In less than two weeks, innovative CDFI practitioners will gather for the OFN Conference. Register today for a chance to enjoy sessions such as: CDFI Public Policy Initiatives Roundtable Tuesday, November 10 White House briefings? The Office of Management and…
On Wednesday October 21, 2015 The CDFI fund officially opened the 2015 round of the New Markets Tax Credit Program (NMTC Program) through the release of the Notice of Allocation Availability (NOAA). The NMTC program channels private sector capital into…
On October 8th 2015, as members of the impact investing and social entrepreneurship field gathered for the SOCAP event Wharton Social Impact initiative used the opportunity to launch their first-ever report on the financial performance of impact investing. The report,…
On October 19th 2015, The Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN), released a landscape study of the US Community Impact Investment field. Titled Scaling U.S. Community Investing: The Investor-Product Interface, the report provides insight into the barriers and opportunities to increasing…
In October of 2015, BlackRock, Inc. announced the launch of the BlackRock Social Impact fund. Led by Black Rocks Scientific Active team, the BlackRock Impact Fund consists out of equity securities in companies targeting competitive market returns and aggregate social…
On October 7, 2015, Omidyar Network published a report named “Frontier Capital: Early Stage Investing for Financial Returns and Social Impact in Emerging Markets”. The report offers a strategic guide to how investors can achieve financial returns and social impact…
The Rural Business Investment Company (RBIC) is hosting a complimentary webinar on Thursday, October 15, 2015
3 - 4:15 p.m. ET, inviting participants to get an insiders view of the program.
On Tuesday October 6th, Pacific Community Ventures sent out an introductory letter from their new CEO. Mary Jo Cook joins Pacific Joint Ventures from Fair Trade USA. A Mission driven leader with 25 years of experience in strategy development for…
More than 1400 companies around the world are already certified B corps. This month, as the B Corp movement officially hit the UK, the Bridges Ventures released a paper to provide an investors perspective on the growing movement. Entitled “To…
On September 14th, the Kauffman Foundation published a report titled “The Importance of Young Firms for Economic Growth”, showing that young and growing companies have accounted for nearly all net new job creation in the economy in the eight years…