This Week in Impact
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Your weekly roundup of the news and features from this week in ImpactAlpha
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Jun 13, 2024 • 16min
Impact funds steer capital towards debt, impact fails in Africa, and Sam Polk of Everytable
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 growing economic power in Latin America: https://impactalpha.com/in-latin-america-investors-see-economic-opportunities-through-a-gender-lens/
How Ava Duvernay flipped the script on how Hollywood funds films: https://impactalpha.com/ava-duvernay-impact-filmmaking
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This episode featured music by Isaac Silk and by Yurii Semchyshyn.
Jun 6, 2024 • 25min
Impact funds steer capital towards debt, impact fails in Africa, and Sam Polk of Everytable
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/1FAIpQLScfm5qIOqogtbI3xRx4-0Xk2kh7VY_5x8wJKuLh6ZlXz2sSmw/viewform
How Africa’s funding drought has claimed several once-high flying startups.
How Sam Polk and Everytable are providing healthy fast food to California’s food deserts and uplifting communities.
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This episode featured music by Isaac Silk, Yurii Semchyshyn, Oleksii Holubiev, and Vlad Krotov
May 30, 2024 • 22min
Climate on the ballot in Mexico, India and beyond; impact accounting standards; funding climate's missing middle
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-advance-amid-investor-demand/
Bridging a ‘missing middle’ for commercial climate solutions: https://impactalpha.com/flexible-financing-to-bridge-a-missing-middle-for-commercial-climate-solutions/
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This episode featured music by Isaac Silk and by Yurii Semchyshyn.
May 24, 2024 • 20min
New impact products, investing in 'entrepreneurial households in industrious communities,' and the rise of workers
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://impactalpha.com/how-reducing-income-inequality-can-strengthen-the-global-economy-and-portfolio-performance/
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This episode featured music by Isaac Silk and by Yurii Semchyshyn.
May 9, 2024 • 19min
David's dispatch from MIE and Milken, and a call for sustainable mining
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://impactalpha.com/mcknights-tonya-allen-philanthropy-has-right-and-responsibility-to-counter-dei-attacks/
Laura Callanan: https://impactalpha.com/capital-the-creative-economy-and-a-quarter-century-of-lessons-learned-in-impact-investing/
Sustainable Mining: https://impactalpha.com/esg-will-be-key-to-supplying-green-metals-needed-for-the-energy-transition/
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This episode featured music by Isaac Silk and by Yurii Semchyshyn.
May 2, 2024 • 23min
The state of blended finance, restoring forests and carbon market credibility, and investing endowments for DEI
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-restore-forests-and-credibility-in-voluntary-carbon-markets/
Why The California Wellness Foundation is putting a diversity, equity and inclusion lens on 100% of its $1 billion endowment: https://impactalpha.com/investment-manager-diversity-matters-when-investing-for-health-equity/
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Apr 25, 2024 • 29min
Family offices target climate transition, foundations invest in AI for good, and a voluntary carbon credit brou-ha-ha
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://impactalpha.com/with-stakes-in-anthropic-impact-investors-seek-a-seat-at-the-ai-table/
The brou-ha-ha over whether voluntary carbon credits should count towards a company’s climate targets:
https://impactalpha.com/with-stakes-in-anthropic-impact-investors-seek-a-seat-at-the-ai-table/
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Apr 19, 2024 • 23min
Good economic news, the legacy of Participant Media, and a dispatch from the World Bank
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 websites. Sign up for The Switch is On monthly newsletter and receive an email featuring the “(I’m Your) Heat Pump” music video.
Rob's column:
https://impactalpha.com/good-economy-actually-is-good-news-as-impact-investors-adjust-to-new-realities/
Participant Media
https://impactalpha.com/shutdown-of-participant-media-challenges-other-investors-to-drive-impact-through-film/
World Bank:
https://impactalpha.com/spring-meetings-yield-green-shoots-of-development-finance-reform-at-the-world-bank/
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Apr 11, 2024 • 25min
Reconnecting communities, impact investing in Puerto Rico, and how business owners are exiting to employees
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.com/with-bridges-buses-and-bike-lanes-reconnecting-communities-rebuilds-civic-muscles-along-with-neighborhoods/
Impact in PR - https://impactalpha.com/the-impact-investing-opportunity-in-puerto-ricos-economic-comeback/
Employee ownership exits - https://impactalpha.com/with-elbos-and-eots-more-business-owners-are-exiting-to-employee-ownership/
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This episode featured music by Isaac Silk and by Yurii Semchyshyn.
Apr 4, 2024 • 21min
EPA (finally) announces who will distribute $20 billion fund, lessons from blended finance, and universal owners vote their proxy
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-funding/
https://impactalpha.com/blending-billions-lessons-from-more-than-three-dozen-big-blended-finance-transactions/
https://impactalpha.com/with-systems-first-proposals-shareholders-seek-to-mitigate-economy-wide-risks/
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