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This Week in Impact
by Impact Alpha
Your weekly roundup of the news and features from this week in ImpactAlpha
Episodes
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Break-even results for Ceniarth’s impact-first portfolio
Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank. Up this week: Family Office Ceniarth finds that their impact-first portfolio is not making money… but that's been their plan all along; a new Latin American investor rewards founders with better terms when they deliver…
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The power of place in Galveston + Blue Earth unsticks impact capital
Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank. Up this week: From Galveston to Kansas City, overlooked cities are getting organized and making themselves investment ready; investing in the economic determinants of a healthy democracy; And a deal spotlight on Blue…
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Optimism and action at Climate Week NYC + An employee-owned holdco
Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank. Up this week: As President Trump calls climate change a “con job” at the UN, investors and philanthropies are raising money and building projects anyway; development banks abroad and Asia's asset owners are stepping up on...
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Investors roll up their sleeves for Climate Week NYC + ‘Batteries as a service’ as an alternative to diesel
Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor Jessica Pothering. Up this week: Ahead of New York Climate Week, why investors are getting down to business, even as AI sucks up the oxygen (and the capital) in the room; why African pension funds — sitting on $600 billion in...
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Restructuring and layoffs at Pro Mujer + Common Good fund of funds from Ascension and Anthos
Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank. Up this week: Restructuring and layoffs hit Pro Mujer, as gender lens and development funders pull back; how faith-based investors, from Catholic sisters to family offices, are quietly building some of the most...
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Three takes on revenue-based financing + A deep-tech bet on cleaner and cheaper cement
Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank. Up this week: “Revenue-based financing helps create wealth with anti-dilution protection for founders, not investors,” by Roodgally Senatus “How revenue-based finance can help close the racial wealth gap, by Carrie...
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Patient capital to support youth mental health + AIM Horizon goes all in on impact for maritime decarbonization
Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank. Up this week: “Patient capital to establish trust, efficacy and potential for scale in youth mental health startups,” by Hopelab’s Nathaan Demers "After a commercial failure, AIM Horizon goes all in on impact for...
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Move over bonds. Are impact investments the new hedge? + Investors tap into South Africa's green transition
Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor Jessica Pothering. Up this week: “As Norges Bank warns of potential losses, can impact investments provide a hedge?” by Amy Cortese "Investors find opportunities in South Africa's rush to renewables,” by Marilyn Waite “Murdoch...
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Private equity energy power players + Choice and control across the AI stack
Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank. Up this week: “Power for AI, mostly renewable, tops the shopping list for big asset managers,” by Amy Cortese, with reporting from Erik Stein “Of agents and agency: An investor’s guide to choice and control across the…
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Where Temasek is looking for growth opportunities + Three impact summer reads
Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank. Up this week: How Temasek, the $400 billion state-owned investment fund out of Singapore, positions itself as a generational investor; a look at three impact investing “beach reads,” out this week, that tackle the future…
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India as a hotbed of cool tech + Secondaries, impact-style
Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank. Up this week: A look at the cool tech investors seeking sustainable solutions to help billions beat the heat; why impact LPs are buying and selling stakes in the secondaries market; and, debriefing this week’s call, which...
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Generation Investment Management on AI’s inconvenient truths + Closing the LatAm gender gap
Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank. Up this week: Generation Investment Management seeks to stamp AI with a mandate for sustainability; how closing the gender gap could ease skill shortages in Latin America's mobile workforce; and the California pension…
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Founding principles for impact investors on the USA’s 250th birthday
Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank. Up this week: Four Agents of Impact offer thoughts on the promise of the American experiment and the role for impact investing in it, ahead of the country’s 250th birthday; a look at Next 50’s strategy for financing GPs…
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Zambia looks to small businesses as pathway to inclusive growth + IPOs set to unlock billions in liquidity for impact LPs
Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor Jessica Pothering. Up this week: How a new playbook for shared prosperity is being written in Zambia, where attempts are being made to redirect its mineral wealth toward local small and growing businesses; what SpaceX and other IPOs...
