We are eager to share our insights from 25+ years of impact investing

Financial Advisors

Q4 2023 Report

Our Q4 2023 quarterly report, featuring quarterly updates on our portfolio and borrowers, as well as highlights from our work throughout the quarter.

02/15/24 | By Justin Conway

Strategic Updates

2023 Year in Review

After sharing our 2023-2025 Strategic Plan in January, Calvert Impact executed on its strategy to bring new products to market to increase connectivity between the capital markets and communities.

12/21/23 | By Jennifer Pryce

Industry Landscape

The Future of the Small Business Finance Industry Webinar

The Future of the Small Business Finance Industry Calvert Impact’s new report, Small Business Community Finance: Scaling with Integrity

12/19/23 | By Krystal Langholz

Borrower Spotlight

Borrower Spotlight: Clean energy lending and technical assistance supported by Partner Community Capital

Calvert Impact and Partner Community Capital (PCAP) have a longstanding relationship that spans over two decades. After making our first loan to PCAP in 2007 – only $25,000 – we have seen them grow

12/13/23 | By Annette Vogel

Calvert Impact CEO to speak at UN climate conference

Jennifer Pryce invited to join other climate leaders presenting at COP28 UAE climate summit in Dubai

11/29/23

Calvert Impact and partners launch New Jersey Capital Access Fund to support small businesses through community lenders

The New Jersey program is firm’s third under State Small Business Credit Initiative

11/28/23

Mission Driven Bank Fund's first close tops $100 million

The Fund, anchored by leading investors committed to building better communities, will support banks addressing the racial wealth and income gap

11/27/23

Financial Advisors

Q3 2023 Report

Our Q3 2023 quarterly report, featuring quarterly updates on our portfolio and borrowers, as well as highlights from our work throughout the quarter.

11/15/23 | By Justin Conway

Calvert Impact Capital adds Morgan Stanley Investment Management executive to Board of Directors

Lisa Winslow brings over two decades of traditional banking experience to board

11/14/23

Climate

Calvert Impact releases 2023 Impact Report: 'Demonstrate, Educate, Transform'

Report shows cumulative impact of Community Investment Note® and new products

11/07/23

Impact Management

Our 2023 Impact Report, "Demonstrate, Educate, Transform"

Our 2023 Impact Report features the impact we and our portfolio partners have had on markets, the environment, and communities around the world throughout 2022 and 2023.

11/06/23 | By Caitlin Rosser

Climate United Announces Inaugural Board of Directors

More than a dozen leaders in clean energy, sustainable finance, and community organizing ready to oversee strategy and implementation of National Clean Investment Fund

10/27/23

Calvert Impact closes initial offering of Cut Carbon Note

The green bond drives decarbonization of buildings and expands the number of investors contributing to the clean energy transition.

10/18/23

Financial Advisors

Impact Investing: A Short Guide for Financial Advisors

10/17/23 | By Patricia Redsicker

Climate United Submits Bid to Manage Part of EPA’s $14 billion National Clean Investment Fund

Climate United today announced the submission of its proposal to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s National Clean Investment Fund award competition, part of the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund.

10/12/23

Impact Management

Success Story: Eureka Recycling

In 2016, Calvert Impact provided financing to Eureka Recycling, a zero-waste nonprofit based in Minneapolis, Minnesota dedicated to demonstrating that waste is preventable – not inevitable.

09/20/23 | By Caitlin Rosser

Impact Management

A Theory of Change for the Small Business Finance Sector

Calvert Impact, Ascendus, and NDC share the co-created Theory of Change for the Small Business finance sector and how they have tested and implemented this theory of change in their own work.

09/12/23 | By Krystal Langholz

Financial Advisors

Q2 2023 Report

Our Q2 2023 quarterly report, featuring quarterly updates on our portfolio and borrowers, as well as highlights from our work throughout the quarter.

08/15/23 | By Justin Conway

Borrower Spotlight

Borrower Spotlight: Small Businesses Supported by Advance Global Capital

The eco.business Fund supports biodiversity conservation, sustainable use of natural resources, and climate change mitigation and adaptation in Latin America, the Caribbean, and sub-Saharan Africa.

07/21/23 | By Annette Vogel

Small Business Community Finance: Scaling with Integrity

Comprehensive report that highlights our shared work through the Recovery Funds that lent to small businesses throughout the pandemic, our lessons learned, and our call to action for the future.

06/20/23 | By Krystal Langholz

COVID-19 Response

Learning from the Southern Opportunity and Resilience (SOAR) Fund - Webinar Recording

60 Decibels, Calvert Impact, Community Reinvestment Fund, USA, and LISC share insights from new research on the small business recovery programs launched in response to the pandemic.

06/07/23 | By Krystal Langholz

Impact Management

2023 Impact Principles Disclosure and Verification

Calvert Impact affirms alignment our with Impact Principles and received Advanced ratings in independent verification

05/17/23 | By Caitlin Rosser

Financial Advisors

Q1 2023 Report

Our Q1 2023 quarterly report, featuring quarterly updates on our portfolio and borrowers, as well as highlights from our work throughout the quarter.

