Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank. Up this week: Why LP might stand for Leadership Potential, in addition to limited partner, as asset allocators contend with an increasingly complex world; how new approaches to the ownership economy are helping to both increase and share the pie; and, amid a pullback in official aid, how African asset owners and fund managers are creating their own pathways to growth.

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• “⁠In volatile times, some impact investors try to show LP means ‘leadership potential⁠,’” by Amy Cortese and David Bank
• “⁠Impact LPs and GPs search for solutions in a tough year to raise and deploy capital⁠,” by Amy Cortese and Erik Stein
• “⁠Beyond affordability to ownership, wealth-building and economic security⁠,” by David Bank
• "⁠African asset owners and fund managers chart local ‘pathways to growth’⁠," by Lucy Ngige and Jessica Pothering

Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank. Up this week: How the Sierra Club Foundation is leaning into system-level investing with its $200 million endowment; the 1803 Fund’s ambitious plans to restore historically Black neighborhoods in Portland; and, how financial advisors can meet clients’ demand for impact investing opportunities, and other takeaways from this week’s Agents of Impact Call.

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• “⁠Sierra Club Foundation is dumping managers, innovating indexes and embracing ‘system-level’ investing⁠,” by David Bank and Roodgally Senatus.
• “⁠In Portland, the 1803 Fund is rebuilding Black neighborhoods, zip code by zip code⁠,” by Roodgally Senatus.
• Agents of Impact Call 75 ⁠recap⁠ and ⁠replay⁠.

Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank. Up this week: The ambitious strategy behind New Mexico’s $67 billion sovereign wealth fund; How the residential solar industry plans to stay competitive by eliminating dealer fees; And, how cities are building durable capital stacks for climate action, as federal support evaporates.

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• “⁠How New Mexico’s $67 billion fund is using oil and gas revenues to build a clean energy economy⁠,” by David Bank.
• “⁠With tax credits expiring, cutting ‘dealer fees’ could keep solar affordable⁠,” by David Bank.

• “⁠PosiGen bankruptcy highlights solar industry woes — and puts Brookfield in the hot seat⁠,” by Amy Cortese.

• “⁠Building durable financing for the energy transition and climate action in local communities⁠,” by HIP Investors’ Nick Gower.

Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank. Up this week: Beyond investments and guarantees, how Encourage Capital assembled the necessary pieces to unlock capital flows for the global clean energy transition; The missing markets for local builders and buyers of health, wealth, and vibrant communities (09:30); And, how European pension funds learn to stop worrying and love the companies making bombs (12:35).

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“A case study in unlocking lending to small businesses to accelerate solar in India,” by C3's Harvy Koh

“Making missing markets for local builders (and buyers) of health, wealth and vibrant communities,” by David Bank and Roodgally Senatus

“European pension funds said ‘no’ to defense investments. Then came Ukraine… and Trump,” by Danielle Rossingh

Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank. Up this week: Instead of 50 year mortgages, actual solutions to make homeownership affordable; The case of the missing $54 billion in climate finance; And, highlights from this week’s call, on plugging the financing gap for growth businesses in Africa.

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• “⁠From affordable home ownership to ‘fair-share appreciation’ and generational wealth⁠,” by David Bank and Roodgally Senatus.
• “⁠The case of the missing $54 billion in development banks' climate financing⁠," by Jessica Pothering.
• All of our call roundups: ⁠https://impactalpha.com/calls/⁠

Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank. Up this week: In the lead up to the COP30 climate summit, the state of climate blended finance is a mixed bag; the private credit jitters that are putting even impact investors on edge (10:55); and, a preview of next week's Agents of Impact call on mobilizing growth funds for growth firms in Africa and Asia (16:10).

Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with CEO Dennis Price. Up this week: What was top of mind among innovators and investors at SOCAP; How community lenders are building rare bipartisan support to salvage gains for low income communities (09:35); And, a dual lens for due diligence and impact: investing with AI vs. investing in AI (15:55).

