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Filling Critical Gaps, a Foundation Looks to Realize the Promise of Opportunity Zones
In March, Kresge committed $22 million of that to backing two established fund managers—Boston-based Arctaris and Ft. Lauderdale-based Community Capital Management (CCM)—to anchor their Opportunity Zone Funds. Together, the fund managers are expecting to raise and deploy more than $800 million in zones nationally.
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Think Big: Behind a Push to Unlock Billions in New “Catalytic” Capital for Global Development
The Global Impact Investing Network’s (GIIN) 2018 Impact Investor Survey shows a diverse and growing market. But the survey also finds a “particularly” wide gap in “appropriate capital across the risk/return spectrum.” Of the $288 billion in impact investment assets today, only 5 percent are allocated below market.
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Viewpoint: How Philanthropy Can Help Impact Investing Reach Its Potential
To be sure, catalytic capital is not for all investors. Rather, it is one of a range of financial tools needed to supplement traditional grant making and conventional investing. But catalytic capital must be part of the solution if we are to address the Sustainable Development Goals’ massive funding gap, which is estimated at $5 trillion to $7 trillion.
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Press Release: Upaya Social Ventures Funds Its Latest Investments from A Recoverable Grant Pool
Upaya raised $2 million to expand its job-creating investments, including an innovative $1 million Pool of Recoverable Grants that was used to fund its latest two investments in agribusiness enterprises.
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Funding Beyond the Straight and Narrow: Overcoming Obstacles to Fund a New Breed of Entrepreneurs
A new breed of social innovators is exploring innovative business models and unconventional approaches in India. But since their models are not traditional or proven, most funders are unwilling to bet on them. Anshu Bhartia, CEO of UnLtd India, has a few suggestions for how these entrepreneurs can compete in a funding market that is "traditional, restrictive and governed by rules that serve the conformists." As the leader of an incubator working with Indian entrepreneurs confronting pressing social issues, Bhartia shares her vision of the road ahead.
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Viewpoint: Moving From A***Hole Investing to Investing
Daniel Madhavan, the CEO of Impact Investment Group, shares three things he doesn’t like about setting an allocation for impact investment and why it’s useless to put “impact” into a single unified bucket of delicious goodness.
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Viewpoint: How Donor-Advised Funds Can Amp Up Their Giving Power
When you think of donor advised-funds or sustainable investing, you probably don’t think of a 1,600% gain in a single investment. But that’s exactly what happened for investors in ImpactAssets’ donor-advised fund.
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Press Release: ImpactAssets Celebrates Ten-Year Anniversary As Assets Top $1 Billion
In less than six months, ImpactAssets has more than doubled assets from $483 million at the end of 2018 to $1 billion as of June 2019, and grown to more than 1,200 client accounts. The rapid growth reflects the intellectual and structural ecosystem that ImpactAssets has created over the past decade—as a leading field builder, thought leader and impact investment innovator.
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