Established in 2019, the Catalytic Capital Consortium (C3) is an investment, learning, and market development initiative created and led by the MacArthur Foundation, The Rockefeller Foundation and the Omidyar Network. These three Strategic Partners aim to promote greater and more effective use of catalytic capital, in recognition of its essential role in realizing the full potential of the impact investing field, including in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. Working to increase the knowledge, awareness and use of catalytic capital, the aim of the C3 Grantmaking program is to demonstrate the power of catalytic capital as synergistic with other forms of investing across the full continuum of capital (including commercial rates of return) to safeguard the environment, support those most in need, and ultimately enable a more just, inclusive and resilient world.
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One more week to submit a #FinclusionWeek proposal! Join the global #financialinclusion community and present your work at the leading industry event! Session proposals for #FIW24 due August 16th: http://bit.ly/CFI-FIW
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Focus on Blended Finance: Tune in to learn how one of the largest blended finance deals to date, the SDG Loan Fund, came about with insights from two of the main brains behind its design - Debra Schwartz (MacArthur Foundation), & Nadia Nikolova (Allianz Global Investors): https://zurl.co/kv3c Gianluca Gaggiotti Clara Maspons
Many C3 partners and grantees are focusing capital and expertise on climate solutions. Coalition for Green Capital, for example, fuels green banks in the U.S. as part of its mission to halt climate change by accelerating investment in clean energy technologies. It approaches its work with a clear focus on #equity and opportunity—working to deliver the social and economic benefits of #energy investments to underserved communities. CGC was recently awarded a $5 billion grant from the Environmental Protection Agency as part of the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund (GGRF). CGC says it has more than $30 billion of demand for its award funds and anticipates that private-sector investors will add more than twice that to the projects jump-started by the federal dollars. “We find ourselves in this interesting place where the financial sector and environmental justice advocates are talking the same language,” said William J. Barber III, CGC’s senior director of impact and equitable investments, at C3’s practitioner conference in Copenhagen. “There seems to be this moment where we can infuse an unprecedented amount of capital with an unprecedented alignment of thought to really target some of the priorities around the climate, environmental and energy justice movements with real power." Watch ⬇ https://lnkd.in/ga4-f77N ✳ For more on CGC’s award from the EPA: https://lnkd.in/emH2NMcR ✳ For more on CGC’s activity: https://lnkd.in/gVPKPE74 #GGRF #climate #greenbanks #impactinvesting #socialinvesting #communitydevelopment #cleanenergy #climatejustice
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The Zero Gap Fund was created in partnership with the MacArthur Foundation and Catalytic Capital Consortium to address some of the world’s most pressing challenges by investing in innovative financial structures that have the potential to be replicated and scaled to catalyze additional capital. Now in its fifth year, we are proud to announce that the Fund is fully committed across investments that address critical global needs as defined by the United Nation's Sustainable Development Goals. This year’s #ZeroGapFund: 2023 State of the Portfolio report provides details about the investments, the impact they have achieved and capital that has been mobilized. Explore the full report: https://lnkd.in/eghXd_qS
Check out this webinar on June 27th to discuss impact-first investing and two innovative investment vehicles: Social Finance Impact First Fund and Total Impact Notes. Hosted by Social Finance and Total Impact Capital the session is designed for accredited investors interested in understanding and engaging with high-impact funds that drive significant social and environmental changes. Register for the webinar here: https://lnkd.in/eGfibhfq Total Impact Capital is a C3 Fostering Solutions and Infrastructure grantee. You can read more about the organization's C3 project and the development of Total Impact Notes here: https://lnkd.in/g_sVy2Ft #impactinvesting #socialinvesting #climatefinance #catalyticcapital #SDGs
Next Thursday, 6/27, from 12-1 ET: Join our team and Total Impact Capital for an informational webinar on impact-first investing. Jess Brooks, Vice President of Investor Relations at Social Finance, and Ambassador John Simon, Managing Partner at Total Impact Capital, will be discussing innovative approaches to impact investing and ways to get started. Register here: https://lnkd.in/eGfibhfq #impactinvesting #impactcapital #catalyticcapital
ICYMI: If you are interested in the intersection of AI and smallholder farming, take a look at this Bloomberg story featuring Opportunity International and its program in Malawi to help farmers improve their yields. It holds potential for other countries as well. “Smallholder farmers currently only produce about 20-30 percent of their potential yield,” said Tim Strong, Opportunity's director of agriculture. “Agriculture needs to double productivity in grain yields and triple vegetable yields to feed the planet by 2050, so this is a critical space to make sure smallholder farmers become the best producers they can be.” Opportunity is a C3 Fostering Solutions and Infrastructure grantee. Read more about their C3 project, including work on the Climate Collateral Alliance: https://lnkd.in/g4S8sc8v #Africa #agriculture #catalyticcapital #impactinvesting #climate #AI #smallholderfarmer
