Don't miss our new Private Credit: The Original Impact Investment white paper from Stephen Hester, CFA, CommonGood's VP of Investments - as recently featured in ADISA's AI Quarterly magazine (Volume 17, Issue 2). The paper provides insights into the historical...
Green Fund I Makes Investment in Hydropower Assets in Central Kenya
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...
Affordable Housing is Key to my Impact Investing Journey
In 2015, I was increasingly concerned with protecting the downside in our personal investments. At that point in my career, I had been in the financial services industry for 20 years. Nearly 18 of those years were directly involved in different types of real estate:...
Takeaways from Walker & Dunlop’s Latest Multifamily Outlook Report
Walker & Dunlop released their Multifamily Outlook for the first half of 2023. The report is full of insights from their seasoned team of commercial real estate professionals, clients, and partners in the multifamily space, in which they are an industry...
ASI Impact Report Available
Alliant Strategic Investments (ASI), the manager behind the ASI Multifamily Impact Fund, recently released their Impact Report for 2022. In short, ASI focused on improvements both in the properties they served and in their ability to streamline internal processes...
Observations from an Affordable Housing On-Site Visit
Having been to many Alliant Strategic assets in the past, it was a privilege earlier this month to take a few RIAs on a site visit and due diligence tour of the first property acquired in ASI Multi-Family Impact Fund. Oak Hill Village is a 181 unit property...
ASI Multifamily Impact Fund, LP Acquires Crosswinds Apartments
The ASI Multi-Family Impact Fund, LP, which is focused on providing Affordable and Workforce housing primarily serving minority populations and lower income residents, recently acquired Crosswinds Apartments - an affordable, 109-unit multifamily property situated in...
Change Your Mindset
Forty minutes south of Orlando, I sat in an old prison “classroom” with 40 men all working towards improvement, change and new beginnings. While an observer could easily tell the outward difference between the volunteers and the men in “blues,” that same observer...
MFIF Schedules Second Investor Close
The ASI Multi-Family Impact Fund (MFIF), formed by Alliant Strategic Investments (“ASI”) and CommonGood Capital, recently made some exciting progress as the second investor close was announced to occur on January 16th. The MFIF sources, acquires, enhances,...
ASI Multifamily Impact Fund, LP Acquires Oak Hill Village Apartments
The ASI Multi-Family Impact Fund, LP, which is focused on providing Affordable and Workforce housing primarily serving minority populations and lower income residents, recently acquired Oak Hill Village Apartments - an affordable, 181-unit multifamily property...
The Scale of the US Affordable Housing Crisis
There are numerous human and financial factors pertaining to affordable housing. As of the most recent data from the U.S. Census Bureau, over 30 U.S. states, including Florida, California, and Texas – the three largest by population - have at least 5% of adults...
Announcing – Virtual Summit: AFRICA
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...
2021 RIA Impact Survey Results
We recently conducted a survey of RIAs and Wealth Managers to better understand the Impact Investing Themes of highest interest for them and their clients. Regardless of asset class, the most common responses were: 1) Climate, 2) Diversity, Equity,...
How We Walk the Walk
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...
OZ Fund Closing End of Q1
Opportunity Zones were established by Congress under the TCJA to encourage investment in designated low-income, economically distressed areas across the United States. Qualified Opportunity Zone Funds are timely for investors who are looking to diversify outside of...
Fortis Green is Bringing Power to East Africa
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...
Affordable Housing Part #3: “Renters by Necessity”
Median US home prices rose 25.5% from June 2020 to September 2021 according to the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. This is the largest increase over any five-quarter time period since these figures began being tracked way back in 1963. While homeowners may...
Russell Ginise on the shortage of Affordable and Workforce Housing
We recently sat down with Russell Ginise, President of Alliant Strategic, to find out more about the extreme shortage of Affordable and Workforce Housing in the US. The Alliant Strategic team has 25 years of industry experience and has invested in 100,000+ units in 48...