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We offer commentary and resources on the impact investing landscape, including the opportunities and challenges we see in the market.
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Our staff at a borrower site visit in Lagos, Nigeria.
Impact Management
Calvert Impact, Ascendus, and NDC share the co-created Theory of Change for the Small Business finance sector and how they have tested and implemented this theory of change in their own work.
09/12/23 | By Krystal Langholz
COVID-19 Response
60 Decibels, Calvert Impact, Community Reinvestment Fund, USA, and LISC share insights from new research on the small business recovery programs launched in response to the pandemic.
06/07/23 | By Krystal Langholz
Racial Equity
Calvert Impact reflects on our long-standing history of supporting small businesses during Small Business Week 2023
05/01/23 | By Krystal Langholz
60 Decibels, Calvert Impact Capital and Community Reinvestment Fund, USA share insights from new research on the small business recovery programs launched in response to the pandemic.
03/31/22 | By Beth Bafford
As more investors seek to direct capital toward racial equity, here’s a starter list to help.
11/08/21
Financial Advisors
Everyday investors, as well as large asset managers and institutions, are flocking to ESG and impact investing. As many as 95% of millennials are interested in investing sustainably.
09/13/21
Borrower Spotlight
Our borrower, the eco.business Fund, is leading the way in helping Ecuadorian shrimp producers implement practices that protect the environment
09/07/21 | By Christian Choconta
Webinar: Oxford Social Finance Programme - Build Back Better through Blended Capital
07/01/21
During the pandemic, Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFIs) stepped up to deliver desperately needed relief to hard-to-reach small business owners
06/23/21 | By Beth Bafford
President & CEO Jenn Pryce spoke to IFC Insights about the two years since the launch of the Impact Principles and her belief that all investments in the future will have an impact investing lens.
04/14/21 | By Jennifer Pryce
Calvert Impact Capital hosted a webinar with former Board member Ira Liberman to celebrate the publication of his new book, The Future of Microfinance
10/01/20 | By Leigh Moran
Calvert Impact Capital announced today that its Community Investment Note® balance has exceeded $500 million for the first time as its work to support global, under-resourced communities
Strategic Updates
As I wrote last month, to say that we are living in extraordinary times would be an understatement. We are in the midst of a triple crisis - health, economic, and climate
04/17/20 | By Jennifer Pryce
Calvert Impact Capital's 2020-2022 strategic plan
04/01/20 | By Jennifer Pryce
2019 was another exciting and productive year for Calvert Impact Capital
01/08/20 | By Leigh Moran
Calvert Impact Capital is excited to grow our portfolio with a new investment to promote financial inclusion in emerging markets around the world
08/07/19 | By Daniel Ford
Calvert Impact Capital invests to help financial intermediaries better serve small and medium enterprises (SMEs), the engines of local economic growth and job creation across the globe
05/29/19 | By Caitlin Rosser
Against a backdrop of global and political turmoil, we saw an industry of doers organize more urgently around the common call for greater transparency and accountability in our global financial
12/21/18 | By Leigh Moran
Our CEO Jennifer Pryce urges us to look at the big picture of impact investing: it's less about particular sectors or regions, and more about creating systemic change in the capital markets
09/25/18 | By Andrew Parrucci
For Climate Week, Investment Analsyst Caroline Chinhuru shares her insights on renewable energy around the world.
09/24/18 | By Caroline Chinhuru
Blended finance is the term du jour of impact investing
08/17/18 | By Jennifer Pryce
Affordable housing was my introduction to impact investing
04/24/18 | By Catherine Godschalk
Sustainable Development Goals
The World Economic Forum's annual event in Davos kicks off 2018 with as many reasons to be hopeful as reasons to bury my head under a pillow
01/31/18 | By Jennifer Pryce
I am using the term microfinance intermediary to refer to both loan funds and structured funds
06/29/17 | By Songbae Lee
There are many different types of actors within the world of microfinance, from operating companies to investment companies to everything in between
04/25/17 | By Songbae Lee
This blog series will attempt to answer some of the common questions about microfinance using examples from our portfolio, but it won’t include a lot of beneficiary stories
03/14/17 | By Songbae Lee
Biannually we ask our investors for their thoughts on our customer service and how how we’re doing on our mission overall
08/23/16 | By Andrew Parrucci
We recently returned from a trip to India, where we had the privilege of visiting some of Calvert Foundation’s current and past borrowers
06/10/16
Gender Equity
One of Calvert Foundation’s objectives has always been to create an inclusive social investment marketplace—to enable anyone, regardless of their wealth or status, to become a social investor
02/23/15 | By Leigh Moran
Convened a couple of weeks after the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington
10/17/13 | By Xevion Baptiste
I was honored to participate last week as a speaker on a panel about the racial wealth gap in this country at the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation’s annual conference.
09/30/11 | By Lisa Hall