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......
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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...
We are coming to a city near you!
CommonGood Capital and Alliant Strategic are planning on-site housing visits in Q1 & Q2 of 2023 in 5 cities including Los Angeles, Seattle, Chicago, Cleveland, and Dallas. These on-site visits will last about 3 hours, and will allow you to see first-hand what...
CommonGood Capital Awarded the ADISA Distinguished Service Award
In a strong sign that the financial services industry continues to recognize the importance of Impact to the future of the industry, CommonGood Capital was given the Distinguished Service Award by ADISA during the welcoming ceremony at the organization's 2022...
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
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
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
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...
It Starts By Asking Questions and Then Listening
At the beginning of my Impact Investing journey, I was humbled and overwhelmed as I sat in meeting after meeting trying to learn as much as I could about the industry. With a passion for Impact Investing and a vision to go after, I realized that in order to get to a...
Stephen Hester Joins CommonGood as New VP of Investments
CommonGood Capital is proud to announce the addition of Stephen Hester to our team. Stephen serves as the VP of Investments. He leads CommonGood’s Due Diligence and Investment committee for our Impact Investment Platform. Stephen’s capital markets career began in the...
Impact Investing is Way More Innovative and Creative than I Imagined
In the first half of my career, I had the pleasure of working with some of the largest and most prestigious firms in the investment world like KKR, CBRE, and Macquarie. They were impressive, ever challenging and increasing my knowledge regarding investing. When I...