05/15/23 | By Justin Conway

Racial Equity

Celebrating Small Businesses Every Week

Calvert Impact reflects on our long-standing history of supporting small businesses during Small Business Week 2023

05/01/23 | By Krystal Langholz

Landmark Transactions

Southern Opportunity And Resilience (SOAR) Fund Insights

60 Decibels partnered with CRF USA and Calvert Impact to understand the impact of the Southern Opportunity and Resilience (SOAR) Fund on small businesses in 16 partner states.

05/01/23 | By Beth Bafford

Financial Advisors

The Impact of Investing in Puerto Rico

Calvert Impact staff visit two portfolio partners in Puerto Rico to learn about impact on the ground

03/28/23 | By Caitlin Rosser

Financial Advisors

Q4 2022 Report

Our Q4 2022 quarterly report, featuring quarterly updates on our portfolio and borrowers, as well as highlights from our work throughout the quarter.

02/15/23 | By Justin Conway

Calvert Impact’s commitment to small businesses

A history of Calvert Impact's support for small business lending and how our strategy has evolved over time

02/14/23 | By Krystal Langholz

2022 In Review

With a new strategy, an updated name, and many milestones achieved, 2022 was an exciting and productive year for Calvert Impact.

01/11/23

Borrower Spotlight

Borrower Spotlight: Sustainable Companies Supported by eco.business Fund

The eco.business Fund supports biodiversity conservation, sustainable use of natural resources, and climate change mitigation and adaptation in Latin America, the Caribbean, and sub-Saharan Africa.

01/11/23 | By Annette Vogel

Impact Management

Success Story: Community Housing Capital

Community Housing Capital (CHC) is a Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI) with a mission to finance the creation and preservation of affordable housing across the United States.

11/30/22 | By Caitlin Rosser

Financial Advisors

Community Investment Note Q3 2022 Report

Our Q3 2022 quarterly report, featuring quarterly updates on our Community Investment Note portfolio and borrowers, as well as highlights from our work throughout the quarter.

11/15/22 | By Justin Conway

Impact Management

Our 2022 Impact Report, "Responding to the Need for Transformative Change"

Our 2022 Impact Report features the impact we and our portfolio partners have had on markets, the environment, and communities around the world throughout 2021 and 2022.

11/03/22 | By Caitlin Rosser

Faith and Investing

Heeding the Call: Investing in Justice and a Livable Future

Faith-based asset owners are leading the way, not only for their peers, but also for secular values-based investors; demanding investment products and services to address urgent challenges.

11/01/22 | By Amanda Joseph

Impact Management

Success Story: New Hampshire Community Loan Fund

In 1997, in our second year of lending operations, Calvert Impact made a $150,000 loan to New Hampshire Community Loan Fund, a community lender that transforms New Hampshire communities.

10/26/22 | By Caitlin Rosser

Climate

What does Community-Based Solar Look Like?

How does the clean power, financial savings, and job creation provided by solar energy benefit our under-served communities? Impact Analyst Annette Vogel visits our partner Sunwealth to find out.

10/25/22 | By Annette Vogel

Landmark Transactions

California Rebuilding Fund Insights

60 Decibels partnered with CRF USA, Calvert Impact, and Kiva to understand the impact of the California Rebuilding Fund on small businesses.

10/18/22 | By Beth Bafford

Strategic Updates

2023-2025 Strategy

We have long rejected and disproved the notion that impact and financial returns are at odds. With our 2023-2025 strategy we plan to prove that there is no trade-off between integrity and scale.

10/14/22 | By Jennifer Pryce

Financial Advisors

New Rates in Unprecedented Times

Our rates are determined by the financing needs of our portfolio partners, not the broader market forces that make headlines. Today, we are raising our rates to reflect changes led by our partners.

10/01/22 | By Justin Conway

Climate

Site Visit: Forest Resilience Bond

Investment Analyst Helen Zhang visits Yuba and Sierra Counties in California and meets with the team behind the project in the heart of the forest where our capital is hard at work.

09/30/22 | By Helen Zhang

Financial Advisors

Q2 2022 Report

Our Q2 2022 quarterly report, featuring quarterly updates on our portfolio and borrowers, as well as highlights from our work throughout the quarter.

08/12/22 | By Justin Conway

Get to Know our Staff

Get to Know Calvert Impact Capital Staff: Josh Bay

We're conducting a series of interviews with our staff, borrowers, and investors.

07/29/22

Impact Management

2022 Investor Survey Release

The results of our 2022 investor survey are in! Every two years, we conduct a survey to better understand both our current investor base as well as the broader impact investing community.

07/27/22 | By Josh Bay

Financial Advisors

US SIF FORUM 2022: Engaging with industry partners on the evolving impact investing landscape

The USSIF conference featured impact investors like Calvert Impact Capital as well as asset managers, institutional asset owners, data providers, financial advisors, and other practitioners.

06/22/22 | By Anna Mabrey

Impact Management

Success Story: Remington Row

Impact investors were critical to Seawall’s growth, helping them build their track record, and create positive outcomes for the Remington Row community in Baltimore, MD.

06/21/22 | By Caitlin Rosser

Impact Management

Investor Contribution: Experiences in Optimizing for Impact Performance

Our President & CEO Jenn Pryce spoke on the different ways we add value to our portfolio partners and contribute to optimizing their impact performance.

05/26/22 | By Jennifer Pryce

New Rates To Meet The Moment

Our rates are determined by the financing needs of our portfolio partners and today, Calvert Impact Capital is raising rates on the Community Investment Note

05/16/22 | By Justin Conway

Financial Advisors

Q1 2022 Report

Our Q1 2022 quarterly report, featuring quarterly updates on our portfolio and borrowers, as well as highlights from our work throughout the quarter.

