This Week in Impact

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

Episode Date
Building African ecosystems for impact investing + LPs bridging the "second-wave" capital gap
May 22, 2026
Los Angeles lowers the cost and complexity of capital for affordable housing + Big DAF platforms on notice
May 15, 2026
Fear and frenzy at Milken’s global conference + Strange bedfellows for a climate investment
May 08, 2026
The latest in Africa's carbon markets + The vibe at Mission Investors Exchange
May 01, 2026
Local capital for local fund managers and enterprises in Africa + Will the real ownership economy please stand up?
Apr 24, 2026
Shareholders fight for the right to proxy vote + Responsible look to assert human agency over the future of AI
Apr 17, 2026
The unfortunate growth market of investing in refugees + building portfolios that value aging
Mar 13, 2026
Anthropic’s showdown with the Pentagon + How much value should private equity buyout funds share with workers
Mar 06, 2026
States of the union take the lead + Mast Reforestation's new biomass burial carbon credit strategy
Feb 27, 2026
Shaping the AI algorithm + innovative finance for local infrastructure projects
Feb 20, 2026
How Africa’s mining industry is leveraging demand for critical minerals + Next steps for place based investing
Feb 13, 2026
Patient capital drives India's affordable home lending market + Nippon's foray into system-level investing
Feb 06, 2026
Going 'beyond the check' to help GPs survive the fundraising drought + US retail investors are backing emerging markets solar
Jan 30, 2026
The real returns of impact first managers + permanent capital for affordable housing
Jan 23, 2026
Novel strategies in an impact fundraising drought, staking workers to a share in the AI economy
Jan 16, 2026
Latin American impact investors start to map a way forward + Working capital for emerging managers
Jan 09, 2026
Why LP stands for leadership potential + building the playbook for shared prosperity
Dec 19, 2025
Sierra Club Foundation's system-level strategy + 1803 Fund backs ownership opportunities in Portland
Dec 12, 2025
Transforming oil revenues into renewable energy investments in New Mexico + cities and solar providers respond to a rollback of federal support
Dec 05, 2025
Unlocking Indian solar power with catalytic capital + pensions eye responsible defense investments
Nov 21, 2025
Alternatives to Trump's 50 year mortgage + $54 billion in DFI climate financing goes missing
Nov 14, 2025
The state of climate blended finance + Private credit jitters put impact investors on edge
Nov 07, 2025
Allocators, investors and entrepreneurs gather at SOCAP + A dual lens for AI diligence and impact
Oct 31, 2025
A resurgence of impact-first investing + How impact lawyers are working to simplify transactions
Oct 24, 2025
Trimtab goes all in on impact first + An affordable 'community of opportunity' in East Harlem
Oct 16, 2025
Big plans for the US International Development Finance Corp. + Debt and equity “growth funds” in Africa
Oct 10, 2025
Building shared prosperity with entrepreneurship through acquisition + GreenieRE's surety bonds for climate tech
Oct 03, 2025
A vibe check at NY Climate Week, and how impact is driving alpha -- with or without the label
Sep 26, 2025
Arguing for the freedom to give, speak and invest. Plus, looking ahead to Climate Week NYC
Sep 19, 2025
Mobilizing Millions for Climate Tech and Sustainable Fashion
Sep 12, 2025
Courts uphold GGRF freeze + the largest employee ownership deal yet
Sep 05, 2025
Roots of Impact introduces Simple Agreements for Future Impact + Impact opportunities in Peru
Aug 29, 2025
Wealthy donors are buying tons of carbon just to lock it away
Aug 22, 2025
How to fix blended finance + Tsao family office expands impact strategy to Africa
Aug 15, 2025
Capturing the market for carbon capture + Who gets jobs in impact?
