Impact Entrepreneur

At MIE 2026, Elizabeth Kaetzel joined an Impact in Action site visit to Atlanta’s BeltLine and Pittsburgh Yards, where public investment, philanthropy, catalytic capital, and community engagement are being brought together to advance equitable development. The lesson for impact investors: public-private partnerships can finance transformation, but communities must h...

What if profit were calculated only after accounting for the harm businesses impose on people, communities, ecosystems, and future generations? In this Q&A, Jeremy Nicholls, author of The Accounting Paradox, argues that accounting is not a neutral technical practice but one of the economy’s most powerful hidden design choices — and that changing it could give impac...

Cultural projects are often treated as philanthropic amenities rather than civic infrastructure. Yulin Peng argues that portfolio theory could help cultural investment become more legible to long-term capital — if designed with community benefit, patient governance, and safeguards against extraction.

In the early 2000s, patients with rare diseases faced a dir...

Regenerative agriculture is often framed as a farmer-adoption challenge. This article argues that the real bottleneck lies deeper in the system: research infrastructure, protected cultivation, and the weak measurement frameworks connecting innovation to farmer outcomes.

On the outskirts of Hyderabad, inside a cluster of precision greenhouses, a quieter shif...

Carbon and biodiversity markets may not become the giant commodity markets some once imagined. But verified ecological outcomes are already helping land managers, investors, and companies structure loans, offtakes, and regenerative transitions in ways that make nature-positive outcomes more financeable.

Carbon and nature markets are becoming classic example...