’s $350 billion Paycheck Protection Program kicked in a week ago, Williams and his team have processed $42 million in loan applications. Working through last weekend, Southern ...

Related. Macquarie’s infrastructure debt investing group loaned €38 million to a portfolio of six solar farms in Spain. Eden Farms raises $1.7 million to connect Indonesia’s farmers and restaurants.

Fintech lenders expand access to COVID relief funds for small businesses. Earlier action and COVID testing could have saved lives. Faster and more effective financial support could still save millions ...

ImpactAlpha, May 25 – Markets have gone risk off. Savvy investors who have gone impact on are weathering the economic downturn. Speculators in crypto, high-growth venture capital and meme and tech ...