Do you want to get better at determining the most appropriate private values-based investments for your clients? Eagle Venture Fund hosted a special webinar featuring CommonGood's own Jeff Shafer and Stephen Hestor for RIAs and investment professionals that...
CGC to Visit Africa on Fortis Green Due Diligence Trip
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...
Context Matters: People Are Using Their Money to Help Find Meaning and Purpose
When I started my career in 1996, socially responsible investing (SRI) was the main vernacular and methodology used to describe screening out companies or “sin” stocks. Candidly, I was not really interested at that time. Then came ESG, but it was Impact Investing...
Jeff Shafer on the Avant-Garde Entrepreneur podcast
CommonGood Capital CEO Jeff Shafer was recently a guest on the Avant-Garde Entrepreneur podcast, chatting with host Trisha Bailey about investment readiness from the impact investor standpoint and the metrics, values, and opportunities impact...
Private Credit: The Original Impact Investment Replay Available
Hot off the release of his popular Private Credit white paper - Stephen Hester, CommonGood Capital's VP of Investments, was featured as a guest panelist on a CAIA Association-hosted webinar on the same topic, the replay of which is now...
Fortis Green Update: Hydrobox’s Next Project
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...
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...
I HAVE A BEAN Repays Debt Investment
I HAVE A BEAN, a coffee company known for its commitment to providing employment opportunities for formerly incarcerated individuals, recently completed a loan repayment with CommonGood Capital - a debt investment aimed at enhancing I HAVE A BEAN's marketing...
White Paper – Private Credit: The Original Impact Investment?
Prior to 2010, allocations to private credit in endowment or high worth client portfolios were rare. Today, strategies under this umbrella exceed $1.2 trillion in assets under management (AUM). Many average investors now have exposure through Business Development...
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......
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:...
Making an Impact In Our Own Backyard
CommonGood Capital is proud to announce the formation of a new consulting relationship we've established with a local non-profit in Orlando. CommonGood will leverage it's experience in both impact funds in general and impact due diligence to help the non-profit create...
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
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
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?
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...
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...
Michelle Campbell Joins CommonGood as Director of Operations/Compliance
We are proud to announce that Michelle Campbell has been hired as Director of Operations/Compliance for CommonGood Capital. Michelle is a Regulatory Compliance Consultant and Financial Services Professional with a 13 year proven track record in leading, training and...