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Download our 2025 Annual Report Managing Director’s Letter It feels as if every year we need to start this letter declaring, “impact-first capital is needed now more than ever.” Whether it was the Covid pandemic, racial justice reckonings, geopolitical turmoil, or 2025’s drastic cuts to international aid...
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Download our 2024 Annual Report Managing Directors Letter As we pen this 2024 retrospective, it is impossible to ignore the changes and uncertainty faced by...
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We label ourselves as “impact-first investors”. The name should say it all. We must, quite obviously, put impact first in our consideration of investment opportunities. ...
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To keep our energy levels high, our team at Ceniarth contributes meaningfully to the 400 billion cups of coffee that are consumed annually worldwide.
Read moreJune 23, 2026
Download our 2025 Annual Report Managing Director’s Letter It feels as if every year we need to start this letter declaring, “impact-first capital is needed now more than ever.” Whether it was the Covid pandemic, racial justice reckonings, geopolitical turmoil, or 2025’s drastic cuts to international aid...
Read moreAugust 7, 2025
Download our 2024 Annual Report Managing Directors Letter As we pen this 2024 retrospective, it is impossible to ignore the changes and uncertainty faced by...
Read moreApril 22, 2025
We label ourselves as “impact-first investors”. The name should say it all. We must, quite obviously, put impact first in our consideration of investment opportunities. ...
Read moreAugust 7, 2024
To keep our energy levels high, our team at Ceniarth contributes meaningfully to the 400 billion cups of coffee that are consumed annually worldwide.
Read moreJune 17, 2024
Ceniarth turned 10 last November, an important milestone in our evolution! If you want to read more about our reflections on the past decade, our...
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Download our 2023 Annual Report Managing Director’s Letter November 2023 marked our ten year anniversary at Ceniarth. While it has been a decade since Diane...
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Download our 2022 Annual Report Managing Director's Letter There is much to recount about our 2022, but there is no other way to begin than...
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Download our full 2021 Annual Report Introduction Letter from Our Directors 2021 was a challenging year on many fronts, but we remain unwavering in our...
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Download our full 2020 Annual Report Introduction Letter from Our Directors For the impact sector, and particularly for impact-first investors like us at Ceniarth, 2020...
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January 4, 2021Gender-Smart Investing Journeys: An Interview with Ceniarth Founder, Diane Isenberg December 3, 2020Climate Justice: What Can I Do Now? Webinar October 20, 2020SOCAP...
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This piece was initially published on ImpactAlpha in April of 2020 There are real heroes in this historic, global healthcare crisis filled with fear and...
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This piece initially appeared on ImpactAlpha in December of 2019 It has been 18 months since Diane Isenberg, Ceniarth’s founder, announced our intention to focus our capital...
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This piece initially appeared on ImpactAlpha in February of 2019 Truth be told, these statements of affiliation do not come naturally to me. I have...
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This article by Ceniarth Founder Diane Isenberg appears in Impact Alpha on August 20, 2018. Read the full text here. “Those promising comfortable market-rate returns...
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Last week, the Omidyar Network published a new resource guide, Building an Impact Investing Team, to support family offices and foundations in their journey to...
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On Tuesday, October 24th, 2017, Ceniarth was proud to host its first ever Portfolio Summit. The convening brought together an invitation-only group of our portfolio...
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Ceniarth Directors Diane Isenberg and Greg Neichin recently appeared on Financing Social Entrepreneurs, a "weekly podcast interviewing people who fund and support social innovation in...
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“We thought that the only way to achieve large-scale impact was to build large commercial enterprises that could generate enough cash to support both organizational...
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Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are the engine of growth and employment in developed economies, accounting for over 50% of GDP and 60% of employment....
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Yes, this is a provocative headline. Offering a critique of a Nobel Prize winner who revolutionized financial inclusion and positively impacted the lives of tens...
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One of the most important lessons that we have learned over the past two years in building Ceniarth is the value of focus and expertise....
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The philanthropic and social investment world is filled with examples of good intentions gone awry and counter-intuitive outcomes. Consequently, we believe that evidence-based strategies and...
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Later this week, I will appear on a panel at Confluence Philanthropy’s annual practitioner gathering. The ambitious, yet ambiguous title of our session is, “The...
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In order to pursue our mission of scalable solutions to the world’s big challenges, we have come to believe that we will need to be...
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As a brand new organization, 2014 was a year of exploration and learning for us. Taking a broad and opportunistic perspective, we engaged in a...
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