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December 23, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Warm holiday greetings from ImpactAlpha!
🎧 Listen to 2025's last episode of "This Week in Impact." We'll be back in 2026 with new episodes.
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December 23, 2025 at 7:44 PM
🎧 Listen to 2025's last episode of "This Week in Impact." We'll be back in 2026 with new episodes.
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2025 Roundup: Singapore has become something of a hub for impact investing, with a concentration of capital and an appetite for collective social and environmental benefit, as well as attractive tax incentives.
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Emerging market family offices emerge on the impact investment scene
Typically discreet, few wealthy families around the world are outspoken about their impact investments. But those that commit to such investment strategies are ...
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December 23, 2025 at 3:22 PM
2025 Roundup: Singapore has become something of a hub for impact investing, with a concentration of capital and an appetite for collective social and environmental benefit, as well as attractive tax incentives.
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How GreyMatter Capital, Hopelab, Gratitude Railroad and other startups are looking beyond clinical interventions to help support young people earlier before they are in crisis.
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Startups seek social connections – human and artificial – to bring services to youths in need
As many as one in three youths aged 12 to 17 had a mental, emotional, developmental or behavioral problem in 2022–2023.
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December 22, 2025 at 4:14 PM
How GreyMatter Capital, Hopelab, Gratitude Railroad and other startups are looking beyond clinical interventions to help support young people earlier before they are in crisis.
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Here's a recap of our last call of 2025: Municipal impact investing for shared prosperity with guests from Clarion Call Capital, Public Finance Initiative, Delta Fund, Vermont Bond Bank and Finance New Orleans.
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The Call: Guarantees for muni bonds to lower the cost of capital for smaller cities (video)
Philanthropic guarantees and bond banks can level the playing field for rural communities seeking low-cost capital for climate-resilient infrastructure. The issuances of municipal ...
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December 19, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Here's a recap of our last call of 2025: Municipal impact investing for shared prosperity with guests from Clarion Call Capital, Public Finance Initiative, Delta Fund, Vermont Bond Bank and Finance New Orleans.
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🎧 How LPs and GPs are responding to the dearth of exits and fundraising challenges; ownership strategies to share the pie even before it grows; and how African asset owners and fund managers are going local to create their own pathways to growth.
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Why LP stands for leadership potential + building the playbook for shared prosperity
Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank. Up this week: Why LP might stand for Leadership Potential, in ...
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December 19, 2025 at 2:40 PM
🎧 How LPs and GPs are responding to the dearth of exits and fundraising challenges; ownership strategies to share the pie even before it grows; and how African asset owners and fund managers are going local to create their own pathways to growth.
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2025 Roundup: The federal funding freeze had the increased private investors’ interest in climate investments.
“Times like these in history, for us, have actually presented the very best times to be investing,” said Generation Investment Management's Colin le Duc.
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“Times like these in history, for us, have actually presented the very best times to be investing,” said Generation Investment Management's Colin le Duc.
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After a bruising year, climate investors look for signals of sustainable momentum
Clean energy developers and energy efficiency retrofitters, along with makers of electric vehicles, batteries and building electrification tech, are regrouping, buoyed by falling costs and the surpris...
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December 18, 2025 at 2:17 PM
2025 Roundup: The federal funding freeze had the increased private investors’ interest in climate investments.
“Times like these in history, for us, have actually presented the very best times to be investing,” said Generation Investment Management's Colin le Duc.
impactalpha.com/after-a-brui...
“Times like these in history, for us, have actually presented the very best times to be investing,” said Generation Investment Management's Colin le Duc.
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When emissions reductions and negative emissions are conflated, there are no winners.
I wrote an op-ed with @impactalpha.com to explain why 👇
I wrote an op-ed with @impactalpha.com to explain why 👇
Carbon markets only work if claims match atmospheric outcomes.
In Impact Alpha, Absolute Climate co-founder and CEO Peter Minor explains why confusing emissions reductions with carbon removals undermines market credibility.
“The difference between a reduction and a removal is not a technicality.”