“In the past we could wait for days for agriculture extension workers to come and address whatever problems we had on our farms. That is no longer the case. Just a touch of a button we have all the information we need.” - Smallholder Farmer Maron Galeta. The future is already here, it’s just not evenly distributed - but Opportunity's newest digital innovations are closing that digital divide and connecting smallholder farmers to the transformative impacts of generative AI. Our own Greg Nelson and Timothy Strong share more on #inclusive AI in this new article from Bloomberg News. Thanks to Frank Jomo and Antony Sguazzin for covering this story. #ai #genai #smallholderfarmer #digitalinclusion #climateadaptation https://lnkd.in/g7hvxdZD
Want to learn more about the power of #catalyticcapital in Africa? We are teaming up with African Venture Philanthropy Alliance (AVPA) on a webinar that dives into opportunities for impact, highlighting groundbreaking research from C3 grantees and elevating successful strategies to fuel #SMEs across the continent. Join us on Wednesday, May 22nd, to hear more about best practices for investors in Africa. ✴ To Register: https://bit.ly/4aY2uqz #impactinvesting #socialinvesting #climatefinance #entrepreneurs #Africa Open Capital Aceli Africa Impact Investing Ghana Investisseurs & Partenaires - I&P Initiative for Blended Finance Roots of Impact Bertha Centre for Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship Tyche Consulting Services
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One week left to the pivotal webinar hosted by AVPA and the Catalytic Capital Consortium, where we’ll explore the transformative power of Catalytic Capital. 🌍: Maximising the Leveraging Power of Catalytic Capital 📆:Wednesday,22nd May 2024 🕒:4:00 PM to 5:30 PM East Africa Time (EAT) 🔗:https://bit.ly/4aY2uqz Webinar Highlights: - Unveiling Research: Discover groundbreaking findings from Africa-focused research initiatives supported by C3. - Expert Panel Discussion: Gain valuable insights as our panel experts dissect key considerations and lessons from their latest research. - Strengthening Evidence: Learn how this research fortifies the evidence base for Catalytic Capital, addressing critical questions about its role, necessity, and the impactful results it can foster. The webinar will draw out actionable findings and wrap up by pinpointing best practices for investors in Africa. #CatalyticCapital #Impact #ImpactInvesting
"In a time of mounting environmental degradation and runaway social inequality, we need #impactinvesting to be more than traditional investing with an impact report," writes Maoz (Michael) Brown, explaining the results of a recent survey of fund managers on the perceived difficulty of impact investing. He describes why additionality should be viewed as key—not just for #catalyticcapital investors but for market-rate impact investors as well. "In other words, for impact investors to have value-added impact, there should be something truly distinct about the deals that they seek out and structure, at least compared to the deals made by socially neutral investors." Read more: https://lnkd.in/eJAakYJk In addition to heading research for The ESG Initiative at the Wharton School, Brown is part of the team at the Impact Finance Research Consortium (https://lnkd.in/drnNVyGx), a C3 grantee. Last fall, the consortium analyzed how, when and why impact investors deploy catalytic capital and offered recommendations for the field: https://lnkd.in/g-Erje_j #socialinvesting #climatefinance #responsibleinvesting #additionality
Should impact investing be more difficult than traditional investing? That’s one of the questions Maoz (Michael) Brown, head of research at the Environmental, Social and Governance Initiative at The Wharton School, wanted to answer when he surveyed impact fund managers to get a better understanding of how they do their work: “The lack of reported difficulty I’ve uncovered may be encouraging to field-builders: low barriers to entry promise growth. But it might also indicate that impact investing is not quite living up to its original value proposition, a central part of which has always been the idea that impact investors actively contribute to the impact of their investees.” Learn more about what Brown’s surveys of impact investors suggest about the future of responsible investing: https://lnkd.in/eYpUBeXc #impactinvesting #ESG #investing #impact
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Did you know there's a US$4.2 trillion funding gap to achieve the #SDGs? The gap between what's needed and what's available is a major hurdle in achieving social and environmental progress. Traditional investments often leave space unfilled. This is where catalytic capital steps in. By targeting these funding gaps, catalytic capital unlocks opportunities that wouldn’t be financially viable otherwise. It supports ventures that might not meet the typical risk-return profiles demanded by mainstream markets, ultimately driving positive change. In the past few weeks, I’ve met many of you, eager to learn more about this powerful impact investing tool. To help you on your journey, AVPN is pleased to share our new report: “Accelerating Impact: Catalytic Capital in Asia-Pacific, Latin America, Africa and Europe.” This comprehensive resource, supported by the Catalytic Capital Consortium (C3), empowers investors of all levels. Whether you’re just starting your catalytic capital journey or you are a seasoned practitioner – this report is designed to help you gain a deeper understanding of catalytic capital practices across four key regions. Download the report here: https://lnkd.in/g5NDguMd #socialinvestment #catalyticcapital #impactinvesting