Industry Landscape

Resources on the impact investing landscape

We offer commentary and resources on the impact investing landscape, including the opportunities and challenges we see in the market.

Find these resources below.

CIC staff at grofin

Our staff at a borrower site visit in Lagos, Nigeria.

Impact Management

A Theory of Change for the Small Business Finance Sector

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

Learning from the Southern Opportunity and Resilience (SOAR) Fund - Webinar Recording

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

Celebrating Small Businesses Every Week

Calvert Impact reflects on our long-standing history of supporting small businesses during Small Business Week 2023

05/01/23 | By Krystal Langholz

COVID-19 Response

Inclusive Support for Small Business: Insights from the New York Forward Loan Fund (Webinar Recording)

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

Racial Equity

Getting Money off the Sidelines: A Starting List to Invest for Racial Equity

As more investors seek to direct capital toward racial equity, here’s a starter list to help.

11/08/21

Financial Advisors

Seven ways U.S. retail investors can invest and bank sustainably (ImpactAlpha)

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

Borrower Spotlight: eco.business Fund and sustainable shrimp farming in Ecuador

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

COVID-19 Response

Webinar: Oxford Social Finance Programme - Build Back Better through Blended Capital

Webinar: Oxford Social Finance Programme - Build Back Better through Blended Capital

07/01/21

COVID-19 Response

"Scaling Community Finance to Fill a Growing Market Gap," In Stanford Social Innovation Review

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

Industry Landscape

“We need to think bigger," CEO Jenn Pryce on IFC Insights

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

Industry Landscape

The Future of Microfinance: A panel discussion

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

Financial Advisors

Calvert Impact Capital Expands Work in Under-Resourced Communities Globally; Exceeds $500 Million in Community Investment Note® Balance

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

10/01/20 | By Leigh Moran

Strategic Updates

Strategy in the Context of Crisis

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

Strategic Updates

2020-2022 Strategic Plan

Calvert Impact Capital's 2020-2022 strategic plan

04/01/20 | By Jennifer Pryce

Strategic Updates

2019 in Review

2019 was another exciting and productive year for Calvert Impact Capital

01/08/20 | By Leigh Moran

Borrower Spotlight

Microfinance Taps Mainstream Market Solutions

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

Borrower Spotlight

Perspectives from the Field: Mexico

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

Borrower Spotlight

2018 in Review

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

Industry Landscape

Impact Investors Need To Think Big - And It's Not What They Think It Means

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

Borrower Spotlight

Energy Access at Home and Abroad: Bringing Clean Energy to New Global Communities

For Climate Week, Investment Analsyst Caroline Chinhuru shares her insights on renewable energy around the world.

09/24/18 | By Caroline Chinhuru

Industry Landscape

Blended Finance: what is it, what it isn’t and how to use it for maximum impact

Blended finance is the term du jour of impact investing

08/17/18 | By Jennifer Pryce

Industry Landscape

Dear Impact Investors: Consider Affordable Housing

Affordable housing was my introduction to impact investing

04/24/18 | By Catherine Godschalk

Sustainable Development Goals

Making our drop in the bucket count

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

Industry Landscape

Introduction to MFIs Part III: Microfinance Intermediaries

I am using the term microfinance intermediary to refer to both loan funds and structured funds

06/29/17 | By Songbae Lee

Industry Landscape

Introduction to MFIs Part II: Microfinance Networks

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

Industry Landscape

Introduction to Microfinance Institutions (MFIs) Part I

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

Financial Advisors

5 things to know about our impact investors

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

Borrower Spotlight

Trekking Around India to Track Our Impact

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

Tomorrow’s Impact Investors

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

Racial Equity

Entrepreneurship at the CBC

Convened a couple of weeks after the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington

10/17/13 | By Xevion Baptiste

Racial Equity

Let's “Travel Down this Road Together”

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

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