This Week in Impact

Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank . Up this week New impact products: ⁠https://impactalpha.com/impact-products-aim-to-shift-portfolio-allocations-in-bonds-private-credit-and-cash/⁠ Entrepreneurial households in industrious communities: ⁠https://impactalpha.com/calls/⁠ The rise of worker empowerment: ⁠https://impactalpha.com/how-reducing-income-inequality-ca...

This Week in Impact . Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank . Up this week: David dives into the divergent differing vibes at Mission Investors Exchange and the Milken Institute Global Conference. Plus a call for efforts to sustainably harvest the metals needed for the energy transition. Tonya Allen Q+A: ⁠https://impactalpha.com/mcknights-tonya-allen-philanthro...

Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank . Up this week: The state of blended finance: ⁠https://impactalpha.com/blended-finance-rebounds-in-2023-with-focus-on-climate-and-bigger-deals/⁠ How Big Tech can restore both forests – and credibility - in voluntary carbon markets: ⁠https://impactalpha.com/how-big-tech-can-restore-forests-and-credibility-in-voluntary-carbon...

Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank . Up this week: Family offices have the opportunity to invest in the climate transition: ⁠https://impactalpha.com/the-climate-transition-and-investment-opportunities-for-family-offices/⁠ Three leading foundations make for-profit investments in an OpenAI competitor: ⁠https://impactalpha.com/with-stakes-in-anthropic-impact-in...

Brian Walsh and ImpactAlpha editor David Bank take up the good news on the good economy, Participant Media’s lasting legacy and the signs of change at the World Bank. Plus: an exclusive early listen to the electrifying single, “I’m Your Heat Pump.” To learn more about heat pumps and home electrification, visit  The Switch is On  and  Rewiring America  websites. Sign up for The Switch is On  monthl...

Brian and David explore the federal funds that are catalyzing capital to reconnect communities from the legacy of racial segregation, the huge impact investing opportunity in Puerto Rico, and the mechanisms that investors and business owners are using to exit to employees. Links to this week's stories: Reconnecting communities - ⁠https://impactalpha.com/with-bridges-buses-and-bike-lanes-reconn...

Brian and David continue to unpack the EPA’s blockbuster $20 billion in government grants to mobilize commercial investment in climate solutions, learn lessons from dozens of blended finance transactions, and discuss how shareholders are voting to have companies mitigate economy-wide risks. Links to this week's stories: ⁠https://impactalpha.com/investors-ready-products-to-amplify-us-green-bank...

Brian Walsh and David Bank discuss the players likely to receive massive funding from the EPA to create a national green bank, how people are investing in Brazil’s impact economy, and how a $75 million ‘basket bond’ is catalyzing climate lending to small businesses in emerging markets. Read more: Green bank: ⁠https://impactalpha.com/epas-new-partners-plot-a-27-billion-path-to-a-us-green-bank/⁠ Bas...

David Bank joins Brian Walsh to discuss some of the top stories from ImpactAlpha this week. Stories mentioned on the podcast: Texas boots Blackrock: ⁠https://impactalpha.com/texas-boots-blackrock-saddling-texans-with-the-costs-of-its-campaign-against-esg/⁠ Clean cooking: ⁠https://impactalpha.com/leveraging-the-carbon-markets-for-clean-cooking-climate-justice-and-social-impact/⁠ Vanguard gets punke...

Featuring Activest's Homero Radway , HIP Investor’s Paul Herman , Kestrel’s Monica Reid , Matt Posner of Court Street Group and Lincoln Institute’s RJ McGrail . Check out the call recap: ⁠https://impactalpha.com/the-arbitrage-opportunity-in-high-impact-municipal-bonds-video/⁠ Or watch the replay: ⁠https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQPh3XC9X1g⁠ Imogen's latest Institutional Shift column: ⁠htt...

Amy Cortese speaks with both Marilyn Waite of the Climate Finance Fund and Dawn Lippert of Elemental Excelerator about their experiences this week in the green and blue zones of COP28. Plus, Monique Aiken has the headlines.   

ImpactAlpha’s Amy Cortese speaks with Full Cycle’s Stephan Nicoleau at the start of COP 28 to hear what he’s expecting - and hoping for - at the global climate summit in Dubai. Plus, host Brian Walsh has the headlines.

