ImpactAlpha Podcasts

Alison Lingane, co-founder of Project Equity, discusses the rising trend of employee ownership as a pathway to economic equity. She highlights how this model empowers workers, especially as the baby boomer generation retires. The conversation delves into the role of innovative financing solutions in supporting businesses transitioning to employee ownership and the impact of California's new initiatives. Lingane emphasizes that employee ownership not only enhances job quality but also promotes stability in communities, making wealth-building accessible for all.

Fran Seegull of the Impact Investing Alliance joins David Bank to talk about jobs, climate and communities in this week’s State of the Union address and to preview Agents of Impact Call No. 49. Plus, the headlines. RSVP for The Call: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-year-of-the-s-public-policy-for-social-equity-in-2023-tickets-538081796137

ImpactAlpha’s David Bank joins Host Monique Aiken to to share some takeaways from this week’s Agents of Impact Call on the steps that some investors are taking to advance racial justice through the municipal bond market. Plus, the headlines. impactalpha.com/subscribe

Development finance institutions are essential to the mobilization of capital to slow climate change and to meet the Sustainable Development Goals. So why do these quasi-public institutions share so little data about their activities? Jessica Pothering breaks it down for host Brian Walsh. Plus, the headlines. Next week's Call: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/520070213007

For the banker turned impact investor, building wealth for women and people of color is as much about numbers as it is about equity. “The reason we are the U.S. and we are at the top of the heap, globally, is because we've invested in our prior majorities, which has been primarily white men,” Demetric Duckett of Living Cities told ImpactAlpha’s David Bank in this Agents of Impact podcast.

Milken’s Dan Carol and Rachel Halfaker join host Brian Walsh to share how they are connecting historically disadvantaged communities with the huge sums of public and private financing looking for actionable green infrastructure projects. The portal, called the Community Infrastructure Center, launched this week at Milken’s Public Finance Forum. impactalpha.com/subscribe

Host Monique Aiken and ImpactAlpha’s Roodgally Senatus chat with Su Sanni and Chris Coles of Brooklyn-based Dollaride, which is working with with climate and tech startups to electrify the city’s informal “dollar vans” and boost the livelihoods of drivers in New York’s transit deserts.

Host Brian Walsh is joined by Kristin Hull of Nia Impact Capital, a long-time Tesla investor who says Elon Musk’s Twitter escapades threaten the electric vehicle maker’s climate mission. Hull spoke to Walsh spoke about Nia’s public markets impact strategy, why they’ve shifted Tesla from their client’s funds into a separate activist fund, and when they might start to consider divesting altogether.

Jigar Shah, the solar and sustainable infrastructure pioneer who now heads the US Energy Department ‘s Loan Programs Office, joins David Bank to discuss the huge role that catalytic capital from the government is playing in the energy transition. 

Host Monique Aiken has the headlines and David talks with Aisha Weeks of the Dearfield Fund for Black Wealth about narrowing the racial wealth gap by expanding access to home ownership.