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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Jul 11, 2024 • 14min
Wait, there's good economic news? Plus, TPG's AI enabled, smart city play.
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 from TPG to fund AI-powered cameras that detect parking violations in bus-only zones: https://impactalpha.com/tpg-rise-fund-leads-90-million-investment-in-ai-for-smart-cities/
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This episode features music by Isaac Silk.
Jul 4, 2024 • 25min
The Supreme Court's impact, US political risk, and driving community homeownership without displacement
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 for the political risk of the upcoming US presidential elections: https://impactalpha.com/as-the-vibe-shifts-agents-of-impact-ask-what-do-we-do-now/
How a nonprofit housing developer is looking to drive community homeownership without displacement in Baltimore: https://impactalpha.com/real-revitalization-part-1-parity-buys-back-the-block-to-drive-community-revival-without-displacement-in-west-baltimore/
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This episode featured music by Isaac Silk and by Yurii Semchyshyn.
Jun 27, 2024 • 19min
How New Ventures is scaling up by going deep, Obran's plan to build a worker coop conglomerate, and why Surdna is doubling down on their impact strategy
Host Brian Walsh takes up top stories with ImpactAlpha’s Jessica Pothering. Up this week:
How New Ventures is aiming to scale up 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/worker-owned-conglomerate-obran-cooperative-gets-a-boost-from-acumen-america-investment/
And, why Surdna’s CEO Don Chen is all in on investing in funds led by women and People of Color: https://impactalpha.com/surdna-foundations-don-chen-high-risk-high-reward-impact-investments-are-paying-off-qa/
Jun 20, 2024 • 24min
Roundtable: The backlash to the ESG backlash, who is colluding with whom?
Imogen Rose-Smith joins David Bank and Brian Walsh for a classic ImpactAlpha roundtable discussion about ESG, DEI, and public policy.
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This episode features music by Isaac Silk
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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