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Impact Alpha PodcastsJun 05, 2020

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Building an inclusive economy through capital, community, and coaching with Lenore Champagne Beirne

Building an inclusive economy through capital, community, and coaching with Lenore Champagne Beirne

Sherrell 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/

Mar 25, 202443:43
How Texas’s anti ESG campaign is costing it money, cookstoves and carbon markets, and Vanguard gets punked
Mar 21, 202427:46
Finding hidden impact and overlooked risks in municipal bonds
Dec 15, 202309:31
A tale of two COPs with Marilyn Waite and Dawn Lippert

A tale of two COPs with Marilyn Waite and Dawn Lippert

Amy 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.  

Dec 08, 202321:52
All eyes on Dubai as COP 28 begins with Stephan Nicoleau

All eyes on Dubai as COP 28 begins with Stephan Nicoleau

ImpactAlpha’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.

Dec 01, 202320:26
Steering pension funds toward impact with Tara Mei Smith and Marcela Pinilla

Steering pension funds toward impact with Tara Mei Smith and Marcela Pinilla

Friends 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.



Nov 17, 202321:18
Lessons from the Wilmington coup of 1898 with Cedric Harrison
Nov 10, 202322:28
 Maria Hollan of Timke Ventures shares her journey to impact investing
Nov 02, 202314:23
What the mainstreaming of impact investing means for smaller impact fund managers

What the mainstreaming of impact investing means for smaller impact fund managers

David 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. 

Oct 26, 202310:20
Repurposing churches with Graham Singh, and a big ImpactAlpha announcement
Oct 20, 202314:25
There's a new impact lens in town

There's a new impact lens in town

Unicef 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.

Oct 13, 202310:21
How Veris is rethinking due diligence to advance gender and racial justice

How Veris is rethinking due diligence to advance gender and racial justice

Roraj 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/



Oct 06, 202323:20
Finding the 'worker-ownership edge.'

Finding the 'worker-ownership edge.'

Host 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/

Sep 29, 202309:52
What is 'wealth supremacy,' how does it drive crises, and what can be done about it?
Sep 22, 202325:20
Looking ahead to Climate Week NYC
Sep 15, 202307:50
Revamped SOCAP seeks radical ideas and scaled solutions
Sep 08, 202315:11
Democratizing gender lens investing in Latin America
Sep 01, 202312:28
Catalyzing capital to Indigenous communities
Aug 25, 202307:17
Responding to legal attacks on racial justice strategies
Aug 18, 202324:31
Cash flows to ensure the water flows in Latin America

Cash flows to ensure the water flows in Latin America

David 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.


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Jul 28, 202323:30
Insuring farmers against crop failures and climate change
Jul 21, 202319:00
Putting Africa’s pension funds to work for Africa’s social infrastructure
Jul 14, 202317:50
Affordable housing for Mozambique’s informal economy

Affordable housing for Mozambique’s informal economy

David 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 needs of the informal market. And create structures that enable the capital to flow to those structures in a way that's cost-effective.”

Jul 06, 202316:33
Connecting Indian farmers to global markets

Connecting Indian farmers to global markets

David 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.

Jun 30, 202317:36
A century old model for affordable social housing with Michaela Kauer

A century old model for affordable social housing with Michaela Kauer

David 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.

Jun 23, 202320:55
Moving capital at scale to elevate communities of color with Valerie Red-Horse Mohl

Moving capital at scale to elevate communities of color with Valerie Red-Horse Mohl

Despite 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 the rare Black, Indigenous, Latina and Asian American-owned asset management firm. It has quietly attracted assets from impact investors looking to shift capital for greater impact. “We have big ambitions to really shift capital in significant ways,” Red-Horse Mohl tells ImpactAlpha’s David Bank on this week’s podcast.

Jun 16, 202314:46
Institutional investors turn to climate
Jun 08, 202317:28
The ownership beat, ESG on the chopping block, and new tools for system-level investing

The ownership beat, ESG on the chopping block, and new tools for system-level investing

David Bank joins host Monique Aiken to talk about the ownership economy, ESG backlash and system-level investing. Plus the headlines.

Jun 02, 202309:28
Capricorn Investment Group makes the outsourcing case to foundations and families seeking impact alpha

Capricorn Investment Group makes the outsourcing case to foundations and families seeking impact alpha

“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 well.”

May 29, 202320:32
Why employee ownership is the next big thing in impact, and America, with Jack Moriarty

Why employee ownership is the next big thing in impact, and America, with Jack Moriarty

Jack 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.

May 26, 202321:58
Funding African tech entrepreneurs with Eunice Ajim

Funding African tech entrepreneurs with Eunice Ajim

Eunice 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/


May 19, 202311:08
The long and winding road to responsible private equity with Tensie Whelan

The long and winding road to responsible private equity with Tensie Whelan

Host 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/

May 11, 202319:55
Finding alpha in racial justice and the challenges women face raising a first fund with Himalaya Rao

Finding alpha in racial justice and the challenges women face raising a first fund with Himalaya Rao

The 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/

May 05, 202313:60
Neighborhood Economics with Kevin Jones

Neighborhood Economics with Kevin Jones

As 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.

