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Your weekly roundup of the news and features from this week in ImpactAlpha
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Impact funds steer capital towards debt, impact fails in Africa, and Sam Polk of Everytable
Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank.
Congressional hearings on ESG: https://impactalpha.com/political-risk-antitrust-hearing-escalates-republican-attacks-on-climate-action/
Shareholder votes at Tesla: https://impactalpha.com/elon-musks-pay-grab-is-a-skirmish-in-the-broader-battle-of-the-billionaires/
Women’s growing economic power in Latin America: https://impactalpha.com/in-latin-america-investors-see-economic-opportunities-through-a-gender-lens/
How Ava Duvernay flipped the script on how Hollywood funds films: https://impactalpha.com/ava-duvernay-impact-filmmaking
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This episode featured music by Isaac Silk and by Yurii Semchyshyn.
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Impact funds steer capital towards debt, impact fails in Africa, and Sam Polk of Everytable
Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with senior editor Jessica Pothering. Up this week:
This month’s list of impact funds actively raising capital: https://impactalpha.com/impact-fund-managers-steer-private-credit-to-places-equity-fears-to-tread/
Liist submissions: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScfm5qIOqogtbI3xRx4-0Xk2kh7VY_5x8wJKuLh6ZlXz2sSmw/viewform
How Africa’s funding drought has claimed several once-high flying startups.
How Sam Polk and Everytable are providing healthy fast food to California’s food deserts and uplifting communities.
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This episode featured music by Isaac Silk, Yurii Semchyshyn, Oleksii Holubiev, and Vlad Krotov
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Climate on the ballot in Mexico, India and beyond; impact accounting standards; funding climate's missing middle
This Week in Impact. Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank. Up this week:
Climate on the ballot: https://impactalpha.com/mexico-chooses-a-new-president-amid-extreme-heat-and-little-urgency-on-climate-action/
Impact accounting standards: https://impactalpha.com/a-decade-in-the-making-impact-accounting-standards-advance-amid-investor-demand/
Bridging a ‘missing middle’ for commercial climate solutions: https://impactalpha.com/flexible-financing-to-bridge-a-missing-middle-for-commercial-climate-solutions/
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This episode featured music by Isaac Silk and by Yurii Semchyshyn.
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New impact products, investing in 'entrepreneurial households in industrious communities,' and the rise of workers
Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank. Up this week
New impact products: https://impactalpha.com/impact-products-aim-to-shift-portfolio-allocations-in-bonds-private-credit-and-cash/
Entrepreneurial households in industrious communities: https://impactalpha.com/calls/
The rise of worker empowerment: https://impactalpha.com/how-reducing-income-inequality-can-strengthen-the-global-economy-and-portfolio-performance/
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This episode featured music by Isaac Silk and by Yurii Semchyshyn.
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David's dispatch from MIE and Milken, and a call for sustainable mining
This Week in Impact. Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank. Up this week: David dives into the divergent differing vibes at Mission Investors Exchange and the Milken Institute Global Conference. Plus a call for efforts to sustainably harvest the metals needed for the energy transition.
Tonya Allen Q+A: https://impactalpha.com/mcknights-tonya-allen-philanthropy-has-right-and-responsibility-to-counter-dei-attacks/
Laura Callanan: https://impactalpha.com/capital-the-creative-economy-and-a-quarter-century-of-lessons-learned-in-impact-investing/
Sustainable Mining: https://impactalpha.com/esg-will-be-key-to-supplying-green-metals-needed-for-the-energy-transition/
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The state of blended finance, restoring forests and carbon market credibility, and investing endowments for DEI
Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank. Up this week:
The state of blended finance: https://impactalpha.com/blended-finance-rebounds-in-2023-with-focus-on-climate-and-bigger-deals/
How Big Tech can restore both forests – and credibility - in voluntary carbon markets: https://impactalpha.com/how-big-tech-can-restore-forests-and-credibility-in-voluntary-carbon-markets/
Why The California Wellness Foundation is putting a diversity, equity and inclusion lens on 100% of its $1 billion endowment: https://impactalpha.com/investment-manager-diversity-matters-when-investing-for-health-equity/
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