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Investment News for a Sustainable Edge
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Family offices target climate transition, foundations invest in AI for good, and a voluntary carbon credit brouhaha
25/04/2024 Duración: 28minHost 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/ Take advantage of ImpactAlpha's 10 year anniverary sale: https://impactalpha.com/subscribe/ Sign up for ImpactAlpha LatAm: https://impactalpha.com/latam-newsletter-email/ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
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Franchising indoor farms to build a billion dollars in Black wealth
23/04/2024 Duración: 18minLoren 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. Subscribe to ImpactAlpha today: http://www.impactalpha.com/subscribe --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
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Good economic news, the legacy of Participant Media, and a dispatch from the World Bank
19/04/2024 Duración: 22minBrian 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, visit The Switch is On and Rewiring America websites. Sign up for The Switch is On monthly newsletter and 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/ Sign up for our free LatAm newsletter: https://impactalpha.com/latam-newsletter-email/ Subscribe to ImpactAlpha: https://impactalpha.com/subscribe
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Building equitable food systems with reparative capital and community
16/04/2024 Duración: 44minOn 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. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
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Reconnecting communities, impact investing in Puerto Rico, and how business owners are exiting to employees
11/04/2024 Duración: 24minBrian 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/ Sign up for our free LatAm newsletter: https://impactalpha.com/latam-newsletter-email/ Subscribe to ImpactAlpha: https://impactalpha.com/subscribe/ This episode featured music by Isaac Silk and by Yurii Semchyshyn. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha
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Alison Taylor: The broken chain from transparency to accountability to corporate action
09/04/2024 Duración: 26minNYU 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 Sign up for our free newsletters: https://impactalpha.com/browse/features/the-brief/impactalpha-open/ https://impactalpha.com/latam-newsletter-email/ Subscribe to ImpactAlpha today: https://impactalpha.com/subscribe/ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
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EPA (finally) announces who will distribute $20 billion fund, lessons from blended finance, and universal owners vote their proxy
04/04/2024 Duración: 20minBrian 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/ Sign up for our free LatAm newsletter: https://impactalpha.com/latam-newsletter-email/ Subscribe to ImpactAlpha: https://impactalpha.com/subscribe/ This episode featured music by Isaac Silk and by Yurii Semchyshyn. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
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National green bank funding, basket bonds, and Brazil's burgeoning impact ecosystem
28/03/2024 Duración: 20minBrian Walsh and David Bank discuss the players likely to receive massive funding from the EPA to create a national green bank, how people are investing in Brazil’s impact economy, and how a $75 million ‘basket bond’ is catalyzing climate lending to small businesses in emerging markets. Read more: Green bank: https://impactalpha.com/epas-new-partners-plot-a-27-billion-path-to-a-us-green-bank/ Basket bonds: https://impactalpha.com/how-a-75-million-basket-bond-is-catalyzing-climate-lending-to-small-businesses-in-emerging-markets/ Brazilian impact ecosystem: https://impactalpha.com/the-path-to-growth-in-brazil-runs-through-the-impact-economy-videos Sign up for ImpactAlpha LatAm: https://impactalpha.com/latam-newsletter-email/ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
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Building an inclusive economy through capital, community, and coaching with Lenore Champagne Beirne
25/03/2024 Duración: 43minSherrell Dorsey speaks with Bright Ventures’ Lenore Champagne Beirne. about how she’s working to build an inclusive economy through capital, community, and coaching. Champagne Beirne founded Bright Ventures as a strategic advisory and executive coaching service prior to expanding to include an early-stage fund. For more: https://impactalpha.com/plugged-in-lenore-champagne-beirne-bright-ventures/ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
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How Texas’s anti ESG campaign is costing it money, cookstoves and carbon markets, and Vanguard gets punked
21/03/2024 Duración: 27minDavid Bank joins Brian Walsh to discuss some of the top stories from ImpactAlpha this week. Stories mentioned on the podcast: Texas boots Blackrock: https://impactalpha.com/texas-boots-blackrock-saddling-texans-with-the-costs-of-its-campaign-against-esg/ Clean cooking: https://impactalpha.com/leveraging-the-carbon-markets-for-clean-cooking-climate-justice-and-social-impact/ Vanguard gets punked: https://impactalpha.com/elaborate-spoof-takes-aim-at-vanguards-retreat-from-climate-commitments/ Agents of Impact Call 60: https://impactalpha.com/calls/ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
