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From Crisis to Catalyst: How the Housing Shortage Is Driving a Wave of Impact Capital

The United States is short approximately 4 million housing units, according to the National Association of Realtors — a figure that represents not a temporary dislocation but a structural failure...

October 22, 2025

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Building Impact Ecosystems in Overlooked Economies: Lessons from Place-Based Funds

The impact investing market has reached $1.571 trillion in AUM, growing at 21% CAGR over six years (GIIN, 2024). The trajectory is unambiguous. What is not unambiguous is where that capital lands....

September 16, 2025

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Why Mental Health Is the Defining Impact Investment Theme of This Decade

The numbers are not abstract. 57.8 million adults in the United States — roughly one in five — experience a mental illness in any given year, according to the National Institute of Mental Health....

September 15, 2025

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Social Enterprises Creating Quality Jobs in 'Left-Behind' Communities

The conventional framing of corporate social responsibility treats employment as ambient — a company grows, and jobs appear as a natural consequence. Social enterprises invert this logic. For a...

March 18, 2025

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Founding a Health Impact Startup: What Data Investors Expect from Day One

Digital health venture funding reached $10.7 billion in 2023, according to Rock Health's Annual Digital Health Funding Report. The overwhelming majority flows to startups building tools for the...

January 7, 2025

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Outcome-Based Health Contracts: Can Investors Get Paid for Better Patient Outcomes?

Fee-for-service medicine pays for procedures, not results. A hospital earns more revenue when a diabetic patient is readmitted with complications than when that patient never returns. Outcome-based...

December 17, 2024

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Longevity, Aging and Care: How the Great Wealth Transfer Is Changing the Care Economy

The global population aged 65 and older will reach 1.6 billion by 2050, doubling from approximately 800 million today, according to United Nations projections. In the United States alone, the number...

December 3, 2024

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Telehealth and Beyond: Building Venture-Backed Models for Affordable, Inclusive Care

The dominant framing of telehealth — as a consumer convenience that emerged under COVID-19 pressure and persisted as a preference — understates what the technology actually represents at a structural...

November 19, 2024

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Why Mental Health Is Becoming a Major Impact Investment Theme for Younger Wealth Holders

Mental health disorders represent one of the most significant and chronically underinvested structural burdens in the global economy. According to the World Health Organization, depression and...

November 5, 2024

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Community Ownership Models: From Community Land Trusts to Shared-Equity Housing

Conventional affordable housing development — tax credit projects, inclusionary zoning set-asides, below-market rental buildings financed through public subsidy — operates within the same speculative...

October 22, 2024

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Place-Based Impact Investing: How Capital Is Flowing into "Overlooked" Cities and Regions

Impact investing has grown into a recognized institutional asset class — the global impact investment market now stands at $1.571 trillion in assets under management, having expanded at a 21%...

October 8, 2024

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The 15-Minute City as an Investment Thesis: Mobility, Housing and Local Entrepreneurship

The 15-minute city — a planning framework attributable to Sorbonne professor Carlos Moreno and operationalized most visibly in Paris under Mayor Anne Hidalgo — posits a straightforward organizing...

September 24, 2024