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Prudential commits $100 million to narrow the racial wealth gap in Memphis,...

ImpactAlpha, February 5 – Place-based, blended finance through a racial lens. A $100 million commitment from Prudential Financial is a trifecta of impact investing trends. The impact investment arm of...

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Philadelphia’s impact investors step up to finance local job-creation and a...

ImpactAlpha, February 27 – First Step Staffing has a disarmingly simple impact strategy for integrating homeless and previously incarcerated people into the workforce. The nonprofit acquires all or...

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Backstage accelerator backs 25 underestimated founders in Detroit,...

ImpactAlpha, March 11 – WhoseYourLandlord, founded in Philadelphia by Ofo Ezeugwu to empower and inform renters, is among the first 25 companies backed by Backstage Capital’s new accelerator program....

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GoATL fund backs LIIF’s charter school finance program in Atlanta

ImpactAlpha, April 23 – The impact investment fund of Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta put $1 million into the Low Income Investment Fund to create a financing vehicle for earlier stage charter...

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A prototype for diversity in Pittsburgh’s tech scene

ImpactAlpha, May 1 – Erin Gatz has a novel idea for promoting equity in tech: Priming female ‘makers’ for entrepreneurship in Pittsburgh’s buzzing startup sector. Gatz grew up in the ‘Steel City’, a...

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Start.coop: Accelerating co-op businesses to expand ownership for workers and...

ImpactAlpha, May 30 – Greg Brodsky grew up watching his father build a local carpet store into a 2,000-store chain that buys and sells floor coverings on par with Home Depot and Lowes. A key...

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Getting smarter about place-based investing

ImpactAlpha, June 3 – A set of briefs from Urban Institute and Mission Investors Exchange round up the ‘tricks of the trade’ in local investing. Among the highlights: need and opportunity maps in...

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Beyond Coal: Seeding Appalachia’s sustainable future with public and private...

In a two-part series, we explore how local leaders are blending capital and piloting projects to reinvent Appalachia’s coal-impacted communities.  In April, the US generated more energy from renewable...

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Beyond Coal: Three tech-driven projects model a more diverse and sustainable...

ImpactAlpha, July 15 – Evidence of unsustainable value creation and neglect mar Appalachia’s coal country. But the region is determined to cut a path that shows how investing in people, communities and...

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mHUB launches fund to revive manufacturing in Illinois

ImpactAlpha, July 30 – Illinois’ economy is generally on the up, but manufacturing employs only half as many people as it did three decades ago. Chicago-based hardware lab mHUB is launching a new fund...

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Local, inclusive and entrepreneurial: How stakeholders are taking back...

ImpactAlpha, Dec. 16 –  The people are rising up. Protests erupted this year in cities around the globe, sparked by price hikes and service cuts, inequality and corruption, and affronts to human rights...

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Small vs. big – not blue vs. red – is the great battle of the next American...

ImpactAlpha, Dec. 16 – While I was running Village Capital a few years ago, I noticed two starkly divided realities in the U.S. Vilcap, as its known, is a venture firm investing in the middle of the...

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