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Finding hidden impact and overlooked risks in municipal bonds
15/12/2023 Duración: 09minFeaturing Activest's Homero Radway, HIP Investor’s Paul Herman, Kestrel’s Monica Reid, Matt Posner of Court Street Group and Lincoln Institute’s RJ McGrail. Check out the call recap: https://impactalpha.com/the-arbitrage-opportunity-in-high-impact-municipal-bonds-video/ Or watch the replay: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQPh3XC9X1g Imogen's latest Institutional Shift column: https://impactalpha.com/dont-take-jeffrey-ubbens-shutdown-of-inclusive-capital-for-more-than-hes-worth/ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
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A tale of two COPs with Marilyn Waite and Dawn Lippert
08/12/2023 Duración: 21minAmy Cortese speaks with both Marilyn Waite of the Climate Finance Fund and Dawn Lippert of Elemental Excelerator about their experiences this week in the green and blue zones of COP28. Plus, Monique Aiken has the headlines. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
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All eyes on Dubai as COP 28 begins with Stephan Nicoleau
01/12/2023 Duración: 20minImpactAlpha’s Amy Cortese speaks with Full Cycle’s Stephan Nicoleau at the start of COP 28 to hear what he’s expecting - and hoping for - at the global climate summit in Dubai. Plus, host Brian Walsh has the headlines. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
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Steering pension funds toward impact with Tara Mei Smith and Marcela Pinilla
17/11/2023 Duración: 21minFriends of ImpactAlpha Eric Horvath and Lucas Turner-Owens share an excerpt from their new podcast Impact(ed). They speak with Tara Mei Smith (Office of NYC Comptroller) and Marcela Pinilla (Zevin Asset Management) about creating change from the inside at pension funds, and their journey as women of color investment professionals. Plus, host Monique Aiken has the headlines. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
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Lessons from the Wilmington coup of 1898 with Cedric Harrison
10/11/2023 Duración: 22minNovember 10th is the 125th anniversary of the only successful coup d’etat in U.S. history, which took place in Wilmington, North Carolina in 1898. White supremacists targeted Wilmington for it's multiracial democracy and prosperity. ]ImpactAlpha’s David Bank went to Wilmington and we’ll hear his conversation with Cedric Harrison, an entrepreneur building a business around recovering the history of that dark day. David Zucchino's pulitzer prize winning account of the coup: https://bookshop.org/p/books/wilmington-s-lie-winner-of-the-2021-pulitzer-prize-the-murderous-coup-of-1898-and-the-rise-of-white-supremacy-david-zucchino/12471037?ean=9780802148650 --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
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Maria Hollan of Timke Ventures shares her journey to impact investing
02/11/2023 Duración: 14minImpactAlpha’s Dennis Price catches up with María Hollan, a second-generation steward of her family’s assets at Timke Ventures in Mexico City. Hollan was in Medellín at the GLI Forum Latam looking for opportunities to invest across asset classes with a gender lens. Plus, Monique Aiken has the headlines. Join Camilla Nestor of MCE Social Capital, Shally Shankar of AiiM Partners, Noramay Cadena of Supply Change Capital, and Samantha Anderson and Rose Maizner from Heading for Change, Wednesday, Nov. 15 at 10am PT / 1pm ET / 6pm London. RSVP today --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
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What the mainstreaming of impact investing means for smaller impact fund managers
26/10/2023 Duración: 10minDavid Bank catches up with Courageous Capital Advisors’ Laurie Spengler to talk about what the mainstreaming of impact investing means for smaller impact fund managers closer to the problems and community-based solutions. Plus, host Brian Walsh has the headlines. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
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Repurposing churches with Graham Singh, and a big ImpactAlpha announcement
20/10/2023 Duración: 14minDavid chats with Graham Singh of the Trinity Centres Foundation, and chats with Monique about ImpactAlpha's recent fundraise. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHd3U3IOar-4cPkJqx9eZYw --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
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There's a new impact lens in town
13/10/2023 Duración: 10minUnicef USA's Cristina Shapiro joins David Bank to introduce child-lens investing, a framework for considering investment harms and benefits to children, who have ‘til now been left out of investment decision-making. Plus, host Brian Walsh has the headlines. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
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How Veris is rethinking due diligence to advance gender and racial justice
06/10/2023 Duración: 23minRoraj Pradhananga and Jane Swan of Veris Wealth Partners join host Monique Aiken to discuss how the wealth manager is investing in diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging. Plus, the headlines. Read the report: https://www.veriswp.com/deib-investing-report/ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message