There’s no permission required, no excuses accepted, and no better time for impact investors to step up to leadership. The pathways to climate solutions are clear, the returns on inclusion immense. To be sure, government leadership can accelerate deployment, but the case for private investment is more than compelling.

ImpactAlpha’s team of reporters and editors has counted down nearly two dozen markers of impact across our core coverage areas.

The Reconstruction in 2022

No. 22. A bottom-up and top-down mobilization to rewrite rules, redistribute power and redress injustice can turn disruption and division into renewal and reconciliation. How do we know? Because it has happened before. On the sesquicentennial of the historical Reconstruction, “we resonate with the possibilities, and the possibility that this time the outcome will be different.”

No. ​​21. The surge in Black and Brown entrepreneurship is one of the most promising trends to emerge from the COVID disruption: That makes access to working capital and growth capital not only a matter of justice, but of economic growth.

No. 20. The ‘S,’ for social, is even bigger than the ‘E’ in ESG investing. Good jobs, affordable housing, thriving communities and wealth creation for the new majority – economic liberation for all is a mega-trend investors won’t want to miss.

No. 19. ‘Reconstruction investing’ means capital that is flexible and appropriate, models that shift power and ownership, investors and entrepreneurs in proximity to the problem and a redefinition of risk.

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