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• “⁠Community lenders muster bipartisan support to salvage gains for low-income communities⁠,” by Amy Cortese with Roodgally Senatus.

  “⁠Investing with AI, investing in AI: A dual lens for due diligence and impact⁠,” by Paul Fehlinger.

  
  

Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank. Up this week: The surprising resurgence of impact-first investing; How lawyers, yes lawyers, are working to simplify impact transactions: And, in Newark, new ideas surface for how to build a nation of owners.

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• ⁠Impact-first call recap⁠
• “⁠Building a nation of owners with new financial products and fresh ideas⁠,” by David Bank
• “⁠Lawyers, yes lawyers, are trying to simplify impact transactions⁠,” by Erik Stein

Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank and reporter Lucy Ngige. Up this week: Trimtab's unapologetic impact-first pitch to wealthy families: outperformance on impact rather than financials; How the new Sendero Verde affordable housing development is bringing to life a vision for a community of opportunity in East Harlem (10:30); And, a vibe check from this year's GIIN Impact Forum (14:55).

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Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank. Up this week: Ambitious plans for the US International Development Finance Corp., or DFC, are on hold pending congressional authorization; how debt and equity “growth funds” in Africa are tapping homegrown pension funds and family offices (11:20); and why youth  co-creators are the key to effectiveness in the new crop of AI-driven approaches to youth mental health challenges (18:05).

Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editors David Bank and Amy Cortese. Up this week: At Neighborhood Economics in Chicago, entrepreneurship through acquisition and other promising ideas are filling out the playbook for shared prosperity; How ExxonMobil's new voting program for retail investors aims to change the balance of power in corporate governance. And, how reinsurer GreenieRE is bringing the concept of surety bonds to help scale climate tech investments.

• “⁠Investors who refuse to take a loyalty oath to ExxonMobil should decline to join its ‘retail voting program,’⁠” by As You Sow’s Andrew Behar
• “⁠GreenieRe sees ‘impact insurance’ surety bonds as the key to scaling climate tech⁠,” by Amy Cortese

Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with Amy Cortese and Dennis Price. Up this week: How investors at Climate Week NYC shook off the Trump doldrums (. And how, from Singapore to London, even fund managers that shun the label are driving alpha with impact (12:45).

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“⁠At Climate Week NYC, investors look to shake off the doldrums and start deploying capital again⁠,” by Amy Cortese.

Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank. Up this week: Foundation leaders “unite in advance” of expected attacks in the supercharged political environment; how the carbon credit platform Rubicon Carbon is using diversification and ratings to strengthen the market for voluntary carbon credits (07:20); and the bumpy road to the sustainable future as charted by Generation Investment Management’s annual Sustainability Trends Report (15:05). Bonus: a preview of next week’s Agents of Impact interview with Carbon Tracker’s Mark Companele.

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• “⁠⁠Foundation leaders ‘unite in advance’ of expected attacks on spending and speaking⁠⁠,” by David Bank.

  “⁠Rubicon’s ‘all of the above’ plan to diversify and rate the market for carbon credits⁠,” by Erik Stein.

  “⁠Ten slides that chart the bumpy road to the sustainable future⁠,” by Amy Cortese.

Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank. Up this week: The All Aboard Coalition's effort to mobilize $300 million for venture capital co-investments in first of a kind climate-tech projects; the role of fashion brands in supporting regenerative cotton in Peru (06:55); and why decentralized physical infrastructure networks, or DePINs, are a promising model for sustainable community services (11:00).

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Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank. Up this week: ​​ How green lenders are scrambling to salvage investable deals as a federal appeals court maintains a Trump freeze on billions of dollars from the greenhouse gas reduction fund. Employee ownership takes a big leap forward as a company with 100,000 employees sells a 30% equity stake to an employee ownership trust (07:15). And, a look at fusion nuclear energy, a sector receiving the attention and billions of dollars of investments from family offices among other very patient investors (14:15).

