Dennis Price Racial equity investing isn’t about ticking a diversity box. It’s about understanding and investing to tackle social inequities in the U.S. – from education to healthcare, transportation ...

Keep reading, “Muni investors see through mispriced risks to find alpha and impact,” by Dennis Price on ImpactAlpha. 👋 This Week’s Call: How to spot overlooked impact and risk in municipal bonds.

Fund news. Climate advisory firm Pollination rolled out an early-stage fund for climate and nature-focused startups. It’s targeting $150 million and will focus its investments in Australia… Raven ...

Growth opportunity. Full economic participation for Black communities is a $1.5 trillion opportunity over the next decade, McKinsey estimates. MasterCard aims to boost capital availability for ...

ImpactAlpha, July 26 – Retail impact investing platform Swell says it was “not able to achieve the scale needed to sustain operations in the current market,” and is ceasing operations Aug. 30.

Among the suggestions in Part 1 of our roundup: New Forests’ MaryKate Bullen calls for the ‘TCFD for nature,’ a framework for valuing the ‘natural capital’ contributions of forests and agriculture, ...

Equity, which can take the form of common or preferred stock for CDFI banks, secondary capital investments for credit unions, and grant capital or long-term subordinated debt investments for nonprofit ...

Sustainable equities outperform. Hale compared one-week and year-to-date returns of all 203 U.S. sustainable equity open-end and exchange-traded funds with those of their peer groups in an updated ...

Regional revolving loan fund “Native community development financial institutions are the economic engines and pillars of their communities, hands down,” Oweesta’s Chrystel Cornelius said on an Agents ...

Lack of transparency Only four of the top 27 publicly listed shrimp farming companies identified by Planet Tracker disclose their shrimp-specific revenue and operating margins. “Understanding the ...

The poverty I saw during my first trip there shook me so deeply that I couldn’t talk about my experiences for weeks. Seeing what inequality and extreme wealth disparities do to a society tested and ...

ImpactAlpha Since the U.S. government’s $350 billion Paycheck Protection Program kicked in a week ago, Williams and his team have processed $42 million in loan applications. Working through last ...