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WEBClimate United, a coalition led by Calvert Impact, has extended a $31.8 million loan to Scenic Hill Solar, an Arkansas-based solar power developer, to cover pre-construction costs for 18 solar plants for the University of Arkansas system, a state-funded network of schools, including the historically Black University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff.
Kua Ventures expands investments in East Africa's social impact ...
WEBImpactAlpha, Oct. 2 – Nairobi-based Kua Ventures was launched in 2020 by the non-profit endPoverty to help African startups build long-term resilience.The venture capital firm has clocked $1 million in investments in 20 enterprises that have created over 200 jobs in Kenya. “We’ve gone through the pandemic, the election cycle, the depreciating Kenya shilling,” Kua’s Peter Fry tells ...
Tying fund compensation to impact and financial performance
WEBJan 4, 2024 · The Impact Linked Compensation Project is a collection of first-generation data to provide insights and offer fund managers a set of considerations for understanding impact-linked compensation within the context of their fund structures, portfolio compositions and relationships with asset owners. The upcoming report, which will be published in January 2024, aims to contribute to the ongoing ...
Climate and Gender Funds List - ImpactAlpha
WEBSep 24, 2024 · Investors are waking up to the outsized impact potential of investing at the intersection of climate change and women’s and girls’ empowerment. Investing with a gender lens can particularly address challenges in climate adaptation and resilience issues. And solving climate-related problems disproportionately benefits women and girls.
Climate investment opportunities for family offices - ImpactAlpha
WEBApr 24, 2024 · Family offices, which at a high level are the organizations that high-net-worth individuals and families set up to manage their assets, are poised to play an essential role in getting more philanthropic and investment dollars off the sidelines and into climate solutions. Today, by some estimates, there are some 4,500 family offices managing $6 ...
Climate Week preview: Fusing climate action and the SDGs to the …
WEBSep 14, 2020 · The latest estimates of the Social Progress Imperative suggest Covid-19 and the accompanying economic crisis could delay progress another decade, to 2092. “We are breaking all the barriers right now,” said former U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry at a climate briefing arranged by U.S. Democrats over the weekend.
For this Earth Day, the White House delivers a $7 billion message ...
WEBApr 22, 2024 · “Cheaper, faster, better” is not just for affluent households or wealthy neighborhoods. Hundreds of millions in annual cost-savings from ever-cheaper solar energy, not to mention the climate and environmental benefits, are expected to flow to low-income households under the $7 billion Solar for All program, the third big chunk of the $27 billion Greenhouse Gas Reduction Program.
Optimizing for Impact: What are the five dimensions of impact?
WEBOct 14, 2021 · Optimizing for Impact. Want to learn more about Optimizing Impact for the Sustainable Development Goals? Over the next few weeks, ImpactAlpha will offer a sampling of Cathy Clark’s favorite videos from the Coursera course, “Impact Measurement and Management for the SDGs,” developed by CASE at Duke and the U.N. Development Program – with commentary from Cathy.
Impact investing offers foundations greater impact per dollar
WEBSep 12, 2023 · In one sense, this dilemma was addressed by the IRS’ designation of the Program Related Investment, a tool specifically designed for foundations which allows them to deploy catalytic capital as part of their program strategies and within their grants budgets.By definition PRIs must prioritize impact, and they can be a catalytic form of capital to deploy for many reasons.
What we know about KKR’s $1 billion Global Impact Fund
WEBImpactAlpha, April 30 – KKR, the latest private-equity giant to move into impact investing, has launched fundraising for what it expects to be a $1 billion Global Impact Fund, led by KKR veterans Ken Mehlman and Robert Antablin. The fund managers expect to make 12-15 investments in sustainable business development, next-generation energy, agriculture and food and other sectors aligned with ...