🇵🇪 ¡Ya nos vamos al Perú!
ImpactAlpha estará en Lima para El Foro GLI Latam.
#GLIForumLatAm2026 es el primer evento de América Latina totalmente enfocado en impulsar la inversión con enfoque de género como un mecanismo efectivo para avanzar hacia la igualdad e impulsar el desarrollo económico de la región.
David Bank, el redactor de ImpactAlpha, moderará una conversación sobre la inversión a la economía de impacto con:
• Jessica Espinoza de 2X Global
• Dipti Pratt de Toniic
• Luis Lira de Aliados de Impacto - NAB Perú
• Carolina Suárez de @latimpacto
• Sebastián Welisiejko de @newventuresmx
La transición desde la inversión de impacto hacia una economía de impacto que integra empresas, territorios, comunidades y flujos de capital en una misma lógica sistémica. Una conversación sobre cómo redes, cámaras y plataformas están movilizando recursos, alineando incentivos y construyendo ecosistemas que alinean inversión con resultados medibles.
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@promujer
#GLINewHorizons
🎧 On "This Week in Impact," Brian Walsh and David Bank discuss how Los Angeles lowers the cost and complexity of capital for affordable housing.
This week the board of LA County Affordable Housing Solutions Agency, or LACAHSA, approved $155 million in financing for a slate of 10 projects that include low-income housing tax credits.
In essence, Los Angeles’ approach treats affordable housing as civic infrastructure, much like roads, schools and parks.
Listen at the link in our bio .
In Los Angeles, a novel mechanism that is expected to finance the construction of more than 1,500 units of new housing may suggest a way for the rest of the state, and the country, to get more housing built more quickly and cheaply.
Local officials on the board of the LA County Affordable Housing Solutions Agency, or LACAHSA, the area’s three-year-old regional housing authority, on Wednesday approved the issuance of a $204 million social bond to back 20 housing projects.
Instead of relying primarily on federal low-income housing tax credits, or LIHTC, the new approach leverages the $4 trillion municipal bond market to make low-cost capital available to mostly nonprofit housing developers.
The key: A layer of catalytic capital that mitigates the risk of losses for institutional bond buyers.
“There’s a new source of construction financing in the state of California, especially in LA county,” LACAHSA’s Ryan Johnson, tells ImpactAlpha. “It’s cheaper than LIHTC, and it’s less complex.”
Read more at ImpactAlpha.com
#AffordableHousing #LosAngelesCounty @ternerlabs
The Fibers Fund is a catalytic fund which backs US producers of natural fibers.
It was designed to fund farmers and entrepreneurs who have been largely excluded from both traditional agricultural finance and newer impact vehicles.
“We just heard very strongly from these farmers and ranchers that ‘we want to be able to access the same kinds of patient and flexible and creative capital that are becoming available for food producers,” said Fibers’ Sarah Kelley.
Fibers Fund is using "ImpactAlpha Edge" to do their important work. Learn more about the new intelligence platform at the link in our bio and book a demo.
Kalos Ventures Management is making its debut in venture investing with an all-women team and a thesis focused on an aging population and the reshaping of jobs by AI.
The New York-based firm has raised $78.8 million from a roster of impact-focused limited partners including Zoma Capital, GCM Grosvenor, @massmutual , @sorensonimpact Advisory and Melinda French Gates’ @pivotaldotcom .
“We believe the greatest investment opportunities are at the intersection of major technological advancements, like AI, automation and robotics, and rapid demographic change,” Kalos’ Ashley Bittner told ImpactAlpha.
Read more at ImpactAlpha.com
ImpactAlpha was delighted to partner with the Siegel Family Endowment for a welcome happy hour prior to @impactphl 's Total Impact Summit in Philadelphia.
Pictured:
•Dennis Price, ImpactAlpha CEO
•Laura Maher, Siegel Family Endowment's Chief of Staff and Director of External Engagement
• Amy Cortese, ImpactAlpha Editorial Director
Chris Larson has sat on both sides of the fundraising table.
As the chief investment officer and then CEO of New Island Capital, a well-heeled single-family office in San Francisco, there was “a line out the door of funds, and direct deal sponsors, pitching things,” Larson says on the latest Agents of Impact podcast.
