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Field Notes: This Year in Impact Investing

This GIIN report, using data collected in the impact sector, finds that most investments perform as or better than expected.

Soundbites: Enabling Artist Social Entrepreneurs

Toni Johnson talks with Laura Callanan, founding partner of Upstart Co-Lab, on the topic of social entrepreneurship and its unexpected heroes.

Soundbites: ‘The Capital We Get to Work for Good’

Cambridge Associates’ Tom Mitchell discusses Sandra Urie’s transition from CEO and movement into impact investing as well as lessons learned from his years of work.

Soundbites: Gender as a Screen for Public Equities

Toni Johnson joins Nia Global Solutions’ Kristin Hull to discuss their use of gender lens investing and trends in the impact investing space.

Soundbites: Fossil-Fuel Dependence and Poverty Tensions

The Center on Sustainable Investment’s Nicolas Maennling joins Toni Johnson in discussing improving investment transparency in fossil-fuel dependent economies and how divestment affects poverty.

Soundbites: The Trouble in Post-Coal Communities

In this podcast, the Northern Plains Resource Council's Teresa Erikson discusses the declining coal industry's impact on communities once dependent on their success.

Photo of the Month: April 2016

This month’s photo shows the last remnant of the mining industry in one Colorado community bringing the economic effects of its downfall on the neighboring population to light.

Field Notes: Creating ‘Good Jobs’ Through CDFI Investing

InSight at Pacific Community Ventures supports investment in "good jobs" with a report helping CDFIs define them & track their borrowers' impact on communities.

Field Notes: Tackling Multidimensional Poverty

A Brookings Institute report examines how facets of poverty tend to cluster, disproportionately effecting blacks and Hispanics, and how de-coupling disadvantage types can lessen poverty’s oppression.

Field Notes: The Need for Corporate Political Transparency

Heron joins colleagues in asking President Obama to require federal contractors to disclose meaningful information on political spending.