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Family offices target climate transition, foundations invest in AI for good, and a voluntary carbon credit brouhaha
April 25, 2024 18:17 - 28 minutes - 26.6 MBHost 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 shoul...
Family offices target climate transition, foundations invest in AI for good, and a voluntary carbon credit brou-ha-ha
April 25, 2024 18:17 - 28 minutes - 26.6 MBHost 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 brou-ha-ha over whether voluntary carbon credits sho...
Franchising indoor farms to build a billion dollars in Black wealth
April 23, 2024 18:28 - 18 minutes - 16.7 MBLoren 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
Building a billion dollars in Black wealth by franchising modular vertical farms (podcast).
April 23, 2024 18:28 - 18 minutes - 16.7 MBLoren 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
Good economic news, the legacy of Participant Media, and a dispatch from the World Bank
April 19, 2024 01:02 - 22 minutes - 20.9 MBBrian 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: ...
Building equitable food systems with reparative capital and community
April 16, 2024 01:14 - 44 minutes - 41.1 MBOn 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
Reconnecting communities, impact investing in Puerto Rico, and how business owners are exiting to employees
April 11, 2024 22:23 - 24 minutes - 22.9 MBBrian 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://impacta...
Corporate responsibility and strategic decision-making in a turbulant world with Alison Taylor
April 09, 2024 21:00 - 26 minutes - 24.7 MBNYU 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://impactalp...
Alison Taylor: The broken chain from transparency to accountability to corporate action
April 09, 2024 21:00 - 26 minutes - 24.7 MBNYU 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://impactalp...
EPA (finally) announces who will distribute $20 billion fund, lessons from blended finance, and universal owners vote their proxy
April 04, 2024 20:45 - 20 minutes - 19.2 MBBrian 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...
National green bank funding, basket bonds, and Brazil's burgeoning impact ecosystem
March 28, 2024 20:41 - 20 minutes - 18.6 MBBrian 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-t...
Building an inclusive economy through capital, community, and coaching with Lenore Champagne Beirne
March 25, 2024 17:08 - 43 minutes - 40.5 MBSherrell 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
How Texas’s anti ESG campaign is costing it money, cookstoves and carbon markets, and Vanguard gets punked
March 21, 2024 22:06 - 27 minutes - 25.7 MBDavid 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-commitme...
Finding hidden impact and overlooked risks in municipal bonds
December 15, 2023 03:01 - 9 minutes - 8.81 MBFeaturing 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/ --- Se...
A tale of two COPs with Marilyn Waite and Dawn Lippert
December 08, 2023 02:11 - 21 minutes - 20.2 MBAmy 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
All eyes on Dubai as COP 28 begins with Stephan Nicoleau
December 01, 2023 02:05 - 20 minutes - 18.9 MBImpactAlpha’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
Steering pension funds toward impact with Tara Mei Smith and Marcela Pinilla
November 17, 2023 02:02 - 21 minutes - 19.7 MBFriends of ImpactAlpha Eric Horvath and Lucas Turner-Owens share an excerpt from their new podcast Impact(ed). They speak with Tara Mei Smith (Office of NYC Comptroller) and Marcela Pinilla (Zevin Asset Management) about creating change from the inside at pension funds, and their journey as women of color investment professionals. Plus, host Monique Aiken has the headlines. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
Lessons from the Wilmington coup of 1898 with Cedric Harrison
November 10, 2023 01:31 - 22 minutes - 20.8 MBNovember 10th is the 125th anniversary of the only successful coup d’etat in U.S. history, which took place in Wilmington, North Carolina in 1898. White supremacists targeted Wilmington for it's multiracial democracy and prosperity. ]ImpactAlpha’s David Bank went to Wilmington and we’ll hear his conversation with Cedric Harrison, an entrepreneur building a business around recovering the history of that dark day. David Zucchino's pulitzer prize winning account of the coup: https://booksho...
Maria Hollan of Timke Ventures shares her journey to impact investing
November 02, 2023 23:51 - 14 minutes - 13.3 MBImpactAlpha’s Dennis Price catches up with María Hollan, a second-generation steward of her family’s assets at Timke Ventures in Mexico City. Hollan was in Medellín at the GLI Forum Latam looking for opportunities to invest across asset classes with a gender lens. Plus, Monique Aiken has the headlines. Join Camilla Nestor of MCE Social Capital, Shally Shankar of AiiM Partners, Noramay Cadena of Supply Change Capital, and Samantha Anderson and Rose Maizner from Heading for Change, Wednesday,...
