Capital Impact Partners, one of the Momentus Capital branded family of companies, receives regular media coverage for its work to transform how capital and investments flow into communities to provide people access to the capital and opportunities they deserve.
That coverage, compiled on this page, includes our efforts with local leaders and key organizations to deliver critical social services, helping diverse developers grow their businesses, and other important programs and initiatives.
If you are a member of the media and have a press inquiry, please reach out to David Greisman at dgreisman@capitalimpact.org.
Home care agencies turn to older workers to fill in labor shortage
September 2018
With few financial incentives to bring in new workers, the home care industry anticipates a need for at least 13 million new in-home caregivers by 2030. The Houston Chronicle examines how utilizing the co-op model may fill that void while also benefitting older female workers, as well as immigrants and people of color.
Guest Blog: Creating age-friendly communities that support the economic, health, and social needs of older adults
June 2018
In partnership with West Health and the Build Healthy Places Network, Capital Impact’s Director for Strategic Aging Initiatives launched a series of blogs to tackle the important issue of how older adults can age in place with dignity and have access to the critical social services necessary to thrive. In this introductory piece, we illustrate how health care reform can support new opportunities to create holistic, comprehensive health care systems.
Guest Blog: How Nonprofits Can Tap Into the Impact Investment Market
April 2018
The burgeoning world of impact investing offers new hope for nonprofit organizations seeking access to capital. However, harnessing this market comes with a steep learning curve. Backed by the two years of experience it took to debut Capital Impact’s Investment Note, CFO Natalie Gunn shares lessons learned in this guest blog for the Stanford Social Innovation Review. The blog provides tools that other nonprofits can use to develop an important new revenue stream and, in turn, create more social impact.
Impact Bonds Are Making Bigger Impact
March 2018
Impact bonds are evolving and growing as investors put pressure on their financial advisors to offer more socially relevant investments notes. Our partners at InCapital were interview in this investment article and highlighted the $100 million Capital Impact Investment Note as one particular vehicle for institutional and individual investors to create social impact while potentially earning a return on that investment.
Capital Impact Partners tops $2.5B in loans to underserved communities
February 2018
Capital Impact maintained its strong momentum of investments in underserved communities when it hit a milestone $2.5 billion in loans through the end of 2017. In an interview with the Washington Business Journal, Chief Strategy and Innovation Officer Scott Sporte illustrated that momentum by noting that the first “$1.5 billion [took] us 30 years to achieve. The last billion took us about seven.” Learn more about the past and future impact of our lending work in the article.
National CDFI Launches $100M Community Investment Note Offering
November 2017
In 2017, Capital Impact marked a key milestone with the launch of our $100 million Investment Note. Our CEO, Ellis Carr, sat down with NonProfit Quarterly to talk about our effort to raise “socially motivated capital” from individuals and institutional investors alike. Learn more about how this effort is supporting Capital Impact efforts to engage in the fight against the growing inequality we see across the country.
