A curated set of major, new announcements by noteworthy organizations in the Impact Economy. To submit your major news announcement, email your press release in the body of the email along with a square image (other sizes will be cropped) to The Editors with the subject line [News & Events Submission].
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Funding for Growth: WaterEquity Announces $100M in Financing Available for Water and Sanitation Infrastructure Apply for funding: WaterEquity seeks infrastructure projects and growth companies across the water and sanitation value chain in...
For Immediate Release Case Western Reserve University School of Law is pleased to announce the launch of its International Development Law Lab in the Fall Term 2024. Adjunct Law Professor Rumu Sarkar leads the lab and also teaches the related course on International...
The 2nd edition of the Kula Conclave will convene creative-cultural and craft-led businesses, investors, funders, academia, ecosystem enablers, global actors, and policymakers to shape the future of India's $1 trillion handmade economy. 200 Million Artisans will also...
FOR TARGETED RELEASE The 90-10 Institute Launches Summit Initiative to Address Systemic Causes of High Costs and Low Productivity in BioMedical Industry Berkeley CA October 7, 2024 – The 90-10 Institute announced it has received a generous grant to support its mission...
Financing the changes we need
PRESS RELEASE Valencia, October 9, 2024. Over 1,000 people attended the second edition of The Gap In Between yesterday at La Marina de Valencia for the purpose of promoting collaboration between impact startups, large companies, investors and civil society. Organized...
in Midtown Houston
Supporting small-holder tea farmers in Northern India.
Focusing on waste and circular economy
in Guatemala
PRESS RELEASE September 12, 2024 The 20 startups selected as finalists have been announced for the second edition of The Gap in Between, the meeting for taking on the systemic challenges...
Launch of World’s First Incubator Designed to Grow Organizations through a People-Centered Approach The program is aimed at both late-stage start-ups and established organizations entering a period of significant growth or change. August 2024 8th, Boulder, CO: Today...
Catalyst 2030 has announced that Gaby Arenas de Meneses and Fredrik Galtung are the new Co-Chief Facilitators guiding the next phase of the movement’s growth Catalyst 2030, the global movement of social innovators, is delighted to announce the appointment of Gaby...
West Africa Deal Summit 2024 to Accelerate Catalytic Capital Deployment Lagos, Nigeria, August 1, 2024: The Impact Investors Foundation, Nigeria (IIF) and Impact Investing Ghana (IIGh) announce the return of the second edition of the West Africa Deal Summit 2024...
PRESS RELEASE July 11, 2024 The second edition of The Gap in Between, the meeting for tackling society's systemic challenges, comes to Valencia on October 8 It will be held in La Marina de Valencia following a first...
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The Prize supports workforce innovation
For Nigeria Wholesale Impact Investment Fund (WIIF)
MBA networks are paving the way for responsible leadership
Ready to step up and join the ultimate impact startup challenge? Social Nest Foundation launches the second edition of The Gap in Between Startup Challenge, an initiative aimed at promoting entrepreneurship with social and environmental impact. This competition seeks...
$1.3 million via Common Good Marketplace
World’s largest gender-lens fund starts operating with new investment strategy to help address the USD1.7 trillion gender gap Luxembourg, 13 June 2024 - The Global Gender-Smart Fund (GGSF), the world’s largest gender-lens investment fund, has implemented a new...
R.I.S.E. Artisan Fund is proud to announce the recipients of its Market Development Grant Program for 2024. The program supports artisan enterprises with a clear mission to increase incomes to underserved communities, preserve traditional craft techniques, and...
Advance economic mobility applications now open
Mission Investors Exchange 2024 National Conference in Los Angeles in May
Building the social innovation sector
Accelerating equitable health innovation
Ten US Startups Selected for Resilient Future Accelerator
5 million provided access to safe water and sanitation
R.I.S.E. Artisan Fund is proud to announce the recipients of its Market Development Grant Program for 2023. The program supports artisan enterprises with a clear mission to increase incomes to underserved communities, preserve traditional craft techniques, and...