05/13/22 | By Justin Conway

Impact Management

How to Create a Flexible Workplace that Works

There’s newfound awareness of the importance of both attracting the right people and instituting the right policies – and of the strong interplay between the two.

05/11/22 | By Dina Curtis

Impact Management

2022 Impact Principles Disclosure

Calvert Impact Capital is a founding Signatory to the Operating Principles for Impact Management (the Principles), a framework adopted by over 150 leading global impact investors to-date

04/29/22 | By Caitlin Rosser

Climate

Calvert Impact Capital Enters Partnership with 8 Billion Trees to Offset Carbon Emissions

We're offsetting the carbon emissions of our new offices and commuting staff by partnering with 8 Billion Trees, a small business that runs large-scale planting operations in the Amazon rainforest.

04/22/22

Impact Management

Success Story: DC Water

In September 2016, the District of Columbia’s water municipality – DC Water – issued the nation’s first Environmental Impact Bond (EIB).

04/22/22 | By Caitlin Rosser

Borrower Spotlight

Borrower Spotlight: PACE Equity funds greener commercial buildings in the US

Our borrower, PACE Equity, is the market leader in C-PACE financing, a program designed to encourage developers to make their buildings greener by providing a source of inexpensive private capital.

04/11/22 | By Lucas Pappas

COVID-19 Response

Inclusive Support for Small Business: Insights from the New York Forward Loan Fund (Webinar Recording)

60 Decibels, Calvert Impact Capital and Community Reinvestment Fund, USA share insights from new research on the small business recovery programs launched in response to the pandemic.

03/31/22 | By Beth Bafford

Landmark Transactions

New York Forward Loan Fund Insights

Calvert Impact Capital, CRF USA and USC partnered with 60 Decibels to understand the impact of the New York Forward Loan Fund on small businesses.

03/14/22

Impact Management

2021 Impact Report Webinar

Calvert Impact Capital's Investor Relations and Impact Management staff hosted a webinar to review highlights from our 2021 Impact Report

03/03/22 | By Caitlin Rosser

Financial Advisors

Q4 2021 Report

Our Q4 2021 quarterly report, featuring quarterly updates on our portfolio and borrowers, as well as highlights from our work throughout the quarter.

02/15/22 | By Justin Conway

Racial Equity

Race and finance: America’s segregated banking sector

After the murder of George Floyd, lenders pledged to help communities of colour. But many are still struggling to get cheaper loans

12/13/21

Get to Know our Staff

Capital Can Create Meaningful Change: Our summer internship experience

As their internships end, our summer interns discuss their work at Calvert Impact Capital and their impressions of the broader impact investing industry through the lens of their main projects.

11/30/21 | By Mary Hayford & Angelie Miranda

Faith and Investing

Impact Measurement & Management Primer for Faith Investors

Calvert Impact Capital is excited to share our new publication: "An Impact Measurement & Management Primer for Faith Investors"

11/23/21 | By Amanda Joseph

Impact Management

Our 2021 Impact Report, "Making Markets Work for People and Planet"

Our 2021 Impact Report features the impact we and our borrowers have had on the environment and communities around the world throughout 2020 and 2021.

11/18/21 | By Caitlin Rosser

Financial Advisors

Q3 2021 Report

Our Q3 2021 quarterly report, featuring quarterly updates on our portfolio and borrowers, as well as highlights from our work throughout the quarter.

11/12/21 | By Justin Conway

Racial Equity

Getting Money off the Sidelines: A Starting List to Invest for Racial Equity

As more investors seek to direct capital toward racial equity, here’s a starter list to help.

11/08/21

Climate

As US cities build green infrastructure, here’s one way they’re paying for it (Quartz)

In 2015, DC Water proposed using parks, plants, and permeable pavements strategically distributed to absorb some stormwater runoff and prevent overflow. This municipal bond funded the idea.

10/27/21

Borrower Spotlight

Lendable to Launch $100 million Emerging Market Fintech Fund with Leading Impact and DFI Investors (PRNewsfoto/Lendable)

Lendable Inc., a leading emerging market fintech credit provider, is targeting a ground-breaking $100 million closed-ended fund focused on emerging and frontier market fintech investments.

10/12/21

Impact Management

Mapping a portfolio with its effects on people and the planet

President & CEO Jenn Pryce spoke at Phenix Capital's Digital Impact Symposium about how a consistent impact management framework can improve portfolio management decision-making.

09/23/21 | By Jennifer Pryce

Financial Advisors

Seven ways U.S. retail investors can invest and bank sustainably (ImpactAlpha)

Everyday investors, as well as large asset managers and institutions, are flocking to ESG and impact investing. As many as 95% of millennials are interested in investing sustainably.

09/13/21

Borrower Spotlight

Borrower Spotlight: eco.business Fund and sustainable shrimp farming in Ecuador

Our borrower, the eco.business Fund, is leading the way in helping Ecuadorian shrimp producers implement practices that protect the environment

09/07/21 | By Christian Choconta

Climate

‘Green Infrastructure’ for Clean Water Shows Its Worth in Washington, D.C. (Next City)

Rain gardens and other green infrastructure in D.C. have helped keep the city's rivers clean.

