Greg Krupa served as a fundraising advisor to a range of social enterprises and impact funds across Latin America. Friends and family are remembering him after his unexpected death in Quito, Ecuador. impactalpha.com/remembering-...

World Education Services amassed a balance sheet in excess of $300 million. Now WES is investing those assets in a diverse portfolio of investments intended to help immigrants contribute their skills and contribute as they move about the world. impactalpha.com/defying-a-ba...

Equity investments in clean cooking, particularly for solutions targeted at rural, low-income families in emerging markets, are at a low point. Grant funding is flat. The tale of two companies that tried cracking the code. impactalpha.com/why-has-it-b...

🎧 On "This Week in Impact," could the Iran war spur the growth of local, sustainable alternatives in energy, fertilizer and cookstoves? Plus, introducing ImpactAlpha Edge, and a public reckoning with an aquaculture investment gone bad. impactalpha.com/introducing-...

You’ve got an investment thesis, a deal pipeline and some aligned investors. How do you get an impact fund off the ground? Broadstreet’s Mariel Kennedy and Steve Petsos, Groundbreak Coalition’s Eric White & Fibers Fund’s Sarah Kelley on Wednesday, April 15. 3aear.share.hsforms.com/28CD0-o3uT5G...

An owner considering an exit to a private-equity buyer might do well to compare any offer to the net proceeds they would receive from the sale of their company to their own employees. Zolidar's exit-planning tool lets small business owners make such a comparison. impactalpha.com/for-retiring...

🆕 ImpactAlpha is proud to announce ImpactAlpha Edge, an actionable intelligence platform with thousands of LP and GP profiles and many more thousands of allocations. ImpactAlpha CEO @dennisprice.bsky.social outlined the benefits in this letter to subscribers. impactalpha.com/the-impactal...

Ceniarth's Greg Neichin and Diane Isenberg call impact-first investing “a philanthropic approach” that takes on economically irrational risk or seeks limited returns. ImpactAlpha will be sharing quarterly impact-first deals and coverage underwritten by Ceniarth. impactalpha.com/beating-the-...

Justice Climate Fund and the climate advocacy group Ceres have mapped investment strategies that address scale, liquidity and risk management to bridge the gap between institutional investment profiles and community-scale opportunities. impactalpha.com/with-small-s...

Exclusive: Indonesia-based eFishery was heralded as the first aquaculture unicorn, with a $1.4 billion valuation. An investigation found it had inflated its revenues numbers. Aqua-Spark's founders were among the investors and for the first time are speaking out. impactalpha.com/aqua-sparks-...

Europe is a bright spot for Latin America's impact fund managers. “You need an anchor,” says Kevin Kenny of Amsterdam-based Blink Impact. “One credible investor for others to follow. That’s how ecosystems work. It’s all built on trust.” impactalpha.com/on-grand-tou...

Did workers who helped scale CoolIT’s revenue from $155 million to $550 million while raising profit margins in the three years KKR owned the company deserve a far greater share of what they built? impactalpha.com/financing-ca...

#Bangladesh climate opportunity: "Its rapid economic development, strong GDP growth, and proactive stance toward climate adaptation, the South Asian country makes a compelling case for climate investors," writes ImpactAlpha contributing editor Marilyn Waite. impactalpha.com/in-banglades...

“The shutdown of global shipping corridors for urea and other fertilizer products could have a dire impact on global food insecurity,” Nicolas Pinkowski of Nitricity told ImpactAlpha. How the Strait of Hormuz closure has sparked demand in bio-based fertilizers. impactalpha.com/strait-closu...

🎧 Researchers have found building more housing components in factories, rather than on-site, can easily cut building costs in half. Carol Galante of @ternerhousing.bsky.social outlines ways to ease California's housing shortage on the Agents of Impact podcast. impactalpha.com/new-narrativ...

While the Iran War has choked off the flow of oil through the Strait of Hormuz, it has opened the tap from European pension funds and other investors capitalizing on the increased urgency of the continent’s energy security. impactalpha.com/oil-shock-op...