Aug 08, 2025
How $3 billion in GGRF funds escaped legal limbo + why biochar is having a moment
Jul 18, 2025
The urgent need for climate adaptation, plus a growing role for community development financial institutions in Indian country
Jul 11, 2025
Doing more with fewer development dollars, plus a tribute to Andrew Kassoy
Jul 04, 2025
Catalytic climate capital in the Amazonian bio-economy
Jun 27, 2025
Lessons from Apollo and Mastercard Foundation + The Reconstruction Won't Be Televised
Jun 20, 2025
Mobilzing private capital for green lending + European investors still see materiality as material
Jun 13, 2025
Dennis Price steps into new role as CEO of ImpactAlpha
Jun 06, 2025
Risk misperceptions in climate and emerging markets
May 30, 2025
Advice for the Gates Foundation spend-down + The state of blended finance
May 23, 2025
Remedies for Impact’s original sins + Carbon removal's moment in the... dirt
May 16, 2025
The buzz at Milken + Which impact archetype are you?
May 09, 2025
Pages from the playbook for shared prosperity + a report card for pay-as-you-go solar
May 02, 2025
Climate tech is weathering political turbulence.
Apr 25, 2025
A call to action in response to US political risk
Apr 18, 2025
A tarrifying week for investors + what's next for global AID
Apr 11, 2025
Insurance incentives for wildfire prevention + smarter subsidies for agribusiness
Apr 04, 2025
Proxy battles for universal owners & new models for employee ownership
Mar 28, 2025
Bipartisan support for CDFIs under Trump, and Canada's first Employee Ownership Trusts
Mar 21, 2025
A new era for climate leadership (in Canada, at least)
Mar 14, 2025
Local institutional capital for small and medium sized businesses in Africa
Mar 07, 2025
Seeing East African agri-food tech in action, plus the EU walks back sustainability disclosure
Feb 28, 2025
Navigating the new era for emerging markets, climate and small business investing
Feb 21, 2025
Building wealth through community investment trusts
Feb 14, 2025
DFC faces Trump funding freeze fallout
Feb 07, 2025
Mission driven funders react to feds funding freeze + responsible AI strategies.
Jan 31, 2025
Trump's torrent of executive orders + OZ's get another look
Jan 24, 2025
Insurance risk after the LA fires + de-extinction tech gets a raise
Jan 17, 2025
Glimmers of hope for impact fundraising
Jan 10, 2025
Looking ahead to 2025
Dec 20, 2024
Policy-enhanced impact investing + community ownership models
Dec 13, 2024
How much is enough in employee ownership?
Dec 06, 2024
Agents of Impact articulate new narratives for a post-election reality
Nov 22, 2024
The search is on for global climate leadership + hospitals investing in social determinants of health
Nov 14, 2024
Impact investors take stock after the US election
Nov 07, 2024
The vibe at this year's SOCAP + family offices lean towards climate
Oct 31, 2024
1.5 trillion dollars of impact capital, from commercial to catalytic
Oct 24, 2024
Strategies for housing affordability and ownership
Oct 17, 2024
Another petrostate COP + new innovative financial models in emerging markets and the US
Oct 10, 2024
Reimagining home insurance in the face of climate disasters + funding emerging managers
Oct 03, 2024
Takeaways from Climate Week NYC
Sep 26, 2024
Commercial capital is crowding into blended funds + the ownership economy arrives
Sep 20, 2024
A near climate-free debate + sustainable fashion week
Sep 12, 2024
Policy planks for the ownership economy + African capital for African infrastructure
Sep 06, 2024
Let the water (investment) flow, climate finance updates, and family office ImpInv in LatAm
Aug 29, 2024
Impact at the DNC, pro-ESG states outperform, and a solar boost in India
Aug 22, 2024
Facing the new legal landscape for impact, how to measure & manage impact, and HBO takes on ESG
Aug 15, 2024
VC's for Kamala, blended finance in Africa, and Yunus returns
Aug 09, 2024
VC's for Kamala, blended finance in Africa, and Yunus returns
Aug 08, 2024
Capitol Gains Ep2: Climate, insurance and risk management with Carolyn Kousky
Aug 01, 2024
A political proxy battle⁠ for the soul of tech, youth-lens investing in Africa, and recycling is having a moment
Jul 25, 2024
New strategies for refugee-lens investing, deadlines approach for the GGRF, and a preview of Capitol Gains
Jul 18, 2024
Wait, there's good economic news? Plus, TPG's AI enabled, smart city play.