Friends of ImpactAlpha Eric Horvath and Lucas Turner-Owens share an excerpt from their new podcast Impact(ed). They speak with Tara Mei Smith (Office of NYC Comptroller) and Marcela Pinilla (Zevin Asset Management) about creating change from the inside at pension funds, and their journey as women of color investment professionals. Plus, host Monique Aiken has the headlines.

November 10th is the 125th anniversary of the only successful coup d’etat in U.S. history, which took place in Wilmington, North Carolina in 1898. White supremacists targeted Wilmington for it's multiracial democracy and prosperity. ]ImpactAlpha’s David Bank went to Wilmington and we’ll hear his conversation with Cedric Harrison, an entrepreneur building a business around recovering the histor...

ImpactAlpha’s Dennis Price catches up with María Hollan , a second-generation steward of her family’s assets at Timke Ventures in Mexico City. Hollan was in Medellín at the GLI Forum Latam looking for opportunities to invest across asset classes with a gender lens. Plus, Monique Aiken has the headlines. Join Camilla Nestor of MCE Social Capital, Shally Shankar of AiiM Partners, Noramay Cadena of S...

David Bank catches up with Courageous Capital Advisors’ Laurie Spengler to talk about what the mainstreaming of impact investing means for smaller impact fund managers closer to the problems and community-based solutions. Plus, host Brian Walsh has the headlines.

David chats with Graham Singh of the Trinity Centres Foundation, and chats with Monique about ImpactAlpha's recent fundraise. ⁠https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHd3U3IOar-4cPkJqx9eZYw⁠

Unicef USA's Cristina Shapiro joins David Bank to introduce child-lens investing, a framework for considering investment harms and benefits to children, who have ‘til now been left out of investment decision-making. Plus, host Brian Walsh has the headlines.

Roraj Pradhananga and Jane Swan of Veris Wealth Partners join host Monique Aiken to discuss how the wealth manager is investing in diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging. Plus, the headlines. Read the report: https://www.veriswp.com/deib-investing-report/

Host Brian Walsh shares highlights from this week’s agents of impact call, “The employee-ownership edge,” which explored the range of opportunities for investing in the conversion of companies to worker ownership. Plus, the headlines. RSVP for next week's LinkedIn Live with Sherrell Dorsey: https://www.linkedin.com/events/7112932484064968705/comments/ The call replay: https://youtu.be/Kii-53LJ...

David Bank is joined by Marjorie Kelly of The Democracy Collaborative to explore the ways that impact investors both help and hinder systemic change. Her new book, “Wealth Supremacy: How the Extractive Economy and the Biased Rules of Capitalism Drive Today’s Crises,” is out this month.  Plus, host Monique Aiken has the headlines. Read part one of Marjorie’s essay, “ ⁠⁠ How wealth supremacy is driv...

Host Brian Walsh chats with Amy Cortese to set the stage for the UN General Assembly and Climate Week NYC. Plus, the headlines.   Amy sketched the landscape in “ Protesters and investors to pressure global leaders at Climate Week NYC . ” Here are the details of Sunday’s march , Climate Group’s event guide and Climate Tech VC’s cheat sheet to hundreds of side events.

David Bank catches up with Robert Munson, President of SOCAP and Managing director at the Sorenson Impact Center, who is putting together next month’s gathering in San Francisco. Plus, host Brian Walsh has the headlines. Get your tickets today: Oct. 23-25: SOCAP23 (San Francisco) (save $250 with code “s23_impactalpha”) Find all of the stories from this week's episode on impactalpha.com

Pro Mujer’s Carmen Correa joins host Monique Aiken to share how the pioneering Latin American microfinance institution’s bonds are democratizing gender lens investing in Argentina. Plus, the headlines.   “ With gender bonds, Pro Mujer puts Argentina’s capital markets to work for female entrepreneurs ” Check out ImpactAlpha's new Career Hub !

Host Brian Walsh shares some of the insights from this week's Agents of Impact Call, which focused on how resourceful entrepreneurs are tapping community lenders, private investors, philanthropic funds and public dollars to launch Native-led businesses, create jobs and provide vital services. For the full replay and roundup of the call head over to ⁠https://impactalpha.com/calls/⁠ . The rest o...