This Week in Impact Impact Alpha

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 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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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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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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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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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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