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1 week ago | 
alliancemagazine.org | Claudia Cahalane
USD $600 million has been raised by Asia-focused impact investment company ABC Impact in its second fund. The capital will be invested in four priority sectors: clean energy and climate resilience, inclusive finance and digital access, healthcare and education, and sustainable food systems. The second fund will build on the momentum of Fund I, which ran from 2019 – 2024.
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3 weeks ago | 
alliancemagazine.org | Claudia Cahalane
A new $10 million impact investment fund will ‘de-risk’ loans for women entrepreneurs in the Asia-Pacific. It’s the second fund from Australian NGO Good Return. The fund will initially invest in women entrepreneurs in Fiji, Cambodia, Nepal, Indonesia and Papua New Guinea. The $10 million will be used to de-risk local financial institutions’ loans to women entrepreneurs.
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4 weeks ago | 
alliancemagazine.org | Claudia Cahalane
The £400 million UK-based Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) has announced it’s moving to solely mission-related investing, outside of its grant-making. The foundation, which seeks to end poverty in the UK, made the statement last week in an advert for an associate director of investment – a new role for the organisation.
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1 month ago | 
alliancemagazine.org | Claudia Cahalane
Democracy in Brazil; sustainable livelihoods; healthcare; and, education are the themes of this year’s Skoll Awards, with each of the five winners receiving USD $2 million unrestricted funding. Announced today, the 2025 Skoll Awards for Social Innovation winners names are Pacto pela Democracia (Pact for Democracy), Community Health Impact Coalition (CHIC), EarthEnable, Health Learners, and, Apis & Heritage Capital Partners (A&H).
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1 month ago | 
alliancemagazine.org | Claudia Cahalane
A Donor Advised Fund (DAF) has encouraged clients to move USD $16m of idle assets into social enterprises in a pilot scheme to channel unused funds to social good. The fund is now encouraging its clients and clients of other DAFs to start using their idle assets for social investment, rather than investing in standard market funds which are not focused on positive social change.
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1 month ago | 
alliancemagazine.org | Claudia Cahalane
Up to €1.25b (five billion PLN) of investment is to be directed towards small and medium-sized businesses (SMEs) and women’s entrepreneurship in Poland over the next three years. The investment will come via an agreement between the European Investment Group (EIG) and Santander Bank Polska and is intended to create ‘favourable financing conditions’ for SMEs and women’s entrpreneurship.
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2 months ago | 
alliancemagazine.org | Claudia Cahalane
Social entrepreneurs in Queensland, Australia, will receive AUS $80 million of social investment in what an expert is calling ‘the most significant initiative by a state government in the history of social enterprise’. The Social Entrepreneurs Fund will be delivered over four years as part of Queensland’s new Office of Social Impact, designed to grow impact investment opportunities in social enterprises. The Office is part of the new Queensland government’s Treasury.
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2 months ago | 
alliancemagazine.org | Claudia Cahalane
The potential of social and impact investment in fragile, conflict affected settings (FCA) will be on the agenda for senior leaders at the Humanitarian Finance Summit in London this week. The convening on 14 February will see around 30 speakers, mainly from the Global North, discuss financial tools and impact investing approaches to humanitarian challenges in FCA settings.
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2 months ago | 
alliancemagazine.org | Claudia Cahalane
The founder of a USD $100 million gender lens fund has been appointed to Nigerian National Advisory Board on Impact Investing (NABII). Tokunboh Ishmael is co-founder of Alitheia IDF (Insurance Dedicated Fund) where she raised more than $100 million to invest in women-led businesses across Africa. A NABII statement said Alitheia IDF was the first and largest Gender Lens fund to invest in female-led businesses across Africa. She is also co-founder of private equity firm Alitheia Capital.
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Jan 17, 2025 | 
alliancemagazine.org | Claudia Cahalane
Disadvantaged young people in South Australia are to receive social investment support from the Australian government and the Commonwealth in excess of AU$16 million (USD$10 million). The investment will be spread over the next four years under the first investments of the AU$100 Outcomes Fund initiative launched last year. The new investments will go to The Young Parent Project and the Workplace Programme.
