Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with CEO Dennis Price. Up this week: What was top of mind among innovators and investors at SOCAP; How community lenders are building rare bipartisan support to salvage gains for low income communities (09:35); And, a dual lens for due diligence and impact: investing with AI vs. investing in AI (15:55).

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• “⁠Community lenders muster bipartisan support to salvage gains for low-income communities⁠,” by Amy Cortese with Roodgally Senatus.

  “⁠Investing with AI, investing in AI: A dual lens for due diligence and impact⁠,” by Paul Fehlinger.

  
  

Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank. Up this week: The surprising resurgence of impact-first investing; How lawyers, yes lawyers, are working to simplify impact transactions: And, in Newark, new ideas surface for how to build a nation of owners.

Story links:

• ⁠Impact-first call recap⁠
• “⁠Building a nation of owners with new financial products and fresh ideas⁠,” by David Bank
• “⁠Lawyers, yes lawyers, are trying to simplify impact transactions⁠,” by Erik Stein

Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank and reporter Lucy Ngige. Up this week: Trimtab's unapologetic impact-first pitch to wealthy families: outperformance on impact rather than financials; How the new Sendero Verde affordable housing development is bringing to life a vision for a community of opportunity in East Harlem (10:30); And, a vibe check from this year's GIIN Impact Forum (14:55).

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Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank. Up this week: Ambitious plans for the US International Development Finance Corp., or DFC, are on hold pending congressional authorization; how debt and equity “growth funds” in Africa are tapping homegrown pension funds and family offices (11:20); and why youth  co-creators are the key to effectiveness in the new crop of AI-driven approaches to youth mental health challenges (18:05).

Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editors David Bank and Amy Cortese. Up this week: At Neighborhood Economics in Chicago, entrepreneurship through acquisition and other promising ideas are filling out the playbook for shared prosperity; How ExxonMobil's new voting program for retail investors aims to change the balance of power in corporate governance. And, how reinsurer GreenieRE is bringing the concept of surety bonds to help scale climate tech investments.

• “⁠Investors who refuse to take a loyalty oath to ExxonMobil should decline to join its ‘retail voting program,’⁠” by As You Sow’s Andrew Behar
• “⁠GreenieRe sees ‘impact insurance’ surety bonds as the key to scaling climate tech⁠,” by Amy Cortese

Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with Amy Cortese and Dennis Price. Up this week: How investors at Climate Week NYC shook off the Trump doldrums (. And how, from Singapore to London, even fund managers that shun the label are driving alpha with impact (12:45).

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“⁠At Climate Week NYC, investors look to shake off the doldrums and start deploying capital again⁠,” by Amy Cortese.

Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank. Up this week: Foundation leaders “unite in advance” of expected attacks in the supercharged political environment; how the carbon credit platform Rubicon Carbon is using diversification and ratings to strengthen the market for voluntary carbon credits (07:20); and the bumpy road to the sustainable future as charted by Generation Investment Management’s annual Sustainability Trends Report (15:05). Bonus: a preview of next week’s Agents of Impact interview with Carbon Tracker’s Mark Companele.

Story links:

• “⁠⁠Foundation leaders ‘unite in advance’ of expected attacks on spending and speaking⁠⁠,” by David Bank.

  “⁠Rubicon’s ‘all of the above’ plan to diversify and rate the market for carbon credits⁠,” by Erik Stein.

  “⁠Ten slides that chart the bumpy road to the sustainable future⁠,” by Amy Cortese.

Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank. Up this week: The All Aboard Coalition's effort to mobilize $300 million for venture capital co-investments in first of a kind climate-tech projects; the role of fashion brands in supporting regenerative cotton in Peru (06:55); and why decentralized physical infrastructure networks, or DePINs, are a promising model for sustainable community services (11:00).

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Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank. Up this week: ​​ How green lenders are scrambling to salvage investable deals as a federal appeals court maintains a Trump freeze on billions of dollars from the greenhouse gas reduction fund. Employee ownership takes a big leap forward as a company with 100,000 employees sells a 30% equity stake to an employee ownership trust (07:15). And, a look at fusion nuclear energy, a sector receiving the attention and billions of dollars of investments from family offices among other very patient investors (14:15).

