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ImpactAlpha @impactalpha.com · 8h

LISC’s Cleveland Housing Investment Fund provided a $2 million loan to CHN Housing Partners for its Parkside Homes single-family home development in East Cleveland, a predominantly Black neighborhood with one of the lowest median family income levels in the US.

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LISC’s fund gives renters a chance to become homeowners in Cleveland

LISC is aiming to create up to 3,000 new rental units for individuals and families earning less than 80% of Cleveland’s Area Median Income.

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ImpactAlpha @impactalpha.com · 10h

Jonathan Rose Companies, alongside L&M Development Partners and Acacia Network, develops affordable housing in East Harlem.

The $446 million project combines housing with social support.

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‘Community of Opportunity’: With Sendero Verde, Jonathan Rose’s affordable housing vision comes to life in East Harlem

Surrounded by public housing projects on a block of East Harlem between 111th and 112th streets, sits a big new apartment complex with ...

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ImpactAlpha @impactalpha.com · 1d

🎧 On “This Week in Impact,” new leadership at the DFC, how debt and equity “growth funds” in Africa are tapping homegrown pension funds and family offices.

Plus, youth co-creators weigh in on AI-driven approaches to youth mental health.

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ImpactAlpha @impactalpha.com · 1d

Corinne Lebrun saw Ecuador’s barren venture capital landscape as a blank slate to build on the country’s strong entrepreneurial spirit.

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Corinne Lebrun, Impacta VC: Building Ecuador’s impact ecosystem and a first-time fund

Corinne Lebrun had no finance experience, no VC connections, and little encouragement when she began thinking about leaving her corporate job to start ...

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ImpactAlpha @impactalpha.com · 4d

Shouldn’t positive impact not just match the market but generate out performance in financial returns or social and environmental benefits, or both? According to a chart buried on p. 36 of the GIIN’s “State of the Market” report, the bulk of impact investors agree.

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The Week in impact investing: Value creation

TGIF, Agents of Impact! We’re taking a Brief break on Monday for the US holiday. We’ll be back in your inbox on Tuesday, ...

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ImpactAlpha @impactalpha.com · 5d

The Trump Administration wants DFC 2.0 to have the authority to lend and invest in high-income countries – a seeming departure from its mission of encouraging development in low- and middle-income countries.

How the government shutdown is affecting DFC investments.

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Bipartisan plans for a bigger, bolder US International Development Finance Corp. on hold as agency’s authorization lapses

Authorization has lapsed, but the US Development Finance Corp. has a new chief and support to expand.

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ImpactAlpha @impactalpha.com · 6d

The arrival of AI amid a surge in anxiety, depression and other mental health challenges among young people that began even before the Covid pandemic has spurred a raft of startups with tech-driven approaches to complex psychological and emotional issues.

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Youth ‘co-creators’ are busting (adult) myths about AI and mental health

Explore the relationship between AI and youth mental health, challenging myths and misconceptions about technology's impact.

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ImpactAlpha @impactalpha.com · 7d

“ImpactAlpha LP/GP” takes you inside the real business of impact investing and the dynamic relationships between owners, managers and intermediaries of impact capital.

Read this week’s issue.

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ImpactAlpha @impactalpha.com · 7d

India’s wealthiest families are set to pass on some $1.4 trillion to the next generation over the next five to 10 years.

Exits like the Dandekars’ have led to the establishment of about 300 family offices in India.

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Raintree charts an impact investing path for India’s wealthy families

India’s economic growth surge has teed up an enormous transfer of wealth. The country’s wealthiest families are set to pass on some $1.4 ...

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ImpactAlpha @impactalpha.com · 8d

Impact investing pros from 70 countries will gather in Berlin for the GIIN “Meet the Moment” forum Tuesday, Oct. 7 - Thursday, Oct. 9.

ImpactAlpha’s @dennisprice.bsky.social and Lucy Ngige will be there too. Say hello.

ImpactAlpha @impactalpha.com · 8d

The question of what to call investments with impact is increasingly fraught.

It’s possible to attend entire conferences focused on “climate,” “resilience” or “transition” and never once hear the word “impact,” writes Tideline’s Ben Thornley in a guest post.

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Reinvigorating impact investing with pragmatism, clarity and ambition

Healthy tensions have always existed in impact investing – for example, between investors with differing financial and impact goals. But the container that ...

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ImpactAlpha @impactalpha.com · 10d

🎧 Get up to speed on some of the most interesting #impinv stoyof the week.

Listen to “This Week in Impact.”

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ImpactAlpha @impactalpha.com · 11d

VC Include’s Bahiyah Yasmeen Robinson joins ImpactAlpha’s Sherrell Dorsey to discuss the future of fund management.

Robinson is unlocking pathways for diverse leaders to drive impact alpha and accelerate climate solutions at scale. Tuesday, Oct. 7.

