April 2019 Highlights: Our 2019 Business Update, Opportunity Zones, International Women’s Day, and CPLC’s Work in the Southwest
2019 Business Update
Our annual business update is live, with reflections from CEO Jenn Pryce on our 2018 performance and insight into our 2019 agenda. Read it on our blog or download a PDF version.
Opportunity Zone Incubator Helps Community-Oriented Funds Make It To Market
Beth Bafford, VP of Syndications and Strategy, writes about our work with The Opportunity Zone incubator for the Kresge Foundation.
“We know that investors with unrealized capital gains are actively seeking ways to deploy their money, but they can only respond to products that are offered to them. We want to make sure that the strategies that are being built in, from and by these communicates have a seat at the table.”
Read Beth’s full article.
Chicanos Por La Causa, a new addition to the Calvert Impact Capital portfolio, provides bilingual and bi-cultural services to promote healthier and stronger communities in the southwestern US. Learn more about CPLC’s work and listen to our Investment Officer, Nick Silbergeld, discuss the deal on our blog.
We celebrated International Women’s Day on March 8th, but at Calvert Impact Capital we’re committed to helping others invest with a gender lens every day. We wrote a comprehensive report “Just Good Investing: Why gender matters to your portfolio and what you can do about it” to help strengthen the business case for adopting a gender lens in private markets and to give investors simple, practical tools to get more money moving. Give it a read.
Conferences and Events
We look forward to connecting at upcoming industry events. In April, we’ll be at the following conferences:
· Opal Impact Investing Forum – April 1st, West Palm, FL
· TXF Global Development, Agency & Blended Finance Conference – April 11, Washington, DC
· Novogradac 2019 Opportunity Zones Spring Conference – April 25, Denver, CO