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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. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message

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. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message

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. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message

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. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message

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. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message

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/ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message

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/⁠ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message

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/ 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

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. Subscribe to ImpactAlpha today: http://www.impactalpha.com/subscribe --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message

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, 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

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. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message

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/ 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

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 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

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/ 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

Brian 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

Sherrell 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

David 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

Featuring 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

Amy 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

ImpactAlpha’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