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FinDev Canada, the newest DFI, has made more than 60 commitments since it launched in 2018 and manages little more than $1 billion, a fraction of its peers’ portfolios.
FinDev Canada architect Paulo Martelli explains why closing deals quickly is an important goal.
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FinDev Canada architect Paulo Martelli explains why closing deals quickly is an important goal.
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With FinDev, Canada tries to show that development finance can be fast and efficient
“Brash newcomer” is not a description usually associated with stalwart, if stodgy, development financial institutions. The quasi-public investors of rich countries anchor many ...
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December 9, 2025 at 1:45 PM
FinDev Canada, the newest DFI, has made more than 60 commitments since it launched in 2018 and manages little more than $1 billion, a fraction of its peers’ portfolios.
FinDev Canada architect Paulo Martelli explains why closing deals quickly is an important goal.
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FinDev Canada architect Paulo Martelli explains why closing deals quickly is an important goal.
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🎧 “We know that over the last 100-plus years, the financial markets have been the most powerful wealth building tool that we have seen in our country,” says Stackwell's Trevor Rozier-Byrd.
How Stackwell is empowering "multicultural emerging wealth builders."
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How Stackwell is empowering "multicultural emerging wealth builders."
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December 8, 2025 at 10:55 PM
🎧 “We know that over the last 100-plus years, the financial markets have been the most powerful wealth building tool that we have seen in our country,” says Stackwell's Trevor Rozier-Byrd.
How Stackwell is empowering "multicultural emerging wealth builders."
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How Stackwell is empowering "multicultural emerging wealth builders."
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Policy Corner: “Instead of stakeholder value, we are seeing C-suites rapidly consolidating and monopolizing power, with waning accountability to shareholders and other stakeholders,” argues @franseegull.bsky.social of US Impact Investing Alliance.
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Corporations’ new era of ‘management primacy’ undermines shareholders and other stakeholders.
Explore the shift towards corporate management primacy and its implications for accountability and shareholder power in 2026.
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December 8, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Policy Corner: “Instead of stakeholder value, we are seeing C-suites rapidly consolidating and monopolizing power, with waning accountability to shareholders and other stakeholders,” argues @franseegull.bsky.social of US Impact Investing Alliance.
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☎️ Learn how financial advisors can offer clients credible impact strategies.
Join @capshiftimpact.bsky.social's Liz Sessler, @impactphl.bsky.social's Cory Donovan, Westfuller’s Randall Strickland & Glenmede’s Julia Fish, Thursday Dec. 11, at 10am PT / 1pm ET. #RSVP
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Join @capshiftimpact.bsky.social's Liz Sessler, @impactphl.bsky.social's Cory Donovan, Westfuller’s Randall Strickland & Glenmede’s Julia Fish, Thursday Dec. 11, at 10am PT / 1pm ET. #RSVP
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December 7, 2025 at 5:06 PM
☎️ Learn how financial advisors can offer clients credible impact strategies.
Join @capshiftimpact.bsky.social's Liz Sessler, @impactphl.bsky.social's Cory Donovan, Westfuller’s Randall Strickland & Glenmede’s Julia Fish, Thursday Dec. 11, at 10am PT / 1pm ET. #RSVP
us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Join @capshiftimpact.bsky.social's Liz Sessler, @impactphl.bsky.social's Cory Donovan, Westfuller’s Randall Strickland & Glenmede’s Julia Fish, Thursday Dec. 11, at 10am PT / 1pm ET. #RSVP
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Child-lens investing is an attempt to get ahead of young people’s social and economic development.
How the strategy aims to improve the lives of younger generations through better access to nutritious food, healthcare, education and safe digital environments.
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How the strategy aims to improve the lives of younger generations through better access to nutritious food, healthcare, education and safe digital environments.
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Investing with a ‘child lens’ can deliver better outcomes for all generations
Child-lens investments managers are showing how cross-cutting youth related issues are in investment strategies, and the risks they pose to portfolios that overlook them
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December 5, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Child-lens investing is an attempt to get ahead of young people’s social and economic development.
How the strategy aims to improve the lives of younger generations through better access to nutritious food, healthcare, education and safe digital environments.
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How the strategy aims to improve the lives of younger generations through better access to nutritious food, healthcare, education and safe digital environments.
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Four years ago Maaike Doyer launched Epic Angels, one the world’s largest female-only investor networks.
“If we want to get more money to female founders, we simply need to change who the investor is,” she tells ImpactAlpha.
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“If we want to get more money to female founders, we simply need to change who the investor is,” she tells ImpactAlpha.
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Maaike Doyer, Epic Angels: Mobilizing female angels
Maaike Doyer remembers walking into her university’s math program in the Netherlands and realizing she was one of only four women in the ...