@sorensonimpact.bsky.social's recently announced a $1 million fund to encourage #impinv consolidation. In a guest post, Margot Brandenburg and Antony Bugg-Levine argue consolidation may ensure "the long-term health and sustainability of the impact investing field.” impactalpha.com/impact-funde...

Grantees in Africa are commenting on Mastercard Foundation's "long decision cycles, repeated consultations with different MCF teams, and guidance that changes depending on whom they speak to," writes InSight54's Karim Mohamed. MCF's chief program officer responds. impactalpha.com/challenge-fo...

Netherlands-based Aqua-Spark secured $48 million in anchor funding, which they hope to build up to $250 million to invest in Africa’s farmed fish value-chain. For Africa that may mean tilapia, the hardy, fast-growing freshwater fish known as “aquatic chicken.” impactalpha.com/aqua-spark-a...

The Iran war is not likely to put a dent in the $5 trillion of wealth held by sovereign funds in the region. “I don’t see a retrenchment from impact investors or family offices, or shifts in strategies,” says Sana Kapadia, an #impinv professional based in Dubai. impactalpha.com/middle-east-...

Benjamin Franklin was an OG impact investor showing “clearly how extending fair financing to working people is crucial to expand opportunity,” ImpactAlpha contributing editor Antony Bugg-Levine writes in his first column, adapted from his book due out in June. impactalpha.com/ben-franklin...

🎧 Who would be funding this, if not us? That’s the question Bryan Goh, the CEO of the Tsao Family Office in Singapore, says his team asks all the time. “We’re very careful where we fund that we don’t distort things,” Goh says on the Agents of Impact podcast. impactalpha.com/tsao-family-...

@bethbaff.bsky.social leaves @climateunited.bsky.social. ImpactAlpha has details on her next chapter and her decision to join RBC Wealth Management. impactalpha.com/beth-bafford...

🏦 Redemption Bank is flipping the script on Black bank ownership, which has been in decline for decades. Ashley Bell explains why it's happening in Utah and what separates Redemption from every other African American owned bank in history. impactalpha.com/redemption-b...

Denver-based Next50 is aligning its $265 million endowment around an “aging investment framework." ☎️ RSVP to ImpactAlpha's next call: Building an investment portfolio that makes aging an asset. Wednesday, March 11 at 10am PT / 1pm ET. 3aear.share.hsforms.com/2bXrR5cerRji...

🎧 On "This Week in Impact," how impact investors are reacting to @antrhopic.bsky.social's showdown with the Pentagon. Plus, six common excuses foundations use for not investing for impact. impactalpha.com/anthropics-s...

Foundation leaders gathered in Asheville, NC, this week for @confluencep.bsky.social y.social's annual gathering. Stacey Faella of the $90 million Woodcock Foundation, wondered why impact investing continues to be a niche activity among philanthropies. impactalpha.com/six-barriers...

Riverside is part of @ownershipworks.bsky.social, an association of private equity firms that have committed to sharing a slice of their equity gains with hourly and frontline workers at the companies they buy and sell. Why others are sharing wealth with workers. impactalpha.com/sharing-weal...

Values-led founders are rethinking their exit options and broadening the ownership of the businesses they’ve built. How purpose trusts are giving employees & other stakeholders access to a share of future profits without capital or financial risk. #OwnershipEconomy impactalpha.com/purpose-trus...

Just hours after Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth declared @anthropic.com’ s Claude a “supply-chain risk,” the military used the AI system against Iran in Operation Epic Fury, @axios.com and @wsj.com reported. Now, impact investors are responding. impactalpha.com/in-a-dangero...

🎧 As the Trump administration steps back from domestic policy, how states are taking the lead on clean energy, the ownership economy, and AI regulation. Plus, why a drone-focused reforestation startup pivoted to bulldozers burying burned trees. impactalpha.com/states-of-th...

The funding gap for businesses that are too small for private equity and too risky for commercial lenders led UK's Manufacturing Africa to launch the special-purpose Forge Africa fund. impactalpha.com/uks-manufact...

@repguzzardi39.bsky.social's Employee Ownership Development Act could create the largest dedicated public investment vehicle for employee ownership. The legislation would authorize Illinois' treasurer to deploy some of the state’s non-pension investment portfolio. impactalpha.com/how-states-c...

