Highlights: The impact investing supply chain, the case for affordable housing, supporting families in Palestine, and a new page for our insights.
Our CEO Jenn Pryce just published The key to moving more capital? Impact Investors must understand the “Financial Supply Chain”. The piece explores the impact investing financial supply chain, which has emerged to support the needs of mission-driven organizations—and ultimately can help them bridge to traditional forms of financing and scale their impact.
This is a helpful read for investors who want to understand their role in this supply chain, and want to engage collaboratively for impact.
Our VP of Investments Catherine Godschalk writes about affordable housing and the opportunity for impact investing to play a larger role in creating affordable homeownership. With a worsening housing crisis in the U.S., impact investors can help supply the critical capital to get affordable housing developments off the ground.
We announced a new $5 million loan to Global Communities for their Vitas Palestine group to do housing and microfinance lending in Gaza and the West Bank. The loan continues our relationship with Global Communities, and expands our traditional microfinance investing with a focus on international housing.
On our new Insights page, you’ll find our perspectives on the evolving impact investing landscape, investing with a gender lens, and sector-focused investing. We would love to hear your thoughts on these topics and suggestions for other topics.