09/02/21

Faith and Investing

Faith Investor Profiles

Our ongoing Faith Investor Profiles series showcases impact investing journeys, gleans insights from leaders across faith communities, and inspires other faith investors to engage in impact investing.

09/01/21 | By Amanda Joseph

Impact Management

Success Story: Equal Exchange

In 2003, Calvert Impact Capital made its first loan of $200,000 to Equal Exchange, a pioneering Fair Trade cooperative that partners with small-farmer coops and institutions in over 20 countries.

08/31/21 | By Caitlin Rosser

Financial Advisors

Q2 2021 Report

Our Q2 2021 quarterly report, featuring quarterly updates on our portfolio and borrowers, as well as highlights from our work throughout the quarter.

08/13/21 | By Justin Conway

Faith and Investing

Impact in Action: Faith Investor Profiles

Faith institutions, and their leaders, are among the true pioneers of impact investing.

08/11/21 | By Amanda Joseph

Faith and Investing

Building an Impactful Faith Portfolio: A Foundational Guide to Impact Investing for Faith Institutions

The guide includes steps for those seeking to incorporate impact investments into a faith institution’s portfolio, including how to establish an Impact Strategy and incorporate into portfolio policies

07/28/21 | By Amanda Joseph

Get to Know our Staff

PCI Media Impact’s Meesha Brown, Catalyze Global Impact’s Jennifer Isern, NYU Law School professor Deborah Burand, and Fern Thomas, ex- of Cornerstone Capital Group, join the board of Calvert Impact Capital

New board members of Calvert Impact Capital

07/23/21

Get to Know our Staff

Calvert Impact Capital Appoints Four New Board Members (Financial Investment News)

Calvert Impact Capital's directors will provide expertise in marketing, international development finance, corporate finance and legal structuring.

07/22/21

COVID-19 Response

Washington State Small Business Flex Fund Launch

Calvert Impact Capital is proud to announce the Small Business Flex Fund, aimed at helping Washington state small businesses recover and grow as communities across the state reopen for business.

07/19/21 | By Beth Bafford

Impact Management

Success Story: Oikocredit

Calvert Impact Capital made our first loan to Oikocredit, a social impact investor and worldwide cooperative, in 1999.

07/15/21 | By Caitlin Rosser

Climate

Funding through Environmental Impact Bonds: Video (Storm Water Solutions)

Katie Johns, Jenn Pryce, and Eric Letsinger discuss the environmental impact bond that DC Water used to fund green infrastructure and a green jobs program.

07/12/21

Borrower Spotlight

Borrower Spotlight: Community Reinvestment Fund (CRF)

When the PPP loan was announced by Congress, many businesses found themselves shut out of the process due to a lack of information and access to the program through traditional financial institutions

07/06/21 | By Caitlin Rosser

COVID-19 Response

Webinar: Oxford Social Finance Programme - Build Back Better through Blended Capital

07/01/21

Impact Management

IRIS+ Use Case: Calvert Impact Capital

Published in July 2021, this document features how Calvert Impact Capital, a non-profit investment firm, uses IRIS+ to support its impact measurement and management practice.

07/01/21 | By Caitlin Rosser

Impact Management

CEO Jenn Pryce elected to Impact Principles Advisory Board for second term

We are pleased to announce that our CEO Jenn Pryce has been elected to the Advisory Board of the Operating Principles for Impact Management for a second term

06/28/21 | By Caitlin Rosser

COVID-19 Response

"Scaling Community Finance to Fill a Growing Market Gap," In Stanford Social Innovation Review

During the pandemic, Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFIs) stepped up to deliver desperately needed relief to hard-to-reach small business owners

06/23/21 | By Beth Bafford

Climate

Forest Resilience Bond Webinar

EPA hosted two webinars on April 29, 2021 and May 6, 2021 to discuss the recently published technical report on the first Forest Resilience Bond

06/14/21

Webinar: Oxford Social Finance Programme - A Primer on Blended Finance

Gayle Peterson, Social Finance Programme Director and Jenn Pryce, President Calvert Impact Capital, presented an "Ask the Experts" webinar on Blended Finance

06/04/21

Financial Advisors

Individuals Represent ‘Untapped Potential’ for Community Investment (Barron's)

The combined health, economic, and social justice crises triggered by the coronavirus pandemic created a surge of awareness in the U.S. around the need to invest in underserved communities.

06/03/21

COVID-19 Response

Bay Area Impact: Investing in Small Business With the California Rebuilding Fund

Bay Area Impact: Investing in Small Business with the California Rebuilding Fund featured Bay Area Council Economic Institute Senior Director Sean Randolph speaking with Laura Tyson

05/27/21

Financial Advisors

How to Apply a Racial Equity Lens to Your Investments (Morningstar)

If you are fortunate enough to be an investor, you have the means to contribute to change by applying a racial equity lens to your investments. Here are some thoughts on how to do it.

05/26/21

Climate

Calvert Impact Capital Invests $2.9 Million in Sunwealth

Clean energy investment firm Sunwealth today announced a $2.9 million loan from Calvert Impact Capital to support Sunwealth’s solar access work.

05/18/21

Financial Advisors

Q1 2021 Report

Our Q1 2021 quarterly report, featuring quarterly updates on our portfolio and borrowers, as well as highlights from our work throughout the quarter.

