Resources on the impact investing landscape

We offer commentary and resources on the impact investing landscape, including the opportunities and challenges we see in the market.

Find these resources below.

Reports Our 2025 Community Investment Note® Impact Report, “Resilient Communities, Lasting Impact”

Our 2025 Community Investment Note® Impact Report, “Resilient Communities, Lasting Impact”

The 2025 Community Investment Note® impact report, “Resilient Communities, Lasting Impact”, explores how resilience is essential to building a more inclusive and sustainable financial system.

11/03/2025
Success Stories Success Story: Community Reinvestment Fund, USA

Success Story: Community Reinvestment Fund, USA

Calvert Impact made its first loan to CRF, a community development financial institution based in Minneapolis, in 1997 and continued the lending relationship for nearly 30 years.

09/25/2025 | By Annette Vogel
Reports Q2 2025 Report

Q2 2025 Report

Download the Q2 2025 Community Investment Note® Report.

08/15/2025 | By Justin Conway
Reports Community Investment Note® Portfolio Management Overview

Community Investment Note® Portfolio Management Overview

Our new Community Investment Note® Portfolio Management Overview provides information on our due diligence and portfolio management process for the Note.

06/17/2025
Reports Q1 2025 Report

Q1 2025 Report

Download the Q1 2025 Community Investment Note® Report.

05/15/2025 | By Justin Conway
Blog Investor Survey Results

Investor Survey Results

This survey is a part of our ongoing mission to better serve our investors by ensuring we understand their needs and interests.

03/06/2025
Blog 2024 Year in Review

2024 Year in Review

A look back at Calvert Impact's work in 2024.

12/20/2024 | By Jennifer Pryce
Reports Our 2024 Community Investment Note® Impact Report, "Taking Action for Communities & Climate"

Our 2024 Community Investment Note® Impact Report, "Taking Action for Communities & Climate"

Calvert Impact's 2024 impact report, including new impact data, stories, and photos from their Community Investment Note portfolio.

10/23/2024
Blog 2023 Year in Review

2023 Year in Review

After sharing our 2023-2025 Strategic Plan in January, Calvert Impact executed on its strategy to bring new products to market to increase connectivity between the capital markets and communities.

12/21/2023 | By Jennifer Pryce
Videos The Future of the Small Business Finance Industry Webinar

The Future of the Small Business Finance Industry Webinar

The Future of the Small Business Finance Industry Calvert Impact’s new report, Small Business Community Finance: Scaling with Integrity

12/19/2023
In the News Calvert Impact releases 2023 Impact Report: 'Demonstrate, Educate, Transform'

Calvert Impact releases 2023 Impact Report: 'Demonstrate, Educate, Transform'

Report shows cumulative impact of Community Investment Note® and new products

11/07/2023
Videos A Theory of Change for the Small Business Finance Sector

A Theory of Change for the Small Business Finance Sector

Calvert Impact, Ascendus, and NDC share the co-created Theory of Change for the Small Business finance sector and how they have tested and implemented this theory of change in their own work.

09/12/2023
Videos Learning from the Southern Opportunity and Resilience (SOAR) Fund - Webinar Recording

Learning from the Southern Opportunity and Resilience (SOAR) Fund - Webinar Recording

60 Decibels, Calvert Impact, Community Reinvestment Fund, USA, and LISC share insights from new research on the small business recovery programs launched in response to the pandemic.

06/07/2023
Blog Celebrating Small Businesses Every Week

Celebrating Small Businesses Every Week

Calvert Impact reflects on our long-standing history of supporting small businesses during Small Business Week 2023

05/01/2023
Videos Inclusive Support for Small Business: Insights from the New York Forward Loan Fund (Webinar Recording)

Inclusive Support for Small Business: Insights from the New York Forward Loan Fund (Webinar Recording)

60 Decibels, Calvert Impact Capital and Community Reinvestment Fund, USA share insights from new research on the small business recovery programs launched in response to the pandemic.

03/31/2022
In the News Getting Money off the Sidelines: A Starting List to Invest for Racial Equity

Getting Money off the Sidelines: A Starting List to Invest for Racial Equity

As more investors seek to direct capital toward racial equity, here’s a starter list to help.

11/08/2021
In the News Seven ways U.S. retail investors can invest and bank sustainably (ImpactAlpha)

Seven ways U.S. retail investors can invest and bank sustainably (ImpactAlpha)

Everyday investors, as well as large asset managers and institutions, are flocking to ESG and impact investing. As many as 95% of millennials are interested in investing sustainably.

09/13/2021
Blog Borrower Spotlight: eco.business Fund and sustainable shrimp farming in Ecuador

Borrower Spotlight: eco.business Fund and sustainable shrimp farming in Ecuador

Our borrower, the eco.business Fund, is leading the way in helping Ecuadorian shrimp producers implement practices that protect the environment

09/07/2021 | By Christian Choconta
Videos Webinar: Oxford Social Finance Programme - Build Back Better through Blended Capital

Webinar: Oxford Social Finance Programme - Build Back Better through Blended Capital

Webinar: Oxford Social Finance Programme - Build Back Better through Blended Capital

07/01/2021
Blog "Scaling Community Finance to Fill a Growing Market Gap," In Stanford Social Innovation Review

"Scaling Community Finance to Fill a Growing Market Gap," In Stanford Social Innovation Review

During the pandemic, Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFIs) stepped up to deliver desperately needed relief to hard-to-reach small business owners

06/23/2021
Videos “We need to think bigger," CEO Jenn Pryce on IFC Insights

“We need to think bigger," CEO Jenn Pryce on IFC Insights

President & CEO Jenn Pryce spoke to IFC Insights about the two years since the launch of the Impact Principles and her belief that all investments in the future will have an impact investing lens.

