Institutions and individuals can earn a financial, as well as a social, return on their investments through Capital Impact’s social impact investment notes

Arlington, VA (August 23, 2019) — Capital Impact Partners, a nonprofit corporation, certified by the U.S. Department of Treasury’s Community Development Financial Institutions Fund as a Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI), announced the launch of its 2019 Capital Impact Investment Notes (Notes) Prospectus, and S&P Global A+ rating. The Investment Notes allow retail and institutional investors the opportunity to invest in the mission-driven organization’s nationwide efforts to create social impact for underinvested communities. Available for as low as $1,000, individual and institutional investors can purchase Notes through their brokerage accounts and earn a financial, as well as a social, return on their investments.

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Amplifying community assets to achieve equity and justice through community development investments has enabled individuals and families to break barriers to success

Arlington, VA (August 20, 2019) – In the first two quarters of 2019, Capital Impact Partners’ activities aimed to build the power of our community members by leveraging their community assets alongside our flexible capital and capacity building. From affordable housing to workers’ rights to entrepreneurship, we are invested in empowering communities of color and underinvested individuals across the country. Capital Impact announced today that our financing and investment efforts in the first half of the year served more than 124,000 beneficiaries and created nearly 1,200 permanent and construction-related jobs.

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Two New Housing Projects Support Affordable Housing in Washington, D.C.’s Ward 8

WASHINGTON, D.C. and Arlington, VA (July 12, 2019) – Capital Impact Partners, Washington D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser, and the Department of Housing and Community Development (DHCD) today announced the financing of the first two projects through their partnership under the D.C. Affordable Housing Preservation Fund launched in the spring of 2018. The two projects have helped protect more than 600 affordable housing units, and pushed the total number of affordable units under the Fund to more than 1,000.

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IDG and Centro de Trabajadores Unidos: United Workers' Center each receive $25,000; CLEAN Carwash receives $50,000 prize

Arlington, VA and New York (May 7, 2019) – Co-ops have real power to transform structurally disinvested communities into strong, vibrant places of opportunity. Through Capital Impact Partners’ Co-op Innovation Award, three cooperative organizations have the chance to create systemic change in their communities. For the fifth annual Co-op Innovation Award, Capital Impact Partners and The Workers Lab partnered to award grants totaling $50,000 to the Independent Drivers Guild and Centro de Trabajadores Unidos: United Workers' Center, and to award a $50,000 grant to CLEAN Carwash. These awards recognize organizations leading initiatives that address workers’ rights as well as wealth building and asset creation for immigrant workers.

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Program supports greater opportunities for minority real estate developers in Detroit

(DETROIT, April 30, 2019) – Capital Impact Partners is pleased to announce the second cohort of participants in its Detroit Equitable Development Initiative (EDI). In the long term, this program aims to support wealth building for local real estate developers of color while also encouraging mixed-income neighborhood development throughout the city. In the short term, it connects participants with the knowledge, connections, and resources necessary to engage in small- to mid-scale multifamily and mixed-use real estate development projects in Detroit.

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