05/14/21 | By Justin Conway

COVID-19 Response

SOAR-ing to New Heights (Podcast) (Breaking Banks)

JP Nicols hosts Beth Bafford, an architect of the new SOAR Fund, to discuss the multi-million dollar fund aimed at helping small businesses and nonprofits across the South.

05/13/21

Faith and Investing

Love Your Neighbor and Embrace the Stranger

When we look beyond the socially constructed and restrictive barriers of race, class, faith, and gender, we may at first see the stranger, then we recognize our neighbor, and verily, ourselves.

05/06/21 | By Amanda Joseph

COVID-19 Response

More relief for small businesses is on the way: Video (News 4 Nashville)

More financial relief is on the way for small business owners and non-profits. News 4’s Danielle Jackson explains where the money comes from and how it could help local businesses.

05/04/21

Borrower Spotlight

Borrower Spotlight: Azure Source Capital

Azure Source Capital (ASC) mobilizes capital and technical expertise to upgrade and expand water services for under-served urban and peri-urban communities of El Salvador.

05/04/21 | By Leigh Pomerantz

Get to Know our Staff

Get to Know Calvert Impact Capital Staff: Ruth Gao

We're conducting a series of interviews with our staff, borrowers, and investors.

04/28/21 | By Anastasia Pechler

Industry Landscape

“We need to think bigger," CEO Jenn Pryce on IFC Insights

President & CEO Jenn Pryce spoke to IFC Insights about the two years since the launch of the Impact Principles and her belief that all investments in the future will have an impact investing lens.

04/14/21 | By Jennifer Pryce

COVID-19 Response

SOAR fund helping minority-owned businesses in the south to rebound: Video (ABC Action News)

The SOAR Fund will focus on the south. They want to make sure the Black, Hispanic and Native American communities in the south are getting the help they need for their businesses.

04/13/21

Impact Management

2021 Disclosure and 2020 Verifier's Statement for the Operating Principles for Impact Management

Calvert Impact Capital is a founding Signatory to the Operating Principles for Impact Management (the Principles), a framework adopted by over 120 leading global impact investors to-date

04/08/21 | By Caitlin Rosser

Impact Management

Success Story: MyStrongHome

In December 2016, Calvert Impact Capital made a loan to MyStrongHome, an innovative new social enterprise working to fortify coastal communities against climate change impacts.

04/06/21 | By Caitlin Rosser

Impact Management

Success Story: MCE Social Capital

In 2006, Calvert Impact Capital made its first loan to MCE Social Capital (MCE), that works to generate economic opportunities for women and families in underserved communities across the globe.

04/06/21 | By Caitlin Rosser

Impact Management

Success Story: BlueHub Capital

In August 1998, Calvert Impact Capital made a $25,000 loan to the BlueHub Loan Fund (then “Boston Community Loan Fund”), managed by BlueHub Capital.

04/06/21 | By Caitlin Rosser

Financial Advisors

New Rates To Meet the Needs In Communities

We are beginning to see light at the end of the COVID-19 tunnel as it relates to vaccine roll-out, the economy, and the hope of being able to convene with people outside our immediate household.

04/01/21 | By Justin Conway

Faith and Investing

Advancing Faith Values Through Impact Investing

Calvert Impact Capital is delighted to share our new publication: “Advancing Faith Values Through Impact Investing: A Short Guide for Faith Investors and their Financial Professionals.”

03/30/21 | By Amanda Joseph

Gender Equity

Gender Lens Investing: Legal Perspectives

CIC is dedicated to providing resources investors need to incorporate gender into their investment processes to enhance portfolios and create structural change.

03/25/21 | By Leigh Moran

Financial Advisors

Impact Investing: Making a Difference and a Profit (Investopedia)

Most investors spend their time chasing returns. But what if there was a way to do good while also turning a profit?

03/24/21

COVID-19 Response

Southern Opportunity and Resilience (SOAR) Fund Announcement

Calvert Impact Capital is excited to join a network of national and local community lenders to announce the Southern Opportunity and Resilience (SOAR) Fund

03/03/21 | By Beth Bafford

Faith and Investing

American College: Faith and Impact Investing Webinar

More and more people are trying to align their investing and gift-giving with their personal values, and for many those values are rooted in faith

02/23/21 | By Amanda Joseph

Financial Advisors

Q4 2020 Report

Our Q4 2020 quarterly report, featuring quarterly updates on our portfolio and borrowers, as well as highlights from our work throughout the quarter.

02/12/21 | By Justin Conway

Impact Management

Impact Principles Webinar Series, Episode 4: Principles to Practice: Trends and Opportunity for Impact Investing

Impact Principles Webinar Series, Episode 4: Principles to Practice

02/12/21 | By Jennifer Pryce

Borrower Spotlight

Borrower Spotlight: Medical Credit Fund

Our borrower, The Medical Credit Fund (MCF), is a non-profit health investment fund that supports private healthcare clinics and businesses in Africa.

02/08/21 | By Leigh Pomerantz

Strategic Updates

Calvert Impact Capital 2021 Business Update

When we shared our three-year strategy last year, I wrote that “to say that we are living in extraordinary times would be an understatement.”

