Impact Alpha Podcasts

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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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/

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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 brouhaha 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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Loren Taylor and Zaru Systems want to build a billion dollars in Black wealth in the next eight years by franchising sustainable turnkey businesses. First up, modular vertical farms. Hear his conversation with David Bank on this week's Agents of Impact podcast.

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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, visitThe Switch is OnandRewiring Americawebsites. Sign up for The Switch is Onmonthly newsletterand 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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On this week’s Agents of Impact Podcast, Sherrell Dorsey chats with Olivia Watkins of Black Farmer Fund. The fund aims to meet the modern needs of Black farmers and food entrepreneurs with affordable capital and technical assistance.

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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NYU Professor Alison Taylor joins David Bank to discuss the evolution of the role of business in society, and how regulation and disclosure affect impact.

Alison's book: https://www.stern.nyu.edu/experience-stern/faculty-research/higher-ground-how-business-can-do-right-thing-turbulent-world

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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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