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Using school meals to change food systems and empower local farmers
School meal programs are one of the largest global safety nets. Nearly 80 million children globally received school meals through government-led efforts in …
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A fund for Canada’s Indigenous communities opens the tap of public finance
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Goldman Sachs Alternatives acquires LearnWell to scale up school-based behavioral health services
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Indigo Ag signs up Microsoft to offtake 2.9 million carbon removal credits
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Overstory secures $43 million to predict and prevent utility-sparked fires
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Stopping the financing of prisons and jails through municipal bonds
Investors must pledge to stop exploiting and extracting from the poor and communities of color. One relatively straightforward and easy approach would be …
The diverging paths of climate tech in Europe and the U.S.
Talent. Customers. And specialization. Transition-friendly policy and sentiment are helping set the European Union apart as a hub for climate tech. My colleague …
Black Farmer Fund is reimagining U.S. agricultural finance, on farmers’ terms
A century ago, Black farmers represented 14% of all farmers in the U.S. Now? Just 1.4%. Barriers to affordable financing have cost farmers …
How CDFIs are rethinking lending risks to build BIPOC-led businesses and wealth
The portrayal of Black, Brown, Indigenous, and low-income populations as “too risky” for business investments is rooted in racism used to justify underinvestment …
A resilient pandemic recovery requires faster, cheaper pay-for-success initiatives
ImpactAlpha, June 1 – Pay-for-success financing represents an opportunity to fund new social services and build back better from the COVID-19 pandemic. But deal …
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