Houston, We Have A Solution
Three Village Capital Companies Named Among the Top 10 Most Promising Energy Startups in the US Village Capital provides opportunity to entrepreneurs solving major global challenges, and last Thursday,...
View ArticleWe’re Not At “Mission Accomplished” for Impact Investing: What’s Next?
Or, in other words: should the GIIN Declare Victory and Wind Down, or Upshift to GIIN 2.0? The following piece was written by Ross Baird, Executive Director of Village Capital. Seven years ago, the...
View ArticleImpact Investing is an Approach, Not an Asset Class
A post yesterday on this blog highlighted how there seems to be widespread excitement about, and acceptance of, impact investing among foundations, governments, corporations, investment banks, and...
View ArticleSector-Level Approaches: Impact Investing is a Means, not an End
A post Monday on this blog highlighted how there seems to be widespread excitement about, and acceptance of, impact investing among foundations, governments, corporations, investment banks, and...
View ArticleExpand the Impact Investing Conversation Globally, Beyond the G7
A post Monday on this blog highlighted how there seems to be widespread excitement about, and acceptance of, impact investing among foundations, governments, corporations, investment banks, and...
View ArticleImpact Investing Requires Human Capital Alongside Financial Capital
A post Monday on this blog highlighted how there seems to be widespread excitement about, and acceptance of, impact investing among foundations, governments, corporations, investment banks, and...
View Article“Meet You at the Top”: Village Capital and Juhudi Kilimo’s Innovations for...
VilCap Kenya: Innovations in Agriculture—in partnership with Juhudi Kilimo, Africa’s largest asset finance corporation for farmers—came to a close last Friday in Nairobi. The program was greatly...
View ArticleEthics in Financial Inclusion
This spring, we at Village Capital are launching a major initiative to expand access to financial services to under-served customers. Programs in the US, Mexico, and East Africa will support...
View ArticleInvesting in a New Society: A Full Portfolio Approach
I speak at a lot of conferences, and sit on panels, and this past Friday, in Hermann Park, I participated in one of the most important I’ve ever seen. For the first time, I saw complete representation...
View ArticleMoving Beyond Labels & Lenses
We talk a lot at Village Capital about a (hopeful) future where we’ve collectively removed the modifier “impact” from “impact investing,” because companies will have a critical imperative to take...
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