ImpactAlpha Podcasts

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/ Baske...

Sherrell Dorsey speaks with Bright Ventures’ Lenore Champagne Beirne. about how she’s working to build an inclusive economy through capital, community, and coaching. Champagne Beirne founded Bright Ventures as a strategic advisory and executive coaching service prior to expanding to include an early-stage fund. For more: https://impactalpha.com/plugged-in-lenore-champagne-beirne-bright-ventures/

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 punked: h...

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: https://...

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 drivi...

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 mentioned in this week's episode on impactalpha.com

🎧 Impact Briefing . 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 of...

Paris Prince of the Intentional Endowments Network joins host Monique Aiken to talk about how impact investors are responding to legal attacks on affirmative action and racial wealth-building strategies.  Sign the Fearless Fund petition: https://share.communityx.com/posts/3297045f-af18-4411-9fa2-82afddc6685a/ For more on all of these stories, head on over to www.impactalpha.com

David Bank speaks with Hugo Contreras, who helped lead The Nature Conservancy’s efforts in Latin America to value, conserve and enhance our most irreplaceable resource, in the next conversation in our series from the Salzburg Global Seminar, sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation . Host Monique Aiken has the headlines. impactalpha.com/subscribe

David Bank chats with Acre Africa’s Niza Banda in the next conversation from the recent “Connecting capital to communities” gathering at the Salzburg Global Seminar, sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Host Brian Walsh has the headlines. For the full story: https://impactalpha.com/acre-africa-insuring-farmers-against-crop-failures-and-climate-change/ Subscribe today: https://impactalp...

David Bank chats with Musa Mabesa, head of South Africa’s Government Employees Pension Fund, in the latest conversation from the “Connecting capital to communities” gathering at the Salzburg Global Seminar, sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Host Monique Aiken has the headlines. Read the full story: https://impactalpha.com/putting-africas-pension-funds-to-work-for-africas-social-infr...

David Bank chats with Empowa’s Glen Jordan in the next conversation from the recent “Connecting Capital to Communities” gathering at the Salzburg Global Seminar, sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Host Brian Walsh has the headlines.  “When there's no formality, there's no identification. Income is informal. The mortgage product just doesn't work,” says Glen Jordan of Empo...