Welcome to this week’s ImpactAlpha LP/GP, where we take you inside the real business of impact investing and the dynamic relationships between owners, managers and intermediaries of impact capital.

Daryl Carter was a Los Angeles Clippers fan long before Steve Ballmer bought the basketball team. Carter’s seats near the Clippers’ bench were just down from Ballmer’s, the former Microsoft chief ...

A new year brings fresh resolutions and, for many clients, a renewed desire to be more thoughtful about their money, including their giving. Many of your clients may already have a donor-advised fund, ...

Horseshoe crabs are living fossils, older than trees—they predate dinosaurs by 200 million years, survived the asteroid that ended the Cretaceous period, and have remained largely unchanged for eons.

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The voluntary carbon market was meant to be a game changer — a $200 billion engine for private climate investment that would help companies offset their emissions while funding crucial environmental ...

Advocates for a more sustainable, equitable U.S. economy faced an uphill battle in 2025. This was a year defined by a uniquely challenging environment, with market instability and uncertainty, growing ...

Palm oil and cocoa butter are common ingredients in foods and cosmetics. The global cocoa supply has been disrupted by climate change; palm oil – and the rampant deforestation associated with it – is ...

As an impact or emerging fund manager, let’s say you have hard-won LP commitments, in writing. And let’s say you have a sweet deal or two ready to close. When should you call that capital from your ...

Cultural capital in France. Separately, the best of French creativity was on display at Bpifrance’s recent conference, reports Upstart Co-Lab’s Laura Callanan in her latest dispatch from creative ...

The club of investment firms financing business transitions to employee ownership has grown from a small handful of funds to a roster of more than three dozen active managers. Across employee stock ...

Kevin Webb worked in tech and venture capital before feeling called to climate studies at Columbia University. Tom Quigley worked as a conservationist in Australia, Madagascar and the Cayman Islands ...