Aeris Announces Release of 16 CDFI Ratings in Q2 2020 PHILADELPHIA, PA, July 13, 2020—Aeris®, the rating and information service for impact investments, announced today that it issued ratings and analysis on 16 community development loan funds (CDFIs) during the second quarter of 2020. Among these was one first-time ratee: Minneapolis, MN-based Meda. For [...]

Aeris Announces Release of 22 New CDFI Ratings PHILADELPHIA, PA, May 14, 2020—Aeris®, the rating and information service for impact investments, announced today that it issued ratings and analysis on 22 community development loan funds (CDFIs) during the first four months of 2020. Among these were two first-time ratees: Midwest Housing Development Fund and Southern [...]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Aeris Insight Brings Enhanced Transparency and Accountability to Impact Investing with the Launch of Aeris Atlas and Aeris Impact Management Assessments PHILADELPHIA, Pa. (October 21, 2019) – Aeris Insight, a leading rating and information service, announced today the launch of two new products with the potential to lead the impact [...]

Solomon Hess SBA Loan Fund One of First Investment Funds to Undergo New Aeris Impact Management Assessment FALLS CHURCH, Va. and PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 4, 2019 -- Solomon Hess Capital Management, an investment adviser founded to create value for investors through community development funds, and Aeris Insight, a leading rating and information service, announced today [...]

Aeris Appoints New Board Chair and Directors February 13, 2019 Aeris has named Kim Leslie Shafer Chair of the Aeris Board of Directors, effective February 13, 2019. Shafer succeeds Ellen Seidman, who served as Chair since 2014. Seidman led Aeris through a critical period of its growth and development as it entered the wider [...]

Aeris to expand tools for impact investors with $375,000 grant from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation PHILADELPHIA, PA, October 31 — Aeris is pleased to announce it has received a $375,000, two-year grant from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation (WKKF) to expand and improve Aeris' tools for impact investors. Aeris is an information service for impact investors, [...]

New Rating Tool Assesses Investment Funds’ Accountability to Claims of Impact Community Capital Management (CCM)'s CRA Qualified Investment Fund has become the first publicly-traded, fixed-income mutual fund to receive an impact management rating from Aeris, the rating and information service for impact investors. The rating was announced at the 2017 Social Capital Markets (SOCAP) Conference [...]