Impact Alpha

OCTOBER 23, 2020

The post Agents of Impact: Voters appeared first on ImpactAlpha. ImpactAlpha, Oct. 23 – That sound you hear: Tens of millions of early voters determined to have a voice in the country we want to be. The risk of voting during a pandemic was supposed to deter voting.

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Impact Alpha

JUNE 5, 2020

The post Agents of Justice are agents of impact appeared first on ImpactAlpha. Anger about what happened to George Floyd and Breonna Taylor and Ahmaud Arbery, and what hadn’t happened to the police and perpetrators that killed them. The anger, too, civil-rights lawyer Bryan Stevenson.

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Impact Alpha

APRIL 17, 2020

The post Agent of Impact: Kizzmekia Corbett, National Institutes of Health appeared first on ImpactAlpha. The viral immunologist has been studying coronaviruses like SARS and MERS since she arrived at the National Institutes of Health in 2014.

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Impact Alpha

OCTOBER 17, 2023

ImpactAlpha, October 17 — When we launched ImpactAlpha back in 2014, we set out to cover impact investing like a serious beat in. The post Dancing with the ones who brought us: A special note for Agents of Impact appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Impact Alpha

MAY 15, 2020

ImpactAlpha, May 15 – There was a let-down inside the Heron Foundation when it reached its goal, ahead of schedule, of investing 100% of its $300 million endowment for impact. “It The post Agent of Impact: Dana Bezerra, Heron Foundation appeared first on ImpactAlpha. It felt like a boom-splat,” Bezerra told ImpactAlpha.

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Impact Alpha

JULY 3, 2020

Agents of Impact: Aaron Mitchell (Netflix) and Ruth Porat (Google/Alphabet) Agents of Impact: Aaron Mitchell (Netflix) and Ruth Porat (Google/Alphabet). The post Agents of Impact: Mobilizers of corporate cash for community impact appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Impact Alpha

AUGUST 14, 2020

The post Agent of Impact: Maurice Jones, Local Initiatives Support Corp. If community development financial institutions are an overnight sensation decades in the making, Jones and his Local Initiatives Support Corp., or LISC, are the belle of the ball. appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Impact Alpha

DECEMBER 26, 2022

26 – Let’s give all of you Agents of Impact a round of applause. 1: A dozen Agents of Impact who broke through in 2022 appeared first on ImpactAlpha. ImpactAlpha, Dec. In dozens of profiles this year, we. The post Holiday Lists No.

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Impact Alpha

DECEMBER 28, 2021

3: A dozen Agents of Impact who took leadership in 2021 appeared first on ImpactAlpha. ImpactAlpha, Dec. 28 – Of course we follow the money. But ImpactAlpha also follows the talent. In dozens of profiles this year, we highlighted. The post ImpactAlpha’s Holiday List No.

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Impact Alpha

MAY 7, 2020

Editorial note: The ImpactAlpha team has hijacked this week’s “Agent of Impact” to pay tribute to our very own David Bank on his birthday. ImpactAlpha, May 7 – The editor and CEO of ImpactAlpha decided to treat impact investing as a journalism “beat”… until it became one. “The new lords of finance come, not to.

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Impact Alpha

JANUARY 20, 2022

The post ‘Deeply scary’: Agents of Impact react to Larry Fink’s letter appeared first on ImpactAlpha. ImpactAlpha, Jan. 20 – BlackRock chief Larry Fink’s latest letter to CEOs elicited “a collective yawn,” we wrote earlier this week. Fink’s annual letters.

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Impact Alpha

JULY 31, 2020

The post Agent of Impact: MacKenzie Scott, author and philanthropist appeared first on ImpactAlpha. As her ex-husband, Jeff Bezos, and three other tech billionaires prepared to face Congressional questioners, Scott detailed how she has started to give away her $36 billion fortune.

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Impact Alpha

JULY 24, 2020

The post Agent of Impact: Dawn Sherman, Native American Natural Foods appeared first on ImpactAlpha. ImpactAlpha, July 24 – Dawn Sherman says the buffalo is the perfect metaphor for what it’s like to be at the helm of a Native enterprise. Buffalo face the storm.

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Impact Alpha

MAY 29, 2020

ImpactAlpha, May 29 – Venture capital seems optimized to fund Instagram, not impact. Kearney founded Prime Coalition in 2014 to execute a blueprint for driving capital to early-stage technologies that can take big bites out of carbon emissions and help forestall the worst impacts.

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Impact Alpha

MARCH 13, 2020

The post Agents of Impact: Frontline healthcare workers appeared first on ImpactAlpha. Doctors and nurses and other healthcare workers are facing the pandemic directly. The virus has claimed Li Wenliang, the Wuhan doctor who first warned of the outbreak; thousands of other medical workers in.

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Impact Alpha

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

ImpactAlpha, Sept, 20 – ImpactAlpha ‘Agents of Impacts’ are deploying bottom-up and top-down strategies to force action on climate. On Friday, teenage activist Greta Thunberg (a January Agent of Impact) is leading young people from more than 150 countries in a global climate strike ahead of next week’s Climate Action Summit.

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Impact Alpha

OCTOBER 16, 2020

The post Agent of Impact: Aisha Yesufu, Nigerian activist appeared first on ImpactAlpha. ImpactAlpha, Oct. 16 – The world’s most populous Black nation is standing up to police brutality. Yesufu, a Nigerian.

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Impact Alpha

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

The post Agent of Impact: Beth Bafford, Calvert Impact Capital appeared first on ImpactAlpha. ImpactAlpha, Sept.