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December 5, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Four years ago Maaike Doyer launched Epic Angels, one the world’s largest female-only investor networks.
“If we want to get more money to female founders, we simply need to change who the investor is,” she tells ImpactAlpha.
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“If we want to get more money to female founders, we simply need to change who the investor is,” she tells ImpactAlpha.
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🎧 On "This Week in Impact," the ambitious strategy behind New Mexico’s $67 billion sovereign wealth fund; how cutting “dealer fees” can keep residential solar affordable without tax credits; and, how cities are stacking capital for climate action.
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December 5, 2025 at 2:30 PM
🎧 On "This Week in Impact," the ambitious strategy behind New Mexico’s $67 billion sovereign wealth fund; how cutting “dealer fees” can keep residential solar affordable without tax credits; and, how cities are stacking capital for climate action.
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Alcasa has expanded to help Nicaragua’s smallholder farmers boost their incomes and weather climate shocks by building domestic production for cassava.
“Cassava lets us work with small farmers because you can do it on one acre,” says Alcasa’s Raúl Amador Somarriba.
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“Cassava lets us work with small farmers because you can do it on one acre,” says Alcasa’s Raúl Amador Somarriba.
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Building a supply chain and boosting farmers’ incomes in Nicaragua
Amid the Covid-related disruption of global supply chains, an agriprocessing company in Nicaragua seized a high-value opportunity to build a sustainable business around ...
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December 4, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Alcasa has expanded to help Nicaragua’s smallholder farmers boost their incomes and weather climate shocks by building domestic production for cassava.
“Cassava lets us work with small farmers because you can do it on one acre,” says Alcasa’s Raúl Amador Somarriba.
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“Cassava lets us work with small farmers because you can do it on one acre,” says Alcasa’s Raúl Amador Somarriba.
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How @nmsic.bsky.social is attracting VC firms that invest heavily in climate tech, like Lowercarbon Capital, DCVC and @lightspeedvp.bsky.social.
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How New Mexico’s $67 billion fund is using oil and gas revenues to build a clean energy economy (podcast)
New Mexico’s solar resources, geothermal features and nuclear know-how attract many climate tech startups, and the venture capitalists who back them If that’s ...
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December 3, 2025 at 3:17 PM
How @nmsic.bsky.social is attracting VC firms that invest heavily in climate tech, like Lowercarbon Capital, DCVC and @lightspeedvp.bsky.social.
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Resilient capital stacks: "the art and science of layering multiple forms of capital — equity, debt, grants, guarantees and even community partnerships — so that a project can weather risks & remain viable under stress," writes Nick Gower of @hipinvestor.bsky.social.
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Building durable financing for the energy transition and climate action in local communities
Discover how cities and counties are building resilient capital stacks to finance climate action. Learn from case studies showing how layered financing—combining equity, debt, green banks and communit...
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December 2, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Resilient capital stacks: "the art and science of layering multiple forms of capital — equity, debt, grants, guarantees and even community partnerships — so that a project can weather risks & remain viable under stress," writes Nick Gower of @hipinvestor.bsky.social.
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🍁 Your work reflects and fuels a growing movement to make people’s lives better and our communities more vibrant, fair and resilient. We're grateful for your impact. Happy Thanksgiving.
November 27, 2025 at 6:33 PM
🍁 Your work reflects and fuels a growing movement to make people’s lives better and our communities more vibrant, fair and resilient. We're grateful for your impact. Happy Thanksgiving.
As private credit has ballooned and its economic underpinnings have become shakier, LPs are scrutinizing managers.
In: differentiated strategies and conservative underwriting. Out: low-margin loans in crowded sectors that encourage looser underwriting.
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In: differentiated strategies and conservative underwriting. Out: low-margin loans in crowded sectors that encourage looser underwriting.
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In jittery private credit market, LPs look for differentiation, co-investment and sustainability
LPs and GPs at the private credit conference discussed their strategies for private credit, co-investment and secondaries in a fast-evolving private credit market.
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November 26, 2025 at 3:05 PM
As private credit has ballooned and its economic underpinnings have become shakier, LPs are scrutinizing managers.
In: differentiated strategies and conservative underwriting. Out: low-margin loans in crowded sectors that encourage looser underwriting.
impactalpha.com/in-jittery-p...
In: differentiated strategies and conservative underwriting. Out: low-margin loans in crowded sectors that encourage looser underwriting.
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Seattle-based @loanterra.bsky.social launched last month to help credit unions and other lenders originate renewable energy loans, without dealer fees.
Why LoanTERRA's Bill Paulen thinks that eliminating dealer fees could save the solar industry.
