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Today in #impinv news: ✏️ Roundup: LPs and GPs and intermediaries – oh my! 📈 Chart: Global mobile phone access. 🔎 Spotlight: Rockefeller’s Zero Gap Fund. hubs.ly/Q03yTLjm0

🎧@capshiftimpact has aimed to help family offices, financial advisors and donor-advised funds offer #impinv opportunities to existing clients recently announcing that it had mobilized $1 billion through its platform. Podcast guest @adamrein explains. hubs.li/Q03yKp0G0

As a new generation of investors takes the reins, clients are looking for advisors able to craft strategies that combine impact and financial returns, according to @capshiftimpact CEO and co-founder @adamrein. hubs.li/Q03yKgGF0

Today in #impinv news: ✏️ Exclusive: M-KOPA raises a round – and faces questions around shareholder equity. ✏️ Investing in algae innovation. ✏️ Financing green jobs with Community Reinvestment Act capital. ✏️ Introducing ImpactAlpha’s Advisors’ Corner. hubs.li/Q03yJYKY0

How a request for disclosure got @amazon to cut plastic packaging by 28%. "These achievements represent an important step forward. But we believe Amazon can and must go further," writes @cmackerron of @AsYouSow. hubs.li/Q03yRVy10

Tonya Allen of @McKnightFdn has some advice for some of her more risk-averse foundation peers: If your lawyers are telling you to pull back, get a new lawyer. hubs.li/Q03yRW8Y0

💼 See and share more than a dozen new impact jobs posted this week on the #ImpactAlpha Career Hub and view hundreds of more jobs in impact investing and sustainable finance. hubs.li/Q03yTKy40

.@RockefellerFdn fully committed its $30 million Zero Gap Fund two years ago, but its recipients are still deploying funds, crowding in capital, and generating impact, according to the latest “state of the portfolio” report. hubs.li/Q03yR-Nh0

How mobile phone access equals global financial inclusion. hubs.ly/Q03yTHGs0

.@Techstars Birmingham’s Rae’Mah Henderson joins @sherrell_dorsey to discuss how community, capital, and place-based partnerships are driving the clean energy transition. 🔌 #RSVP for the next PluggedIn, Tuesday, August 5th at 10aPT/1pET. hubs.li/Q03yRVcl0

.@justinejanssen is named interim executive director of Employee Ownership Canada See other people moves in today's Brief.

Global real estate investment firm @Hines seeks a global sustainability reporting analyst. Search other #jobs and #internships at the #ImpactAlpha Career Hub. hubs.li/Q03yGwQd0

Using blockchain technology, financial service providers are turning real-world things into assets that can be traded by everyday investors. How a fintech startup and forest product producer transformed 1k+ kilograms of Brazil nuts, into digital assets. hubs.li/Q03yGyl90

The 22 Fund wins Communitiy Reinvestment Act (CRA) allocations from @BMO and @CityNational for quality green jobs. “The CRA is one of the most powerful tools we have for creating equitable economic outcomes in this country,” said @graymattr7. hubs.li/Q03yKpdy0

New York-based @chestnut_carbon secured a line of credit of up to $210 million, led by @jpmorgan and a syndicate of banks and backed by an offtake agreement with @Microsoft, for a carbon removal afforestation in the Southern US. hubs.li/Q03yKgm50

Up now at the #ImpactAlpha Career Hub: @ClimateCabinet helps state and local candidates run, win, and legislate on climate change. The organization is hiring a lobbyist and strategist for Ilinois. hubs.li/Q03yGmnH0

In separate deals this week, @mara_corp and @ProvectusAlgae snagged a combined $21.7 million to scale algae-based platforms addressing two very different challenges: global nutrition and livestock emissions. hubs.li/Q03yJ-s90

🆕 #ImpactAlpha and @capshiftimpact are launching Advisors’ Corner – a hub of practical resources to help financial advisors develop their own answers to the questions their clients are asking about impact investing.

.@RACapitalMgmt, a health and biotech investor, has closed its first Planetary Health Fund. The strategy “represents a natural evolution of our mission to back transformational science and technology to improve human wellbeing,” says @PeterKolchinsky. hubs.li/Q03yvPrn0

The $250 million PayJoy Asset Fund secured a commitment from @TRowePrice. PayJoy is scaling access to smartphones and credit for underserved across Latin America, Africa and Southeast Asia. hubs.li/Q03yvKCJ0