Jul 11, 2024
The Supreme Court's impact, US political risk, and driving community homeownership without displacement
Jul 04, 2024
How New Ventures is scaling up by going deep, Obran's plan to build a worker coop conglomerate, and why Surdna is doubling down on their impact strategy
Jun 27, 2024
Roundtable: The backlash to the ESG backlash, who is colluding with whom?
Jun 20, 2024
Impact funds steer capital towards debt, impact fails in Africa, and Sam Polk of Everytable
Jun 13, 2024
Impact funds steer capital towards debt, impact fails in Africa, and Sam Polk of Everytable
Jun 06, 2024
Climate on the ballot in Mexico, India and beyond; impact accounting standards; funding climate's missing middle
May 30, 2024
New impact products, investing in 'entrepreneurial households in industrious communities,' and the rise of workers
May 24, 2024
David's dispatch from MIE and Milken, and a call for sustainable mining
May 09, 2024
The state of blended finance, restoring forests and carbon market credibility, and investing endowments for DEI
May 02, 2024
Family offices target climate transition, foundations invest in AI for good, and a voluntary carbon credit brou-ha-ha
Apr 25, 2024
Good economic news, the legacy of Participant Media, and a dispatch from the World Bank
Apr 19, 2024
Reconnecting communities, impact investing in Puerto Rico, and how business owners are exiting to employees
Apr 11, 2024
EPA (finally) announces who will distribute $20 billion fund, lessons from blended finance, and universal owners vote their proxy
Apr 04, 2024
National green bank funding, basket bonds, and Brazil's burgeoning impact ecosystem
Mar 28, 2024
How Texas’s anti ESG campaign is costing it money, cookstoves and carbon markets, and Vanguard gets punked
Mar 21, 2024
Finding hidden impact and overlooked risks in municipal bonds
Dec 15, 2023
A tale of two COPs with Marilyn Waite and Dawn Lippert
Dec 08, 2023
All eyes on Dubai as COP 28 begins with Stephan Nicoleau
Dec 01, 2023
Steering pension funds toward impact with Tara Mei Smith and Marcela Pinilla
Nov 17, 2023
Lessons from the Wilmington coup of 1898 with Cedric Harrison
Nov 10, 2023
Maria Hollan of Timke Ventures shares her journey to impact investing
Nov 03, 2023
What the mainstreaming of impact investing means for smaller impact fund managers
Oct 26, 2023
Repurposing churches with Graham Singh, and a big ImpactAlpha announcement
Oct 20, 2023
There's a new impact lens in town
Oct 13, 2023
How Veris is rethinking due diligence to advance gender and racial justice
Oct 06, 2023
Finding the 'worker-ownership edge'
Sep 29, 2023
What is 'wealth supremacy,' how does it drive crises, and what can be done about it?
Sep 22, 2023
Looking ahead to Climate Week NYC
Sep 15, 2023
Revamped SOCAP seeks radical ideas and scaled solutions
Sep 08, 2023
Democratizing gender lens investing in Latin America
Sep 01, 2023
Catalyzing capital to Indigenous communities
Aug 25, 2023
Responding to legal attacks on racial justice strategies
Aug 18, 2023
Cash flows to ensure the water flows in Latin America
Jul 28, 2023
Insuring farmers against crop failures and climate change
Jul 21, 2023
Putting Africa’s pension funds to work for Africa’s social infrastructure
Jul 14, 2023
Affordable housing for Mozambique’s informal economy
Jul 07, 2023
Connecting Indian farmers to global markets
Jun 30, 2023
A century old model for affordable social housing with Michaela Kauer
Jun 23, 2023
Moving capital at scale to elevate communities of color with Valerie Red-Horse Mohl
Jun 16, 2023
The ownership beat, ESG on the chopping block, and new tools for system-level investing
Jun 02, 2023
Why employee ownership is the next big thing in impact, and America, with Jack Moriarty
May 26, 2023
Funding African tech entrepreneurs with Eunice Ajim
May 19, 2023
The long and winding road to responsible private equity with Tensie Whelan
May 12, 2023
Finding alpha in racial justice and the challenges women face raising a first fund
May 05, 2023
Neighborhood Economics with Kevin Jones
Apr 28, 2023
U.S. Financial regulations and over 40 years of Earth Days with Dianne Dillon-Ridgley
Apr 21, 2023
Going beyond 'net-zero' in the public markets with Ariane Mahler
Apr 14, 2023
Training the next generation of impact investors with Adwoa Asare
Apr 07, 2023
In spite of itself, Texas takes on mantle of climate leader
Mar 31, 2023
How bank failures and interest rate hikes have changed the dynamics of impact investing.
