Beyond the fairy tale: Investment strategies that catalyze real impact

“While much of the sector continues to embrace the hype of ‘mainstreaming’ impact, there are many of us still quizzically scratching our heads wondering when, if ever, some portion of those declared trillions of impact dollars will ever reach communities in real need,” writes Greg Neichin, managing director at Ceniarth, reflecting on the C3 Learning Labs and the seeding, scaling and sustaining roles for catalytic capital. As such, he said the C3 Learning Labs were “a genuine gathering of our tribe, a pragmatic forum of practitioners who are actively deploying impact-first capital and seeking ways to catalyze more.”