ImpactAlpha Podcasts

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/ 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 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/⁠

Imogen Rose-Smith joins David Bank and Brian Walsh for a classic ImpactAlpha roundtable discussion about ESG, DEI, and public policy. Subscribe to ImpactAlpha: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://impactalpha.com/subscribe/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ This episode featured music by Isaac Silk

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.