Since 2016, the New England Impact Investing Initiative has been organising programs and events to empower leaders of impact both locally and internationally. Here are some programs that we have organised, along with the individuals who have progressed through them.

The Impact Investing Fellowship

The Fellowship aims to democratize access to impact investing & sustainable finance education to diversify & empower the next generation of impact professionals. Fellows are introduced to the sector’s themes, approaches, and players through curated educational sessions, workshops, and small-group discussions. Fellows gain an understanding of the financial system, their relationship to money, and several entrance points into the world of impact investing. We foster opportunities for professionals, students, investors, and entrepreneurs to advance their careers & gain insights from a diverse, global class of Fellows.

Welcome to our Fall 2025 Fellows

The NEIII Fellowship is a transformative program designed to empower professionals and students to gain hands-on knowledge and establish valuable connections in the impact investing and sustainable finance space. Join now for the Fall 2025 Program - https://www.neiii.org/thefellowship

Congratulations to our Spring 2025 Fellows

To connect with our cohort, please check them out below. You can click on their photo to go to their website or LinkedIn profile.

Fellows who successfully completed our program actively participated in our guided, peer-based immersion over the past 4 months, with more than 40 hours of an intense learning journey from leaders in the field. The program is an exploration of sustainable finance products & how to fund impact investing. Fellows learned practical use of tools for impact creation & got access to a global network of practitioners, researchers, and leaders in the space.

Fellows had sessions that would explore all the different levels of impact investing. Along the way, Fellows could organize topics specific to their career interests. The Peer Projects are one way the program allows Fellows to explore personal questions and curiosities in the space. This cohort of Fellows organized around different impact projects and research questions, they formed small groups to work on. Here were the different groups that were formed.

  • ESG Scorecards and Valuation

  • Impact Investing Podcast

  • Madagascar’s Business Angels Accelerator Program

  • Funding Forward - Moving $ from DAFs to CDFIs

  • Financial Impact Product for Kerala, India spices value chain

  • Water Treatment Funding Research

  • Developing a Fund Structure  Report

  • Impact Atlas Map product Pitch

  • Tackling Waste & Toxicity in Plastic Supply Chains Event

  • Olympics Reimagined ESG Research

As part of the program, Fellows were also given access to additional learning materials from partners and programs that inspire us. These are provided as additional learning materials and discussion topics during our sessions together.

  • BLAISE Learning Week on Impact Investing

  • Community-Based Investing from Tufts University Course

  • Just Money Course at MITx

  • Turner MIINT Business School Training

Fellows were given access to some of the resources mentioned below, as well as several additional in-person opportunities to attend. These included complimentary or free access to different summer programs, trainings, and events.

  • Boston Impact Initiative’s Integrated Capital Card Game

  • Impact Alpha Subscription

  • Impact Entrepreneur Subscription

  • Impact Finance Pro resources for career development

  • Diversity in Sustainability discounted membership

  • US SIF Certificate Course for free

Check out what some of the Fellows have said about the program themselves:

 

Congratulations to our Fall 2024 Fellows

To connect with our cohort, please check them out below. You can click on their photo to go to their website or LinkedIn profile.

During the Fellowship, we organized multiple skill sessions, workshops, and community calls into five specific modules to provide the Fellows with a whole list of additional resources, reading materials, and on-demand videos & trainings.

  • Module 1: Money, finance & the economy - why we need to change

  • Module 2: A case for impact, your role in the change & emerging alternatives

  • Module 3: Rooting your impact on a personal & community level

  • Module 4: Peer Action November

  • Module 5: A future of shared learning

Fellows were given access to some of the resources mentioned below, as well as several additional in-person opportunities to attend. These included complimentary or free access to different summer programs, trainings, and events.

  • Boston Impact Initiative’s Integrated Capital Card Game

  • Impact Alpha annual subscription

  • Impact Entrepreneur annual subscription

  • Diversity in Sustainability annual membership

Check out what some of the Fellows have said about the program themselves:

During the month of November, we gave the Fellows the opportunity to take over the program and focus on the topics Fellows really want to dive into! This is to support them in their work and to build connections for them in the space. These 14 additional Skill Sessions for November were added to the program, and the Fellows organized and hosted the conversations. Check them out below!

