Congratulations to kiva.org on the final close of the pioneering $32.5m Refugee Investment Fund! Ceniarth LLC invested alongside other leading impact investors to support this innovative new approach to financial inclusion

Learn more about how we're using blended finance as a key catalytic (totally overused, but genuinely true in this case) tool! Thanks to Convergence Blended Finance for everything you all do to educate & connect the blended finance universe.

How can #blendedfinance help support higher risk projects and pooled interventions? Greg Neichin, Director of Ceniarth, an impact-first investor, answers in our latest Member Spotlight. Read now ➡️ bit.ly/3thUf38

Ceniarth is an impact-first, single family office that manages ~$450M and invests in marginalized, primarily rural, communities. On this episode of Money + Meaning, Greg Neichin, Director at Ceniarth LLC, discusses the need for impact-first capital: bit.ly/3nxhYKE #impinv

In 2020, we increased our impact-first allocation to $174 million (40% of our portfolio), completing 22 impact-first deals totaling $31 million in new commitments. Read all about it in transparent, deep detail in our hot off the press 2020 annual review: ceniarthllc.com/wp-content/upl…

"we need to redefine what investing for impact looks like in every layer of our portfolio, including those intentionally designed for lower financial returns.".... a thoughtful piece from our friends & frequent collaborators Open Road Alliance.

"Most impact reporting comes up short: It serves as a self-affirming indicator of good efforts rather than an objective view of performance".. no easy path to "impact" answers, but proud that 60 Decibels is a partner helping us ask the right questions! ssir.org/articles/entry…

Excited to see 60 Decibels awarded support for a catalytic effort to bring greater impact insights and transparency to the financial inclusion space. We Ceniarth LLC are providing additional funding too. Encourage MIVs and MFIs who want to get involved to get in touch!

In a guest post on ImpactAlpha, Diane Isenberg and Greg Neichin of the family office Ceniarth take on the shortage of “impact first” investors willing to tackle tough challenges with catalytic, including concessionary, capital. impactalpha.com/in-search-of-e…

Very proud to have anchored this new impact-first facility managed by our long-time partner Global Partnerships. $8m in low cost, catalytic capital + $37.5M in senior debt from DFCgov = the definition of how blended finance is supposed to work to support vulnerable communities.

Happy 2022 #ImpInv universe! Start your year listening to ex-BlackRock exec Tariq Fancy explain why ESG investing is a complete diversion from meaningful impact and resolve to be more impact-first in everything you do! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/is-…

Few people have been impact-first champions longer than Jacqueline Novogratz @acumen. Proud to stand alongside her in calling for the #impinv sector to do more, to center on impact as opposed to returns, and to truly reach the world's most vulnerable communities! impactalpha.com/to-address-cli…

A big congrats to the team 60 Decibels! We have been an investor, client, and advocate for many years now and could not be more excited for this next chapter of their growth. Listening to customers & beneficiaries at scale is the essence of putting impact first!

Ceniarth LLC featured alongside other leading charitable foundations in new report on aligning our endowments with impact goals - thanks to Impact Investing Institute for giving us a platform to share our thinking!

Proud to be part of Expanding Black Business Credit (EBBC)'s Black Vision Fund delivering capital to CDFIs on the frontlines of financing minority-led businesses! A #blendedfinance facility with support from Wells Fargo, Amalgamated Bank, Packard Foundation, Jewish Federation, & Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC).

Huge congrats to Apollo Agriculture on closing a $40m Series B. They’ve come a long way since our first Ceniarth LLC discussions in 2016!

Better a little late than never, our 2021 year in review is hot off the press! If we're honest (which we always are!), it was a slog of a year. We still managed to make $30M in new commits across 20+ transactions. More to come in 2022! ceniarthllc.com/wp-content/upl…

Recent @bloomberg piece on pitfalls of #microfinance interviewed "dozens" of clients. 60 Decibels study interviewed 18,000. No doubt MFI sector has major challenges, but Sasha Dichter does an excellent job explaining why we need to follow the data! linkedin.com/pulse/textbook…