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• “⁠⁠In-home caregivers get a stake in Consumer Direct Care Network as bigger companies discover employee ownership trusts⁠⁠,” by Roodgally Senatus

• “⁠Green lenders scramble to salvage deals as appeals court OKs freeze on accounts⁠,” by David Bank and Amy Cortese

• “⁠As fusion energy advances, so does its capital stack⁠,” by Amy Cortese.

Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editors and journalists from our team. Up this week: Jessica Pothering discusses a new financing tool from Roots of Impact, Simple Agreement for Future Impact. Eric Stein joins from Medellín to talk about impact investing trends he's been seeing during recent travels across Latin America (8:30). And, Jessica shares how a medical oxygen company in East Africa managed to secure financing after the DFC reneged (16:40).

• • "⁠Forget SAFEs. Impact investors are incentivizing growth and impact with SAFIs⁠," by Jessica Pothering and Erik Stein.
  • “⁠Peruvian impact investors are mobilizing capital for inclusive growth in the Amazon⁠,” by Erik Stein
  • "⁠Kenya's Hewatele lands $10.5 million to produce medical oxygen locally⁠, " by Lucy Ngige

Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with ImpactAlpha editors and journalists. Up this week: Amy Cortese discusses the “billionaire buyers club” of wealthy donors buying up tons of carbon just to lock it away. Roodgally Senatus dishes on the big changes underway at Turner MIINT (7:45). And, dealflow editor Jessica Pothering runs down the impact deals and fundraises catching her eye this week (12:38).

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• “Billionaire Buyers Club: Wealthy donors are buying tons of carbon just to lock it away,” by Amy Cortese
• “Impact Capital Managers takes the helm of Turner MIINT to advance the next generation of impact investors,” by Roodgally Senatus.
• "Grupo Gaia is bringing a Big Ag financing tool to Brazil’s smallholder farmers," by Gilberto Lima.

Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank. Up this week: Can open deal data and standardized reporting might help fix blended finance? How the Singapore-based Tsao family office deploys its capital towards impact (10:00). And, goodbye accelerators, hello venture studios – how emerging market investors are helping startups survive the valley of death in reaching impact at scale (15:07).

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• “⁠Can AI collapse transaction costs and make high-impact investments viable at scale?⁠” by Human Planet’s Florian Kemmerich.
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• “⁠Fix for blended finance: Open deal data and standardized reporting⁠,” by Erik Stein
• “⁠From Singapore, Tsao Family Office expands the LP pool for impact strategies in Africa⁠,” by Jessica Pothering
• "⁠These DIY investors are notching impact and exits with venture studios to build startups from scratch⁠," by Lucy Ngige.

Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank. Up this week: How air capture aims to capture the market for carbon my cost effectively removing it from the air. How Boldline Capital seeks to meet the short term liquidity of impact and emerging fund managers (10:34). And, who actually lands a job in impact investing? Harvard Business School’s Project on Impact Investments crunches the numbers (17:55).

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Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor Amy Cortese and senior reporter Lucy Ngige. Up this week: How nearly $3 billion in Biden era climate financing, thought to be frozen in legal limbo, made it out to some private equity giants. Why biochar is having a moment (09:00). And, how global superstar Rihanna is investing in women-led ventures in Africa via her Nairobi-based investment fund Gather Ventures (17:40).

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• • “⁠Coalition for Green Capital places $2.65 billion in green bank funds with Apollo, Brookfield and Energy Capital Partners⁠,” by Amy Cortese and David Bank
  • “⁠Beyond storing carbon, biochar’s co-benefits give it early customers and revenues⁠,” by Lucy Ngige
  • “⁠With Gather Ventures, Rihanna expands her toolkit for investing in women-led ventures in Africa⁠,” by Lucy Ngige