Impact investing has been described as a quiet revolution within markets. Watch out — the revolutionary drumbeat is getting louder.
The insurgents are storming the financial barricades armed with metrics and ratings systems, suites of new investment products and trainings for a new generation of bilingual professionals fluent in both…
The business case for bringing two billion more people and 200 million small businesses in emerging markets into the formal financial system through digital financial products and services is becoming familiar:
As we say at ImpactAlpha: to get to the trillions needed to bridge the gap in funding for the Sustainable Development Goals, you first need to get to the billions. Early efforts to do just that are showing promise.
A tally last year put total funds mobilized by 187 blended…
The hunt for new customers and new innovations is drawing corporate multinationals toward entrepreneurs who are driving impact on the ground with banking services, farm technology, mobile clinics and off-grid energy sources for the billions of people around the world that still lack those services.
Delivering these products and services…
New commitments from the Green Climate Fund pushed the total capital mobilized by the Climate Finance Lab above the $1 billion mark.
Among the funded projects was the expansion of Energy Savings Insurance to Paraguay and Argentina. …
Markets are under-weighted women. And that’s a big problem for the global economy.
From fund management teams and board teams to venture capital disbursements and startup founders, the global economy is over-weighted men. We’re leaving talent, profits, economic opportunity, and yes…impact, on the table. We’re heightening levels of risk.
The…
Working to end forced labor and poor conditions in global supply chains in not new. What’s new are the growing number of “labor-lens” investors betting on strategies for ending exploitative working practices.
Disrupting the $51 billion in profits reaped from goods made with forced labor, including about 25 million people…
If you’re looking to tap the next big global growth markets, you’d better be a woman, or at least be sitting next to one.
Last year, the Business and Sustainable Development Commission outlined the $12 trillion “economic prize” in delivering on the UN’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals to end poverty…
More than three dozen governments around the world have committed to restoring more than 150 million hectares of land by 2020. That’s an area bigger than South Africa. By 2030, that commitment rises to 350 million hectares.
The commitments are long overdue. More than a third of agricultural landscapes are…
New Revivalists is a series from ImpactAlpha and Village Capital profiling the people, places and policies reviving entrepreneurship — and the American Dream.
New Revivalist: Melissa Bradley, managing director at Project 500
Place: Washington DC
Mission: Melissa Bradley and Project 500 are creating pathways to business ownership for Washington D.C. founders…
