ImpactAlpha Podcasts

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 Sign up for ImpactAlpha LatAm: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://impactalpha.com/latam-newsletter-email/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Subscribe to ImpactAlpha: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://impactalpha.com/subscribe/⁠⁠⁠⁠ This episode featured music by Isaac Silk and by ⁠⁠⁠⁠Yurii Semchyshyn⁠⁠⁠⁠.

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. Sign up for ImpactAlpha LatAm: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://impactalpha.com/latam-newsletter-email/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Subscribe to ImpactAlpha: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://impactalpha.com/subscribe/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ This episode featured music by Isaac Silk, Yurii Semchyshyn⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, Oleksii Holubiev, and Vlad Krotov

Hope Mago of HCAP Partners, the San Diego private equity firm known for its ‘Gainful Jobs’ strategy joins David Bank for another in our series of conversations with Agents of Impact across the landscape of impact investing. and sustainable finance, from asset owners to managers and of course, founders and entrepreneurs.

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/ Sign up for ImpactAlpha LatAm: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://impactalpha.com/latam-newsletter-email/⁠⁠⁠⁠ Subscribe to ImpactAlpha: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://impactalpha.com/subscribe/⁠⁠⁠ This episode featured music by Isaac Silk and by ⁠⁠⁠Yurii Semchyshyn⁠⁠⁠.

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/ Sign up for ImpactAlpha LatAm: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://impactalpha.com/latam-newsletter-email/⁠⁠⁠⁠ Subscribe to ImpactAlpha: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://impactalpha.com/subscribe/⁠⁠⁠ This episode featured music by Isaac Silk and by ⁠⁠⁠Yurii Semchyshyn⁠⁠⁠.

As a lender to middle-market companies, Lafayette Square gives a discount to borrowers that adopt strategies to help their low- and moderate-income workers save for retirement, access health benefits, reduce financial insecurity and increase economic mobility.  Damien Dwin joins David Bank for an Agents of Impact interview.

Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank. Biden’s new Chinese tariffs: ⁠https://impactalpha.com/as-trade-wars-heat-up-climate-investors-look-to-back-homegrown-challenger-technologies/⁠ The Global Fund for Coral Reefs’ efforts: https://impactalpha.com/global-fund-for-coral-reefs-blends-opportunity-and-urgency-to-finance-ocean-resilience-qa/ Valuing the care economy: https://impactalpha.com/valuing-the-invisible-work-of-women-to-build-resilient-economies-and-fight-climate-change/ Sign up for ImpactAlpha LatAm: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://impactalpha.com/latam-newsletter-email/⁠⁠⁠ Subscribe to ImpactAlpha: ⁠⁠⁠https://impactalpha.com/subscribe/⁠⁠ This episode featured music by Isaac Silk and by ⁠⁠Yurii Semchyshyn⁠⁠.

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/ Sign up for ImpactAlpha LatAm: ⁠⁠⁠https://impactalpha.com/latam-newsletter-email/⁠⁠ Subscribe to ImpactAlpha: ⁠⁠https://impactalpha.com/subscribe/⁠ This episode featured music by Isaac Silk and by ⁠Yurii Semchyshyn⁠.

VertueLab’s Aina Abiodun chats with Sherrell Dorsey about financing climate innovation with a justice lens, place-based investing, and worforce development. For more and a link to the video go to: https://impactalpha.com/plugged-in-the-opportunity-in-local-climate-innovation-with-vertuelabs-aina-abiodun-video/ And, check out our profile of Aina: https://impactalpha.com/aina-abiodun-vertuelab-centering-community-in-climate-tech-in-the-pacific-northwest/

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/ Sign up for ImpactAlpha LatAm: ⁠⁠https://impactalpha.com/latam-newsletter-email/⁠ Subscribe to ImpactAlpha: ⁠https://impactalpha.com/subscribe/⁠