

This Week in Impact
Impact Alpha
Your weekly roundup of the news and features from this week in ImpactAlpha
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Jan 22, 2021 • 15min
Week of Friday, January 22nd
The word of the week is: creativity. Brian catches up with Upstart CoLab founder Laura Callanan, and we revisit the words of this week's Agent of Impact, Amanda Gorman.

Jan 15, 2021 • 22min
Week of January 15th
Monique is joined by Jessica Barron and Marion Johnson of Frontline Solutions, a Black-owned social impact consulting firm, to discuss their recent report Demoocracy’s Powerbrokers: Political Power of Women of Color.

Jan 9, 2021 • 12min
Week of Friday, January 8th
David joins Brian to chart the year ahead in impact investing with some help from Generate's Jigar Shah.

Dec 18, 2020 • 9min
Week of December 18th
David joins Brian to round up the ImpactAlpha week of roundups, plus we hear a few of Dave Chen's predictions for 2021.

Dec 11, 2020 • 8min
Week of December 11th
The word of the week is "science", and the agents of impact are scientists... and David joins Monique to discuss deep tech investing.

Dec 4, 2020 • 10min
Week of December 4th
Dennis introduces Brian to refugee lens investing, and we remember Tony Hsie and his innovative community financing project in Las Vegas, plus the headlines.

Nov 20, 2020 • 8min
Week of November 20th
Monique follows up on this week's Agents of Impact call, which put a gender lens on the COVID recovery. We hear from Secha Capital’s Kuhle Mnisi and Wukina’s Maureen Sibanda who are this week’s agents of impact.

Nov 13, 2020 • 17min
Week of November 13th
Imogen and David join Brian to discuss the word of the week: transition.

Nov 6, 2020 • 10min
Week of November 6th
What else? David and Dennis join Monique to discuss the impact investing narrative in a new political landscape... plus we hear from Amy Domini, Vikram Gandhi and the Rev. William Barber.

Oct 30, 2020 • 15min
Week of October 30th
Amy joins Brian to discuss the energy transition, and we hear from Kesha Cash, who just raised $55 million for Impact America's second fund.