#RSVP now.

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ImpactAlpha @impactalpha.com · 12d

The nonprofit Innovation Works is seeking to prove out a model for localized, bottom-up economic development by providing patient, flexible capital for Baltimore’s social entrepreneurs.

“There are a lot of local actors that have stepped up,” says Jay Nwachu.

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Innovation Works: Flexible early capital is helping local entrepreneurs revitalize neighborhoods in Baltimore

See the impact of revitalizing neighborhoods in Baltimore through community-driven initiatives and innovative loan funds.

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ImpactAlpha @impactalpha.com · 13d

Impact insurance: “We haven’t really seen insurance as an investable asset class for impact investors,” he said. “We want to create an impact investment vehicle,” says GreenieRe’s Jeff McAulay.

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GreenieRe sees ‘impact insurance’ surety bonds as key to scaling climate tech

Trellis Climate teamed with impact-focused reinsurer GreenieRe to launch VenSurety, an initiative that is developing “venture surety bonds” to free up liquidity for climate startups ready to scale.

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ImpactAlpha @impactalpha.com · 14d

Bill Maasdorp of @britishintinv.bsky.social shares the organization’s five-year strategy in today’s “ImpactAlpha LP/GP” newsletter.

🎧 Listen to the Agents of Impact podcast.

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ImpactAlpha @impactalpha.com · 19d

Mash Makes makes biofuels for shipping companies; biochar to help farmers improve soil health and sequester carbon dioxide; and renewable energy for rural communities.

But the company's ambitions don't end there.

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Charting a commercial path from low-carbon biofuels to negative-carbon biochar

Danish shipping company Norden is a solid corporate biofuel offtaker, as well as a major investor in Mash Makes

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ImpactAlpha @impactalpha.com · 20d

Lula says "Brazil is emerging as a source of opportunities in a world that is being revolutionized by the energy transition," while Trump called climate change “the greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world.”

How Brazil is seizing the climate spotlight.

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Brazil seizes the climate spotlight to showcase investment opportunities ahead of COP30

One president went before the UN on Tuesday and ranted against climate action, calling climate change “the greatest con job ever perpetrated on ...

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ImpactAlpha @impactalpha.com · 21d

Vastpoint VC, an all-women fund manager that is investing in Poland's early-stage innovators, has raised €18 million ($22 million) for its first fund and is set to cut its first checks next month.

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Women-led Vastpoint notches $22 million for Polish startups

Poland this year broke the top 20 of world’s largest economies. It’s one of the few markets where venture capital is on the ...

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ImpactAlpha @impactalpha.com · 21d

Impact’s value as a source of alpha, rather than a label, was top of mind for European LPs & GPs gathered in London for Frame, the responsible investing conference from Reframe Venture and Impact Flock, hosted by ImpactVC and Impact Europe. @bettersocietycapital.com

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Even for GPs that shun the label, ‘impact’ drives portfolio performance

Explore how even GPs that shun the label leverage are leveraging impact to drive portfolio performance in venture capital

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ImpactAlpha @impactalpha.com · 22d

🎧 “The ones today who are taking sustainability more seriously than anyone else are the Chinese, the Koreans, the Singaporeans and groups in Indonesia, Malaysia,” says @carbontracker.bsky.social's Mark Campanale on the Agents of Impact podcast.

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ImpactAlpha @impactalpha.com · 22d

Climate Week NYC: “I’m hoping that this is a helpful week to kind of get people back focused on deploying, on allocating money to these sectors and realizing that this is not a lost cause,” @bethbaff.bsky.social of @climateunited.bsky.social, told ImpactAlpha.

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At Climate Week NYC, investors look to shake off the doldrums and start investing again

Climate Week NYC brings investors together to assess recent policies and identify new funding opportunities in climate tech.

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ImpactAlpha @impactalpha.com · 25d

🍿 To fill the glaring gap in Emmy awards for impact and sustainability, @impactalpha.com contributor Dmitriy Ioselevich stepped up to name Pop Impact’s own slate of winners in eight categories.

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In the Sustainability Emmys, the winners are...

The Emmys don’t have any awards for impact or sustainability, so naturally we had to step in and create our own.

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ImpactAlpha @impactalpha.com · 25d

🎧 On "This Week in Impact," foundation leaders “unite in advance” of expected attacks in a supercharged political environment and how the carbon credit platform Rubicon Carbon is using diversification and ratings to strengthen the market for voluntary carbon credits.

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ImpactAlpha @impactalpha.com · 25d

Community wealth and community health is created at neighborhood scale, writes @kevindoylejones.bsky.social.

How Neighborhood Economics promises to shape and replicate what works.

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Local and replicable solutions for shared prosperity and economic justice

Markets evolve. Innovations that initially seem like rocket science become replicable templates. For those repairing local economies, making them fair places where people ...

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