Press Releases

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 [...]