Host Brian Walsh takes up the top stories in impact with editorial director Amy Cortese. Up this week: Climate change and the Inflation Reduction Act’s minimal mentions in the presidential debate, a report from the sustainable side of fashion week in New York, and a look at the rising number of student-led impact funds.…

Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank. Up this week: A new report proposes seven bipartisan policy tweaks that could drive more private capital into financing worker ownership transitions. How USAID is banking commercial returns by working with local institutional capital providers in Africa to finance African i…

🎧 This Week in Impact. Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank. Stories on this episode: Call replay and recap Climate investors rally behind Kamala Harris to protect policies – and portfolios The push and pull of impact investing for wealthy families in Latin America Latam Newsletter Signup…

David Bank is joined by Dave Kirkpatrick, Managing Director and co-founder of SJF Ventures, a climate and impact investor in Durham NC, and SJF’s Director of Impact, Kelsey Jarrett, to talk about finding the alpha in impact. Read Dave and Kelsey's op-ed on ImpactAlpha, as well as our profile of Dave.…

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 …

Mary Ellen Iskenderian, CEO of Women’s World Banking, joins David Bank for an Agents of Impact interview. They discuss the organization's 45 years of work advancing financial inclusion for low-income women around the globe and new initiatives around fintech, financial wellness and climate resilience. Read more by heading over to impactapha.com/podc…

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 duri…

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 polic…

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/ GGRF deadlines: https://impactalpha.com/epa-melds-private-and-public-capital-and-a-surplus-of-opinions-to-beef-u…

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 fro…

Skya Ducheneaux of Akiptan, a Native community development financial institution on the Cheyenne River Sioux Reservation in Eagle Butte, SD. joins David Bank on the latest Agents of Impact Podcast.

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 f…

Host Brian Walsh takes up top stories with ImpactAlpha’s Jessica Pothering. Up this week: How New Ventures is aiming to scale 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/worke…

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 featured 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 g…

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/1FAIpQLScfm5qIOqogtbI3xRx4-0X…

Hope Mago of HCAP Partners, the San Diego private equity firm known for its ‘Gainful Jobs’ strategy joins David Bank for another in our series of conversations with Agents of Impact across the landscape of impact investing. and sustainable finance, from asset owners to managers and of course, founders and entrepreneurs.…

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-a…

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://impac…

As a lender to middle-market companies, Lafayette Square gives a discount to borrowers that adopt strategies to help their low- and moderate-income workers save for retirement, access health benefits, reduce financial insecurity and increase economic mobility. Damien Dwin joins David Bank for an Agents of Impact interview.…

Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank. Biden’s new Chinese tariffs: ⁠https://impactalpha.com/as-trade-wars-heat-up-climate-investors-look-to-back-homegrown-challenger-technologies/⁠ The Global Fund for Coral Reefs’ efforts: https://impactalpha.com/global-fund-for-coral-reefs-blends-opportunity-and-urgency-to-fin…

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://i…

VertueLab’s Aina Abiodun chats with Sherrell Dorsey about financing climate innovation with a justice lens, place-based investing, and worforce development. For more and a link to the video go to: https://impactalpha.com/plugged-in-the-opportunity-in-local-climate-innovation-with-vertuelabs-aina-abiodun-video/ And, check out our profile of Aina: ht…

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-resto…

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://impa…

Loren Taylor and Zaru Systems want to build a billion dollars in Black wealth in the next eight years by franchising sustainable turnkey businesses. First up, modular vertical farms. Hear his conversation with David Bank on this week's Agents of Impact podcast. Subscribe to ImpactAlpha today: http://www.impactalpha.com/subscribe…

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 …

On this week’s Agents of Impact Podcast, Sherrell Dorsey chats with Olivia Watkins of Black Farmer Fund. The fund aims to meet the modern needs of Black farmers and food entrepreneurs with affordable capital and technical assistance.

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…

NYU Professor Alison Taylor joins David Bank to discuss the evolution of the role of business in society, and how regulation and disclosure affect impact. Alison's book: https://www.stern.nyu.edu/experience-stern/faculty-research/higher-ground-how-business-can-do-right-thing-turbulent-world Sign up for our free newsletters: https://impactalpha.com/…

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/inve…

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-partner…

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/plu…

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-…

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 lates…

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 Moniqu…

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 bu…

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, Sha…

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/commen…

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 Ma…

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 …

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 menti…