What the mainstreaming of impact investing means for smaller impact fund managers
October 26, 2023 23:48 - 10 minutes - 9.56 MBDavid Bank catches up with Courageous Capital Advisors’ Laurie Spengler to talk about what the mainstreaming of impact investing means for smaller impact fund managers closer to the problems and community-based solutions. Plus, host Brian Walsh has the headlines. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
Repurposing churches with Graham Singh, and a big ImpactAlpha announcement
October 20, 2023 01:18 - 14 minutes - 13.3 MBDavid chats with Graham Singh of the Trinity Centres Foundation, and chats with Monique about ImpactAlpha's recent fundraise. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHd3U3IOar-4cPkJqx9eZYw --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
There's a new impact lens in town
October 13, 2023 01:36 - 10 minutes - 9.58 MBUnicef USA's Cristina Shapiro joins David Bank to introduce child-lens investing, a framework for considering investment harms and benefits to children, who have ‘til now been left out of investment decision-making. Plus, host Brian Walsh has the headlines. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
How Veris is rethinking due diligence to advance gender and racial justice
October 06, 2023 00:55 - 23 minutes - 21.6 MBRoraj Pradhananga and Jane Swan of Veris Wealth Partners join host Monique Aiken to discuss how the wealth manager is investing in diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging. Plus, the headlines. Read the report: https://www.veriswp.com/deib-investing-report/ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
Finding the 'worker-ownership edge.'
September 29, 2023 01:32 - 9 minutes - 9.13 MBHost Brian Walsh shares highlights from this week’s agents of impact call, “The employee-ownership edge,” which explored the range of opportunities for investing in the conversion of companies to worker ownership. Plus, the headlines. RSVP for next week's LinkedIn Live with Sherrell Dorsey: https://www.linkedin.com/events/7112932484064968705/comments/ The call replay: https://youtu.be/Kii-53LJR8U?si=xyuQNO5-vdb0r0XD&t=4 Check out all of these stories and more on https://impactalpha.com/ ...
What is 'wealth supremacy,' how does it drive crises, and what can be done about it?
September 22, 2023 02:10 - 25 minutes - 23.4 MBDavid Bank is joined by Marjorie Kelly of The Democracy Collaborative to explore the ways that impact investors both help and hinder systemic change. Her new book, “Wealth Supremacy: How the Extractive Economy and the Biased Rules of Capitalism Drive Today’s Crises,” is out this month. Plus, host Monique Aiken has the headlines. Read part one of Marjorie’s essay, “How wealth supremacy is driving today's crises,” on ImpactAlpha. Check out the book here: https://bookshop.org/p/books/weal...
Looking ahead to Climate Week NYC
September 15, 2023 01:58 - 7 minutes - 7.24 MBHost Brian Walsh chats with Amy Cortese to set the stage for the UN General Assembly and Climate Week NYC. Plus, the headlines. Amy sketched the landscape in “Protesters and investors to pressure global leaders at Climate Week NYC.” Here are the details of Sunday’s march, Climate Group’s event guide and Climate Tech VC’s cheat sheet to hundreds of side events. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
Revamped SOCAP seeks radical ideas and scaled solutions
September 08, 2023 00:57 - 15 minutes - 14.1 MBDavid Bank catches up with Robert Munson, President of SOCAP and Managing director at the Sorenson Impact Center, who is putting together next month’s gathering in San Francisco. Plus, host Brian Walsh has the headlines. Get your tickets today: Oct. 23-25: SOCAP23 (San Francisco) (save $250 with code “s23_impactalpha”) Find all of the stories mentioned in this week's episode on impactalpha.com --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
Revamped SOCAP looks to remain a home for new and radical ideas
September 08, 2023 00:57 - 15 minutes - 14.1 MBDavid Bank catches up with Robert Munson, who as head of the Sorenson Impact Center, is putting together next month’s SOCAP gathering in San Francisco. Plus, host Brian Walsh has the headlines. Get your tickets today: Oct. 23-25: SOCAP23 (San Francisco) (save $250 with code “s23_impactalpha”) Find all of the stories mentioned in this week's episode on impactalpha.com --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
Democratizing gender lens investing in Latin America
September 01, 2023 02:06 - 12 minutes - 11.5 MB🎧 Impact Briefing. Pro Mujer’s Carmen Correa joins host Monique Aiken to share how the pioneering Latin American microfinance institution’s bonds are democratizing gender lens investing in Argentina. Plus, the headlines. “With gender bonds, Pro Mujer puts Argentina’s capital markets to work for female entrepreneurs” Check out ImpactAlpha's new Career Hub! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
Catalyzing capital to Indigenous communities
August 25, 2023 00:57 - 7 minutes - 6.74 MBHost Brian Walsh shares some of the insights from this week's Agents of Impact Call, which focused on how resourceful entrepreneurs are tapping community lenders, private investors, philanthropic funds and public dollars to launch Native-led businesses, create jobs and provide vital services. For the full replay and roundup of the call head over to https://impactalpha.com/calls/. The rest of these stories are also featured on the site. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spot...
