19 Dec, 2019 •
2019 Ceniarth Year in Review
...deployments from development institutions made possible a number of our other significant commitments this year. Our largest single transaction was a $7.5 million commitment to Blue
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13 Jan, 2024 •
Investment Associate
Investment Associate Position type:Full-time Location:London, UK Department:Investments Reports to:Head of Investments Pay:Competitive; commensurate with experience We are searching
04 Feb, 2015 •
Impact or Investing: There is a choice to make
...would be better framed around goals. One discipline, the one more commonly associated with SRI/ESG Investing though not exclusively so, is focused on a goal of investing money for
28 Oct, 2015 •
Muhammad Yunus is wrong about off grid solar
...should be focused on preparing companies for the rigors of this path, not developing mechanisms that artificially reduce these pressures. We have come to this belief through a number
29 May, 2015 •
Our latest PRI: Evidence Action’s Dispensers for Safe Water
...communities in Malawi. The country faced catastrophic flooding early in 2015 that has only heightened the need for effective water treatment. Commentary on Funding Mechanism When we began our
21 Jul, 2016 •
It takes money to make money: Advance Global Capital (AGC)
...market-based solutions benefiting underserved communities, in large part because we believe that commercially sustainable approaches to problems like SME credit provision are required to generate
15 Dec, 2014 •
Tackling complexity with programmatic approach
...will able to more responsibly intervene on complex challenges. We will hire program managers tasked with developing comprehensive knowledge of opportunities and obstacles in a given sector and
19 Jan, 2017 •
Sorry, ‘Feel Good’ Investors: Deep Impact Requires Concessions
...as we began investing more heavily and more directly in early-stage companies that targeted less advantaged populations in emerging markets, we began to notice the complexity of these market
06 Feb, 2019 •
Ceniarth’s Diane Isenberg: ‘I am a gender-lens investor’
...(more than $6 million) in multiple Bridges Fund Management vehicles, co-founded by Michele Giddens, and recently made a program-related investment commitment ($1 million) to
06 Apr, 2020 •
We are lenders, not heroes: Ceniarth’s three-part response to COVID-19
...to realize that vulnerable communities need deeply concessionary capital to survive. They only need it more now. This is why we are committed to staying in our lane. We
03 Apr, 2023 •
Ceniarth 2022 Annual Report
...a record amount, nearly $70M, of new capital commitments across 41 transactions. After two full years of Covid-induced struggles that slowed our transaction activity and forced us to focus
08 Jun, 2022 •
Ceniarth 2021 Annual Report
...to marginalized communities. We take great pride at Ceniarth in our honesty, openness, and frankness. We are not going to sugarcoat it. 2021 was a tough year. The pandemic.
05 Dec, 2014 •
Reflections on our mission
...simple. Acknowledging the complexity of the sectors and geographies where we aim to intervene and the tensions that exist in attempting to invest money in challenging problems, we have
23 Oct, 2015 •
Expanding our capacity
...expertise in the complex, frontier market value chains in which we planned to intervene. We had observed too many generic impact investment firms and family offices that were focused
07 Aug, 2024 •
Coffee Stimulates Energy and Impact
...for vulnerable, rural communities. That said, coffee is more than just a community issue, it is also an issue of climate resilience. Global coffee prices are currently surging as