Advancing Practice in Catalytic Capital Guidance Note 3—The Sustaining Role
Catalytic Capital Consortium
Catalytic capital plays a vital "sustaining" role for funds, initiatives, and enterprises that take on the world's most difficult challenges. This is the third and final guidance note to emerge from the C3 Learning Lab series, detailing how, when, and why investors seek out these opportunities.
Advancing Practice in Catalytic Capital Guidance Note 2—The Scaling Role
Catalytic Capital Consortium
Drawn from C3 Learning Labs on "scaling," this guidance note considers how catalytic capital helps funds, managers, and strategies grow beyond their initial success to eventually become commercially investable.
Advancing Practice in Catalytic Capital Guidance Note 1—The Seeding Role
Catalytic Capital Consortium
The first in a series of guidance notes emerging from C3 Learning Labs with seasoned catalytic capital investors. It identifies the challenges investors may face when deploying catalytic capital in a "seeding" role and details best practices for the field.
The Case of Missing Middles: Gaps in the Development Finance Landscape
UNCDF
Identifies persistent 'white spaces' in development finance and argues for patient, risk-tolerant, small-ticket, blended capital embedded in local ecosystems.
Collaboration in Action: How to Collectively Work Towards Systems Change
Impact Europe
Impact Europe study on how different capital types can align for long-term systems change, capturing perspectives from practitioners deploying capital collaboratively across philanthropy, public institutions, and private sector.
