This Week in Impact
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This Week in Impact
Your weekly roundup of the news and features from this week in ImpactAlpha
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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...
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, entre...
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 T...
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...
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 f...
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 de...
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 financ...
Wealthy donors are buying tons of carbon just to lock it away
Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with ImpactAlpha editors and journalists. Up this week: Amy Cortese discusses the “billionaire buy...
How to fix blended finance + Tsao family office expands impact strategy to Africa
Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank. Up this week: Can open deal data and standardized reporting might help fix...
Capturing the market for carbon capture + Who gets jobs in impact?
Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank. Up this week: How air capture aims to capture the market for carbon my cos...
How $3 billion in GGRF funds escaped legal limbo + why biochar is having a moment
Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor Amy Cortese and senior reporter Lucy Ngige. Up this week: How nearly $3 billion in Bid...
The urgent need for climate adaptation, plus a growing role for community development financial institutions in Indian country
Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank. Up this week: New urgency around investments in climate adaptation and res...
Doing more with fewer development dollars, plus a tribute to Andrew Kassoy
Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank. Up this week: Doing more with less – the blended finance fallout from shri...
Catalytic climate capital in the Amazonian bio-economy
Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor Jessica Pothering. Up this week: Teeing up November's Global Climate Summit COP 30 in...
Lessons from Apollo and Mastercard Foundation + The Reconstruction Won't Be Televised
Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank. Up this week: What the $785 billion private equity giant Apollo has learne...
Mobilzing private capital for green lending + European investors still see materiality as material
Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank. Up this week: Turning the stranded pipeline of green loans into investable...
Dennis Price steps into new role as CEO of ImpactAlpha
In this special episode of This Week in Impact, Brian Walsh discusses the evolution of ImpactAlpha with editor-in-chief David Bank and newly named CEO...
Risk misperceptions in climate and emerging markets
Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank. Up this week: Pegasus Capital’s contrarian play for orphaned climate proje...
Advice for the Gates Foundation spend-down + The state of blended finance
Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank. Up this week: Unsolicited advice for the Gates Foundation following the an...
Remedies for Impact’s original sins + Carbon removal's moment in the... dirt
Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank. Up this week: Two views on the future of impact investing from Calvert Imp...
The buzz at Milken + Which impact archetype are you?
Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor Jessica Pothering. Up this week: With US markets all over the place, investors at the...
Pages from the playbook for shared prosperity + a report card for pay-as-you-go solar
Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank. Up this week: Some initial entries into the playbook for shared prosperity...
Climate tech is weathering political turbulence.
Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank. Up this week: How climate tech founders and funders are planning to ride o...
A call to action in response to US political risk
Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank. Up this week: A call to action from impact investors in response to the gr...
A tarrifying week for investors + what's next for global AID
Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank, live-ish from the Re:Construction road show. Up this week: How impact inve...
Insurance incentives for wildfire prevention + smarter subsidies for agribusiness
Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor Jessica Pothering. Up this week: Climate insurance in California that incentivizes lan...
Proxy battles for universal owners & new models for employee ownership
Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank. Up this week: With proxy season here, how shareholders can apply a system...
Bipartisan support for CDFIs under Trump, and Canada's first Employee Ownership Trusts
🎧 This Week in Impact. Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank. Up this week: Why Trump's order to cut a Main Stre...
A new era for climate leadership (in Canada, at least)
Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank. Up this week: The significance of noted green banker Mark Carney’s new rol...
Local institutional capital for small and medium sized businesses in Africa
Host Brian Walsh chats with ImpactAlpha’s emerging markets reporter Lucy Ngige. Up this week: Why the mood at two impact investing conferences in Nair...
Seeing East African agri-food tech in action, plus the EU walks back sustainability disclosure
Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor Jessica Pothering. Up this week: Jessica digs in on food and agriculture in East Afric...
Navigating the new era for emerging markets, climate and small business investing
This week, Brian and David discuss the resilience of impact investing amidst political upheaval, focusing on emerging markets, small businesses, and c...
Building wealth through community investment trusts
Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank. Up this week: An innovative investment vehicle turns a strip mall in Portl...
DFC faces Trump funding freeze fallout
On this episode of 'This Week in Impact' Brian Walsh and Jessica pother discuss the implications of the Trump administration's freeze on development f...
Mission driven funders react to feds funding freeze + responsible AI strategies.
Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank. Stories featured in this week's episode:
Mission-driven funders scr...
Trump's torrent of executive orders + OZ's get another look
Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank. Stories covered this:
“Trump’s executive orders will...
Insurance risk after the LA fires + de-extinction tech gets a raise
Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank. Up this week: How the devastating LA wildfires are putting a spotlight on...
Glimmers of hope for impact fundraising
Host Brian Walsh takes up the week’s top stories with ImpactAlpha’s Jessica Pothering. They discuss Jessica's takeaways from her analysis of ImpactAlp...
Looking ahead to 2025
In the final podcast episode of the year, host Brian Walsh takes up the trends that ImpactAlpha will be following in 2025 with editor David Bank. On o...
Policy-enhanced impact investing + community ownership models
Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank. Up this week:
How lobbying and advocacy are being used by family of...