Responding to legal attacks on racial justice strategies
August 18, 2023 01:31 - 24 minutes - 22.7 MBParis Prince of the Intentional Endowments Network joins host Monique Aiken to talk about how impact investors are responding to legal attacks on affirmative action and racial wealth-building strategies. Sign the Fearless Fund petition: https://share.communityx.com/posts/3297045f-af18-4411-9fa2-82afddc6685a/ For more on all of these stories, head on over to www.impactalpha.com --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
Cash flows to ensure the water flows in Latin America
July 28, 2023 02:03 - 23 minutes - 21.8 MBDavid Bank speaks with Hugo Contreras, who helped lead The Nature Conservancy’s efforts in Latin America to value, conserve and enhance our most irreplaceable resource, in the next conversation in our series from the Salzburg Global Seminar, sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Host Monique Aiken has the headlines. impactalpha.com/subscribe --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
Insuring farmers against crop failures and climate change
July 21, 2023 00:55 - 19 minutes - 17.6 MBDavid Bank chats with Acre Africa’s Niza Banda in the next conversation from the recent “Connecting capital to communities” gathering at the Salzburg Global Seminar, sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Host Brian Walsh has the headlines. For the full story: https://impactalpha.com/acre-africa-insuring-farmers-against-crop-failures-and-climate-change/ Subscribe today: https://impactalpha.com/subscribe/ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impa...
Putting Africa’s pension funds to work for Africa’s social infrastructure
July 14, 2023 00:59 - 17 minutes - 16.5 MBDavid Bank chats with Musa Mabesa, head of South Africa’s Government Employees Pension Fund, in the latest conversation from the “Connecting capital to communities” gathering at the Salzburg Global Seminar, sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Host Monique Aiken has the headlines. Read the full story: https://impactalpha.com/putting-africas-pension-funds-to-work-for-africas-social-infrastructure/ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alph...
Affordable housing for Mozambique’s informal economy
July 06, 2023 20:57 - 16 minutes - 15.3 MBDavid Bank chats with Empowa’s Glen Jordan in the next conversation from the recent “Connecting Capital to Communities” gathering at the Salzburg Global Seminar, sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Host Brian Walsh has the headlines. “When there's no formality, there's no identification. Income is informal. The mortgage product just doesn't work,” says Glen Jordan of Empowa, a Netherlands-based social enterprise. “So we have to turn it around and create products that meet the ...
Connecting Indian farmers to global markets
June 30, 2023 01:10 - 17 minutes - 16.3 MBDavid Bank chats with FarMart’s Samridhi Singh in the next conversation in our series from the recent Salzburg Global Seminar on “Connecting Capital to Communities,” sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Host Monique Aiken has the headlines. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
A century old model for affordable social housing with Michaela Kauer
June 23, 2023 00:40 - 20 minutes - 19.4 MBDavid Bank catches up with Michaela Kauer of the city of Vienna to talk about that city’s model of social, affordable housing. Plus, host Brian Walsh has the headlines. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
Moving capital at scale to elevate communities of color with Valerie Red-Horse Mohl
June 16, 2023 02:55 - 14 minutes - 13.7 MBDespite all efforts at diversity, equity and inclusion, little has meaningfully changed about how, where and to whom capital flows. Known Holdings is out to break the logjam once and for all. “Our goal is to shift capital through all of the ways of wealth creation” says Valerie Red-Horse Mohl, who cofounded Known in 2021 with Natalie Molina Niño, Jim Casselberry and Ushir Shah. “We manage assets, we deploy assets, and we shift capital to focus on eliminating the racial wealth gap.” Known is...
Institutional investors turn to climate
June 08, 2023 23:46 - 17 minutes - 16.2 MBContributing editor Imogen Rose-Smith joins host Brian Walsh to discuss why, despite the recent ESG backlash, institutional impact investors are doubling down on climate investing. Plus the headlines. RSVP for The Call: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/643783843807 --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
The ownership beat, ESG on the chopping block, and new tools for system-level investing
June 02, 2023 01:42 - 9 minutes - 8.76 MBDavid Bank joins host Monique Aiken to talk about the ownership economy, ESG backlash and system-level investing. Plus the headlines. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
Capricorn Investment Group makes the outsourcing case to foundations and families seeking impact alpha
May 29, 2023 19:22 - 20 minutes - 19 MB“If you speak to folks here at Capricorn, they'll tell you, ‘Great, we've built all this intellectual property around sustainability and integrating this into the investment process,’” Capricorn’s Kunle Apampa tells David Bank on the latest Agents of Impact podcast. “But we cannot get to where we need to get to if others are not buying into this model.’” Kunle is working to share Capricorn’s capabilities with other “asset owners that get it and are willing to put their capital to work as wel...