London, UK Catalyst 2030, the global movement of people and organisations that are powering systems change, announced the winners of the Catalyst 2030 Awards for Systemic Change 2023 at Spencer House in London, UK today. The global awards ceremony, hosted by renowned...
For immediate release New Benchmark Shows Impact Investments in Energy Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions (GHGs) While Boosting Energy Production The new energy impact performance benchmark from the Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN) provides insights on impact...
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London, UK - Catalyst 2030, a leading movement in the global social innovation ecosystem, will launch the inaugural Global Social Innovation Day on 8 November 2023. This annual collective impact event is a dedicated celebration of social innovators worldwide. The...
Impact Entrepreneur is an Official Nominator for the world's largest environmental prize
ETHICS, TRANSPARENCY AND IMPACT: THE CONDITIONS FOR A NECESSARY SHIFT TOWARDS A PROFITABLE AND SUSTAINABLE FINANCIAL SYSTEM On September 5th, Convergences launched its 3rd Impact Finance Barometer, entitled "The financial system, economic players and territories: How...
Oct 2. 2023 San Diego, CA Benefunder has acquired Impactly, an industry leading family office and foundation management system. We are happy to share that the transaction is final, the team and platform are now part of Benefunder, and the technology and services are...
1 October 2023 For immediate publication Catalyst 2030 Awards 2023 celebrate systems change allies - Finalists announcement. Catalyst 2030 cordially invites you to celebrate the recipients of the 2023 awards, our allies who are shaping new global narratives on...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE The Bahamas Prime Minister Unveils Innovative Climate Financing Plan at Clinton Global Initiative 2023 New York, New York – September 18, 2023. – The Honorable Philip Davis, Prime Minister of The Bahamas, announced an ambitious three-year...
New York, United States / Geneva, Switzerland – 20 September, 2023 - The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) have signed a landmark Statement of Intent, signaling their commitment to the role of...
Sorenson Impact Center Celebrates Advancement to Institute Status The Sorenson Impact Center at the University of Utah, is now the Sorenson Impact Institute SALT LAKE CITY - The Sorenson Impact Center today announced its prestigious advancement as the newest Institute...
Says new Business of Handmade report
Through standards and accredited conformity assessment
R.I.S.E. Artisan Fund, an initiative of Realize Impact and Sprout Enterprise®, announced that the fund has invested in Loomers India Private Ltd, a social enterprise based in India, operating the brand platform Karghewale and empowering emerging artisan entrepreneurs...
Pilot Programme delivers high quality coaching to Sankalp Awards winners Executive coaching for social entrepreneurs an opportunity to reflect on leadership challenges and chart a path to individual and organizational growth Next phase focuses on training local...
Miller Center Invest, a funding vehicle designed to unlock and catalyze capital for social enterprises in the Miller Center community, announced its first two investments. Funding specifically targers women and local leaders typically left behind in the impact...
Promoting a Systems Economy
R.I.S.E. Artisan Fund, an initiative of Realize Impact and Sprout Enterprise®, announced that the fund has joined Beneficial Returns, an impact investment manager, in an investment to improve the lives of rural Mexicans through community-built housing and...
The Conscious Business Institute and Ubiquity University are announcing the globally first graduate programs in Conscious Business. Foundation for both Masters in Conscious Business and PhD in Conscious Business is the Conscious Business Institute Master Program, the...
The Du Xhil – San Bartolo Yautepec textile collection launches April 28 and 29 at a pop up sale and exhibition at El Diablo y La Sandia Boca del Monte in the historical center of the city of Oaxaca, in southern Mexico. The textiles have been handwoven by 24 Zapotec...
Miller Center & AlphaMundi Foundation Partner Up
Upstart Co-Lab is proud to release its 2022 Impact Report, detailing investments closed by the Upstart Co-Lab Member Community from 2020 through 1Q2023. Investments profiled in this report include: Colorado Enterprise Fund Community Investment Management Honeycomb...
100 essays on impact investing in the global Creative Economy
Boosts Learning in the Social Innovation Ecosystem
at World Economic Forum
Catalyst 2030 supports the launch of the first Impact Business Accelerator program in Ukraine at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland. Davos, Switzerland (19 January 2023) – Impact Force yesterday hosted a conversation with global and Ukrainian private...
