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The word of the week is: creativity -- Brian catches up with Upstart CoLab founder Laura Callanan, and we revisit the poetry of this week's Agent of Impact, Amanda Gorman.  --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/impact-alpha/message

Monique is joined by Jessica Barron and Marion Johnson of Frontline Solutions, a Black-owned social impact consulting firm, to discuss their recent report Demoocracy’s Powerbrokers: Political Power of Women of Color. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/impact-alpha/message

David chats with Jigar Shah, president of Generate, a San Francisco investment firm at the forefront of sustainable infrastructure financing. Jigar was co-founder of SunEdison, a pioneer of the “no money down” solar financing model that unlocked the solar market. He co-hosts The Energy Gang Podcast.  --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/impact-alpha/message

David joins Brian to chart the year  ahead in impact investing with some help from Generate's Jigar Shah. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/impact-alpha/message

David joins Brian to round up the ImpactAlpha week of roundups, plus we hear a few of Dave Chen's predictions for 2021.  --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/impact-alpha/message

Dave and David look back on some of the predictions from February's episode, and look forward to the trends we'll be seeing a lot more of in 2021. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/impact-alpha/message

David Bank speaks with the co-founder and CEO of Blue Forest, a nonprofit fund financing forest resilience through an innovative pay for performance model. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/impact-alpha/message

The word of the week is "science", and the agents of impact are scientists... and David joins Monique to discuss deep tech investing. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/impact-alpha/message

Dennis  introduces Brian to refugee lens investing, and we remember Tony Hsie  and his innovative community financing project in Las Vegas, plus the  headlines. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/impact-alpha/message

Monique  follows up on this week's  Agents of Impact call, which put a gender  lens on the COVID recovery. We hear from Secha Capital’s Kuhle Mnisi and  Wukina’s Maureen Sibanda who are this week’s agents of impact. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/impact-alpha/message

Imogen and David join Brian to discuss the word of the week: transition. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/impact-alpha/message

What else? David and Dennis join Monique to discuss the impact investing narrative in a new political landscape... plus we hear from Amy Domini, Vikram Gandhi and the Rev. William Barber. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/impact-alpha/message

Amy joins Brian to discuss the energy transition, and we hear from Kesha Cash, who just raised $55 million for Impact America's second fund. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/impact-alpha/message

Amy Cortese joins Monique to discuss some highlights from SOCAP. Plus this week's Agents of Impact, voters. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/impact-alpha/message

In the latest edition of our Institutional Shift series, David Bank speaks with Dave Chen of Equilibrium Capital Dave about food system resilience in the face of climate change and COVID. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/impact-alpha/message

Brian welcomes back Imogen Rose-Smith and David Bank for a quick roundtable: ‘From ESG to impact.’ And, we meet this week’s Agent of Impact, the Nigerian activist Aisha Yesufu, who has been part of that country’s protests against police brutality.  --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/impact-alpha/message

The word of the week is Reconstruction, and Monique catches up with Anne Price, Ronald Cohen and Sherece West-Scantlebury. Plus, the Headlines. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/impact-alpha/message

SPACs have come to Impact Investing... David and Jessica explain. Plus, we hear from this week's Agent of Impact Archana Soreng-- one of seven members of the UN’s Youth Advisory Group on Climate Change. And, of course, the headlines. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/impact-alpha/message

Monique brings us highlights from this week's Agent of Impact Call on racial justice investing, redefining pro-business with this week's Agent of Impact RBG, and the headlines. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/impact-alpha/message

It's a roundtable reunion with Imogen, David and Brian to talk about the latest efforts to re-imagine (or is it reset?) capitalism. Plus, Jeffery Ubben is this week's controversial Agent of Impact. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/impact-alpha/message