02/04/21 | By Jennifer Pryce

Get to Know our Staff

Get to Know Calvert Impact Capital Staff: Vanessa Moulin

We're conducting a series of interviews with our staff, borrowers, and investors

02/03/21 | By Leigh Pomerantz

Financial Advisors

Impact Investing Through Community Development Financial Institutions (Forbes)

Many people still don’t know what CDFIs are or how to use them. An overview of CDFIs and some useful resources for how you can use them to align your desire for social justice with your investing.

01/31/21

Financial Advisors

How to Add Impact Investing to Client Portfolios Through CDFI Loans (Morningstar)

There are many more ways to incorporate environmental, social, and governance investing into client portfolios than just mutual funds, and one of them has been around for decades.

01/13/21

Strategic Updates

2020 in Review

The global pandemic, resulting economic shocks, stark displays of systemic racism and injustice, and near-daily evidence of rapidly changing climate made it clear our current systems are failing us

12/18/20 | By Leigh Moran

Get to Know our Staff

Get to Know Calvert Impact Capital Staff: Jacob Garner

We're conducting a series of interviews with our staff, borrowers, and investors

12/10/20 | By Anastasia Pechler

COVID-19 Response

California Rebuilding Fund aims to rescue at-risk small businesses as pandemic brings uncertainty: Video (ABC 7)

One in three small businesses is on the edge and may not survive the next three months without help. The California Rebuilding Fund will make low-interest loans to help small businesses survive.

12/06/20

COVID-19 Response

California Rebuilding Fund Launch

We are excited to join Gov. Gavin Newsom and other members of the California Small Enterprise (CASE) Task Force to launch the California Rebuilding Fund

11/20/20 | By Beth Bafford

Faith and Investing

Pursuing Justice Through Faith-Based Impact Investing

For many of us who engage in impact investing, this verse from Deuteronomy 16:20 is a familiar one, our clarion call to pursue a path of justice and healing

11/20/20 | By Amanda Joseph

Financial Advisors

Here’s what you need to know about impact investing, where returns are not the only reward (CNBC)

Impact investments generate specific, positive and measurable environmental, social and/or good governance outcomes, oftentimes with market-rate financial returns.

11/18/20

Financial Advisors

Q3 2020 Report

Our Q3 2020 quarterly report, featuring quarterly updates on our portfolio and borrowers, as well as highlights from our work throughout the quarter.

11/13/20 | By Justin Conway

Climate

How investors are coming up with the green to save the ocean blue (The Washington Post)

Environmental threats to oceans around the world are prompting new approaches and deals to raise money for rescue efforts.

10/28/20

Announcing Our 2020 Impact Report

October 2020 marks our 25th Anniversary

10/26/20 | By Caitlin Rosser

Borrower Spotlight

Calvert Impact Capital expands relationship with eco.business Fund to increase financing for biodiversity conservation

Calvert Impact Capital is excited to announce a further commitment to the eco.business Fund

10/26/20

Finance that Reaches Communities (Invest for Good)

The financial system has a plumbing problem. We have an infrastructure of existing pipework, but it doesn’t reach everyone. So argues Jennifer Pryce, who heads up Calvert Impact Capital

10/15/20

Infrastructure, Education & Impact Measurement: Scaling Impact Investing in India

In case you missed it, our CEO Jennifer Pryce gave the keynote presentation at India Impact Investing Week 2020, hosted by Impact Investor's Council India

10/08/20 | By Jennifer Pryce

Impact Management

Impact Principles Webinar Series, Episode 3: Impact Investing and Responsible Exits

10/02/20

Industry Landscape

The Future of Microfinance: A panel discussion

Calvert Impact Capital hosted a webinar with former Board member Ira Liberman to celebrate the publication of his new book, The Future of Microfinance

10/01/20 | By Leigh Moran

Financial Advisors

Calvert Impact Capital Expands Work in Under-Resourced Communities Globally; Exceeds $500 Million in Community Investment Note® Balance

Calvert Impact Capital announced today that its Community Investment Note® balance has exceeded $500 million for the first time as its work to support global, under-resourced communities

10/01/20 | By Leigh Moran

Impact Management

2020 Impact Report

Our 2020 Impact Report commemorates our 25th anniversary and features the impact we and our borrowers have had on the environment and communities around the world throughout 2019 and 2020.

10/01/20 | By Caitlin Rosser

Climate

Why do our investors invest for impact? Takeaways from our 2020 Impact Investor Survey

Every two years, we conduct an investor survey to better understand the motivations of our investor base, the challenges they face in investing for impact, and how we can serve them better

09/15/20 | By Caitlin Rosser

Financial Advisors

2020 Investor Survey Results

Every two years, we conduct an investor survey to better understand the motivations of our investor base, the challenges they face in investing for impact, and how we can serve them better

09/15/20 | By Caitlin Rosser

Calvert Impact Capital Named Asset Manager of the Year (Mid-Sized) By Environmental Finance's IMPACT 2020 Awards

Calvert Impact Capital is thrilled to be named Asset Manager of the Year (Mid-Sized) by Environmental Finance’s Inaugural IMPACT 2020 Awards

09/14/20

Letter: Here’s a model for saving mom-and-pop stores (Financial Times)

The pandemic has accelerated and amplified the flaws in our financial system, one that is built from the top-down to serve the few, not the many

09/11/20

Borrower Spotlight

The Forest Resilience Bond: An Innovative Financial Tool Used to Fight Fires in California

In the face of climate change, catastrophic wildfires increasingly blaze across the country, threatening forests, communities, and livelihoods

09/02/20 | By Leigh Pomerantz

Get to Know our Staff

Get to Know Calvert Impact Capital Staff: Anastasia Pechler

We're conducting a series of interviews with our staff, borrowers, and investors

09/02/20 | By Leigh Pomerantz

Borrower Spotlight

Borrower Spotlight: MCE Social Capital

Our borrower, MCE Social Capital (MCE), is a nonprofit impact investing firm that aims to generate economic opportunities for women and families living in poverty in the developing world

08/31/20 | By Leigh Pomerantz

Financial Advisors

Q2 2020 Report

Our Q2 2020 quarterly report, featuring quarterly updates on our portfolio and borrowers, as well as highlights from our work throughout the quarter.

