This Week in Impact

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 entrepreneurs (3:00). Plus the headlines.

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/ Luni's podcasts: https://www.lunarmobiscuit.com/podcasts/

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.