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Jun. 10, 2025 9:27 am
ImpactPHL Convenes 450 at Total Impact Summit ‘25
Philadelphia is a place that knows how to play a role in bold moments of transformation. Amid shifting cultural and capital landscapes, policy shifts, increasing climate urgency, and more, 450 people from across the United States gathered at Convene in Philadelphia on May 14–15 to learn about aligning investments with values and to connect with […]
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Jun. 12, 2024 8:31 am
A New Loan Fund — Five Year Impact Return to Create and Preserve Affordable Homes
After years of declining population, Philadelphia has become a more desirable place to live. However, as market-rate development increases, the effects of gentrification are displacing long-term residents. Rising housing costs coupled with stagnant household incomes are straining low-income families’ ability to stay in their homes. The Women’s Community Revitalization Project (WCRP) is a group working […]
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Jun. 5, 2024 8:00 am
Seeds of Change: Cultivating a Thriving Impact Investing Ecosystem in Philadelphia
The devastating consequences of divestment, like deteriorating infrastructure, vacant lots, and vast expanses of food and green space deserts, are glaringly obvious in low-income areas of Philadelphia. These inequalities in resources and opportunities have created a vicious cycle of poverty and made upward mobility very difficult. For the Philadelphia region, relying solely on traditional philanthropic […]
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Mar. 6, 2024 8:00 am
A City of Neighborhoods and the Challenge of Affordable Housing
We hear a lot about Philadelphia as a “city of neighborhoods.” The description certainly fits, as we have a wealth of distinctive communities offering all varieties of food, shopping, architecture, civic institutions, and other amenities that enhance our quality of life. But what makes Philadelphia uniquely neighborhood-centered? After all, Manhattan has neighborhoods, Boston has neighborhoods, […]
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Jul. 26, 2023 5:33 am
We need blended capital to address racial inequities in Philadelphia’s capital access landscape
Beyond the post facto marketing or compliance efforts as a means of impact measurement
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Jul. 19, 2023 9:50 am
Reset the Orientation of Impact Measurement
Beyond the post facto marketing or compliance efforts as a means of impact measurement
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Jul. 12, 2023 7:36 am
ESG and Impact – Why We Need Both for Meaningful Change
How organizations can create positive community and organization value.
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Oct. 5, 2021 9:01 am
The ‘quality jobs’ framework can be an effective tool for those seeking to invest in companies
By assessing which companies do and do not offer quality jobs, investors may discover a lens to mitigate risk and identify value-additive opportunities, says guest columnist Julia Enyart.
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Sep. 2, 2021 11:56 am
Love your neighbor and embrace the stranger
"Faith driven investors are stewards of their resources and those of the communities they support, serve, and lead," says guest columnist Amanda Joseph of Calvert Impact Capital.
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Jul. 28, 2021 8:45 am
Reflect back, reimagine forward: How Ben Franklin Technology Partners is investing in regional impact
The pandemic taught us that technology's greatest power is in impact, not just innovation, say guest columnists Margaret Berger Bradley and Megan McFadden.