08/14/20 | By Justin Conway

Financial Advisors

Interested in Social-Impact Investing? Here’s How to Start (Wall Street Journal)

The pandemic and other recent events that point to racial injustice have made many investors think about how they can make a difference with their pocketbooks

08/09/20

COVID-19 Response

New York Forward Loan Fund Helps Businesses Keep Their Doors Open

The NY Forward Loan Fund (NYFLF) has lent more than $3.1 million to support 77 businesses and residential landlords across NY state with COVID-19 related costs and expenses as of today

08/05/20 | By Beth Bafford

Improvements to Our Online Investing Experience

Calvert Impact Capital is dedicated to making impact investing accessible and easy for a diverse range of investors and to that end, we always seek to improve upon our investor experience

08/05/20 | By Justin Conway

Get to Know our Staff

Get to Know Calvert Impact Capital Staff: Songbae Lee

We're conducting a series of interviews with our staff, borrowers, and investors

07/29/20 | By Leigh Pomerantz

Faith and Investing

Calvert Impact Capital Faith-Based Investor Program Overview

07/27/20

Impact Management

Operating Principles for Impact Management: Principle 4 Case Study

Caitlin Rosser walks through a case study of how Calvert Impact Capital applies Principle 4 of the Operating Principles for Impact Management

07/17/20 | By Caitlin Rosser

Racial Equity

Portfolio Partners' Statements on Racial Justice and Equity

Since the death of George Floyd at the hands of the Minneapolis police, many organizations and individuals across the globe have raised their voices

06/17/20 | By Leigh Pomerantz

Get to Know our Staff

Get to Know Calvert Impact Capital Staff: Adam Kellner

We're conducting a series of interviews with our staff, borrowers, and investors

06/03/20 | By Leigh Pomerantz

Justice, Equity, and Opportunity

Our nation faces a viral pandemic, which began months ago, and the pandemic of systemic and institutional racism, which is embedded in our country’s founding

06/03/20 | By Jennifer Pryce

COVID-19 Response

Support for Businesses and Communities: COVID-19 Resources from our Microfinance Portfolio Partners

Supporting microentrepreneurs and small businesses, those that form the foundation of economies around the world, is now more important as ever.

05/29/20 | By Leigh Pomerantz

COVID-19 Response

NY Forward Loan Fund Launch

Calvert Impact Capital is proud to serve as lead arranger for the NY Forward Loan Fund (NYFLF)

05/22/20 | By Beth Bafford

Financial Advisors

Q1 2020 Report

Our Q1 2020 quarterly report, featuring quarterly updates on our portfolio and borrowers, as well as highlights from our work throughout the quarter.

05/15/20 | By Justin Conway

Impact Management

How investors can integrate impact with financial management, in SSIR

Calvert Impact Capital is one of the 13 impact investing firms that make up the Impact Frontiers Collaboration

05/15/20 | By Caitlin Rosser

Oxford Social Impact Webinar - What is the New Normal for Impact Investing During Covid-19

discuss what the new normal is for impact investing during Covid-19

05/11/20

Get to Know our Staff

Get to Know Calvert Impact Capital Staff: Dina Curtis

We're conducting a series of interviews with our staff, borrowers, and investors

05/05/20 | By Anastasia Pechler

COVID Relief and Recovery: From Products to Places

Beth Bafford, Bruce Katz, Ross Baird, Michael Saadine, and Colin Higgins discuss how COVID-19 relief and recovery policy must expand from products for small businesses to strategies around the revival

05/04/20 | By Beth Bafford

COVID-19 Response

Community-Centered COVID-19 Recovery Program

The economic impact of COVID-19 has been unprecedented and is crushing community-based organizations

04/28/20 | By Beth Bafford

COVID-19 Response

Support for Affordable Housing Communities: COVID-19 Resources from our Portfolio Partners

As communities are hit by the COVID-19 pandemic, it has highlighted the essential role that housing plays in protecting health and well-being

04/21/20 | By Leigh Pomerantz

Strategic Updates

Strategy in the Context of Crisis

As I wrote last month, to say that we are living in extraordinary times would be an understatement. We are in the midst of a triple crisis - health, economic, and climate

04/17/20 | By Jennifer Pryce

COVID-19 Response

Portfolio Monitoring During COVID-19

Over the past few weeks, the COVID-19 crisis has created unprecedented levels of uncertainty and deeply shifted social and economic life as we once knew it

