Impact Alpha

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Editor’s note: This article is sponsored by Johnson & Johnson Impact Ventures, which supports ImpactAlpha’s Investing in Health coverage. In partnership with J&J Impact. The post Impact investing to support health equity appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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3BL Media

APRIL 25, 2022

How Impact Investing moves capital to where it’s needed most. In my 15-year career working as a woman in impact investing and its various facets geared towards investing in women, I have learned that communities and families benefit greatly when women thrive economically. SOURCE: GreenMoney Journal.

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Impact Alpha

APRIL 25, 2024

This article is part of a partnership between ImpactAlpha and Mission Investors Exchange (MIE) to present new ideas and perspectives in impact investing. The post Addressing the broken child care system with impact investments appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Stanford Social Innovation

MAY 7, 2024

Think of all the time and effort that must be spent on understanding social and environmental problems, anticipating potential conflicts between business growth and mission fidelity, and analyzing impact data reported by investees. Many have recognized this issue of difficulty as a central challenge for impact investing.

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3BL Media

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Trends in Sustainable Investing: The evolution of policies and regulations (69%) and the development of market standards (51%) continue to be leading trends, along with a focus on AI and data analytics (65%). Concerns about how this will impact stakeholders are also high on investors agendas (Communities, Decent Work & Equality).

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Stanford Social Innovation

DECEMBER 21, 2022

This year’s top article, “ The Relational Work of Systems Change ,” explores how readers can prioritize relationships in collective impact efforts. SSIR published the seminal article on collective impact more than a decade ago.) ” Part of the Collective Impact: 10 Years Later series.

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3BL Media

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

by Casey Lozar, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis' Center for Indian Country Development Imagine financial institutions across Indian Country focusing on goals rooted in social impact investing. Read the full article, that looks at the Four Key Themes, here - [link]

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3BL Media

APRIL 8, 2025

Breaking Barriers in Values-Aligned Investing - When I first explored values-aligned investing, the concept was still emerging. Conversations about impact investing largely revolved around institutions and high-net-worth individuals. Read Janine's insightful and useful article here- [link] ==

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Impact Alpha

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Editor’s note: This article is sponsored by Johnson & Johnson Impact Ventures, which supports ImpactAlpha’s Investing in Health coverage. In partnership with J&J Impact Ventures, ImpactAlpha is exploring the.

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 9, 2024

And not only is Calvert Impact led by a woman, 80% of our senior leadership team are women. When impact investing focuses on women, its typically as beneficiaries of capital and thats very important. Read Jenn's full article here - [link] ==

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Stanford Social Innovation

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Impact Investing Can’t Deliver by Chasing Market Returns by Jim Bildner Is it possible to achieve both market returns and meaningful social returns? Jim Bildner, CEO of the Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation, takes aim at the common “it depends” answer to that question and suggests a coordinated capital approach for making an impact.

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James Militzer

JANUARY 8, 2024

As 2024 gets underway, we’d like to announce the results of NextBillion’s annual “ Most Influential Article of the Year ” contest. A yearly tradition since 2012, the contest highlights 12 of our most-read articles from the past year, giving readers an opportunity to vote for the ones that influenced their thinking the most.

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Impact Alpha

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

ImpactAlpha had no sooner published Dennis Price’s article last week detailing how investments in ‘people and places’ can demonstrate genuine impact in Opportunity Zones, when the New York Times unloaded its 4,000-word critique of the zones as a “windfall for the rich.”

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3BL Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

They should start by looking at how they invest their savings and which financial institutions they have relationships with. Read Lana's full article here - [link]. Tweet me: How #Millennials Can Make an Impact with Their Money -- by Lana Khabarova, founder of SustainFi -- [link] || #ESG #ESGinvesting #impinv #EVs #cleanenergy.

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James Militzer

DECEMBER 18, 2024

As we bid farewell to an eventful year, it’s time for NextBillions annual tradition: our Most Influential Articles of the Year contest. Each December since 2012, we’ve selected 12 of our most-read articles from the past year, inviting readers to vote for the ones that influenced their thinking the most.

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3BL Media

MAY 25, 2022

This article shares a couple of our key findings from the search and selection process with Inthallo in an effort to start a conversation and grow consensus within the sustainable finance and impact investment space. 2021 EDI Survey for Sustainable Finance & Impact Investment Professionals. 1] [link]. [2]

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ESG Today

JANUARY 11, 2024

The new sustainability strategy follows the launch in 2019 of BNPP AM’s first GSS, focused on the integration of ESG factors into its investment processes and boosting its engagement and stewardship approach on ESG issues.

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James Militzer

JANUARY 21, 2022

NextBillion runs our customary “ Most Influential Articles ” contest at the end of each year, in which we select 12 of our most-read articles from the previous year, and invite readers to vote for the pieces that impacted them the most. Photo credit: DFID – UK Department for International Development.

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James Militzer

DECEMBER 21, 2022

NextBillion has been running our “ Most Influential Article of the Year ” contest since 2012, selecting the 12 most-read articles we’ve published each year and inviting readers to vote for their favorites. Other times, these articles reveal vital discussions that are happening behind the scenes in boardrooms and investor meetings.

