David Bank

On a recent trip to Indonesia, Mary Ellen Iskenderian of Women's World Banking had an “ah-ha” moment about how to bring more financial services to rural women.

ImpactAlpha is on the ground at Climate Week NYC. Here's what's happening and what caught our eye:

Explore how preserving ownership in affordable housing can create pathways to wealth for low-income families while maintaining affordability.

Equity and Ownership: Napoleon Wallace and the Reconstruction of Black Wealth, a new documentary premiering at SOCAP24, explores the 'North Carolina model' for racial wealth building.

Overheard at SOCAP: Agents of Impact: Investing for inclusion, equity and diversity is essential for long-term performance.

Systems thinkers don’t leave home without their slide decks. At last week’s SOCAP conference in San Francisco, the quickest way to capture some of the abundance of innovative thinking on offer was simply to snap pictures of the slides.

For many impact investors and entrepreneurs, it was a day to step back, lay low and make sense of an election outcome that was always a possibility but was rarely fully contemplated.

This fall, the Sorenson Impact Institute moved into its new home at the University of Utah, the Impact & Prosperity Epicenter. The

Oakland-based Illumen is expanding its investment strategies to include first-time managers and direct co-investments, particularly from diverse and underrepresented backgrounds.

Small business advocates in Illinois this year succeeded in getting the state Senate to approve a “small business bill of rights” to ensure business owners know the true interest rates on their loans – only to see