Also, the Fellows participated in Peer Project April, where the Fellows have 4 weeks to organize in small group, to either realizing a change project of your choice or embark on a peer learning deep dive, zooming in on a particular topic within the field. It’s the space we’ve designed for the Fellows to develop their skills, explore career pathways, and learn in collaboration with your peers. Fellows organized around these different ideas:

  • Business Angels & Mety Ventures accelerator program, where the group developed the idea of creating a program for entrepreneurs looking for impact investing for their local impact projects

  • Career Transitions - project to understand and map the employer types, industry roles, examples from the space, and resources available to make that job switch to impact investing

  • Fund Reporting - review of three crucial impact reporting frameworks and the process behind them: Impact Frontiers, Impact Principles, and the Principles of Responsible Investing

  • Carbon Capture ESG project, where the team explored the latest news and science behind the developing technologies

  • Unlocking Capital - a research project to understand, map, and categorize different impact investing funders for both entrepreneurs and investors to know who is working in the ecosystem

  • Youth Network - a discussion group that explored how to empower younger people before they enter the workforce to explore sustainable finance and impact investing

Congratulations to our Spring 2024 Fellows

To connect with our cohort, please check them out below. You can click on their photo to go to their website or LinkedIn profile.

The 2024 Spring Fellowship saw an expansion of our programming to become very much a global program designed for a cohort model with about >40 people. The Fellowship works to equip each cohort of practitioners with the skills & knowledge to enter the world of impact investing and sustainable finance. Our purpose is to democratize access to education to enter the field by diversifying and empowering the next generation of impact professionals. This learning journey introduces the sector’s themes, approaches, and players through curated educational sessions, workshops, and small-group discussions.

During the program, we hosted regular time to socialize and spaces to meet and discuss further with our speakers and trainers. The Fellows have the option to share resumes and LinkedIn profiles with the cohort and the speakers. We host career-building workshops and tips to improve career opportunities.

A big thank you to these corporate partners for helping us to provide access to resources and materials like the following:

  • Boston Impact Initiative’s Integrated Capital Card Game

  • Diversity in Sustainability Membership

  • Impact Alpha Membership

  • Impact Entrepreneur Access

To learn more about the program from the Fellows themselves, click the link for each of these “Voices of the Fellows” articles.

As part of this series, we have the Fellows share their own voices on how the program has impacted their work. Check out these reflections from them. We’re honored to have them share their thoughts and reflections so openly. Please do connect with them on LinkedIn.

Congratulations to our 2021 Fellows

To connect with our cohort, please check them out below. You can click on their photo to go to their website or LinkedIn profile.

The 2021 Fellowship built on the success of our 2020 Pilot Program and was broken into two parts. During Part I, Fellows participated in ten trainings with a special focus on developing business ideas, understanding impact investing trends, and breaking into the space with social and career advice. Fellows were given an Impact Entrepreneurship membership, could attend SOCAP 2021, and were provided with a copy of the Boston Impact Initiative’s Integrated Capital Card Game, which we used in real-life case studies on building an impact investing deal. Fellows were also allowed to help co-create the program by suggesting educational topics of interest to them, and they assisted in sourcing potential speakers and firms to participate.

During Part II, Fellows chose to join one of three corporate partners for an extended learning journey. Each learning journey was developed in collaboration with the corporate partner and explored their approach to impact investing and how they manage their operations. Team members at these corporate partners provided monthly mentoring & educational sessions. We also hosted additional social events with the whole class to share learnings and reflect on each other's experiences, thereby supporting everyone’s professional journey more effectively.

A big thank you to these corporate partners for developing this unique opportunity:

  • Eventide Asset Management

  • Morgan Lewis Law Firm

  • Trillium Asset Management

Congratulations to our 2020 Fellows

To connect with our cohort, please check them out below. You can click on their photo to go to their website or LinkedIn profile.

The 2020 Fellowship was our inaugural program, providing Fellows with access to eight key trainings on impact investing, having them practice pitching their entrepreneurial projects, and featuring spotlights on the Fellows. The program focused on bringing together career resources and tools to facilitate further learning about impact investing.

The 2020 Fellows were able to attend SOCAP Virtual 2020, received memberships on Impact Entrepreneur, and were provided with a copy of the Boston Impact Initiative’s Integrated Capital Card Game.

During the Fellowship, Fellows were grouped based on their interests into the following study groups to explore and connect over common themes:

  • Cohort 1: Economic Opportunity

  • Cohort 2: Environmental Stewardship

  • Cohort 3: Gender & Racial Equity

  • Cohort 4: SDG Partnerships

 2020 Annual Report