DevQuest is an initiative providing advice & insights for new-starters trying to break into the international development, human rights and peace industry.  Since our inception, we have focused on impact investing to advance our two primary goals: To deliver healthy returns to our invest… read moreors for each investment period. To achieve these returns by focusing on origins of value, by delivering capital to those who need it in markets that are rapidly growing and yet under-served.
Our investments will include below-market loans, equity, guarantees, and other instruments, with a strong focus on additionality—meaning the underlying activities would not take place “but for” our investment.  Leverage is also a priority, and we seek to use our capital in ways that achieve impact beyond what we could realize on our own. We look to anchor housing preservation initiatives, attracting new capital to the region’s housing sector and helping tens of thousands of families live better lives. And we seek to fuel innovative financing plans to develop single-family and multi-family properties using energy-efficient improvements, thereby testing opportunities for potential scaling and replication.  This helps guide our approach today.