The Bridge Talent Services, Rwanda’s premier recruitment firm committed to connecting international and Rwandan organizations with high-capacity talent, recently published a great video profile of Fortis Green Holdings, a renewable energy investment firm focused on...
Fortis Green Renewables Investment Management, a renewable energy investment firm currently investing out of its Green Fund I, and AXIAN Energy, a division of the Pan-African Group AXIAN, recently announced the acquisition of stakes in Gigawatt Global...
Extraordinary periods of economic growth have rotated around the world for centuries. While each is unique, the region's demographics, industrialization, and infrastructure development are always key. In CommonGood's most recent whitepaper "The African Century", we...
Meeting students at a school in Musanze District, Rwanda The rains kept coming. As did the mud. And my doubts. Not at all what I expected. This is what kept going through my mind as we carved our way along the washed-out, jolting muddy roads 2 hours outside...
As you read this CommonGood is on the way to Africa for a Due Diligence trip to tour recently acquired hydropower and solar investment assets in Fortis Green Renewables Fund 1, meet with co-investors and local partners, and see firsthand the day to day impact of...
Fortis Green Renewables, a US-based renewable energy investment firm, currently investing out of Green Fund I, recently announced the acquisition of a significant minority stake in Rwaza Hydropower Ltd (“Rwaza”), a 2.6MW operational run-of-river hydropower...
Following Fortis Green Renewables Green Fund I's investment in the Hydrobox AssetCo in August, Kiamahindu, the 3rd of 8 small hydropower projects in Central Kenya is currently under construction. Hydrobox is an innovative provider of off-grid...
It's official - Jonathan Shafer, Managing Director of Fortis Green Renewables recently made the announcement... We are thrilled to announce our strategic investment with Hydrobox, a portfolio of eight small hydropower assets situated in Central Kenya. This...
Wealthmanagement.com recently published a great article on how family offices are seeing new challenges in succession planning due to the increasingly wider investment values differences between older and younger generations... "In particular, succession...
CommonGood Capital is proud to announce Virtual Summit: AFRICA, an informational webinar featuring 9 guest speakers gathered to share their experiences of Impact in one of the fastest growing economies in the world. With one of the fastest-growing regional economies...
Whether helping RIAs create deeper, more meaningful intergenerational relationships with their clients, creating alignment with investor capital and the local and global opportunities they care about, and being a source of advice and implementation of innovative...
Fortis Green strives to build durable companies for the future of Africa, providing capital for small-scale renewable energy assets in Sub Saharan Africa, primarily in East Africa. The Fund has an initial focus on small-scale run-of-the-river hydropower...
Fortis Green Renewables Investment Management, an investment firm providing capital to small-scale renewable energy assets in Sub-Saharan Africa, recently held the initial close in its Green Fund I. The fund is raising capital from individuals, family offices, and...