Apr 28, 202319:12
Jacob Haar: Helping emerging market lenders 'leapfrog' the U.S.

Jacob Haar: Helping emerging market lenders 'leapfrog' the U.S.

The 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.

Apr 24, 202322:44
U.S. Financial regulations and over 40 years of Earth Days with Dianne Dillon-Ridgley

U.S. Financial regulations and over 40 years of Earth Days with Dianne Dillon-Ridgley

For 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.

Apr 21, 202321:11
Going beyond 'net-zero' in the public markets with Ariane Mahler
Apr 14, 202318:12
Training the next generation of impact investors with Adwoa Asare

Training the next generation of impact investors with Adwoa Asare

The Turner Miint’s Adwoa Asare joins co-hosts Monique Aiken and Brian Walsh to talk about training the next generation of impact investors – and the winners of this year’s competition. Plus the headlines.

Apr 07, 202320:38
In spite of itself, Texas takes on mantle of climate leader

In spite of itself, Texas takes on mantle of climate leader

From Austin, ImpactAlpha’s Dennis Price joins host Brian Walsh to discuss Texas’s surprising role as the U.S.’s leader in clean energy – and how the oil-pumping state might still wrest defeat from the jaws of victory. Plus, the headlines.


Check up on this week's Agents of Impact Call at impactalpha.com/calls

Mar 31, 202309:10
How bank failures and interest rate hikes have changed the dynamics of impact investing.

How bank failures and interest rate hikes have changed the dynamics of impact investing.

Host Monique Aiken has the headlines and Atlas Impact Partners’ Robert Brown and ImpactAlpha contributing editor Imogen Rose-Smith join David Bank to parse how bank failures and interest rate hikes have changed the dynamics of impact investing – perhaps forever. “The current iteration of impact investors and advocates – those seeking to redirect large pools of capital – has thrived in the context of low rates, steady economic growth, stable geopolitical environment and favorable regulatory environment,” Brown says. “Throw all that out the window.”

Mar 24, 202324:57
Ben McAdams: Marrying public real estate and private capital

Ben McAdams: Marrying public real estate and private capital

As mayor of Salt Lake County a decade ago, Ben McAdams was frustrated that there wasn’t $500,000 in a $1.3 billion annual budget for a promising early childhood education program (instead he helped craft one of the country’s first social impact bonds). But an effort he led to map the value of the city’s underutilized real estate yielded an impressive number: at least $15 billion, and up to $45 billion if properties are developed thoughtfully. “I found out there is actually money under our mattress,” McAdams tells David Bank on this week’s Impact Briefing podcast. “It's real estate that is just forgotten.”

Mar 17, 202326:03
Scaling purpose built impact with Priya Parrish

Scaling purpose built impact with Priya Parrish

Impact Engine’s Priya Parrish joins David Bank to explain why purpose built investment firms end up with better impact outcomes than purpose driven firms. Plus, host Brian Walsh has the headlines.

Mar 10, 202316:58
Sana Kapadia on the alpha opportunity for investors who are gender smart
Mar 03, 202311:58
[Briefing] University of California’s rescue of Blackstone’s REIT

[Briefing] University of California’s rescue of Blackstone’s REIT

The roundtable – that’s Brian Walsh, Imogen Rose-Smith and David Bank – is back together to discuss private equity and, specifically, that $4.5 billion investment made by the investment office of the University of California’s Board of Regents into the Blackstone Real Estate Investment Trust. Plus, the headlines.


Don't forget to email us (podcast@impactalpha.com) with your feedback, and check out the replay of The Call: impactalpha.com/calls

Feb 24, 202323:20
[Briefing] How Project Equity is turning employees into owners by surfing the 'silver tsunami'

[Briefing] How Project Equity is turning employees into owners by surfing the 'silver tsunami'

Project Equity’s Alison Lingane talks with ImpactAlpha’s David Bank about the growing popularity of employee ownership as a strategy for generating wealth and democratizing the economy.  And, host Monique Aiken has the headlines.

Feb 17, 202319:46
[Briefing] Finding the opportunities for impact investors in Biden's SOTU

[Briefing] Finding the opportunities for impact investors in Biden's SOTU

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

Feb 10, 202319:32
[Briefing] Finding the opportunities in (and the problems with) muni bonds

[Briefing] Finding the opportunities in (and the problems with) muni bonds

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.

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Feb 03, 202313:09
[Briefing] Why development finance institutions are being pressed to ‘publish what you fund’
Jan 27, 202315:24
[Briefing] Backing new decision-makers for the new majority with Demetric Duckett of Living Cities

[Briefing] Backing new decision-makers for the new majority with Demetric Duckett of Living Cities

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.


Jan 20, 202325:17
[Briefing] How the Milken Institute is connecting disadvantaged communities with critical project development financing

[Briefing] How the Milken Institute is connecting disadvantaged communities with critical project development financing

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.

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Jan 13, 202321:21