In Impact Alpha, Absolute Climate co-founder and CEO Peter Minor explains why confusing emissions reductions with carbon removals undermines market credibility.
“The difference between a reduction and a removal is not a technicality.”
December 17, 2025 at 9:45 PM
When emissions reductions and negative emissions are conflated, there are no winners.
I wrote an op-ed with @impactalpha.com to explain why 👇
I wrote an op-ed with @impactalpha.com to explain why 👇
2025 Roundup: With “investors increasingly seeking ways to contribute to social, economic, and environmental solutions, impact investing should demonstrate strong growth — not just in 2026, but over the next 5 to 10 years,” says @macfound.org's Debra Schwartz.
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In volatile times, some impact investors try to show LP means ‘leadership potential’
While others are beating a retreat from climate and diversity commitments, some family offices, pension funds, foundations and other asset owners are standing firm.
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December 17, 2025 at 2:50 PM
2025 Roundup: With “investors increasingly seeking ways to contribute to social, economic, and environmental solutions, impact investing should demonstrate strong growth — not just in 2026, but over the next 5 to 10 years,” says @macfound.org's Debra Schwartz.
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2025 Roundup: The year started with the dismantling of USAID and its $40 billion annual development assistance budget.
How retreat, retrenchment and recalibration were the three Rs of development finance in 2025.
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How retreat, retrenchment and recalibration were the three Rs of development finance in 2025.
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African asset owners and fund managers chart local ‘pathways to growth’
Retreat, retrenchment and recalibration were the three Rs of development finance in 2025. If 2026 is to be the year of revival for ...
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December 16, 2025 at 3:24 PM
2025 Roundup: The year started with the dismantling of USAID and its $40 billion annual development assistance budget.
How retreat, retrenchment and recalibration were the three Rs of development finance in 2025.
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How retreat, retrenchment and recalibration were the three Rs of development finance in 2025.
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2025 Roundup: If creating an abundance of affordable housing, healthcare, energy and transportation was the animating issue in 2025, expanding access to ownership of appreciating assets & other wealth-building opportunities is likely to be high on the agenda in 2026.
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Beyond affordability to ownership, wealth-building and fair gain sharing
Affordability is only the beginning. Creating an abundance of affordable housing, healthcare, energy and transportation was the animating issue of the year. On ...
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December 15, 2025 at 4:35 PM
2025 Roundup: If creating an abundance of affordable housing, healthcare, energy and transportation was the animating issue in 2025, expanding access to ownership of appreciating assets & other wealth-building opportunities is likely to be high on the agenda in 2026.
impactalpha.com/beyond-affor...
impactalpha.com/beyond-affor...
☎️ Explore strategies to reverse patterns of disinvestment and help municipalities, bond banks and others grow their resource base.
Insights from Finance New Orleans, Vermont Bond Bank, Delta Fund, Public Finance Initiative & Clarion Call Capital.
Wed., Dec. 17.
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Insights from Finance New Orleans, Vermont Bond Bank, Delta Fund, Public Finance Initiative & Clarion Call Capital.
Wed., Dec. 17.
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December 14, 2025 at 4:33 PM
☎️ Explore strategies to reverse patterns of disinvestment and help municipalities, bond banks and others grow their resource base.
Insights from Finance New Orleans, Vermont Bond Bank, Delta Fund, Public Finance Initiative & Clarion Call Capital.
Wed., Dec. 17.
us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Insights from Finance New Orleans, Vermont Bond Bank, Delta Fund, Public Finance Initiative & Clarion Call Capital.
Wed., Dec. 17.
us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
UK-based @adaventures.bsky.social is looking to raise $100 million for their third fund, named the Inclusive Alpha fund, to back pre-seed startups supporting climate challenges, economic empowerment and healthy aging.
Check out The Liist: GP Snapshots.
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Check out The Liist: GP Snapshots.
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Ada Ventures: Finding alpha in inclusive tech
UK-based Ada Ventures has been investing since 2018 in early-stage European tech startups focused on underserved communities. After nearly 40 investments, more than ...
