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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.
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.
Uncovering the Latest Impact Investing News and Trends
WEBDavid co-founded ImpactAlpha to cover impact investing as a serious beat in the expectation it would become one – and it has. A veteran journalist, he has spotted big trends at The Wall Street Journal (and before that, the San Jose Mercury News and other newspapers), breaking stories on technology, social innovation and finance.
KKR raises nearly $1.5 billion for Global Impact Fund II
WEBImpactAlpha, Jul. 12 – The $471 billion asset manager reported the first close in an S.E.C. filing.Fundraising for the follow-on impact fund already has exceeded the $1.3 billion KKR raised for its first global impact fund in 2020. “What’s different this time is there’s proof points,” KKR’s Ken Mehlman said at a Morgan Stanley event last month.
Getting started with impact ratings - ImpactAlpha
WEBAug 14, 2023 · Impact for Decision-Making, Part 2. In part 1 of Impact for Decision-Making, Impact Frontiers and Impact Capital Managers made the case for “impact-financial integration.”Dive deeper into impact ratings with module two of the open-access course. What is an impact rating?
Events Archive - ImpactAlpha
WEBThe REAL Summit: Intersection of Finance and Mental Health. As the nexus of investment and mental health, this event is designed to expand the finance ecosystem by driving more global capital toward …. xr:d:DAFer3i1FkU:9,j:44307502083,t:23033015.
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 ...
Assessing impact and risk when deploying catalytic capital
WEBJul 20, 2022 · The framework below illustrates how we think about impact for Catalyst capital. We assess the contribution of our intervention; routes to impact (scaling up businesses or catalysing markets); and the ultimate impact that we want to achieve (inclusion and/or climate action and environmental sustainability). Figure 1: Impact Framework for Catalyst.
Social Finance taps donor-advised funds for impact-first investments
WEBImpactAlpha, November 7 — Boston-based nonprofit Social Finance is launching a fund to attract some of the big pools of capital locked up in tax-advantaged donor-advised funds.The Social Finance Impact First Fund aims to make it easier and more cost effective for DAF donors to access impact-first deals.. DAF managers and philanthropists “have struggled with how to put more philanthropic ...
Climate Finance Tracker - ImpactAlpha
WEBUS Climate Finance Tracker. The Climate Finance Tracker - U.S. shows flows of private funding to US-based companies and non-profits whose descriptions mention terms realting to climate mitigation or climate adapation. The funding data span private investments (provided by Crunchbase) and philanthropic grants (provided by Candid).