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TGIF, Agents of Impact! In today’s Brief: 🗣 Going exponential. It’s well past halftime on the road to 2030, and we’re behind by …
☎️ Launching and building your career in impact investing. How best to establish a career in impact investing, or at least to land a job? Vistria Group’s Sherry Wang says building a career in impact investing has been incredibly rewarding. “Not only have we been able to create new innovations that reshape how capital can benefit communities,” she says, “I’ve made lifelong friends over the last 20 years.” Wang will join Community Capital Management’s Alyssa Greenspan, California Endowment’s Aifuwa Ehigiator, and San Francisco’s Cynthia Wong, in conversation with Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Kimberlee Cornett and ImpactAlpha’s David Bank, to share advice and encouragement for students, recent grads, career switchers and anybody looking for pathways into impact investing, Monday, June 15, at 10am PT / 1pm ET / 6pm London. RSVP today.
New Markets Tax Credits still miss the places that need them most. The New Markets Tax Credit has steered $66.6 billion into distressed communities over two decades. A closer look reveals huge swaths of the country where capital still won't go. Jay Patel of the National Community Investment Fund argues that the credits’ newly codified permanent status creates an opportunity to redirect investment toward rural counties, tribal lands and other places conventional lenders continue to avoid. Read on.
🎧 This Week in Impact. Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank. Up this week: Battery makers’ pivot from EVs to grid storage for renewable energy in Europe; Lukas Walton-backed S2G Investments’ big raise and big trucks; and, the World Cup’s sportswashing bonanza, brought to you by Saudi Aramco.
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