David founded ImpactAlpha to cover impact investing as a serious beat in the expectation it would become one – and it has. A veteran journalist, he has spotted big trends at The Wall Street Journal, the San Jose Mercury News and other newspapers, breaking stories on technology, social innovation and finance. Harvard Business Review and Amazon.com named "Breaking Windows," his book on Microsoft, one of the 'best business books of the year.' As a foreign correspondent, David reported from Asia and Latin America. His articles have appeared in Wired, Mother Jones, Newsweek, The Atlantic, Out, Stanford Social Innovation Review and other publications. As vice president of Encore.org, he helped establish encore careers as a new stage of work centered on social purpose. A 1996 Nieman Fellow at Harvard University, David has an M.S. in Journalism from Columbia University and a B.A. in politics from the University of California at Santa Cruz. He lives in Berkeley, Calif., with his husband and their son.
Recent stories by David Bank
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Is Altérra’s ambitious effort to mobilize climate finance for the Global South working?
The places that need climate capital the most have long gotten the least. The outcome of global efforts to mitigate the worst effects ...
A $1,300 Harlem apartment led this fund manager to a $20 billion NOAH opportunity
Ty Thomas spent time at an institutional real estate developer watching billions of dollars flow to either luxury developments on the one hand, ...
Spurring a global race to the top for investing with a gender lens
A large private equity firm in Asia isn’t satisfied with merely being “advanced” in its practice of gender lens investing. For its next ...
Los Angeles lowers the cost and complexity of capital for affordable housing + Big DAF platforms on notice
Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank. Up this week: How Los Angeles is working to lower the ...
Los Angeles tries to show how affordable housing can be built more quickly and cheaply
It’s the financing, stupid. In Los Angeles, a novel mechanism that is expected to finance the construction of more than 1,500 units of ...
Alder Point’s Chris Larson on switching from LP to GP to operate sustainable real assets (podcast)
Chris Larson has sat on both sides of the fundraising table. As the chief investment officer, and then the CEO, of New Island ...
Sorenson Impact Advisory scoops up talent and clients from Align Impact
Among impact financial advisors, assets go and assets come. Utah investor Jim Sorenson has been on both sides of such ebbs and flows. ...
Fear and frenzy at Milken’s global conference + Strange bedfellows for a climate investment
Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank. Up this week: Navigating the fear and frenzy at Milken’s annual ...
How a financial advisor in Boston helps her clients drive local impact
It’s not surprising that many investors in deep-blue Boston are unhappy with current federal policy directives and budget priorities. What may be more ...