Mar 24, 2023
Ben McAdams: Marrying public real estate and private capital (podcast)
Mar 17, 2023
Sana Kapadia on the alpha opportunity for investors who are gender smart
Mar 17, 2023
Scaling purpose built impact with Priya Parrish
Mar 10, 2023
[Briefing] University of California’s rescue of Blackstone’s REIT
Feb 24, 2023
How Project Equity is turning employees into owners by surfing the 'silver tsunami'
Feb 17, 2023
Finding the opportunities for impact investors in Biden's SOTU
Feb 10, 2023
Finding the opportunities in (and the problems with) muni bonds
Feb 03, 2023
Why development finance institutions are being pressed to ‘publish what you fund’
Jan 27, 2023
Backing new decision-makers for the new majority with Demetric Duckett of Living Cities
Jan 20, 2023
How the Milken Institute is connecting disadvantaged communities with critical project development financing
Jan 13, 2023
How Dollaride is electrifying ‘dollar vans’ to boost livelihoods and cut carbon in New York’s transit deserts.
Jan 06, 2023
Why Kristin Hull, an early Tesla investor, sees Elon Musk as an ESG risk
Dec 16, 2022
Building Community Wealth with Aisha Weeks
Dec 09, 2022
Closing the wealth gap through "ownership trusts" with Zoe Schlag, Cofounder of Common Trust
Dec 02, 2022
Stephan Nicoleau shares an update from COP27
Nov 18, 2022
Ceres' Steven Rothstein on the midterm elections and COP27 and their impact on sustainable finance
Nov 11, 2022
Morningstar's Jon Hale on the midterm elections
Nov 04, 2022
Bob Eccles on the ESG Wars
Oct 28, 2022
SOCAP is back in person
Oct 21, 2022
Insights from 20 years of deploying "patient capital" with Acumen's Daniel Waldron
Oct 14, 2022
The Greening of the 401(k) with Zach Stein
Oct 07, 2022
Investing to support refugees and women
Sep 30, 2022
Fall is here, and that means it's Climate Week in New York
Sep 23, 2022
The state of impact in India with Shefali Anand
Sep 16, 2022
Mapping Climate Capital and September's LIIST
Sep 09, 2022
How, and why, to decarbonize concrete
Sep 02, 2022
Havell Rodrigues on the democratic approach to fundraising that's putting wind in the sails of new impact fund managers
Aug 26, 2022
The Roundtable takes on the anti-ESG ETF Strive, and more...
Aug 19, 2022
What the climate provisions of the IRA mean for investors.
Aug 12, 2022
Introducing The LIIST with Luni Libes and Zuleyma Bebell
Aug 05, 2022
What Airlift's crash says about pandemic era VC investing
Jul 22, 2022
Investing thoughtful catalytic capital for emerging managers with Margot Kane
Jul 15, 2022
Politics and Power in Asset Management
Jul 08, 2022
Emerging fund managers gather in Dar es Salaam
Jun 17, 2022
Impact Investing and Coming Out
Jun 10, 2022
Briefing: Stephan Nicoleau on Davos and Moving Forward on Climate
Jun 03, 2022
Building the next-generation of diverse climate fund managers with Bahiyah Robinson of VC Include
May 20, 2022
Briefing: The politicization of ESG and some alternatives to VC
May 13, 2022
Alternatives to VC, from Community Rounds to Neighborhood Economics
May 06, 2022
Investment trends in Africa
Apr 29, 2022
Briefing: Carl Icahn, Elon Musk, and activist investing in the age of ESG
Apr 22, 2022
Briefing: Catalyzing climate capital for adaptation and equity
Apr 15, 2022
A Civilian Climate Corps in the Bronx, and Community Rounds replaces Crowdfunding
Apr 08, 2022
Political Risk and Impact Investing in Ukraine and Beyond
Apr 01, 2022
The SEC's new climate disclosure rules, Alicia Seiger's contrarian take, and next week's Call
Mar 25, 2022
Briefing: Confluence's Dana Lanza on geopolitcal instability, climate change, and justice.
