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Your weekly roundup of the news and features from this week in ImpactAlpha

    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

    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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    • 24 min
    Climate on the ballot in Mexico, India and beyond; impact accounting standards; funding climate's missing middle

    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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    • 22 min
    New impact products, investing in 'entrepreneurial households in industrious communities,' and the rise of workers

    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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    • 20 min
    David's dispatch from MIE and Milken, and a call for sustainable mining

    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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    This episode featured music by Isaac Silk and by ⁠⁠Yurii Semchyshyn⁠⁠.


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    • 19 min
    The state of blended finance, restoring forests and carbon market credibility, and investing endowments for DEI

    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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    • 23 min
    Family offices target climate transition, foundations invest in AI for good, and a voluntary carbon credit brou-ha-ha

    Family offices target climate transition, foundations invest in AI for good, and a voluntary carbon credit brou-ha-ha

    Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank. Up this week:

    Family offices have the opportunity to invest in the climate transition:


    ⁠https://impactalpha.com/the-climate-transition-and-investment-opportunities-for-family-offices/⁠

    Three leading foundations make for-profit investments in an OpenAI competitor:


    ⁠https://impactalpha.com/with-stakes-in-anthropic-impact-investors-seek-a-seat-at-the-ai-table/⁠

    The brou-ha-ha over whether voluntary carbon credits should count towards a company’s climate targets:


    ⁠https://impactalpha.com/with-stakes-in-anthropic-impact-investors-seek-a-seat-at-the-ai-table/⁠



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