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The private equity buzz at SuperReturn in Berlin + Sharing AI power along with wealth
Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor Amy Cortese. Up this week: At SuperReturn in Berlin, asset-light is out, HALO is in as private equity titans focus on AI, energy and defense; a look at public and private approaches to sharing the AI wealth; and, Realize Capital...
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Battery storage makes Europe’s cheap renewable power more valuable + The growth opportunity behind S2G’s $1 billion raise
Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank. Up this week: Why battery makers and investors are pivoting from EVs to grid storage for renewable energy in Europe; a look at Lukas Walton-backed S2G investments following its $1 billion; and, the reasons that the world...
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Taking stock of Alterra’s impact on emerging market climate finance + Going down-market to uplift women
Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank. Up this week: Is Altérra’s ambitious effort to mobilize climate finance for the Global South working?; how Fervo Energy pulled off the biggest clean energy IPO in Wall Street history; and, Working Capital Fund secures $31...
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Two impact approaches to addressing the AI data center buildout + Private equity firms eye retirement account trillions
Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor Amy Cortese. Up this week: Two different approaches that impact investors are taking to address Big Tech’s AI data center buildout; who wins when access to private equity is opened up to American retirees; and, how 2x is spurring a...
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Building African ecosystems for impact investing + LPs bridging the "second-wave" capital gap
Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with Lucy Ngige and Amy Cortese. Up this week: The first edition of ImpactAlpha Africa explores new ways capital is being mobilized for impact on the continent; a spotlight on two African funds investing in human capital and creating high...
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Los Angeles lowers the cost and complexity of capital for affordable housing + Big DAF platforms on notice
Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank. Up this week: How Los Angeles is working to lower the cost and complexity of capital for affordable housing; the Southern Poverty Law Center controversy, and who really controls the funds in Donor Advised Funds; and, a...
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Fear and frenzy at Milken’s global conference + Strange bedfellows for a climate investment
Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank. Up this week: Navigating the fear and frenzy at Milken’s annual gathering of global capital players; how the war with Iran is a boon for renewable energy and the private equity that invests in it; and the strange…
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The latest in Africa's carbon markets + The vibe at Mission Investors Exchange
Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editors Jessican Pothering and David Bank. Up this week: The latest in Africa’s carbon markets, from nature-based solutions to clean cooking; which wealthy athletes are getting into the impact investing game; and debriefing this week’s...
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Local capital for local fund managers and enterprises in Africa + Will the real ownership economy please stand up?
Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank. Up this week: What’s significant about Uganda’s national pension fund’s effort to stand up a locally focused fund of funds; unraveling the controversy surrounding KKR’s lucrative employee ownership exit from CoolIT; and,...
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Shareholders fight for the right to proxy vote + Responsible look to assert human agency over the future of AI
Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank. Up this week: "Dear Shareholders: Your votes and your voice are needed more than ever," by As You Sow's Andrew Behar “Impact investors seek to assert human agency over the future of AI,” by David Bank and Dennis Price...
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The unfortunate growth market of investing in refugees + building portfolios that value aging
Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank. Up this week: "Conflict in the Middle East creates (even more) refugees in need of livelihoods, services and impact investment," by Lucy Ngige. "Valuing Aging" Agents of Impact Call (5:05). " Profit and punishment…
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Anthropic’s showdown with the Pentagon + How much value should private equity buyout funds share with workers
Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank. Up this week: "How Anthropic’s standoff with the Pentagon is putting impact investors' AI thesis to the test in real time," by David Bank. “Sharing wealth with workers creates value for private equity buyout firms. So...
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States of the union take the lead + Mast Reforestation's new biomass burial carbon credit strategy
Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank and producer Isaac Silk. Up this week: As the Trump administration steps back from domestic policy, how states are taking the lead on clean energy, the ownership economy, and AI regulation (09:25); Why smaller funds are...
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Shaping the AI algorithm + innovative finance for local infrastructure projects
Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank. Up this week: Highlights from this week’s Agents of Impact Call on Shaping the Algorithm for good AI; how regional housing finance agencies in California are leveraging public funding to crowd private capital into...
