Optimizing for Impact: What are the five dimensions of impact?
WEBOct 14, 2021 · Optimizing for Impact. Want to learn more about Optimizing Impact for the Sustainable Development Goals? Over the next few weeks, ImpactAlpha will offer a sampling of Cathy Clark’s favorite videos from the Coursera course, “Impact Measurement and Management for the SDGs,” developed by CASE at Duke and the U.N. Development Program – with commentary from Cathy.
ImpactAlpha | Impact Investing News
WEBClimate United, a coalition led by Calvert Impact, has extended a $31.8 million loan to Scenic Hill Solar, an Arkansas-based solar power developer, to cover pre-construction costs for 18 solar plants for the University of Arkansas system, a state-funded network of schools, including the historically Black University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff.
Muni Impact: Leveraging municipal bond markets - ImpactAlpha
WEBThe arbitrage opportunity in high-impact municipal bonds (video) ImpactAlpha, Dec. 15 – The $4 trillion muni market is so big that small movements in the pricing of bonds can mean shifts of …. Muni Impact | Dennis Price.
EPA’s new partners plot a $27 billion path to a US green bank
WEBMar 28, 2024 · EPA’s new partners plot a $27 billion path to a US green bank. The announcement of the winners of “green bank” funding under the Inflation Reduction Act is so close at hand that the Environmental Protection Agency has imposed a 48-hour press blackout. But even if they’re not saying anything publicly, the lineup of nonprofit housing ...
What we know about KKR’s $1 billion Global Impact Fund
WEBImpactAlpha, April 30 – KKR, the latest private-equity giant to move into impact investing, has launched fundraising for what it expects to be a $1 billion Global Impact Fund, led by KKR veterans Ken Mehlman and Robert Antablin. The fund managers expect to make 12-15 investments in sustainable business development, next-generation energy, agriculture and food and other sectors aligned with ...
IGS scores £22.5 million to build a giant vertical farm in the UAE
WEBImpactAlpha, January 22 – The United Arab Emirates imports more than 80% of its food. The country is betting on indoor, vertical farms to boost the country’s food security. Scotland-based Intelligent Growth Solutions is partnering with Dubai-based ReFarm to build a 900,000-square-foot farm to replace 1% of the UAE’s food imports and recycle 50,000 tons of food waste. Plans were announced ...
Ceniarth: Inconvenient truths of an impact-first investor
WEBNov 27, 2023 · Ceniarth was officially founded by Diane Isenberg in November of 2013 as an impact-focused family office. A decade later, our mission remains identical: deploying investment capital to improve livelihoods in underserved and marginalized communities globally. While our North Star has been consistent, our approach has …
Welcome to The Reconstruction - ImpactAlpha
WEBImpactAlpha, Feb 1 – The Reconstruction series will engage investors, entrepreneurs, activists and academics in the U.S. and around the world, as Aiken puts it, “to inspire us as we move capital toward justice.”. The Rev. William Barber, among other leaders and scholars, has suggested the current period represents a third Reconstruction (the second one encompassing the civil rights ...
VCs embrace Kamala Harris’s vision for an economy that works for …
WEBAug 8, 2024 · The billionaire and former host of The Apprentice is not, in fact, America’s pro-business presidential candidate. That would be Vice President Kamala Harris, according to more than 4,000 venture capitalists and tech founders who turned out for the VCs for Kamala video call on Wednesday. “Kamala Harris is actually, in fact, the business candidate,” said LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman, the ...
Climate Week preview: Fusing climate action and the SDGs to the …
WEBSep 14, 2020 · The latest estimates of the Social Progress Imperative suggest Covid-19 and the accompanying economic crisis could delay progress another decade, to 2092. “We are breaking all the barriers right now,” said former U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry at a climate briefing arranged by U.S. Democrats over the weekend.