Story links:

• “⁠⁠In-home caregivers get a stake in Consumer Direct Care Network as bigger companies discover employee ownership trusts⁠⁠,” by Roodgally Senatus

• “⁠Green lenders scramble to salvage deals as appeals court OKs freeze on accounts⁠,” by David Bank and Amy Cortese

• “⁠As fusion energy advances, so does its capital stack⁠,” by Amy Cortese.

Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editors and journalists from our team. Up this week: Jessica Pothering discusses a new financing tool from Roots of Impact, Simple Agreement for Future Impact. Eric Stein joins from Medellín to talk about impact investing trends he's been seeing during recent travels across Latin America (8:30). And, Jessica shares how a medical oxygen company in East Africa managed to secure financing after the DFC reneged (16:40).

• • "⁠Forget SAFEs. Impact investors are incentivizing growth and impact with SAFIs⁠," by Jessica Pothering and Erik Stein.
  • “⁠Peruvian impact investors are mobilizing capital for inclusive growth in the Amazon⁠,” by Erik Stein
  • "⁠Kenya's Hewatele lands $10.5 million to produce medical oxygen locally⁠, " by Lucy Ngige

Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with ImpactAlpha editors and journalists. Up this week: Amy Cortese discusses the “billionaire buyers club” of wealthy donors buying up tons of carbon just to lock it away. Roodgally Senatus dishes on the big changes underway at Turner MIINT (7:45). And, dealflow editor Jessica Pothering runs down the impact deals and fundraises catching her eye this week (12:38).

Story links:

• “Billionaire Buyers Club: Wealthy donors are buying tons of carbon just to lock it away,” by Amy Cortese
• “Impact Capital Managers takes the helm of Turner MIINT to advance the next generation of impact investors,” by Roodgally Senatus.
• "Grupo Gaia is bringing a Big Ag financing tool to Brazil’s smallholder farmers," by Gilberto Lima.

Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank. Up this week: Can open deal data and standardized reporting might help fix blended finance? How the Singapore-based Tsao family office deploys its capital towards impact (10:00). And, goodbye accelerators, hello venture studios – how emerging market investors are helping startups survive the valley of death in reaching impact at scale (15:07).

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• “⁠Can AI collapse transaction costs and make high-impact investments viable at scale?⁠” by Human Planet’s Florian Kemmerich.
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• “⁠Fix for blended finance: Open deal data and standardized reporting⁠,” by Erik Stein
• “⁠From Singapore, Tsao Family Office expands the LP pool for impact strategies in Africa⁠,” by Jessica Pothering
• "⁠These DIY investors are notching impact and exits with venture studios to build startups from scratch⁠," by Lucy Ngige.

Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank. Up this week: How air capture aims to capture the market for carbon my cost effectively removing it from the air. How Boldline Capital seeks to meet the short term liquidity of impact and emerging fund managers (10:34). And, who actually lands a job in impact investing? Harvard Business School’s Project on Impact Investments crunches the numbers (17:55).

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Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor Amy Cortese and senior reporter Lucy Ngige. Up this week: How nearly $3 billion in Biden era climate financing, thought to be frozen in legal limbo, made it out to some private equity giants. Why biochar is having a moment (09:00). And, how global superstar Rihanna is investing in women-led ventures in Africa via her Nairobi-based investment fund Gather Ventures (17:40).

