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Franchising indoor farms to build a billion dollars in Black wealth
Loren Taylor and Zaru Systems want to build a billion dollars in Black wealth in the next eight years by franchising sustainable turnkey businesses. First up, modular vertical farms. Hear his conversation with David Bank on this week's Agents of Impact podcast.
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Good economic news, the legacy of Participant Media, and a dispatch from the World Bank
Brian Walsh and ImpactAlpha editor David Bank take up the good news on the good economy, Participant Media’s lasting legacy and the signs of change at the World Bank. Plus: an exclusive early listen to the electrifying single, “I’m Your Heat Pump.”
To learn more about heat pumps and home electrification, visit The Switch is On and Rewiring America websites. Sign up for The Switch is On monthly newsletter and receive an email featuring the “(I’m Your) Heat Pump” music video.
Rob's column:
https://impactalpha.com/good-economy-actually-is-good-news-as-impact-investors-adjust-to-new-realities/
Participant Media
https://impactalpha.com/shutdown-of-participant-media-challenges-other-investors-to-drive-impact-through-film/
World Bank:
https://impactalpha.com/spring-meetings-yield-green-shoots-of-development-finance-reform-at-the-world-bank/
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Building equitable food systems with reparative capital and community
On this week’s Agents of Impact Podcast, Sherrell Dorsey chats with Olivia Watkins of Black Farmer Fund. The fund aims to meet the modern needs of Black farmers and food entrepreneurs with affordable capital and technical assistance.
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Reconnecting communities, impact investing in Puerto Rico, and how business owners are exiting to employees
Brian and David explore the federal funds that are catalyzing capital to reconnect communities from the legacy of racial segregation, the huge impact investing opportunity in Puerto Rico, and the mechanisms that investors and business owners are using to exit to employees.
Links to this week's stories:
Reconnecting communities - https://impactalpha.com/with-bridges-buses-and-bike-lanes-reconnecting-communities-rebuilds-civic-muscles-along-with-neighborhoods/
Impact in PR - https://impactalpha.com/the-impact-investing-opportunity-in-puerto-ricos-economic-comeback/
Employee ownership exits - https://impactalpha.com/with-elbos-and-eots-more-business-owners-are-exiting-to-employee-ownership/
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This episode featured music by Isaac Silk and by Yurii Semchyshyn.
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Alison Taylor: The broken chain from transparency to accountability to corporate action
NYU Professor Alison Taylor joins David Bank to discuss the evolution of the role of business in society, and how regulation and disclosure affect impact.
Alison's book: https://www.stern.nyu.edu/experience-stern/faculty-research/higher-ground-how-business-can-do-right-thing-turbulent-world
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EPA (finally) announces who will distribute $20 billion fund, lessons from blended finance, and universal owners vote their proxy
Brian and David continue to unpack the EPA’s blockbuster $20 billion in government grants to mobilize commercial investment in climate solutions, learn lessons from dozens of blended finance transactions, and discuss how shareholders are voting to have companies mitigate economy-wide risks.
Links to this week's stories:
https://impactalpha.com/investors-ready-products-to-amplify-us-green-bank-funding/
https://impactalpha.com/blending-billions-lessons-from-more-than-three-dozen-big-blended-finance-transactions/
https://impactalpha.com/with-systems-first-proposals-shareholders-seek-to-mitigate-economy-wide-risks/
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