Global Partnerships News:
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2024
- October 24 – Global Partnerships Case Study: Measuring and Managing Financial Inclusion Outcomes (CGAP)
- July 31 – Long-Time Seattle Technology Leader Assumes CEO Post at Global Partnerships
- July 31 – After launching aQuantive and Pioneer Square Labs, Mike Galgon backs a different kind of entrepreneur (GeekWire)
- January 9 – Global Partnerships Announces CEO Succession
2023
- July 27 – How three impact investors engage their most important stakeholders to validate impact (Impact Alpha)
- March 2 – Inclusive Gender and Climate Finance (2X Global)
2022
2021
- August 19 – Global Partnerships Launches the Impact-First Growth Fund
- July 6 – 60 Decibels cites Global Partnerships in “This Is Not an Impact Performance Report” (Stanford Social Innovation Review)
- February 23 – Global Partnerships included in ImpactAssets 50 2021 list of impact investing fund managers (ImpactAssets)
- January 29 – AXA IM Alts Leads New Investment Round in Sanergy
2020
- September 15 – The Impact Investing Market in the COVID-19 Context: Advancing Social Equity to Build Resilience (GIIN)
- July 17 – Alex Silva and Laurie Spengler Appointed Board Members of Global Partnerships
- June 15 – Global Partnerships Statement on Racial equity
- May 20 – Global Partnerships – Investing with Resilience
- March 24 – Global Partnerships response to COVID-19
- February 19 – Microfinancing Helps Bring Families Out of Poverty (Mercy Investment Services)
2019
- December 19 – Catalytic capital: Reshaping Risks and Rewards to Make Markets Work in 2020 (Impact Alpha)
- December 19 – For Ceniarth’s impact-first portfolio, ‘catalytic’ just means reasonable (Impact Alpha)
- October 22 – Catalytic capital juices Global Partnerships impact-first fund (Impact Alpha)
- October 21 – Global Partnerships launches the Impact-First Development Fund (OPIC)
- October 21 – Global Partnerships launches the Impact-First Development Fund (GP)
- February 26 – ImpactAssets Releases Eighth Annual IA 50 Impact Investment Fund Manager Showcase (ImpactAssets)
- February 5 – VP at Seattle-based investor works to upend traditional markets (The Seattle Times)
- January 14 – How Ceniarth is seeking higher impact on rural livelihoods while preserving its own capital (Impact Alpha)
2018
- August 20 – Fighting poverty and remaining rich: Ceniarth shifts portfolio to impact-first capital preservation (Impact Alpha)
- April 17 – Standing on the “Impact-Led Edge,” Global Partnerships Invests in Greater Gender Equity and Agricultural Livelihoods (Global Washington)
- February 27 – ImpactAssets names Global Partnerships to ImpactAssets50 for 7th consecutive year (ImpactAssets)
- February 7 – Global Partnerships backs online artisan marketplace Novica (ImpactAlpha)
2017
- December 21 – Announcing PPI Alliance New Members: AKDN and Global Partnerships (Poverty Probability Index [PPI] Alliance)
- October 27 – Solar company PEG Africa secures $13.5m funding (Disrupt Africa)
- October 25 – Global Partnerships listed among funds investing with a gender lens (Wharton Social Impact Initiative’s Project Sage)
- July 19 – Global Partnerships invests in BRAC and edtech startup Arifu (Impact Alpha)
- July 18 – The Council on Smallholder Agricultural Finance publishes State of the Sector report featuring GP partner Aldea Global (CSAF)
- June 26 – The Race to Solar-Power Africa (The New Yorker)
- June 19 – Video: Powering Up Impact Measurement for Entrepreneurship (Aspen Institute/ANDE)
- April 26 – Expanding OPIC is good for America and the World (Impact Alpha)
- April 21 – Global Partnerships Invests $100,000 in PayGo Energy
- March 21 – Latin America impact investors set sights on social returns (Thomson Reuters Foundation)
- March 21 – Latin America Impact Investors set sights on social returns (Zilient.org)
- March 9 – Convergence publishes impact investor case study on Global Partnerships (Convergence)
- February 14 – ImpactAssets Releases Annual IA 50 Impact Investment Fund Showcase (CSRWire)
- February 6 – Major agricultural lenders adopt shared social and environmental principles (CSAF)
2016
- October 21 – Meru Greens helps bring Kenyan crops to lucrative markets (The Seattle Times and Seattle Globalist)
- October 12 – Seattle-based nonprofit uses impact investments to break poverty cycle (KING5)
- October 7 – 2016 Integral Fellow: Peter Bladin (Microsoft Alumni Network)
- October 7 – Peter Bladin of Global Partnerships learned to think big at Microsoft as he takes on poverty (GeekWire)
- October 5 – Eneza Education received Safaricom funding (Disrupt Africa)
- October 3 – FMO Contributes to Global Partnerships’ Debt Fund (FMO)
- September 8 – Meet the investor: Jim Villanueva, Global Partnerships (Disrupt Africa)
- August 3 – Global Partnerships absorbs Eleos (Impact Alpha)
- August 2 – Global Partnerships launches Social Venture Fund (GP)
- July 25 – 24 Financial Ventures Changing the World Through Social Impact Investing (Cause Artist)
- April 1 – Program-Related Investments Crowd in Capital to Catalyze Global Solutions (Rockefeller Foundation)
- January 28 – How can coffee become a better tool for development? (Devex)
2015
- Five Questions to Guide the Investor’s Quest for Large-Scale Impact (Skoll World Forum)
- To Really Help Central America, U.S. Must Do More Than Just Send Money (The Seattle Times)
- Reaching the Neediest (OPIC blog)
- Impact Investor Global Partnerships Invests in Solar to Connect the Poor with Light (The Huffington Post)
2014
- The Elusive Long Track Record in Impact Investing (Next Billion)
- Four Lessons Learned on the Journey from Microfinance to Impact-Led Investing (Skoll World Forum)
- Three Emerging Trends in Impact Evaluation (ANDE)
- Small Money Becomes Big Business (Latin Finance Magazine)
- OPIC, Global Partnerships Bring Depth of Experience to Impact Investing (Forbes)
- Twenty Years of Making Microfinance, or Whatever You Want to Call It, Work (Humanosphere)
- Changemaker Profile: Rick Beckett, President & CEO of Global Partnerships (GlobalWA)
- Global Partnerships Selected for the ImpactAssets 50 for Fourth Year in a Row, Delivers Social and Financial Returns
2013
- Global Partnerships Featured in Annual List of Experienced Impact Investment Fund Managers
- Three Years Later: Was the Massive Humanitarian Response in Haiti a Success?(Humanosphere)
- Global Partnerships to Loan up to $500k for Guatemalan Women (MicroCapital Monitor)
2012
- Global Partnerships Talks More Than Microloans at Annual Fundraiser (Puget Sound Business Journal)
- Global Partnerships Selected for ImpactAssets 50 by Impact Investment Industry Experts