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Why LoanTERRA's Bill Paulen thinks that eliminating dealer fees could save the solar industry.
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With tax credits expiring, cutting ‘dealer fees’ could keep solar affordable
The holiday season could be a busy one for contractors and other installers of solar panels, battery storage and heat pumps. Home and ...
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November 25, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Seattle-based @loanterra.bsky.social launched last month to help credit unions and other lenders originate renewable energy loans, without dealer fees.
Why LoanTERRA's Bill Paulen thinks that eliminating dealer fees could save the solar industry.
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Why LoanTERRA's Bill Paulen thinks that eliminating dealer fees could save the solar industry.
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As @cop30brazil.bsky.social comes to an end, many wonder if there will be a last-minute surprise on fossil fuel phase-out to the COP30 draft agreement. What we're watching.
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Global climate summit confronts a key question: Whether to call for the phase-out of fossil fuels
Many arrived in Brazil hoping COP30 would break from years of sweeping declarations and modest follow-through.
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November 20, 2025 at 9:46 PM
As @cop30brazil.bsky.social comes to an end, many wonder if there will be a last-minute surprise on fossil fuel phase-out to the COP30 draft agreement. What we're watching.
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🎧 Did you catch "This Week in Impact"? On our latest episode, @davidbank.bsky.social joined host
@brianjwalsh.bsky.social to discuss plugging the financing gap for growth businesses in Africa.
New episodes drop every Friday.
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@brianjwalsh.bsky.social to discuss plugging the financing gap for growth businesses in Africa.
New episodes drop every Friday.
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November 19, 2025 at 10:40 PM
🎧 Did you catch "This Week in Impact"? On our latest episode, @davidbank.bsky.social joined host
@brianjwalsh.bsky.social to discuss plugging the financing gap for growth businesses in Africa.
New episodes drop every Friday.
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@brianjwalsh.bsky.social to discuss plugging the financing gap for growth businesses in Africa.
New episodes drop every Friday.
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🇪🇺 Institutional investors in Europe are adapting.
Scandinavian pension funds, including @tyoelakeyhtiovarma.bsky.social, KPA Pension in Sweden, and Denmark’s PFA, Danica and AkademikerPension are leading the way by ditching long-term bans on defense stocks.
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Scandinavian pension funds, including @tyoelakeyhtiovarma.bsky.social, KPA Pension in Sweden, and Denmark’s PFA, Danica and AkademikerPension are leading the way by ditching long-term bans on defense stocks.
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European pension funds said ‘no’ to defense investments. Then came Ukraine… and Trump
As drones buzz Europe, pension funds are revising their investment policies to lift long-standing bans on financing defense companies and position security as a “responsible” investment.
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November 19, 2025 at 3:36 PM
🇪🇺 Institutional investors in Europe are adapting.
Scandinavian pension funds, including @tyoelakeyhtiovarma.bsky.social, KPA Pension in Sweden, and Denmark’s PFA, Danica and AkademikerPension are leading the way by ditching long-term bans on defense stocks.
impactalpha.com/european-pen...
Scandinavian pension funds, including @tyoelakeyhtiovarma.bsky.social, KPA Pension in Sweden, and Denmark’s PFA, Danica and AkademikerPension are leading the way by ditching long-term bans on defense stocks.
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How cross-sector collaborations are helping communities address overlapping vulnerabilities in health outcomes, educational achievement, economic opportunity and climate risk.
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Making missing markets for local builders (and buyers) of health, wealth and vibrant communities
One of the best indicators of the health of a child in elementary school: whether they are reading at grade level. For adults, ...
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November 18, 2025 at 7:13 PM
How cross-sector collaborations are helping communities address overlapping vulnerabilities in health outcomes, educational achievement, economic opportunity and climate risk.
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🌊 Oceans generate $2.5 trillion in economic activity and absorb 90% of the earth’s excess heat, yet ocean-based climate solutions receive less than 1% of global climate finance.
AltaSea’s Terry Tamminen explains how blended finance can unlock untapped markets.
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AltaSea’s Terry Tamminen explains how blended finance can unlock untapped markets.
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How blended capital is powering the blue economy’s next wave
Understand the urgent need for financing ocean climate tech to transform our approach to climate change and ocean preservation.
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November 18, 2025 at 3:33 PM
🌊 Oceans generate $2.5 trillion in economic activity and absorb 90% of the earth’s excess heat, yet ocean-based climate solutions receive less than 1% of global climate finance.
AltaSea’s Terry Tamminen explains how blended finance can unlock untapped markets.
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AltaSea’s Terry Tamminen explains how blended finance can unlock untapped markets.
