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In this week’s Open:
- Mitigating bird flu risk
- Podcast: Live-ish from Nairobi
- Combining human and artificial intelligence for youth mental health
Let’s jump in. – Dennis Price
Must-reads on ImpactAlpha
- GPs deliver ownership investing strategies for LPs of all sizes. Interest in investments that foster worker and community ownership is accelerating. From private equity giants to first time fund managers, there’s an ownership strategy for any check size, reports Jessica Pothering. Check them out.
- How investors can prepare for the growing risks of bird flu. Empty aisles. Carton quotas. Per-egg surcharges. Though it hasn’t yet mutated to allow for human-to-human transmission, the bird flu crisis already presents material risks to investors’ portfolios, writes Megan Waters of the investor network FAIRR. Read more.
- Data tool for politicians and investors aims to advance economic mobility. A new tool from Washington, DC-based Lafayette Square Institute is giving policymakers and investors granular data about housing and small business risks and opportunities in every US congressional district, reports Roodgally Senatus. Learn more.
Agents of Impact
🏃🏽♀️ On the move
- Alliance Healthcare Foundation added Sydney Paige Thomas of Symphonic Capital to its impact investment committee.
- Radical Flexibility Fund welcomed Jorge Antonio de la Hoz Ramirez, a former director at Cube Ventures Accelerator, as a fund manager.
- Accion Venture Lab brought on Akhil Gupta, previously with Knowl, as an India-based investment officer.
The Week’s Podcasts
🎧 This Week in Impact: Live-ish from Nairobi
Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor Jessica Pothering, reporting from Nairobi. Up this week: Food and agriculture in Kenya, emerging fund managers in the ownership economy, and new EU sustainability rules.
- Listen to the latest episode of This Week in Impact. Get the podcast in your feed by subscribing on Apple or Spotify.
The Week’s Deal Spotlight
💚 AI-driven solutions to streamline mental health services for struggling youths
A new crop of mental health tech startup are combining AI tools with real-time oversight from psychologists, psychiatrists and other mental health care professionals.
- Read the full spotlight more – and catch up on all of ImpactAlpha’s subscriber-only dealflow reporting.
Get in the Game
💼 Step up
- Leapfrog Investments is hiring a strategy manager in Sydney, Australia.
- Local Initiatives Support Corporation, or LISC, seeks a director of fund design in Washington, DC.
- ResponsAbility is searching for a senior investment officer of climate finance for a remote role in Latin America.
Dozens of job opportunities are available to subscribers each week on ImpactAlpha’s Career Hub.
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