This Week in Impact

Host Brian Walsh is joined by NYU’s Tensie Whelan to hear why more and more private equity firms are starting to embrace impact as a path to outperformance. Tensie's article in ImpactAlpha: https://impactalpha.com/more-private-equity-firms-embrace-impact-as-a-path-to-outperformance/

The BFM (Black Founders Matter) Fund’s Himalaya Rao speaks with David Bank about the alpha case for racial justice investing and the challenges faced by a woman manager when raising her first fund. Our earlier VC Include interviews: https://impactalpha.com/toussaint-bailey-uplifting-capital-bringing-the-quietly-bothered-into-impact-investing-podcast/ https://impactalpha.com/bahiyah-yasmeen-robinso...

As the Neighborhood Economics conference wraps up in Jackson, Miss., Kevin Jones speaks with David Bank about startup capital for sole proprietors, Black churches as engines of economic development and how unusual strangers can become unlikely allies. Plus, host Brian Walsh has the headlines.

For Earth Day, Dianne Dillon-Ridgley joins host Monique Aiken to reflect on her four decades working in finance and on environmental and human rights issues. Dillon-Ridgley is the chair of the board of the Intentional Endowments Network, and has served on 23 US delegations to the UN, including the first United Nations Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro in 1992. Plus, Moniq...

"Net zero is not going to get us anywhere,” Ariane Mahler of Veridien Global Investors tells David Bank on this week's podcast. “You need negative emissions, not just net zero.” Veridien’s forthcoming exchange-traded fund (ticker: CLIA) will include names in construction, waste management, agriculture and forestry as well as transportation and energy that “have as their main focus the red...

The Turner Miint’s Adwoa Asare joins co-hosts Monique Aiken and Brian Walsh to talk about training the next generation of impact investors – and the winners of this year’s competition. Plus the headlines .

From Austin, ImpactAlpha’s Dennis Price joins host Brian Walsh to discuss Texas’s surprising role as the U.S.’s leader in clean energy – and how the oil-pumping state might still wrest defeat from the jaws of victory. Plus, the headlines. Check up on this week's Agents of Impact Call at impactalpha.com/calls

Host Monique Aiken has the headlines and Atlas Impact Partners’ Robert Brown and ImpactAlpha contributing editor Imogen Rose-Smith join David Bank to parse how bank failures and interest rate hikes have changed the dynamics of impact investing – perhaps forever. “The current iteration of impact investors and advocates – those seeking to redirect large pools of capital – has thrived in the context...

As  mayor of Salt Lake County a decade ago, Ben McAdams was frustrated that  there wasn’t $500,000 in a $1.3 billion annual budget for a promising  early childhood education program (instead he helped craft one of the  country’s first social impact bonds ).  But an effort he led to map the value of the city’s underutilized real  estate yielded an impressive number: at...

2x Global’s Sana Kapadia joins host Monique Aiken to ring in Women’s History Month and talk about the state of gender-lens investing. Plus, the headlines. Relevant links from Sana: Website  Inclusive climate and gender finance report and launch event  (March 14th) The  Forum Currently hiring a  climate lead

Impact Engine’s Priya Parrish joins David Bank to explain why purpose built investment firms end up with better impact outcomes than purpose driven firms. Plus, host Brian Walsh has the headlines.

The roundtable – that’s Brian Walsh , Imogen Rose-Smith and David Bank – is back together to discuss private equity and, specifically, that $4.5 billion investment made by the investment office of the University of California’s Board of Regents into the Blackstone Real Estate Investment Trust. Plus, the headlines. Don't forget to email us (podcast@impactalpha.com) with your feedback, and check out...

Project Equity’s Alison Lingane talks with ImpactAlpha’s David Bank about the growing popularity of employee ownership as a strategy for  generating wealth and democratizing the economy.  And, host Monique Aiken has the headlines.

Fran Seegull of the Impact Investing Alliance joins David Bank to talk about jobs, climate and communities in this week’s State of the Union address and to preview Agents of Impact Call No. 49. Plus, the headlines. RSVP for The Call: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-year-of-the-s-public-policy-for-social-equity-in-2023-tickets-538081796137

ImpactAlpha’s David Bank joins host Monique Aiken to share takeaways from this week’s Agents of Impact Call on how investors are working to advance racial justice through the municipal bond market. Plus, the headlines.

Development finance institutions are essential to the mobilization of capital to slow climate change and to meet the Sustainable Development Goals. So why do these quasi-public institutions share so little data about their activities? Jessica Pothering breaks it down for host Brian Walsh. Plus, the headlines. Next week's Call: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/520070213007

For the banker turned impact investor, building wealth for women and people of color is as much about numbers as it is about equity. “The reason we are the U.S. and we are at the top of the heap, globally, is because we've invested in our prior majorities, which has been primarily white men,” Demetric Duckett of Living Cities told ImpactAlpha’s David Bank in this Agents of Impact podcast.

Milken’s Dan Carol and Rachel Halfaker join host Brian Walsh to share how they are connecting historically disadvantaged communities with the huge sums of public and private financing looking for actionable green infrastructure projects. The portal, called the Community Infrastructure Center, launched this week at Milken’s Public Finance Forum.

Host Monique Aiken and ImpactAlpha’s Roodgally Senatus chat with Su Sanni and Chris Coles of Brooklyn-based Dollaride , which is working with with climate and tech startups to electrify the city’s informal “dollar vans” and boost the livelihoods of drivers in New York’s transit deserts.

Host Brian Walsh is joined by Kristin Hull of Nia Impact Capital, a long-time Tesla investor who says Elon Musk’s  Twitter escapades threaten the electric vehicle maker’s climate mission.  Hull spoke to Walsh spoke about Nia’s public markets impact strategy,  why they’ve shifted Tesla from their client’s funds into a separate  activist fund, and when they might start to conside...

Host Monique Aiken has the headlines and David talks with Aisha Weeks of the Dearfield Fund for Black Wealth about narrowing the racial wealth gap by expanding access to home ownership.

Host Brian Walsh catches up with Common Trust’s Zoe Schlag , who is taking aim at U.S. wealth gaps by helping employees become owners – while enabling business owners to retire with purpose. Plus, the headlines.

Amy Cortese catches up with FullCycle’s Stephan Nicoleau at COP27 in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt to talk methane, governance and catalytic capital. Host Monique Aiken has the headlines. Check out this week's Call: impactalpha.com/calls , and all of our coverage at impactalpha.com

Host Brian Walsh is joined by Steven Rothstein , managing director of the Ceres Accelerator for Sustainable Capital Markets, to chat about how climate investors are reacting to this week’s midterm election in the U.S. as well as the COP27 global climate summit. Plus, the headlines. Next week's Call: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/454045290687

Jon Hale, director of sustainability research at Morningstar, joins Monique Aiken to talk about what is at stake for impact investors in next week’s US election. impactalpha.com/subscribe