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Stanford Social Innovation

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

This article will explore our often disheartening journey to raise investment through impact investors, corporate partnerships, grants, and contests. And despite the hype about impact investing, few funds exist to support entrepreneurs at the proof-of-concept or seed stage. Grant funding is nearly nonexistent.

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Stanford Social Innovation

DECEMBER 16, 2024

By SSIR Editors In 2024, SSIR articles covered a wide range of topics that were top of mind for social change leaders. But if you were to assign a theme to this list of most-read articles, it might be that lasting solutions to social problems will need to dig deeper to repair broken systems.

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Stanford Social Innovation

DECEMBER 27, 2021

The most popular articles published by SSIR online in 2021 focused on some of the most difficult problems facing the social innovation sector today. Other popular articles questioned the values and assumptions of major movements like cash transfers, corporate sustainability, and ESG investing. By SSIR Editors.

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ESG Today

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Schroders has pursued a series of initiatives to bolster its impact offerings and capabilities over the past several years, including acquiring a majority stake in impact investment manager BlueOrchard in 2019, and joining the Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN) in 2020.

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ESG Today

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Neal Brooks, Global Head of Product and Distribution at M&G, said: “The M&G (Lux) responsAbility Sustainable Solutions Bond Fund has been tailored to meet demand from pension funds, insurance companies and wholesale investors in Europe looking to align active public fixed income portfolios to positive change.”

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James Militzer

OCTOBER 23, 2023

“It’s hurdle, after hurdle, after hurdle, after hurdle,” says Polo Leteka, founder and chairman of IDF Capital , a Johannesburg-based investment and advisory firm. And that’s what makes it prohibitive for a lot of fund managers, or potential fund managers, to get into this (impact investing) space.”

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3BL Media

MAY 22, 2024

by Mary Beth Gallagher, the Director of Engagement, Domini Impact Investments The challenge is feeding 8.1 Read Mary Beth's engaging article here - [link] == billion people within Earth’s planetary boundaries. These approaches, efficient though they may be, deplete the soil health and reduce biodiversity.

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3BL Media

JANUARY 24, 2022

Articles, Videos and Podcasts. For this commemorative issue we are looking back and including many of our Readers’ Favorites, i.e., the most-read articles according to Google Analytics. We have also included a few of our own favorite GreenMoney articles, videos and podcasts. SOURCE: GreenMoney Journal. of Morningstar.

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Corporate Knights

DECEMBER 20, 2022

The future lies in impact investing. We need to encourage more targeted investments in nature-positive solutions that reverse biodiversity loss. Impact investing — investing money with the intention to benefit society and the environment — offers a framework for this. Read the original article.

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3BL Media

AUGUST 13, 2024

This new issue features reader favorites from the last decade, along with a few of our own all-time revered articles. Then to mark this pivotal moment, we’re leading with BSR’s revealing retrospective “ Beyond 2025: Setting Credible Sustainability Goals for Long-term Impact”.

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3BL Media

OCTOBER 20, 2022

(pictured above) Over time and with much, sometimes painful, lived experience, we began to realize that not only should program and investment not exist separately but sometimes there were important learnings to be achieved when they were contemplated together. Read more about aobut the learnings in this article. .

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Corporate Knights

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

In Europe, regulators have gone even further, establishing the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation , which comes into force on January 1, 2023, requiring funds to categorize themselves as light green (Article 8), dark green (Article 9) or conventional funds (Article 6), based on the degree to which investments support sustainability.?In

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ESG Today

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Jenn-Hui Tan, Chief Sustainability Officer at Fidelity International said: “We welcome the introduction of SDR and see it as an important stage in the development of sustainable investing in the UK, giving investors greater confidence to allocate to sustainable funds.

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3BL Media

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Impact investing has found a foothold in donor advised funds. From affluent individuals and families to community and corporate foundations, donors are looking closely at the investment side of their philanthropic capital and investing charitable assets in ways that provide immediate benefit to those who need it most.

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Chris Hall

MAY 31, 2024

Catalysing gender equality While impact investing alone cannot be a panacea for gender inequality, it is an indispensable component of a larger solution. The Impact Investment Exchange’s Women’s Livelihood Bond Series is one illustration of such innovation. Investment in securities involves the risk of loss.

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3BL Media

APRIL 10, 2024

Though the role of the public sector remains paramount in addressing the crisis, private impact investment has recently also emerged as a powerful tool. Investing in Household Water and Sanitation Solutions Impact investing focuses on generating positive social and environmental impact while seeking financial returns.

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3BL Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

This intentionally concessionary capital can take many forms but it plays a critical — catalytic — role between truly charitable contributions (or grants), which are frequently limited, and the scale of impact offered through more traditional, market-rate, socially-oriented investments. Read Mark's full article here - [link].

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James Militzer

JUNE 9, 2022

As long-standing global crises accelerate and new crises continue to emerge, a new, more conscious generation of investors increasingly expects their capital to create positive environmental and social impact. . As the article put it, “almost 90% of the stocks in the S&P 500 have wound up in ESG funds built with MSCI’s ratings.

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