Professor Perspectives: Deploying bridge loans, pay-for-success and other creative responses to the COVID-19 crisis

The economic and community-level impacts of the global COVID-19 epidemic continue to reveal themselves layer by layer. Many of the impact sector’s most crucial services and interventions are being delivered by organizations whose very existence and continued operation might well be threatened by the crisis and its financial side-effects. Below, several members of the Impact & Sustainable Finance Faculty Consortium share their thoughts on how impact investors and other wielders of impact capital can deploy financial interventions to bridge financial gaps, finance solutions, and support basic needs during the crisis.