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网页Climate 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.
Optimizing for Impact: What are the five dimensions of impact?
网页2021年10月14日 — 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 …
Climate Week preview: Fusing climate action and the SDGs to the …
网页2020年9月14日 — 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
网页David 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
网页ImpactAlpha, 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.
Rockefeller’s Zero Gap Fund helps mobilize $1 billion-plus while ...
网页2024年7月10日 — The Rockefeller Foundation teamed up with the MacArthur Foundation in 2019 to get capital moving toward hard-to-finance sustainable development challenges. Their $30 million Zero Gap Fund, now fully deployed, has helped mobilize more than $1 billion into new funds and investment strategies by using derisking mechanisms both …
Optimist? Pessimist? How a dose of techno-pragmatism can make …
网页2024年7月17日 — A techno-pragmatist view recognizes the ubiquity and possibility of technology while acknowledging its limitations and those of the ecosystem that creates it. Building a techno-pragmatic ecosystem will require bringing together new types of players, ones that are clear-eyed about realistic outcomes and mindful of unintended negative …
Getting started with impact ratings - ImpactAlpha
网页2023年8月14日 — 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?
Zola, Sun King and M-KOPA offer three paths to Africa’s off-grid …
网页2023年6月15日 — The sector attracted $746 million in investment last year, up 63% from 2021, according to the Global Off-Grid Lighting Association. That surge was largely driven by Sun King’s equity raise of $330 million last year. Sun King, formerly known as Greenlight Planet, is one of a handful of winners, so far, in a market that has consolidated with ...
ImpactAlpha Open: Investing in the ownership economy
网页2024年1月23日 — Hi there, Agents of Impact! Welcome to Open, ImpactAlpha’s free weekly newsletter with the top news and opportunities in impact investing and sustainable finance.Expand your access to job openings, fund databases and unlimited articles: Subscribe today with 25% off. In this week’s Open:. Investing in the ownership economy …