Impact ventures addressing one of five Earthshots invited to apply
Shakti Sustainable Energy Foundation (Shakti), in collaboration with Intellecap, has launched the ACCLIMATE (Accelerating Civil Society Organizations Towards Climate Mitigation and Technical Excellence) Challenge Fund with an objective to strengthen and help...
Fuchsia Shoes manufactures handcrafted shoes based on the traditional Pakistani khussas.
Celebrating high impact enterprises tackling key development challenges.
Focused on supporting ocean health
Organisations, funders celebrated during Catalyst 2030 Awards for Systemic Change 2022
Microgrants awarded to two emerging entrepreneurs.
Three-Year, $900,000 Climate Resilience Initiative
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To announce the 2 new microgrant recipients and to have a conversation around the role of impact entrepreneurs in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Measuring social impact requires a suite of products and solutions. Sopact’s Impact Cloud® put them all together. It is a SaaS-based platform designed for corporates and impact enterprises to measure and manage the impact evidence. It simplifies data integration and...
at Final Close of Global Access Fund
of the Gender Lens Investment Pay for Results Fund
Investing for an Inclusive Creative Economy
Impact Entrepreneur is no longer accepting applications for nomination consideration for the prestigious Earthshot Prize 2022. Impact Entrepreneur is an Official Nominator for the Earthshot Prize. The Earthshot Prize is centrered around five ‘Earthshots’ – simple but...
Are you launching a startup that makes positive impact in Water and/or Climate Action?
ASBN announces campaign to protect voting rights.
For Social Design Project in Rural Mexico
Of the Gender-Smart Investing Capacity Building Facility
Eleven Gender Equality Initiative Action Lab Projects to Receive Grants
The American Sustainable Business Network (ASBN) announced today the appointment of new co-chairs of its board of directors and the opening of its long-awaited annual conference ASBN 2021: Restore. Regenerate. Re-imagine. “The new board chairs, Seungah Jeong, CEO of...
Accelerating Women Climate Entrepreneurs Fund
American Sustainable Business Council and Social Venture Circle Merge, Becoming the Leading Socially Responsible Business Organization in the U.S.
200 Million Artisans (200M) Awarded Catalytic Capital Consortium Grant to Study the Role of Catalytic Capital in India’s Artisan Sector 200M is one of only 14 organisations around the world and the only one from India to have received this award from C3 Grantmaking...
Leading investor networks join forces to connect investors and increase financing of African enterprises that create positive social and environmental impact. Nairobi, Kenya / Seattle, USA: 13 October 2021 - Africa offers arguably the highest potential impact...
BOSTON, MASS. (Sept. 21, 2021) – SeaAhead, Inc. and the New England Aquarium have chosen a new cohort of startup companies for BlueSwell, a first of its kind incubator program in the Northeast focused on supporting early-stage entrepreneurship in bluetech. BlueSwell...
Impact Entrepreneur, LLC, based in Sheffield, Massachusetts, has launched Impact Entrepreneur Magazine, an online media source and collaborative platform for its global membership and others interested in building impactful businesses and an overall economy anchored...
Announcing the launch of Creativity, Culture & Capital: Impact investing in the global creative economy - Volume 2. With a Foreword by Darren Walker, President of the Ford Foundation; an Afterword by artist Marta Minujín; and essays from 50 experts representing...
About the Conference ASBC-SVC 2021: Restore. Regenerate. Re-imagine. is a convening that exists to accelerate our work towards creating an economy that works for all: one that is regenerative, equitable, and creates shared prosperity through our businesses,...
Proof of Impact has developed a new product offering for organizations looking to automate the process of mitigating and monitoring their ESG Risk by harnessing the power of modern technology. With immense demand to disclose on ESG compliance, no existing solution in...
New York, 14 September 2021 - In partnership with Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) today announced the launch of a new online training on “Impact Measurement and Management for the SDGs,” available free on the...
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