This Week in Impact

Brian Walsh has the headlines and Amy Cortese chats with Oxford’s Bob Eccles about why the distinction between ESG and impact in investing matters more than ever. https://impactalpha.com/cant-tell-the-players-without-a-scorecard-sorting-out-esg-impact-and-sustainability/

Host Monique Aiken is live and in person with Rodney Foxworth , CEO of Common Future, and ImpactAlpha’s David Bank at SOCAP22 in San Francisco. Plus, the headlines.

Host Brian Walsh is joined by Daniel Waldron , head of insights at Acumen, to discuss lessons learned from the non-profit investor’s two decades of deploying “patient capital” in companies serving some of the world’s poorest customers. Plus, the headlines.

ImpactAlpha’s David Bank catches up with Zach Stein , CEO of Carbon Collective, to talk about how average investors with 401(k) retirement accounts can start to shift trillions of dollars away from fossil fuels and toward climate solutions (3:00). This month's Liist: https://impactalpha.com/the-liist-seven-impact-funds-that-are-raising-capital-now-october-2022/

Dennis Price joins host Brian Walsh to talk about the new and growing opportunity in ‘refugee lens investing,’ (2:45). And, Brian shares some highlights from this week’s Agents of Impact Call (11:00) Watch the Call replay on Youtube: https://youtu.be/I0kz0W0dCBI or at impactalpha.com

Host Monique Aiken is joined by David Bank , who has been on the ground with ImpactAlpha’s New York “bureau” ( Amy Cortese , Roodgally Senatus and Dan Keller ), taking the pulse of investors and other stakeholders at Climate Week. Plus, the headlines .

ImpactAlpha correspondent Shefali Anand joins host Brian Walsh from the  Impact Investors Council in New Delhi to take stock of the surge in climate and impact investing in India. Plus, the headlines. Agents of Impact Call replay: https://youtu.be/XlSfGZ7c9xE

ImpactAlpha’s David Bank joins host Monique Aiken to preview next week’s Agents of Impact Call. Luni Libes of Realize Impact stops by to discuss impact funds featured on this month’s edition of The LIIST. Plus, the headlines. Next week's Call RSVP: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/411553496587 This month's LIIST: https://impactalpha.com/the-liist-seven-impact-funds-that-are-raising-capital-now-septemb...

Host Brian Walsh is joined by Roody Senatus to hear about some of the concrete steps being taken to address a  particularly hard challenge: reducing carbon emissions from concrete. Plus, the headlines. More on Pakistan aid opportunities:  https://www.linkedin.com/posts/kalsoomlakhani_the-floods-impacting-pakistan-right-now-are-activity-6969838421166989312-7s_X/

New  Majority Capital is one of a new crop of emerging impact investment  firms that are turning to crowdfunding platforms such as Republic and Wefunder to overcome historic barriers to fundraising. New Majority's Havell  Rodrigues speaks with Dennis Price about how the approach has worked for  them, and the strategy they're using to seed a new generation of  diverse entre...

Host Brian Walsh welcomes back roundtable regulars Imogen Rose-Smith and David Bank to dissect the anti-ESG backlash and the Inflation Reduction Act. Plus, the headlines.

Host Monique Aiken is joined by Amy Cortese, who has been talking to investors -- including Full Cycle’s Stephan Nicoleau -- about how the inflation reduction act is resetting the table on climate. Plus, the headlines.`

Realize Impact’s Luni Libes and ImpactAlpha’s Zuleyma Bebell join Brian Walsh to discuss the LIIST, an exciting new sampling of impact funds and companies that, based on public or accessible information, seem to be in active fundraising mode. The LIIST:  https://impactalpha.com/the-brief-the-liist-of-open-impact-funds-evs-as-a-service-impact-tech-in-africa-federal-policy-for-community-solar/...

Jessica Pothering joins host Brian Walsh to dissect the crash landing of Airlift, and chew over the broader Covid-fueled boom and bust in instant grocery delivery in frontier markets. Plus, the headlines.

Spring Point Partners’ Margot Kane joins host Monique Aiken to talk family offices, emerging managers and catalytic capital. Plus, the headlines.

Roundtable regulars Imogen Rose-Smith and David Bank join Brian Walsh to  draw a  line from the massive fees in asset management to the recent raft of  radical decisions from the U.S. Supreme Court.

ImpactAlpha’s Jessica Pothering joins Monique Aiken to share the work of equity and debt capital providers in emerging markets, whom she met with last week in Dar es Salaam at the Collaborative for Frontier Finance's annual convening. www.impactalpha.com/subscribe

David  Bank joins host Brian Walsh to discuss parallels between the LGBTQ+  community and the impact investing community. We also hear from Megan  Kashner of the Kellogg School of Management about the genesis of  Colorful Capital, the new LGBTQ+ focused venture capital firm that she  has started with TIIP’s Bill Burckart. Plus the headlines.

FullCycle’s Stephan Nicoleau deconstructs the climate conversation at the recent Davos meeting of the World Economic Forum with host Monique Aiken , and points to some surprising opportunities for climate investors. Plus the headlines.

CEO and Founder of VC Include, Bahiyah Robinson joins host Monique Aiken to talk about the social venture project's mission to increase the number of diverse-led climate funds 10-fold by 2030. Plus, the headlines. 

David Bank joins Monique Aiken to discuss the politics of ESG and the importance of flexible financing for startups and small businesses. Plus, the headlines. https://impactalpha.com/subscribe/

ImpactAlpha’s David Bank joins host Brian Walsh to preview next week’s Agents of Impact call (3:45) . And Bank checks in with Kevin Jones from the Neighborhood Economics gathering in Indianapolis (7:00) . Jones is this week’s Agent of Impact. Plus, the headlines. impactalpha.com/subscribe

Monique Aiken is joined by Jessica Pothering to explore the, yes, social impact  of private investment trends on the African continent. Plus, the headlines. impactalpha.com/subscribe

Host Brian Walsh is joined by roundtable regulars Imogen Rose-Smith and David Bank to decide which type of “activist investor” Carl Icahn is – and what that makes Elon Musk. We also hear from Jah Koh of Lightsmith Group and Benjamin Njenga of Apollo Agriculture, both of whom were guests on this week’s Agents of Impact Call. Plus, the headlines. https://www.impactalpha.com/subscribe

David Bank joins host Monique Aiken to preview next week’s call on catalyzing capital for climate adaptation. And we hear from Jonathan Phillips of the Rogers Energy Access Project at Duke University. Plus, the headlines. Next week's call: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/313635681767 SUBSCRIBE TODAY FOR OUR BEST DEAL OF THE YEAR: HALF OFF. https://impactalpha.com/subscribe/ and use code ANNUAL50.