🎧 “Addressing climate as a key component of our work is really where we need to stay the course, and now is not the time to be shifting," says Kathleen Simpson of the Russell Family Foundation. TRFF's plan to "meet the moment." impactalpha.com/this-family-...

⚖️ A critical court hearing today by the full bench of the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit could reinstate funding for the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund, most of which has remained frozen in Citibank accounts while the legal battle plays out. impactalpha.com/green-bank-g...

Pacific Community Ventures is among the investors designing a future in which #AI is wielded to uplift community voices and build economic mobility. Bulbul Gupta explains how the nonprofit CDFI is incorporating ethical AI into its impact underwriting & measurement. impactalpha.com/good-jobs-wo...

@mastreforest.bsky.social pivots. “When I first heard about the idea of biomass burial my initial reaction was that’s the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard of,” says @nature.org's Joe Fargione. “I looked into it further...turns out that it’s actually a good idea." impactalpha.com/mast-refores...

🇨🇦 A first-time fund from Indigenous-led Raven Group in Canada has a fresh take on the “pay for success” model. The fund reached a $32+ million second close to pay for community health-focused projects designed by Canada’s First Nations and Native tribes in the US. impactalpha.com/a-fund-for-c...

☎️ This week, we brought together Katy Knight, Chris Jurgens, Paul Fehlinger and Mohamed Nanabhay to sketch an investment thesis around responsible and ethical AI. It kicked off ImpactAlpha’s Shaping the Algorithm beat, in partnership with Siegel Family Endowment. impactalpha.com/human-agents...

Where can US based investors, retail and institutional, turn to take advantage of investments in the Global South? Carbon Collective compiled a helpful database of listed climate companies, especially those in low- and middle income countries, or LMICs. impactalpha.com/how-us-retai...

“The question for investors right now is whether we will fund an #AI economy designed merely to maximize profits for a few, or one built to reinforce human ingenuity, agency, creativity and the public good,” says Katy Knight of Siegel Family Endowment. impactalpha.com/shaping-the-...

Gary Community Ventures has been working its local wealth building strategy in Colorado for decades. How the organization and other "impact LPs" really get to work after the check clears. impactalpha.com/how-impact-l...

How institutional allocators can invest in “good AI” for societal resilience and the public good. Join Chris Jurgens of @omidyarnetwork.bsky.social @paul-fehlinger.bsky.social of @projectliberty.io + others. ☎️ Register for our Wed., Feb. 18th call. 3aear.share.hsforms.com/2_v0MyHcrTk6...

The imperative at this week’s Investing in African Mining Indaba, or convention, in Cape Town: Seize the moment to turn the extraction of the continent’s mineral wealth into a driver for sustainable economic development and shared prosperity. impactalpha.com/demand-for-c...

LP/GP: The biggest are getting bigger. Apollo Global Management, TPG, KKR and other publicly traded private equity firms touted record funding raised on their year-end earnings calls. impactalpha.com/asset-manage...

@harvard.edu researchers surveyed Impact Capital Managers' Mosaic fellows about their #impinv career pathways. Shawn Cole and Jonah Zahnd identify the books and experiences survey participants noted as being partly behind their success. impactalpha.com/breaking-int...

Australia's Clean Energy Finance Corp. committed $40 million to a reforestation project on the Tiwi Islands that is being developed in partnership with the Tiwi people who inhabit and steward the islands. impactalpha.com/australias-g...

A company’s workforce is its greatest asset, but investors need clear data on how companies invest in their people. Illinois’ #WISERAct is a first step toward better workforce disclosure. Check out @franseegull.bsky.social's op-ed today in @impactalpha.com : impactalpha.com/with-wiser-a...

Kensington Corridor Trust in Philadelphia is planning a community stewardship trust to allow neighborhood residents to buy shares for as little as $10 a month and receive dividends. KCT has teamed up with The Guild, based in Atlanta, to set up the stewardship. impactalpha.com/in-philadelp...

🎧 On "This Week in Impact," how patient capital built India’s booming affordable home lending market; Nippon Life Insurance’s step-up to system-level investing in Japan; and the push and pull behind the growing interest in climate adaptation. impactalpha.com/patient-capi...