04/13/20 | By Justin Conway

Get to Know our Staff

Get to Know Calvert Impact Capital Staff: Justin Conway

We're conducting a series of interviews with our staff, borrowers, and investors

04/01/20 | By Leigh Pomerantz

Strategic Updates

2020-2022 Strategic Plan

Calvert Impact Capital's 2020-2022 strategic plan

04/01/20 | By Jennifer Pryce

New Rates to Support Communities

We are facing a global, uncertain threat that is directly impacting individuals, families, communities, and our economy

04/01/20 | By Justin Conway

Impact Management

Our first Impact Management Disclosure

Calvert Impact Capital is a founding Signatory to the Operating Principles for Impact Management

03/31/20 | By Caitlin Rosser

COVID-19 Response

Support for Businesses & Communities: Covid-19 Resources from our Portfolio Partners

As the economic impact from COVID-19 unfolds, small businesses —those that underpin the economic, social, and cultural fabric of the United States— are facing extreme challenges

03/27/20 | By Leigh Pomerantz

COVID-19 Response

Impact Investing in Extraordinary Times

To say we are living in extraordinary times would be an understatement. The world is facing an enormous amount of uncertainty, straining families, communities, companies, and markets.

03/20/20 | By Jennifer Pryce

Borrower Spotlight

Borrower Spotlight: ECLOF International

Our borrower, ECLOF International, is a faith-based organization founded in 1946 with a mission is to promote social justice and human dignity through microfinance

03/13/20 | By Leigh Pomerantz

Gender Equity

Women’s History Month: Reflections on Gender Lens Investing in Latin America

As March is Women’s History Month, I’ve spent some time reflecting on the power of gender lens investing to transform the lives of women.

03/10/20 | By Diego Valdivia

Impact Management

Impact Investing’s Next Chapter: Integrity Through Assurance

03/09/20 | By Caitlin Rosser

Get to Know our Staff

Get to Know Calvert Impact Capital Staff: Caitlin Rosser

We're conducting a series of interviews with our staff, borrowers, and investors

03/04/20 | By Anastasia Pechler

Borrower Spotlight

Borrower Spotlight: Wildflower Schools

Wildflower is an ecosystem of decentralized Montessori micro-schools which are teacher-led and offer child-centered learning environments to support children and families from diverse backgrounds

02/25/20 | By Leigh Pomerantz

Climate

Interview with Jennifer Pryce - GLF Luxembourg 2019

02/06/20

Get to Know our Staff

Get to Know Calvert Impact Capital Staff: Derek Strocher

We're conducting a series of interviews with our staff, borrowers, and investors

02/05/20 | By Leigh Pomerantz

Borrower Spotlight

Lending Partner Spotlight: Low-Income Investment Fund (LIIF)

In participation with lead lender and CDFI funding partner, Calvert Impact Capital provided financing that enabled Affirmed Housing Group to purchase a Motel-6 and redevelop it into “Zephyr”

01/31/20 | By Leigh Pomerantz

Get to Know our Staff

Oxford Impact Investing Webinar - Ask the Expert

Gayle Peterson, Programme Director of the Oxford Impact Investing Programme and Jenn Pryce, CEO of Calvert Impact Capital discuss new trends, ideas and innovations for impact investing

01/29/20

Borrower Spotlight

Borrower Spotlight: Grameen America

Grameen America is a nonprofit microfinance organization dedicated to helping women who live in poverty build small businesses to create better lives for their families

01/17/20 | By Leigh Pomerantz

Get to Know our Staff

Get to Know Calvert Impact Capital Staff: Caroline Chinhuru

We're conducting a series of interviews with our staff, borrowers, and investors

01/09/20 | By Anastasia Pechler

Strategic Updates

2019 in Review

2019 was another exciting and productive year for Calvert Impact Capital

01/08/20 | By Leigh Moran

Faith and Investing

Faith Investors: Begin Your Impact Investing Journey

Our faith offers us spiritual meaning a connection to community, and a responsibility for our planet and all its inhabitants

01/01/20

Impact Management

Calvert Impact Capital signs on to the Principles for Impact Management

On April 12, 2019, Calvert Impact Capital, along with 60 leading global investment firms, signed the Operating Principles for Impact Management (the Principles)

04/30/19 | By Caitlin Rosser

Gender Equity

Just Good Investing: Why gender matters to your portfolio and what you can do about it

There is a growing evidence and collective understanding that gender equity is good for investment, good for businesses, good for society.

12/05/18 | By Leigh Moran

Industry Landscape

Dear Impact Investors: Consider Affordable Housing

Affordable housing was my introduction to impact investing

04/24/18 | By Catherine Godschalk

Gender Equity

Key Questions for Underwriting Gender Equity

“How do you invest with a gender lens?” This is one of the most frequent questions investors ask us.

03/08/18 | By Jennifer Pryce

Industry Landscape

Introduction to MFIs Part III: Microfinance Intermediaries

I am using the term microfinance intermediary to refer to both loan funds and structured funds

06/29/17 | By Songbae Lee

Industry Landscape

Introduction to MFIs Part II: Microfinance Networks

There are many different types of actors within the world of microfinance, from operating companies to investment companies to everything in between

04/25/17 | By Songbae Lee

Industry Landscape

Introduction to Microfinance Institutions (MFIs) Part I

This blog series will attempt to answer some of the common questions about microfinance using examples from our portfolio, but it won’t include a lot of beneficiary stories

03/14/17 | By Songbae Lee