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6 Insights on Frontier Investing: Harvard CID Features CrossBoundary Co-Founders Jake Cusack and Tom Flahive

Harvard CID Hosts CrossBoundary Co-Founders Jake Cusack and Tom Flahive on Making Frontier Markets Investable

What the world’s largest EM credit dataset reveals about real risk in emerging markets

Information, trust, and capital: Insights from Africa Media Festival 2026

The Africa Media Festival 2026 convened journalists, technologists, and creators to ask what it takes to keep credible information alive under pressure. Framed around the theme “Resilient Storytelling: Reimagining Media Freedom,” the conversations extended well beyond journalism, exploring how information is produced, controlled, and sustained in complex environments.

Getting incentive design right: Lessons from a gender-smart financing pilot for energy access

According to FAO, three in four working women in Sub-Saharan Africa earn their livelihoods through agriculture and food systems. They are also the primary users of energy in the home. Despite this, women remain the least likely to own the productive assets that could change their economic trajectory, largely because financing mechanisms meant to expand energy access are not designed with them in mind. In fact, research by Shell Foundation found that less than 10% of results-based financing funding explicitly targets women.

First In, Many Follow: How Foundations are Anchoring the Next Wave of Blended Finance

May 2025: A closed-door session brings together top-tier philanthropies, investment banks, advisors, and commercial investors to discuss a shared reality—declining official development assistance (ODA) and the growing need for more capital, both commercial and catalytic, to flow into impact sectors.

An Australian Perspective on Blended Finance Participation

In Australia, interest in blended finance is growing as foundations, governments, development institutions, and private investors explore new ways to mobilize capital for impact.

Inside CrossBoundary’s Kenya Internship Program: Learning, growth, and impact

CrossBoundary’s internship program is built around a simple idea: people learn fastest when they work on real problems that matter. Interns are embedded directly into teams and contribute to projects with real stakes, not busy work.

CrossBoundary Group named to the ImpactAssets 50 2026 Impact Fund Manager showcase

What we give, we grow: women in Ghana’s agricultural economy

On International Women's Day 2026, BRIDGE-in Agriculture celebrates the women who received a hand — and immediately extended one to others. Meet Juliana, Yvette, and Gloria: three Ghanaian women whose businesses are growing, and whose first instinct has been to bring others along with them.