Jeff Shafer, CEO of CommonGood Capital, will be giving a talk at the upcoming Impact 2024, hosted by National Christian Foundation (NCF) on October 17-19 in Scottsdale, AZ. The session will cover relatable topics such as what Impact Investing exactly is (and what...
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...
Housing affordability is one of America's greatest challenges. There is a deficit of approximately 4.5 million homes, and the lower end of the socioeconomic ladder is most impacted. According to a recent report, the number of low-rent units declined 2.1 million in the...
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...
Jeff and Jonathan Shafer were recently guests on the Nuance podcast, hosted by Dr. Case Thorp, to discuss impact investing, the intentional placement of one's investment capital in projects that both generate profit and positive social outcomes. The Shafer brothers...
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...
The ASI Multi-Family Impact Fund, LP (MFIF), focused on the preservation of multi-family housing primarily serving minority populations and lower income residents, has officially closed. The fund is aimed at helping to fill the incredible demand for...
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...
Alliant Strategic Investments, fund manager of the Multi-Family Impact Fund, LP featured on the CommonGood Capital platform, recently announced a significant milestone in its integration journey with Walker & Dunlop a publicly-traded real estate...
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...
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...
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:...
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...
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...
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...