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This Week in Impact — 299 episodes · page 2 of 3
VC's for Kamala, blended finance in Africa, and Yunus returns
VC's for Kamala, blended finance in Africa, and Yunus returns
Capitol Gains Ep2: Climate, insurance and risk management with Carolyn Kousky
A political proxy battle for the soul of tech, youth-lens investing in Africa, and recycling is having a moment
New strategies for refugee-lens investing, deadlines approach for the GGRF, and a preview of Capitol Gains
Wait, there's good economic news? Plus, TPG's AI enabled, smart city play.
The Supreme Court's impact, US political risk, and driving community homeownership without displacement
How New Ventures is scaling up by going deep, Obran's plan to build a worker coop conglomerate, and why Surdna is doubling down on their impact strategy
Roundtable: The backlash to the ESG backlash, who is colluding with whom?
Impact funds steer capital towards debt, impact fails in Africa, and Sam Polk of Everytable
Impact funds steer capital towards debt, impact fails in Africa, and Sam Polk of Everytable
Climate on the ballot in Mexico, India and beyond; impact accounting standards; funding climate's missing middle
New impact products, investing in 'entrepreneurial households in industrious communities,' and the rise of workers
David's dispatch from MIE and Milken, and a call for sustainable mining
The state of blended finance, restoring forests and carbon market credibility, and investing endowments for DEI
Family offices target climate transition, foundations invest in AI for good, and a voluntary carbon credit brou-ha-ha
Good economic news, the legacy of Participant Media, and a dispatch from the World Bank
Reconnecting communities, impact investing in Puerto Rico, and how business owners are exiting to employees
EPA (finally) announces who will distribute $20 billion fund, lessons from blended finance, and universal owners vote their proxy
National green bank funding, basket bonds, and Brazil's burgeoning impact ecosystem
How Texas’s anti ESG campaign is costing it money, cookstoves and carbon markets, and Vanguard gets punked
Finding hidden impact and overlooked risks in municipal bonds
A tale of two COPs with Marilyn Waite and Dawn Lippert
All eyes on Dubai as COP 28 begins with Stephan Nicoleau
Steering pension funds toward impact with Tara Mei Smith and Marcela Pinilla
Lessons from the Wilmington coup of 1898 with Cedric Harrison
Maria Hollan of Timke Ventures shares her journey to impact investing
What the mainstreaming of impact investing means for smaller impact fund managers
Repurposing churches with Graham Singh, and a big ImpactAlpha announcement
There's a new impact lens in town
How Veris is rethinking due diligence to advance gender and racial justice
Finding the 'worker-ownership edge'
What is 'wealth supremacy,' how does it drive crises, and what can be done about it?
Looking ahead to Climate Week NYC
Revamped SOCAP seeks radical ideas and scaled solutions
Democratizing gender lens investing in Latin America
Catalyzing capital to Indigenous communities
Responding to legal attacks on racial justice strategies
Cash flows to ensure the water flows in Latin America
Insuring farmers against crop failures and climate change
Putting Africa’s pension funds to work for Africa’s social infrastructure
Affordable housing for Mozambique’s informal economy
Connecting Indian farmers to global markets
A century old model for affordable social housing with Michaela Kauer
Moving capital at scale to elevate communities of color with Valerie Red-Horse Mohl
The ownership beat, ESG on the chopping block, and new tools for system-level investing
Why employee ownership is the next big thing in impact, and America, with Jack Moriarty
Funding African tech entrepreneurs with Eunice Ajim
The long and winding road to responsible private equity with Tensie Whelan
Finding alpha in racial justice and the challenges women face raising a first fund
Neighborhood Economics with Kevin Jones
U.S. Financial regulations and over 40 years of Earth Days with Dianne Dillon-Ridgley
Going beyond 'net-zero' in the public markets with Ariane Mahler
Training the next generation of impact investors with Adwoa Asare
In spite of itself, Texas takes on mantle of climate leader
How bank failures and interest rate hikes have changed the dynamics of impact investing.
Ben McAdams: Marrying public real estate and private capital (podcast)
Sana Kapadia on the alpha opportunity for investors who are gender smart
Scaling purpose built impact with Priya Parrish
[Briefing] University of California’s rescue of Blackstone’s REIT
How Project Equity is turning employees into owners by surfing the 'silver tsunami'
Finding the opportunities for impact investors in Biden's SOTU
Finding the opportunities in (and the problems with) muni bonds
Why development finance institutions are being pressed to ‘publish what you fund’
Backing new decision-makers for the new majority with Demetric Duckett of Living Cities
How the Milken Institute is connecting disadvantaged communities with critical project development financing
How Dollaride is electrifying ‘dollar vans’ to boost livelihoods and cut carbon in New York’s transit deserts.
Why Kristin Hull, an early Tesla investor, sees Elon Musk as an ESG risk
Building Community Wealth with Aisha Weeks
Closing the wealth gap through "ownership trusts" with Zoe Schlag, Cofounder of Common Trust
Stephan Nicoleau shares an update from COP27
Ceres' Steven Rothstein on the midterm elections and COP27 and their impact on sustainable finance
Morningstar's Jon Hale on the midterm elections
Bob Eccles on the ESG Wars
SOCAP is back in person
Insights from 20 years of deploying "patient capital" with Acumen's Daniel Waldron
The Greening of the 401(k) with Zach Stein
Investing to support refugees and women
Fall is here, and that means it's Climate Week in New York
The state of impact in India with Shefali Anand
Mapping Climate Capital and September's LIIST
How, and why, to decarbonize concrete
Havell Rodrigues on the democratic approach to fundraising that's putting wind in the sails of new impact fund managers
The Roundtable takes on the anti-ESG ETF Strive, and more...
What the climate provisions of the IRA mean for investors.
Introducing The LIIST with Luni Libes and Zuleyma Bebell
What Airlift's crash says about pandemic era VC investing
Investing thoughtful catalytic capital for emerging managers with Margot Kane
Politics and Power in Asset Management
Emerging fund managers gather in Dar es Salaam
Impact Investing and Coming Out
Briefing: Stephan Nicoleau on Davos and Moving Forward on Climate
Building the next-generation of diverse climate fund managers with Bahiyah Robinson of VC Include
Briefing: The politicization of ESG and some alternatives to VC
Alternatives to VC, from Community Rounds to Neighborhood Economics
Investment trends in Africa
Briefing: Carl Icahn, Elon Musk, and activist investing in the age of ESG
Briefing: Catalyzing climate capital for adaptation and equity
A Civilian Climate Corps in the Bronx, and Community Rounds replaces Crowdfunding
Political Risk and Impact Investing in Ukraine and Beyond