New Book · June 2026

Investing
in America

Meet the innovators expanding access to financing so more people can turn their hard work into opportunity.

Antony Bugg-Levine · Forthcoming from Wiley

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About the Book

America built the world's most dynamic economy. Now let's make it work for everyone.

For millions of Americans, full-time work no longer guarantees financial security, homeownership feels out of reach, and opportunity depends too much on who you are or where you live.

Investing in America tells the inspiring stories of the innovators addressing these shared challenges by providing fair financing solutions to overlooked people and communities. From Maine to California, Alaska to Florida, and 38 states in between, these examples show a new way to solve seemingly intractable challenges. The book describes what a reader with a savings account, $1, and an internet connection can do to Invest in America themselves.

Expanding access to finance alone will not solve these challenges. But solving them will be impossible unless we do.

This patriotic, bipartisan, and optimistic book shows how we can get that done.

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What Investing in America is making possible

Renters becoming first-time homeowners in Detroit
Manufactured-home residents buying the land they live on in Missouri
No-debt diesel technician training in Ohio
Wildfire reduction crews making Oregon forests safer
Employee owners building retirement wealth in Texas
And so much more across the country

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About the Author

Antony Bugg-Levine

Antony Bugg-Levine has spent 25 years working on a question that cuts across politics and ideology: how do we put the world's vast investment capital to work solving our deepest problems?

He coined the term "impact investing" at a 2007 Rockefeller Foundation convening, co-founded the Global Impact Investing Network, and co-wrote the field's first book. He led one of America's largest community development finance institutions for nearly a decade, and today advises foundations and family offices on becoming more discerning, decisive, and ambitious impact investors.

His path to this work began in post-apartheid South Africa, where he worked at the Human Rights Commission and wrote speeches for President Nelson Mandela and wound through East Africa and stints helping Fortune 100 CEOs and helping to lead a Wall Street asset management firm. He teaches at Columbia Business School and holds degrees from Yale and Princeton.

This book is one grateful immigrant's 250th-birthday gift to the country that has given him and his family so much.

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From the Blog

Ideas & Insights

April 2026

Five Ways Government Can Invest in America

Everyone knows government spends money. Fewer people remember that government also invests it — and has a track record of driving private capital into places it would never go alone. Antony draws on examples from the 30-year mortgage to the Small Business Investment Company program.

March 2026

Don't Hate the Player. Change the (Employee Ownership Financing) Game

Was KKR paying ~$150 million in worker bonuses good for workers? Antony argues we should focus on supporting investors creating better options for workers to compete with private equity themselves.

March 2026

Out of Stealth Mode

Antony introduces Investing in America in a LinkedIn post. Check it out and join the conversation.

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