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Public policy updates and expert insights to help Agents of Impact engage with government to create an enabling environment for truly impactful business and investment decisions. In partnership with the U.S. Impact Investing Alliance.
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States of the Union: Crafting policy, building funds and delivering outcomes
The state of the union may be fraught. But away from the long-winded speeches and staged spectacles in Washington DC, the states of …
The Call
Exclusive video calls with industry insiders
Polices for shared prosperity
Opportunity Zones. Community investing. And affordable housing tax credits. Amid the political headwinds and pushback, impact investors see opportunity for bipartisan action on …
Share the Wealth: Agents of Impact lean into economic justice
The takeaway from two weeks of listening to Agents of Impact digest the results of the US election: It’s time to lean hard …
Investors fight for “freedom to invest” in wake of Supreme Court rulings
Investors will confront a dramatically changed policy environment no matter the outcome of the upcoming US presidential election. The effects of this summer’s …
State of the Impact Field: Unprecedented opportunity tempered by sober realism
This week’s Agents of Impact Call continued a tradition started nearly a decade ago by Fran Seegull of the US Impact Investing Alliance …
Policymaking for workers and communities in the Year of the ‘S’
ImpactAlpha. Feb. 24 – “A labor market where workers have more opportunities and have more power and have more leverage is a good …
Impact Voices
Provocative opinions and insightful analysis from the community
Building regional engines for affordable housing in California
California’s housing affordability challenge is often described in superlatives. The state has housing costs among the nation’s highest, the largest number of people …
Strong methane rules can support US competitiveness while mitigating risk in the digital age
With data centers expanding rapidly across the United States to power cloud computing and artificial intelligence, utilities and grid operators are scrambling to …
The ugly details of the Big Beautiful Bill’s damage to US clean energy competitiveness
There is nothing beautiful about the One Big Beautiful Bill Act’s obstruction of US clean energy progress and American economic competitiveness. Investors in …
From Colombia to Turkiye, impact policy wins drive impact economies
Given recent geopolitical shifts and mounting uncertainty, there is a high level of pressure for private solutions to fill gaps left by shrinking …
Bipartisan lawmakers are rallying for CDFIs, investors need to do the same
Community investing policies have attracted bipartisan support for decades. Recent executive actions threaten this important, rare area of common ground. Investors must sound …