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. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message ..read more

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 ..read more

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 Sign up for our free newsletters: https://impactalpha.com/browse/features/the-brief/impactalpha-open/ https://impactalpha.com/latam-newsletter-email/ Subscribe to ImpactAlpha today: https://impactalpha.com/subscribe/ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/mess ..read more

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 ..read more

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-g ..read more

Sherrell Dorsey speaks with Bright Ventures’ Lenore Champagne Beirne. about how she’s working to build an inclusive economy through capital, community, and coaching. Champagne Beirne founded Bright Ventures as a strategic advisory and executive coaching service prior to expanding to include an early-stage fund. For more: https://impactalpha.com/plugged-in-lenore-champagne-beirne-bright-ventures/ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message ..read more

David Bank joins Brian Walsh to discuss some of the top stories from ImpactAlpha this week. Stories mentioned on the podcast: Texas boots Blackrock: https://impactalpha.com/texas-boots-blackrock-saddling-texans-with-the-costs-of-its-campaign-against-esg/ Clean cooking: https://impactalpha.com/leveraging-the-carbon-markets-for-clean-cooking-climate-justice-and-social-impact/ Vanguard gets punked: https://impactalpha.com/elaborate-spoof-takes-aim-at-vanguards-retreat-from-climate-commitments/⁠ Agents of Impact Call 60: https://impactalpha.com/calls/ --- Send in a voice message: h ..read more

Amy Cortese speaks with both Marilyn Waite of the Climate Finance Fund and Dawn Lippert of Elemental Excelerator about their experiences this week in the green and blue zones of COP28. Plus, Monique Aiken has the headlines.   --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message ..read more

ImpactAlpha’s Amy Cortese speaks with Full Cycle’s Stephan Nicoleau at the start of COP 28 to hear what he’s expecting - and hoping for - at the global climate summit in Dubai. Plus, host Brian Walsh has the headlines. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message ..read more

Friends of ImpactAlpha Eric Horvath and Lucas Turner-Owens share an excerpt from their new podcast Impact(ed). They speak with Tara Mei Smith (Office of NYC Comptroller) and Marcela Pinilla (Zevin Asset Management) about creating change from the inside at pension funds, and their journey as women of color investment professionals. Plus, host Monique Aiken has the headlines. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message ..read more