04/14/2021 | By Jennifer Pryce
Blog The Future of Microfinance: A panel discussion

The Future of Microfinance: A panel discussion

Calvert Impact Capital hosted a webinar with former Board member Ira Liberman to celebrate the publication of his new book, The Future of Microfinance

10/01/2020 | By Leigh Moran
Blog Calvert Impact Capital Expands Work in Under-Resourced Communities Globally; Exceeds $500 Million in Community Investment Note® Balance

Calvert Impact Capital Expands Work in Under-Resourced Communities Globally; Exceeds $500 Million in Community Investment Note® Balance

​​Calvert Impact Capital announced today that its Community Investment Note® balance has exceeded $500 million for the first time as its work to support global, under-resourced communities

10/01/2020 | By Leigh Moran
Blog Strategy in the Context of Crisis

Strategy in the Context of Crisis

As I wrote last month, to say that we are living in extraordinary times would be an understatement. We are in the midst of a triple crisis - health, economic, and climate

04/17/2020 | By Jennifer Pryce
Reports 2020-2022 Strategic Plan

2020-2022 Strategic Plan

Calvert Impact Capital's 2020-2022 strategic plan

04/01/2020 | By Jennifer Pryce
Blog 2019 in Review

2019 in Review

2019 was another exciting and productive year for Calvert Impact Capital

01/08/2020 | By Leigh Moran
Blog Microfinance Taps Mainstream Market Solutions

Microfinance Taps Mainstream Market Solutions

Calvert Impact Capital is excited to grow our portfolio with a new investment to promote financial inclusion in emerging markets around the world

08/07/2019 | By Daniel Ford
Blog Perspectives from the Field: Mexico

Perspectives from the Field: Mexico

Calvert Impact Capital invests to help financial intermediaries better serve small and medium enterprises (SMEs), the engines of local economic growth and job creation across the globe

05/29/2019 | By Caitlin Rosser
Blog 2018 in Review

2018 in Review

Against a backdrop of global and political turmoil, we saw an industry of doers organize more urgently around the common call for greater transparency and accountability in our global financial

12/21/2018 | By Leigh Moran
Impact Investors Need To Think Big - And It's Not What They Think It Means

Impact Investors Need To Think Big - And It's Not What They Think It Means

Our CEO Jennifer Pryce urges us to look at the big picture of impact investing: it's less about particular sectors or regions, and more about creating systemic change in the capital markets

09/25/2018
Blog Energy Access at Home and Abroad: Bringing Clean Energy to New Global Communities

Energy Access at Home and Abroad: Bringing Clean Energy to New Global Communities

For Climate Week, Investment Analsyst Caroline Chinhuru shares her insights on renewable energy around the world.

09/24/2018 | By Caroline Chinhuru
Blog Blended Finance: what is it, what it isn’t and how to use it for maximum impact

Blended Finance: what is it, what it isn’t and how to use it for maximum impact

Blended finance is the term du jour of impact investing

08/17/2018 | By Jennifer Pryce
Blog Dear Impact Investors: Consider Affordable Housing

Dear Impact Investors: Consider Affordable Housing

Affordable housing was my introduction to impact investing

04/24/2018 | By Catherine Godschalk
Blog Making our drop in the bucket count

Making our drop in the bucket count

The World Economic Forum's annual event in Davos kicks off 2018 with as many reasons to be hopeful as reasons to bury my head under a pillow

01/31/2018 | By Jennifer Pryce
Blog Introduction to MFIs Part III: Microfinance Intermediaries

Introduction to MFIs Part III: Microfinance Intermediaries

I am using the term microfinance intermediary to refer to both loan funds and structured funds

06/29/2017 | By Songbae Lee
Blog Introduction to MFIs Part II: Microfinance Networks

Introduction to MFIs Part II: Microfinance Networks

There are many different types of actors within the world of microfinance, from operating companies to investment companies to everything in between

04/25/2017 | By Songbae Lee
Blog Introduction to Microfinance Institutions (MFIs) Part I

Introduction to Microfinance Institutions (MFIs) Part I

This blog series will attempt to answer some of the common questions about microfinance using examples from our portfolio, but it won’t include a lot of beneficiary stories

03/14/2017 | By Songbae Lee
Blog 5 things to know about our impact investors

5 things to know about our impact investors

Biannually we ask our investors for their thoughts on our customer service and how how we’re doing on our mission overall

08/23/2016 | By Andrew Parrucci
Blog Trekking Around India to Track Our Impact

Trekking Around India to Track Our Impact

We recently returned from a trip to India, where we had the privilege of visiting some of Calvert Foundation’s current and past borrowers

06/10/2016
Blog Tomorrow’s Impact Investors

Tomorrow’s Impact Investors

One of Calvert Foundation’s objectives has always been to create an inclusive social investment marketplace—to enable anyone, regardless of their wealth or status, to become a social investor

02/23/2015 | By Leigh Moran
Blog Entrepreneurship at the CBC

Entrepreneurship at the CBC

Convened a couple of weeks after the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington

10/17/2013 | By Xevion Baptiste
Blog Let's “Travel Down this Road Together”

Let's “Travel Down this Road Together”

I was honored to participate last week as a speaker on a panel about the racial wealth gap in this country at the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation’s annual conference.

09/30/2011 | By Lisa Hall

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