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10 Questions to Ask Your Client

10 Questions to Ask Your Client

One of our big goals at CommonGood Capital is to be a resource for RIAs and Investors by providing education and access to world-class impact investments that have been vetted through our due diligence process, making your job easier. The evidence is showing that the...

2023 Mid-Year Update

2023 Mid-Year Update

Join Jeff Shafer, CEO of CommonGood Capital, for a brief mid-year progress video touching on the state of interest rates, the politicization of ESG, the growth of Impact, and what the future holds for CommonGood in the second half of 2023......

Impact Investing by the Numbers

Impact Investing by the Numbers

Opportunities for Impact education is a key part of CommonGood Capital's long-term vision to transform investors, businesses, financial markets, and the world through the power of stewardship and capital. Recently we hosted a well-received webinar focused on answering...

Taking Impact to the Main Stage

Taking Impact to the Main Stage

The ADISA conference taking place April 24-26th, will feature a presentation by Jeff Shafer, CEO of CommonGood Capital, on "The State of Impact." This will be part of the 2023 Spring Conference's General Session I, which will provide an in-depth overview of the...

Impact: The New Exchange

Impact: The New Exchange

https://youtu.be/9HOkfgeX4rw Have you ever heard the statement, “What makes you good can also make you bad?” This generalized mantra has stuck with me over the decades for its simple truth as it is applicable to most anything. Even one’s capital. Capital is a tool,...

Could 2023 Be the Year?

Could 2023 Be the Year?

Right now, leaders from across the globe are meeting in Davos at the World Economic Forum. The theme for this year is 'Cooperation in a Fragmented World’. Some of you are cheering Davos and others are sneering it. What I make of it is that there are real needs, a...

Businesses Transformed By Impact

Businesses Transformed By Impact

Momentum in integrating impact into business continues to transform businesses both small and large. Recently the founder of Patagonia, a US leader in Outdoor clothing that operates stores in 10+ countries globally, decided to give away his company to help fight...

Capital Has Power through the Hands that Steward It

Capital Has Power through the Hands that Steward It

Growing up, my dad would always tell me, “What makes you good can also make you bad.” I never gave much thought beyond his gentle reminder, but as the years have rolled by, I now know what he was referring to. At the time, I was an overly-driven teenager working...

Bridging the Disconnect

Bridging the Disconnect

One of the central missions of CommonGood Capital is to bridge the disconnect between the growing number of investors wanting to see their investments making a positive impact in the world and wealth managers struggling to incorporate these relatively new ideas into...

Impact Investing: From Talking to Doing

Impact Investing: From Talking to Doing

After 5 years of relationship building, we can now assemble a room of over 25 top RIAs from across the country who are trying to figure out how to implement Impact investing into their service offerings. This was not even possible 2 years ago. The rationale for this...