Back in 2010, Woody Tasch founded Slow Money, a movement that raises low-interest loans from local investment groups to lend to organic farms and local food enterprises, taking a patient capital approach. Dozens
In 2011, while working for a non-profit in Kenya, Sabina Habib visited a daycare center in an informal settlement, or slum, of Nairobi. The experience was startling. When she entered the 10 foot
It’s all about context. Impact investing experts agree that, for impact investing to be embraced by the mainstream, it needs more sophisticated ways to measure impact, mimicking methods reminiscent of those used for
A small number of place-based funds in the U.S. focus on impact investing. One of them is Western New York Impact Investment Fund, which targets eight counties in Western New York State. With
Subsistence farmers in Uganda face an impossible situation: Lacking transportation to get to markets, which are miles away from their villages, the amount of product they can sell is limited. And that means
There are a great many accelerators and incubators that nurture startups. But who helps the helpers get funding? It’s an especially urgent matter for fledgling entities run by people who may not have
Fanny Grande and her husband Nelson started out as actors about 20 years ago. But they found that, as Latinx performers, opportunities were limited. Fanny then became a filmmaker, but she still faced
Each year, millions of civilians—non-lawyers, that is—represent themselves in civil court, because they’re not poor enough to merit free legal aid and not sufficiently affluent to afford attorney fees. Of course, the other
