07 Aug, 2025
Ceniarth 2024 Annual Report
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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April 22, 2025
Three Pillars of Ceniarth's Impact Assessment
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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August 7, 2024
Coffee Stimulates Energy and Impact
To keep our energy levels high, our team at Ceniarth contributes meaningfully to the 400 billion cups of coffee that are consumed annually worldwide.
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June 10, 2024
Ceniarth 2023 Annual Report
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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August 7, 2025
Ceniarth 2024 Annual Report
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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April 22, 2025
Three Pillars of Ceniarth's Impact Assessment
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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August 7, 2024
Coffee Stimulates Energy and Impact
To keep our energy levels high, our team at Ceniarth contributes meaningfully to the 400 billion cups of coffee that are consumed annually worldwide.
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June 17, 2024
A New Look For A New Decade
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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June 10, 2024
Ceniarth 2023 Annual Report
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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April 3, 2023
Ceniarth 2022 Annual Report
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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June 8, 2022
Ceniarth 2021 Annual Report
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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May 3, 2021
Ceniarth 2020 Annual Report
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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April 7, 2021
Ceniarth Webinars & Podcasts: Climate Justice, Racial Justice, Gender-Lens
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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April 6, 2020
We are lenders, not heroes: Ceniarth’s three-part response to COVID-19
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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December 19, 2019
2019 Ceniarth Year in Review
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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February 6, 2019
Ceniarth’s Diane Isenberg: ‘I am a gender-lens investor’
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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August 20, 2018
Fighting Poverty, Remaining Rich
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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August 1, 2018
Navigating Toward Impact
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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November 5, 2017
Ceniarth Portfolio Summit @ UMASS
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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February 23, 2017
How Ceniarth Supports Social Entrepreneurs
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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January 19, 2017
Sorry, 'Feel Good' Investors: Deep Impact Requires Concessions
“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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July 21, 2016
It takes money to make money: Advance Global Capital (AGC)
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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October 28, 2015
Muhammad Yunus is wrong about off grid solar
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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October 23, 2015
Expanding our capacity
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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May 29, 2015
Our latest PRI: Evidence Action’s Dispensers for Safe Water
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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February 4, 2015
Impact or Investing: There is a choice to make
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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December 15, 2014
Tackling complexity with programmatic approach
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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December 5, 2014
Reflections on our mission
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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