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David Erickson and @otho.bsky.social are bringing together community foundations, CDFIs, green banks and local government agencies at the Federal Reserve Bank of NY.
Join ImpactAlpha’s @davidbank.bsky.social for the Making Missing Markets livestream this Wednesday.
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Join ImpactAlpha’s @davidbank.bsky.social for the Making Missing Markets livestream this Wednesday.
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November 17, 2025 at 9:03 PM
David Erickson and @otho.bsky.social are bringing together community foundations, CDFIs, green banks and local government agencies at the Federal Reserve Bank of NY.
Join ImpactAlpha’s @davidbank.bsky.social for the Making Missing Markets livestream this Wednesday.
web.cvent.com/event/59ed3e...
Join ImpactAlpha’s @davidbank.bsky.social for the Making Missing Markets livestream this Wednesday.
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How New York-based Encourage Capital unlocked rooftop-solar financing for India’s small enterprises.
Harvey Koh of the Catalytic Capital Consortium outlines the key design principles.
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Harvey Koh of the Catalytic Capital Consortium outlines the key design principles.
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A case study in unlocking lending to small businesses to accelerate solar in India
The global clean energy transition includes businesses across the emerging markets of Africa, India and elsewhere that are installing their own small-scale, local ...
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November 17, 2025 at 6:09 PM
How New York-based Encourage Capital unlocked rooftop-solar financing for India’s small enterprises.
Harvey Koh of the Catalytic Capital Consortium outlines the key design principles.
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Harvey Koh of the Catalytic Capital Consortium outlines the key design principles.
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Transparency and behavior change were big themes of this week’s ImpactAlpha coverage.
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The Week in impact investing: Incompletely transparent
TGIF, Agents of Impact! 💃🏽 Step up, step out. If you’re in the Bay Area this weekend, join ImpactAlpha at San Francisco’s lively ...
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November 15, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Transparency and behavior change were big themes of this week’s ImpactAlpha coverage.
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Fund managers from Lagos, Ghana, Senegal and Nairobi joined this week’s Agents of Impact call to make the case for backing relatively small, local investment funds in Africa.
Check out the recap.
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Check out the recap.
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Agents of Impact Call: More of the right kind of capital for growth firms in Africa (video)
More capital is needed to support Africa’s growth firms, but in forms that go beyond what large venture capital or private equity funds can offer.
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November 15, 2025 at 5:21 AM
Fund managers from Lagos, Ghana, Senegal and Nairobi joined this week’s Agents of Impact call to make the case for backing relatively small, local investment funds in Africa.
Check out the recap.
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Check out the recap.
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🔌 What does it take to transition breakthrough climate technologies from universities and national labs into venture-ready startups?
Troy Daley of @labstart.bsky.social joins Sherrell Dorsey on the next PluggedIn to discuss on Tuesday, November 18.
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Troy Daley of @labstart.bsky.social joins Sherrell Dorsey on the next PluggedIn to discuss on Tuesday, November 18.
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November 13, 2025 at 11:27 PM
🔌 What does it take to transition breakthrough climate technologies from universities and national labs into venture-ready startups?
Troy Daley of @labstart.bsky.social joins Sherrell Dorsey on the next PluggedIn to discuss on Tuesday, November 18.
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Troy Daley of @labstart.bsky.social joins Sherrell Dorsey on the next PluggedIn to discuss on Tuesday, November 18.
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Affordable home ownership: “A shared-equity model is actually the better path into ownership for young people, for first-time buyers, especially for folks in the middle of the income pyramid,” Ownify’s Frank Rohde told ImpactAlpha.
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From affordable home ownership to 'fair-share appreciation' and generational wealth
President Trump's trial balloon, a response to last week’s voter uprising over “affordability,” opened a broader conversation about better ways to not only help families get into their first house, bu...
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November 13, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Affordable home ownership: “A shared-equity model is actually the better path into ownership for young people, for first-time buyers, especially for folks in the middle of the income pyramid,” Ownify’s Frank Rohde told ImpactAlpha.
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S2G Investments, which has reached $2.5 billion in committed capital across a half-dozen funds, has become one of the most active climate investors backing companies positioned to lead the transitions required in food, agriculture, energy and ocean-based resources.
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Adaptation Alpha: S2G Investments looks for outperformance as climate change drives ‘system-level shifts’
The flip side of the rising risks and escalating damage from a changing climate is the huge opportunity to help industries and ecosystems ...
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November 12, 2025 at 8:23 PM
S2G Investments, which has reached $2.5 billion in committed capital across a half-dozen funds, has become one of the most active climate investors backing companies positioned to lead the transitions required in food, agriculture, energy and ocean-based resources.
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