This Week in Impact

Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with Amy Cortese. On today's episode: Beyond Chicago, Harris seeks to ride a revival in wages, entrepreneurship and ownership Talk of the Town: Live updates from outside the Democratic National Convention Pension funds in pro-ESG ‘blue’ states outperform those in anti-ESG ‘red’ ones — to the tune of $159 billion New wave of off-grid energy st...

Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank: ⁠Mapping an impact investing path through the new legal landscape⁠ ⁠Are fund managers ready to set targets to hold themselves accountable for impact?⁠ ⁠HBO brings a sleek, sexy and skeptical view of impact investing to a television audience.

Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank . Up this week: ⁠⁠⁠Why certain Venture Capitalists are embracing Kamala Harris’s campaign vision⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠How three Africa-led blended finance models are mobilizing billions for development ⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠Why microfinance pioneer Muhmmad Yunus is stepping in to lead Bangladesh during a political crisis⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠RSVP⁠⁠⁠ for next week'...

Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank . Up this week: ⁠⁠Why certain Venture Capitalists are embracing Kamala Harris’s campaign vision⁠⁠ ⁠⁠How three Africa-led blended finance models are mobilizing billions for development ⁠⁠ ⁠⁠Why microfinance pioneer Muhmmad Yunus is stepping in to lead Bangladesh during a political crisis⁠⁠ ⁠⁠RSVP⁠⁠ for next week's Call!

The team is on break, so we're sharing the second episode of James McIntyre and Matt Posner's new podcast Capitol Gains, the latest edition to the ImpactAlpha Podcast Network. In this episode James and Matt had the pleasure of hosting Carolyn Kousky of the Environmental Defense Fund. With an extensive background in climate risk management and policy approaches, Carolyn provided a compellin...

Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank . Up this week: The ⁠political proxy battle⁠ for the soul of tech, innovation and social impact, what ⁠youth led protests⁠ mean for the impact agenda, and how recycling is ⁠having a moment⁠ .

Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with Jessica Pothering . Up this week: Refugee-lens investing: ⁠https://impactalpha.com/new-tools-for-humanitarian-relief-in-crisis-zones-blended-finance-offtake-contracts-and-debt-swaps/⁠ Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund deadlines: ⁠https://impactalpha.com/epa-melds-private-and-public-capital-and-a-surplus-of-opinions-to-beef-up-green-banking/⁠ Cap...

Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank . Up this week: the good economic news that’s been largely overlooked — or at least overshadowed — in the current tumultuous news cycle: ⁠https://impactalpha.com/left-behind-communities-ride-bipartisan-policies-if-not-politics-to-prosper-at-last/⁠ Plus, an impact investment from TPG to fund AI-powered cameras that detect pa...

Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank . Up this week: The implications of this term’s Supreme Court rulings on the business environment for sustainable finance: ⁠https://impactalpha.com/supreme-court-rulings-threaten-to-turn-policy-tailwinds-into-headwinds-for-impact-investors/⁠ How impact investors are preparing for the political risk of the upcoming US presid...

Host Brian Walsh takes up top stories with ImpactAlpha’s Jessica Pothering. Up this week: How New Ventures is aiming to scale up by going deep instead of big: ⁠https://impactalpha.com/going-big-by-going-niche-how-new-ventures-rodrigo-villar-is-specializing-for-deeper-impact-qa/⁠ Obran’s worker owned cooperative conglomerate: ⁠https://impactalpha.com/worker-owned-conglomerate-obran-cooperative-gets...

Imogen Rose-Smith joins David Bank and Brian Walsh for a classic ImpactAlpha roundtable discussion about ESG, DEI, and public policy. Subscribe to ImpactAlpha: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://impactalpha.com/subscribe/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ This episode features music by Isaac Silk

Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank . Congressional hearings on ESG: ⁠https://impactalpha.com/political-risk-antitrust-hearing-escalates-republican-attacks-on-climate-action/ ⁠ Shareholder votes at Tesla: ⁠https://impactalpha.com/elon-musks-pay-grab-is-a-skirmish-in-the-broader-battle-of-the-billionaires/⁠ Women’s growing economic power in Latin America: ⁠htt...

Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with senior editor Jessica Pothering . Up this week: This month’s list of impact funds actively raising capital: ⁠https://impactalpha.com/impact-fund-managers-steer-private-credit-to-places-equity-fears-to-tread/⁠ Liist submissions: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScfm5qIOqogtbI3xRx4-0Xk2kh7VY_5x8wJKuLh6ZlXz2sSmw/viewform How Africa’s fu...

This Week in Impact . Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank . Up this week: Climate on the ballot: ⁠https://impactalpha.com/mexico-chooses-a-new-president-amid-extreme-heat-and-little-urgency-on-climate-action/⁠ Impact accounting standards: ⁠https://impactalpha.com/a-decade-in-the-making-impact-accounting-standards-advance-amid-investor-demand/⁠ Bridging a ‘mis...

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.