Capricorn Investments makes the outsourcing case to foundations and families seeking impact alpha
May 29, 2023 19:22 - 20 minutes - 19 MB“If you speak to folks here at Capricorn, they'll tell you, ‘Great, we've built all this intellectual property around sustainability and integrating this into the investment process,’” Capricorn’s Kunle Apampa tells David Bank on the latest Agents of Impact podcast. “But we cannot get to where we need to get to if others are not buying into this model.’” Kunle is working to share Capricorn’s capabilities with other “asset owners that get it and are willing to put their capital to work as wel...
Why employee ownership is the next big thing in impact, and America with Jack Moriarty
May 26, 2023 02:31 - 21 minutes - 20.3 MBJack Moriarty of Ownership America chats with ImpactAlpha’s David Bank about employee ownership and new legislation to help investors back companies that are turning workers into owners. Host Brian Walsh has the headlines. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
Why employee ownership is the next big thing in impact, and America, with Jack Moriarty
May 26, 2023 02:31 - 21 minutes - 20.3 MBJack Moriarty of Ownership America chats with ImpactAlpha’s David Bank about employee ownership and new legislation to help investors back companies that are turning workers into owners. Host Brian Walsh has the headlines. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
Funding African tech entrepreneurs with Eunice Ajim
May 19, 2023 01:58 - 11 minutes - 10.3 MBEunice Ajim, founding partner Ajim Capital speaks with David Bank about her personal journey to launch the fund and her mission to support tech entrepreneurs in her native Cameroon and across Africa. Host Monique Aiken has the headlines. For more on Ajim Capital: https://www.ajimcapital.com/blog/ajim-capital-launches-10m-fund-for-african-companies-in-the-tech-space For more VC include podcasts: https://impactalpha.com/podcasts/ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com...
The long and winding road to responsible private equity with Tensie Whelan
May 11, 2023 23:51 - 19 minutes - 18.4 MBHost Brian Walsh is joined by NYU’s Tensie Whelan to hear why more and more private equity firms are starting to embrace impact as a path to outperformance. Tensie's article in ImpactAlpha: https://impactalpha.com/more-private-equity-firms-embrace-impact-as-a-path-to-outperformance/ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
Finding alpha in racial justice and the challenges women face raising a first fund with Himalaya Rao
May 05, 2023 01:28 - 13 minutes - 13 MBThe BFM (Black Founders Matter) Fund’s Himalaya Rao speaks with David Bank about the alpha case for racial justice investing and the challenges faced by a woman manager when raising her first fund. Our earlier VC Include interviews: https://impactalpha.com/toussaint-bailey-uplifting-capital-bringing-the-quietly-bothered-into-impact-investing-podcast/ https://impactalpha.com/bahiyah-yasmeen-robinson-on-includes-three-drivers-of-inclusion-alpha-podcast/ --- Send in a voice message: https...
Neighborhood Economics with Kevin Jones
April 28, 2023 02:53 - 19 minutes - 17.8 MBAs the Neighborhood Economics conference wraps up in Jackson, Miss., Kevin Jones speaks with David Bank about startup capital for sole proprietors, Black churches as engines of economic development and how unusual strangers can become unlikely allies. Plus, host Brian Walsh has the headlines. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
Jacob Haar: Helping emerging market lenders 'leapfrog' the U.S.
April 24, 2023 00:33 - 22 minutes - 21 MBThe Co-Founder & Managing Partner of Community Investment Management joins David Bank for this Agents of Impact podcast. For a decade, Community Investment Management, an institutional impact investment fund has provided capital to technology-enabled, or "fintech" lenders to small businesses. Now, Haar and CIM are bringing their financial access solutions back to emerging markets. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
U.S. Financial regulations and over 40 years of Earth Days with Dianne Dillon-Ridgley
April 21, 2023 01:27 - 21 minutes - 19.6 MBFor Earth Day, Dianne Dillon-Ridgley joins host Monique Aiken to reflect on her four decades working in finance and on environmental and human rights issues. Dillon-Ridgley is the chair of the board of the Intentional Endowments Network, and has served on 23 US delegations to the UN, including the first United Nations Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro in 1992. Plus, Monique has the headlines. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/im...