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May 30, 2024 • 22min
Climate on the ballot in Mexico, India and beyond; impact accounting standards; funding climate's missing middle
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/
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This episode featured music by Isaac Silk and by Yurii Semchyshyn.

May 24, 2024 • 20min
New impact products, investing in 'entrepreneurial households in industrious communities,' and the rise of workers
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/
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This episode featured music by Isaac Silk and by Yurii Semchyshyn.

May 23, 2024 • 25min
Lafayette Square’s Damien Dwin: Investing in working-class people and places
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.

May 17, 2024 • 24min
Chinese tariffs, the Global Fund for Coral Reefs, and valuing the care economy
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/
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This episode featured music by Isaac Silk and by Yurii Semchyshyn.

May 9, 2024 • 19min
David's dispatch from MIE and Milken, and a call for sustainable mining
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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This episode featured music by Isaac Silk and by Yurii Semchyshyn.

May 6, 2024 • 42min
The opportunity in local climate innovation with VertueLab’s Aina Abiodun
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/

May 2, 2024 • 23min
The state of blended finance, restoring forests and carbon market credibility, and investing endowments for DEI
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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Apr 25, 2024 • 29min
Family offices target climate transition, foundations invest in AI for good, and a voluntary carbon credit brouhaha
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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Apr 23, 2024 • 18min
Franchising indoor farms to build a billion dollars in Black wealth
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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Apr 19, 2024 • 23min
Good economic news, the legacy of Participant Media, and a dispatch from the World Bank
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/
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