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• • “⁠Coalition for Green Capital places $2.65 billion in green bank funds with Apollo, Brookfield and Energy Capital Partners⁠,” by Amy Cortese and David Bank
  • “⁠Beyond storing carbon, biochar’s co-benefits give it early customers and revenues⁠,” by Lucy Ngige
  • “⁠With Gather Ventures, Rihanna expands her toolkit for investing in women-led ventures in Africa⁠,” by Lucy Ngige

Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank. Up this week: New urgency around investments in climate adaptation and resilience in the wake of the tragic flooding in Texas. How Community Development Financial Institutions in Indian country are positioned to step up – with or without promised federal funding (09:02). And, highlights from David's recent interview with Blue Haven Initiative’s Liesel Pritzker Simmons about the ways that family offices are engaging with impact investing during these perilous times (14:15).Story links:

• “⁠Investments in adaptation and resilience acquire new urgency as the climate future arrives⁠,” by Amy Cortese
• “⁠Native CDFIs are positioned to step up, even without promised federal funds⁠,” by Erik Stein
• “⁠Blue Haven’s Liesel Pritzker Simmons on family office impact investing in perilous times (Q&A⁠),” by David Bank

Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank. Up this week: Doing more with less – the blended finance fallout from shrinking development aid and a shuttered USAID. A call for responsible investors to invest in… defence companies (09:30). And, remembering B Lab’s Andrew Kassoy, an Agent of Impact who launched a movement to align capital with purpose (14:40).

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•  “⁠Blended finance at a crossroads: The fallout from shrinking aid and a shuttered USAID⁠,” by Convergence’s Joan Larrea
• “⁠Development finance institutions lag on transparency and disclosure around capital mobilization⁠,” by Jessica Pothering
• “⁠Calling responsible investors in Europe to invest in… defense⁠,” by Venture ESG’s Susan Winterberg and Johannes Lenhard
• “⁠⁠Declaration of Interdependence: Reconciling profit and purpose⁠⁠,” by B Lab’s Andrew Kassoy

Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor Jessica Pothering. Up this week: Teeing up November's Global Climate Summit COP 30 in Brazil with inclusive nature-based, Indigenous-led and catalytic climate capital. A new tool that helps direct scarce concessional capital for adaptation finance to where it's most needed (09:45). And why more investors are taking an aging-lens to their impact investments (13:38).

Story links:

• "⁠Teeing up COP30 in Brazil with inclusive, nature-based and catalytic climate capital⁠," by Gilberto Lima.
• “⁠⁠Fund managers center Indigenous communities to drive capital to the Amazon⁠⁠,” by Erik Stein.
• "⁠New tool for adaptation finance directs concessional capital where it's needed most⁠,” by Erik Stein.

• “⁠A market hiding in plain sight: The case for aging-lens investing⁠,” by SCAN Foundation's Brendan Ahern and Xenia Viragh.

Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank. Up this week: What the $785 billion private equity giant Apollo has learned in the five years since launching its $1 billion private impact fund; from MasterCard Foundation's Africa Growth Fund to local African funders, a look at the small business investing landscape on the continent (07:45); and to mark this year’s Juneteenth commemoration, contributing editor Napoleon Wallace makes the case for shared prosperity his new remix, ‘The Reconstruction Will Not Be Televised’ (15:20).

Relevant links:

• RSVP for next week's Call.
• “Ownership, collinearity and KPIs: Apollo’s impact strategy turns five,” by Amy Cortese
• "Mastercard Foundation knows how stakeholders feel about its Africa Growth Fund," by Jessica Pothering
• “‘The Reconstruction Will Not Be Televised’ remixes a classic to build the movement for shared prosperity,” by David Bank. Listen to the song on YouTube.
  

Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank. Up this week: Turning the stranded pipeline of green loans into investable deal flow for private capital. Plus, for European investors, material risks are still… material (10:30). And, Taylor Swift, Ryan Coogler, and the emerging ownership economy in music and film (15:10).

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• ⁠Green lenders are all dressed up and ready to roll⁠
• ⁠For European LPs, material risks are still material, and American GPs come calling⁠
• ⁠Taylor Swift, Ryan Coogler and the emerging ownership economy in music and film

In this special episode of This Week in Impact, Brian Walsh discusses the evolution of ImpactAlpha with editor-in-chief David Bank and newly named CEO Dennis Price. The discussion centers on the leadership transition and the new teams and tools being developed at ImpactAlpha to support Agents of Impact.

⁠Read the full announcement⁠.