Fostering Solutions & Infrastructure

To develop, test, and deploy a digital financing diagnostic and matching platform to help startups identify financing mechanisms that are most appropriate for them and connect to investors who offer that type of financing.

Create an innovative vehicle to deploy impact notes that provide capital to scale high-impact enterprises serving low-income communities in emerging markets around the world.

Develop, test, and share an investment framework that utilizes a health, gender, and racial equity lens, particularly related to maternal and women’s health. The framework is for investors and early-to-growth-stage companies and will inform impact investments and attract more catalytic capital to the field.

Develop a guidebook for a U.S. place-based funding model that brings together private and public investment, grant support, and community partnerships to activate catalytic capital for BIPOC entrepreneurs and fuel community wealth-building.

To build the Dignity in Labor platform, bringing together a consortium of service providers, lenders, and donors to develop and deploy systemic financial solutions and infrastructure that accelerate socio-economic mobility for unbanked and underbanked customer groups in India.

To operationalize a blended capital impact investing fund designed to catalyze community investment in the Central Appalachian region. IA’s multi-sector approach focuses on connecting national investment and philanthropy to local markets, in alignment with community needs.

To work towards an inclusive transition to net zero carbon emissions by helping increase the capacity of catalytic capital providers and local managers in the Global South to develop and launch financial products that can attract institutional capital at scale, as part of the Institute’s Just Transition Finance Challenge.

To deliver a roadmap for actionable solutions that would positively impact the multi-dimensional development of informal settlements in the Global South. The effort builds on conclusions from the GSG’s report, Informal Settlements: No Longer Invisible, proposing practical policies and principles for the design of impact financial vehicles to scale investment in tackling urban informality.

Develop an Information Exchange Platform (IEP) focused on women-owned small- and medium-sized enterprises in Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador, and Mexico.