Mar 18, 2022
Women Driving Alpha, "Live" from Cape Town
Mar 11, 2022
The Weaponization of Finance and the Green Way Forward
Mar 04, 2022
Impact investing’s policy agenda, and the funky sounds and social impact of ElectroSpit
Feb 18, 2022
Carbon crypto, carbon markets and carbon quantitative easing
Feb 11, 2022
The rising price of carbon and Kim Folsom of Founders First
Feb 04, 2022
Mixed signals in ESG and impact, climate meets crypto, and impact management and measurement tech take off
Jan 28, 2022
Larry Fink’s letter, BlocPower’s expansion, and Just Capital CEO Martin Whittaker
Jan 21, 2022
The Roundtable looks ahead to 2022
Jan 14, 2022
December 17th: Diversity in Asset Management
Dec 17, 2021
December 10: The Reconstruction This Time
Dec 10, 2021
December 3rd: Stakeholder Activism and ReNewCos
Dec 03, 2021
November 19th: 4 Takeaways from COP26 with Stephan Nicoleau
Nov 19, 2021
November 12th: The Marks, the Gretas, and Inflation -- Oh, My!
Nov 12, 2021
November 5th: Young Climate Leaders at COP26
Nov 05, 2021
October 29th: What's at Stake at COP26
Oct 29, 2021
October 22nd: SOCAP Week
Oct 22, 2021
October 15th: Institutional Climate Investing in the UK
Oct 15, 2021
October 8th: Covering Black tech ecosystems, with The Plug's Sherrell Dorsey
Oct 08, 2021
October 1st: Infrastructure and Impact
Oct 01, 2021
September 24th: Climate Week
Sep 24, 2021
September 17th : Carbon Lock-in, Stranded Assets, and Harvard's Divestment
Sep 16, 2021
September 10th: Universal Ownership and Active Stewardship
Sep 10, 2021
September 3rd: ‘Beta stewardship’ and hurricane resilience.
Sep 03, 2021
August 27th: Building Back Better in Haiti
Aug 27, 2021
August 20th: ESG Whistleblowers with Imogen and David
Aug 20, 2021
August 13th: BlocPower's Donnel Baird on the role of impact investors in equitable climate infrastructure
Aug 12, 2021
July 30th: Some Reconstruction history and looking forward to Black Philanthropy Month
Jul 29, 2021
July 23rd: Private equity and ESG, strange bedfellows?
Jul 22, 2021
July 16th: The SEC considers asset manager diversity disclosure
Jul 16, 2021
July 9th: Investors Eye Nuclear Fusion
Jul 09, 2021
July 2nd: PolicyLink's Michael McAfee and "The Curb-Cut Effect"
Jul 02, 2021
June 25th: Reimagining Capitalism
Jun 25, 2021
June 18th: CDFI's and Juneteenth hit the big time
Jun 18, 2021
June 11th: Reimagining Capitalism, Comptroller Elections, Toxic Masculinity in Impact and The Gates Foundation Falls Short
Jun 11, 2021
June 4th: Looking Back and Looking Forward
Jun 04, 2021
May 28th: Big Oil's Big Reckoning
May 28, 2021
May 21st: Catalytic Capital and the Reconstruction
May 21, 2021
May 14th: Risks, Returns, and Innovative Financial Structures
May 14, 2021
May 7th: Generational Inheritance and Leadership
May 07, 2021
April 30th: Truth in advertising when it comes to ESG
Apr 30, 2021
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