Now, as co-founder of Alder Point Capital Management, Larson is the GP who is pitching prospective LPs on the firm’s thesis of investing in sustainable real assets, such as forests and farmland. “It was slow, like you might expect,” he admits.
Alder Point, formed with other veterans of New Island, has reached a second close on $126 million for the firm’s strategies, according to a filing with the SEC (see profile on ImpactAlpha Edge).
“In rural communities across the US, there are lots of opportunities for impact interventions,” Larson says. “These impact interventions not only are delivering good from a climate, biodiversity, worker, health and safety perspective, but they’re also driving returns.”
🎧 Read more at ImpactAlpha.com and listen at the link in our bio.
ImpactAlpha’s new intelligence platform "ImpactAlpha Edge" maps LP/GP allocations and relationships to help you quickly spot signals and identify partners.
John Simon of Maryland-based Total Impact Capital says Edge provided "essential information."
Learn more and book a demo at the link in our bio.
Among impact financial advisors, assets go and assets come.
Utah-based investor Jim Sorenson has been on both sides of the ebbs and flows.
@sorensonimpact Advisory is absorbing a half-dozen advisors and other professionals, along with many of their clients, from Align Impact, the early impact advisory that shuttered its operations at the end of April, as ImpactAlpha first reported.
The reshuffle of high net-worth clients and other asset owners is expected to roughly double the Sorenson advisory’s assets under management from about $255 million at the end of last year (disclosure: @sorensonimpactfoundation is an investor in ImpactAlpha).
“We wanted to see the clients taken care of, and we really wanted to set up a platform for growth,” Sorenson told ImpactAlpha on the sidelines of this month’s @missioninvestors conference.
“And we want to show that this can be done and survive and thrive in the marketplace, and create a recognition of the need for pure impact advisory services.”
Read more at ImpactAlpha.com
African startups are joining the AI race, on their own terms.
From Nairobi to Lagos to Johannesburg, local entrepreneurs are building on open source models to create AI applications for Africans and to provide the continent with a measure of data sovereignty and control.
The global AI market is dominated by a handful of US and Chinese tech companies.
Africa, with a history of leapfrogging through stages of technology, is becoming a testbed for a bottom-up, distributed, local alternative that could be a model not only for the Global South, but for the globe.
“We’ll have a global wave of private models and more open-source models,” says Toffene Kama of @mercycorps , which tracks and invests in cutting-edge tech trends in emerging and frontier markets. “But there is a whole wave also coming from the ground, with small and micro models that could do the work in a much more efficient way, but for a very narrow problem.”
Read more at ImpactAlpha.com
#AfricaForwardSummit #AI #tech
How must capital change now to support thriving communities?
Norbert Cichon of @thespringpoint , Deborah Frieze of Unlock Ownership, Amber Quiñones of Stray and @Roodgally Senatus of @impactalpha will unpack that question at the Total Impact Summit hosted by @impactphl in Philadelphia.
As public resources strain and private investment continues to shape local outcomes, the ways philanthropic, institutional, and community-rooted capital are deployed matter more than ever.
This plenary examines how transforming public finance, private investment, philanthropy, and community capital can unlock more resilient and equitable futures for place.
Panelists will explore what it takes to align these forms of capital with urgency, accountability, and care to meet the moment communities are facing today.
#TIS2026
The distribution of funds contributed to donor-advised funds is governed by the sponsoring organization.
That makes it crucial that donors choose such gatekeepers wisely.
“Investors and donors must advocate for our own money, making sure it’s actually serving its intended purpose,” Candide Group’s Morgan Simon writes in a guest post on ImpactAlpha.
That responsibility became clear when @fidelitycharitable , @vanguardcharitable and Schwab’s DAFgiving360 last month announced they would no longer honor donor grant recommendations to the @splcenter , in what Simon called an act of “preemptive obeyance.”
The civil rights nonprofit has for over 50 years sued white supremacist groups, tracked hate and extremist organizations, and championed anti-bias education.
@thejusticedept last month indicted the group on charges of defrauding its donors by paying informants inside extremist organizations.
Until last year, the center had shared information and tips with local police and the FBI.
The center has not been convicted of any crimes and retains its nonprofit status with the Internal Revenue Service.
Read more at ImpactAlpha.com
