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Your weekly roundup of the news and features from this week in ImpactAlpha
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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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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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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.”
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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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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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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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National green bank funding, basket bonds, and Brazil's burgeoning impact ecosystem
Brian Walsh and David Bank discuss the players likely to receive massive funding from the EPA to create a national green bank, how people are investing in Brazil’s impact economy, and how a $75 million ‘basket bond’ is catalyzing climate lending to small businesses in emerging markets.
Read more:
Green bank: https://impactalpha.com/epas-new-partners-plot-a-27-billion-path-to-a-us-green-bank/
Basket bonds: https://impactalpha.com/how-a-75-million-basket-bond-is-catalyzing-climate-lending-to-small-businesses-in-emerging-markets/
Brazilian impact ecosystem: https://impactalpha.com/the-path-to-growth-in-brazil-runs-through-the-impact-economy-videos
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