🎧 This Week in Impact. Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank. Up this week: Why Trump's order to cut a Main Street lending program led to a rare GOP rebuke. How Canadian employee ownership trusts offer a path to shared prosperity along with protecting national sovereignty (06:17). And finally, as private equity fundraising becomes more competitive, how GPs can differentiate on impact (12:53).

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Story links:

“⁠Threat to CDFI Fund gives community lenders a chance to flex bipartisan support⁠,” by David Bank and Amy Cortese

“In Canada, employee ownership trusts offer a path to shared prosperity and national sovereignty,” by Roodgally Senatus.

“Differentiating on impact, tapping retail investors: Charting the changing private equity landscape” by Amy Cortese

Bipartisan support for CDFIs under Trump, and Canada's first Employee Ownership Trusts