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Impact Alpha

MARCH 6, 2020

ImpactAlpha, March 6 – Social Impact Ventures’ €40 million fund was the biggest private impact fund in the Netherlands when it launched in 2015. Now, founder Willemijn Verloop, with her partner Machtelt Groothuis, is back in the market with an €80 million second fund to replicate and expand its impact investing model, which includes a.

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Impact Alpha

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

The post Agent of Impact: Ellis Carr, Capital Impact Partners appeared first on ImpactAlpha. Along the way they’ve demonstrated that affordable housing, schools, healthcare and grocery stores that serve low-income communities are not as risky as often perceived by outside capital.

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Impact Alpha

AUGUST 21, 2020

The post Agent of Impact: Andrew Youn, One Acre Fund appeared first on ImpactAlpha. ImpactAlpha, Aug. 21 – The goods and services needed to end global poverty are proven and well known, says Andrew Youn, founder and executive director of One Acre Fund. “We We just need to deliver them.”

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Impact Alpha

MAY 22, 2020

The post Agents of Impact: Andrew Behar and Danielle Fugere, As You Sow appeared first on ImpactAlpha. Corporations holding annual general meetings this month are well familiar with two particularly attentive shareholders: Andrew Behar and Danielle Fugere of As You Sow.

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Impact Alpha

AUGUST 28, 2020

The post Agents of Impact: Professional basketball players. ImpactAlpha, Aug. 28 – When the lineup of the Milwaukee Bucks refused to take the court on Wednesday, the players didn’t realize they’d be joined by the rest of the NBA. And then the WNBA. And then professional leagues from baseball to soccer to tennis.

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Impact Alpha

JUNE 18, 2020

Can impact investing chip away at systemic dysfunction? Can impact investing tackle the power asymmetry underpinning capital markets? The post Pricing for impact: How Agents of Impact can move from bluster to bold action appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Impact Alpha

MARCH 2, 2021

The post Private equity giant Apollo Global invites agents of impact inside appeared first on Impact Alpha. ImpactAlpha, Mar. 2 – An experiment is going on inside Apollo Global Management and other major private-equity firms that are dipping their toes into.

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Impact Alpha

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

The post Agent of Impact: Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg appeared first on ImpactAlpha. ImpactAlpha, Sept. 25 – The advantages of women’s participation and leadership in business and society have become conventional wisdom. That’s in no small part to Ginsburg’s decades of work to undo two centuries of legal obstacles.

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Impact Alpha

JUNE 19, 2020

The post Agent of Impact: Aurora James, Brother Vellies appeared first on ImpactAlpha. ImpactAlpha, June 19 – Aurora James wasn’t satisfied with corporate statements of solidarity for Black lives after street protests over the killing of George Floyd and deep-seated racial injustice. Solidarity should be more structural. “So

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Impact Alpha

AUGUST 30, 2019

In July, Derrick Morgan, a linebacker with the Tennessee Titans, retired after nine years in the league to pursue a long-time passion: impact investing. Over the last few years, Morgan built The post Agent of Impact: Derrick Morgan of KNGDM Impact Fund appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Impact Alpha

MARCH 20, 2020

The post Agents of Impact: You. Social distancing is becoming social responsibility… is becoming mutual aid… is becoming community resilience… is becoming inclusive recovery is becoming… sustainable, healthy prosperity. Or at least pointing the way. The fabric of that narrative is you and your friends.

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Impact Alpha

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

The post Agents of Impact: Scott Jacobs and Jigar Shah, Generate Capital appeared first on ImpactAlpha. Jacobs and Shah founded Generate in 2014 and this month closed on $1 billion in financing. The capital will be invested in long-term sustainable-infrastructure-as-a-service.

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Impact Alpha

APRIL 3, 2020

Not the bankers and CEOs, hedge fund managers nor even impact investors. The post Agents of Impact: Essential workers appeared first on ImpactAlpha. ImpactAlpha, April 3 – They are the ones who are going to get us through this. Workers rose up across the.

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Impact Alpha

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

The post Agent of Impact: Bill Bynum, Hope appeared first on Impact Alpha. Goldman Sachs’ commitment this week of $130 million in credit to Jackson, Miss.-based based Hope was the latest, and one of the largest, shows.

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Impact Alpha

JANUARY 31, 2020

Leila Janah impact sourced. Janah didn’t invent what has come to be called “impact sourcing,” but The post Agent of Impact: Leila Janah, Samasource, 1982-2020 appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Impact Alpha

APRIL 10, 2020

The post Agent of Impact: Darrin Williams, Southern Bancorp appeared first on ImpactAlpha. Working through last weekend, Southern Bancorp in Little Rock, Ark., processed loans as small as $8,000 for an African American-owned radio station and less than $2,000 for a photography studio.

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Impact Alpha

JANUARY 22, 2021

The post Agent of Impact: Amanda Gorman, poet appeared first on Impact Alpha. In a star-studded inauguration featuring Lady Gaga and J-Lo, the 22-year old poet stole the spotlight at president Joe Biden’s inauguration. Accolades poured.

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Impact Alpha

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

ImpactAlpha, September 13 – Laura Callanan was President Obama’s senior deputy chair for the National Endowment for the Arts, but it was only after she launched Upstart Co-Lab in 2015 that she discovered the sisterhood of artists among leaders in impact investing and community finance.

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Impact Alpha

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

In 2014, with Gray Lusk, he launched SoLa Impact, which now manages a family of funds expanding access to quality affordable The post Agent of Impact: Martin Muoto, SoLa Impact appeared first on ImpactAlpha. ImpactAlpha, Jan. Muoto has acquired, rehabbed and operated low-income housing in South Los Angeles since 2008.

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