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How Africa’s mining industry is leveraging demand for critical minerals + Next steps for place based investing
Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with Jessica Pothering, Dennis Price and Roodgally Senatus. Up this week: Jessica reports from Cape Town on how Africa’s mining industry is leveraging global demand for critical minerals; Dennis shares takeaways from his panel at the Urban...
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Patient capital drives India's affordable home lending market + Nippon's foray into system-level investing
Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank. Up this week: How patient capital built India’s booming affordable home lending market; Nippon Life Insurance’s step-up to system-level investing in Japan (07:15); and, the push and pull behind growing interest in climate...
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Going 'beyond the check' to help GPs survive the fundraising drought + US retail investors are backing emerging markets solar
Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank. Up this week: How some LPs are going ‘beyond the check’ to help their GP impact managers survive the fundraising drought; enabling US retail investors to back solar projects in Africa and Latin America (8:05); and, at “He...
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The real returns of impact first managers + permanent capital for affordable housing
Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank. Up this week: Highlights from this week's star-studded call on the real returns of impact-first managers; why some investors are raising permanent capital to keep affordable housing affordable, permanently (10:00); and…
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Novel strategies in an impact fundraising drought, staking workers to a share in the AI economy
Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank. Up this week: In an impact fundraising drought, novel strategies and private credit stand out and, yes, size matters. Joseph Blasi's strategy to give workers a stake in AI’s upside through state and federal ‘permanent...
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Latin American impact investors start to map a way forward + Working capital for emerging managers
Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank. Up this week: Impact investors chart a path for Latin America after the US capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. Why working capital might be the biggest barrier for next-gen fund managers (6:15). And, why some...
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Why LP stands for leadership potential + building the playbook for shared prosperity
Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank. Up this week: Why LP might stand for Leadership Potential, in addition to limited partner, as asset allocators contend with an increasingly complex world; how new approaches to the ownership economy are helping to both...
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Sierra Club Foundation's system-level strategy + 1803 Fund backs ownership opportunities in Portland
Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank. Up this week: How the Sierra Club Foundation is leaning into system-level investing with its $200 million endowment; the 1803 Fund’s ambitious plans to restore historically Black neighborhoods in Portland; and, how...
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Transforming oil revenues into renewable energy investments in New Mexico + cities and solar providers respond to a rollback of federal support
Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank. Up this week: The ambitious strategy behind New Mexico’s $67 billion sovereign wealth fund; How the residential solar industry plans to stay competitive by eliminating dealer fees; And, how cities are building durable...
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Unlocking Indian solar power with catalytic capital + pensions eye responsible defense investments
Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank. Up this week: Beyond investments and guarantees, how Encourage Capital assembled the necessary pieces to unlock capital flows for the global clean energy transition; The missing markets for local builders and buyers of...
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Alternatives to Trump's 50 year mortgage + $54 billion in DFI climate financing goes missing
Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank. Up this week: Instead of 50 year mortgages, actual solutions to make homeownership affordable; The case of the missing $54 billion in climate finance; And, highlights from this week’s call, on plugging the financing gap…
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The state of climate blended finance + Private credit jitters put impact investors on edge
Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank. Up this week: In the lead up to the COP30 climate summit, the state of climate blended finance is a mixed bag; the private credit jitters that are putting even impact investors on edge (10:55); and, a preview of next…
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Allocators, investors and entrepreneurs gather at SOCAP + A dual lens for AI diligence and impact
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...
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A resurgence of impact-first investing + How impact lawyers are working to simplify transactions
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:...
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Trimtab goes all in on impact first + An affordable 'community of opportunity' in East Harlem
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...
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Big plans for the US International Development Finance Corp. + Debt and equity “growth funds” in Africa
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…
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Building shared prosperity with entrepreneurship through acquisition + GreenieRE's surety bonds for climate tech
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…
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A vibe check at NY Climate Week, and how impact is driving alpha -- with or without the label
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). Story links: “At...
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Arguing for the freedom to give, speak and invest. Plus, looking ahead to Climate Week NYC
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…
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Mobilizing Millions for Climate Tech and Sustainable Fashion
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...
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Courts uphold GGRF freeze + the largest employee ownership deal yet
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…
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Roots of Impact introduces Simple Agreements for Future Impact + Impact opportunities in Peru
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...
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