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Aug 15, 2024 • 19min
Facing the new legal landscape for impact, how to measure & manage impact, and HBO takes on ESG
Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank:
Mapping an impact investing path through the new legal landscape
Are fund managers ready to set targets to hold themselves accountable for impact?
HBO brings a sleek, sexy and skeptical view of impact investing to a television audience.

Aug 9, 2024 • 21min
VC's for Kamala, blended finance in Africa, and Yunus returns
Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank. Up this week:
Why certain Venture Capitalists are embracing Kamala Harris’s campaign vision
How three Africa-led blended finance models are mobilizing billions for development
Why microfinance pioneer Muhmmad Yunus is stepping in to lead Bangladesh during a political crisis
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Aug 1, 2024 • 37min
Capitol Gains Ep2: Climate, insurance and risk management with Carolyn Kousky
The team is on break, so we're sharing the second episode of James McIntyre and Matt Posner's new podcast Capitol Gains, the latest edition to the ImpactAlpha Podcast Network.
In this episode James and Matt had the pleasure of hosting Carolyn Kousky of the Environmental Defense Fund. With an extensive background in climate risk management and policy approaches, Carolyn provided a compelling discussion on the evolving risks of climate change, the critical role of disaster insurance and the challenges within the current dynamic.
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Jul 25, 2024 • 21min
A political proxy battle for the soul of tech, youth-lens investing in Africa, and recycling is having a moment
Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank. Up this week: The political proxy battle for the soul of tech, innovation and social impact, what youth led protests mean for the impact agenda, and how recycling is having a moment.

Jul 18, 2024 • 21min
New strategies for refugee-lens investing, deadlines approach for the GGRF, and a preview of Capitol Gains
Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with Jessica Pothering. Up this week:
Refugee-lens investing: https://impactalpha.com/new-tools-for-humanitarian-relief-in-crisis-zones-blended-finance-offtake-contracts-and-debt-swaps/
GGRF deadlines: https://impactalpha.com/epa-melds-private-and-public-capital-and-a-surplus-of-opinions-to-beef-up-green-banking/
Capitol Gains: https://impactalpha.com/capitol-gains-utahs-ben-mcadams-on-local-solutions-to-dysfunction-in-washington-podcast/

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 8, 2024 • 15min
Indigenizing agri-finance for Native-led businesses with Skya Ducheneaux
Skya Ducheneaux of Akiptan, a Native community development financial institution on the Cheyenne River Sioux Reservation in Eagle Butte, SD. joins David Bank on the latest Agents of Impact Podcast.

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 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 featured music by Isaac Silk