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December 14, 2025 at 12:16 AM
UK-based @adaventures.bsky.social is looking to raise $100 million for their third fund, named the Inclusive Alpha fund, to back pre-seed startups supporting climate challenges, economic empowerment and healthy aging.
Check out The Liist: GP Snapshots.
impactalpha.com/ada-ventures...
Check out The Liist: GP Snapshots.
impactalpha.com/ada-ventures...
☎️ Advisors who engage with clients about their values and offer credible impact strategies can deepen their relationships and prepare for the Great Wealth Transfer.
Advisors “are the front door to this conversation,” says @impactphl.bsky.social’s Cory Donovan.
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Advisors “are the front door to this conversation,” says @impactphl.bsky.social’s Cory Donovan.
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Call No. 75: How financial advisors are starting ‘the values conversation’ with their clients
Financial advisors who engage with clients about their values and offer credible impact strategies can deepen their relationships and prepare for the Great ...
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December 12, 2025 at 7:56 PM
☎️ Advisors who engage with clients about their values and offer credible impact strategies can deepen their relationships and prepare for the Great Wealth Transfer.
Advisors “are the front door to this conversation,” says @impactphl.bsky.social’s Cory Donovan.
impactalpha.com/call-no-75-h...
Advisors “are the front door to this conversation,” says @impactphl.bsky.social’s Cory Donovan.
impactalpha.com/call-no-75-h...
🎧 How the Sierra Club Foundation is leaning into system-level investing; the 1803 Fund’s ambitious plans to restore historically Black neighborhoods in Portland; and, how financial advisors can meet clients’ demand for impact investing opportunities.
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December 12, 2025 at 5:33 PM
🎧 How the Sierra Club Foundation is leaning into system-level investing; the 1803 Fund’s ambitious plans to restore historically Black neighborhoods in Portland; and, how financial advisors can meet clients’ demand for impact investing opportunities.
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The Black woman-led 1803 Fund invested $70 million to purchase real estate in historically Black Portland that will be redeveloped into mixed-used centers of business, affordable housing and community spaces.
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In Portland, the 1803 Fund is rebuilding Black neighborhoods, zip code by zip code
The 1803 Fund was seeded two years ago with $400 million from Nike billionaires Phil and Penny Knight
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December 11, 2025 at 4:12 PM
The Black woman-led 1803 Fund invested $70 million to purchase real estate in historically Black Portland that will be redeveloped into mixed-used centers of business, affordable housing and community spaces.
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The Sierra Club Foundation acts as the fiscal sponsor and major funding source for the @sierraclub.org, the venerable environmental organization that has recently suffered a steep drop in membership and resources.
Now, changes are afoot.
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Now, changes are afoot.
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Sierra Club Foundation is dumping managers, innovating indexes and embracing ‘system-level’ investing
Engage equity. Deny debt. That’s essentially the climate investing strategy of the Sierra Club Foundation, an approximately $200 million endowment that provides operating ...
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December 10, 2025 at 3:48 PM
The Sierra Club Foundation acts as the fiscal sponsor and major funding source for the @sierraclub.org, the venerable environmental organization that has recently suffered a steep drop in membership and resources.
Now, changes are afoot.
impactalpha.com/sierra-club-...
Now, changes are afoot.
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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.
impactalpha.com/with-findev-...
FinDev Canada architect Paulo Martelli explains why closing deals quickly is an important goal.
impactalpha.com/with-findev-...
🎧 “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
us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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
us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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.
impactalpha.com/investing-wi...
How the strategy aims to improve the lives of younger generations through better access to nutritious food, healthcare, education and safe digital environments.
impactalpha.com/investing-wi...
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.
impactalpha.com/maaike-doyer...
🎧 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.
impactalpha.com/transforming...
impactalpha.com/transforming...
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.
impactalpha.com/building-a-s...
“Cassava lets us work with small farmers because you can do it on one acre,” says Alcasa’s Raúl Amador Somarriba.
impactalpha.com/building-a-s...