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Agents of Impact | February 26, 2021
Donnel Baird, BlocPower
ImpactAlpha, Feb. 26 – There was no heat in the building in Brooklyn’s Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood where Baird grew up, so he and his sister …
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The Brief | February 26, 2021
The Week in Impact Investing: Block power
Featured: The Week’s Agent of Impact Donnel Baird, BlocPower
Podcasts | February 26, 2021
Impact Briefing: Week of February 26
On this week’s podcast, host Monique Aiken chats with ImpactAlpha’s Roodgally Senatus about Bitwise Industries’ big raise and BlocPower’s Donnel Baird, this week’s …
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Catalytic Capital | February 25, 2021
Surdna Foundation’s Don Chen on mobilizing resources and redefining risk (podcast)
ImpactAlpha, Feb. 25 – Philanthropic foundations tend to be cautious and slow-moving beasts. One signal of the urgency of the current moment: the billion-dollar …
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The Brief | February 25, 2021
The Brief: Surdna’s Don Chen (podcast), Indonesia’s women entrepreneurs, social ETF, PRI’s voting record, repricing climate risk, syncing impact management
Greetings, Agents of Impact! Featured: Agents of Impact Podcast Surdna Foundation’s Don Chen on mobilizing resources and redefining risk. Philanthropic foundations tend to …
The Brief | February 24, 2021
The Brief: Bitwise’s digital new deal, green steel, ImpactAssets 50, mail-truck misfire, impact investor clubs
Greetings, Agents of Impact! Featured: ImpactAlpha Original Bitwise Industries raises $50 million to go national with its model for inclusive tech ecosystems. Before …
Clean Energy | February 24, 2021
Postal Service misses an opportunity to modernize fleet with electric vehicles
ImpactAlpha, Feb. 24 – A contract to upgrade the U.S. postal agency’s 165,000 delivery trucks runs counter to the Biden administration’s effort to …
Catalytic Capital | February 24, 2021
ImpactAssets 50 showcases an increasingly diverse impact ecosystem
ImpactAlpha, Feb. 24 – Worker ownership. Small business relief. Impact real estate. Climate solutions. This year’s Impact Assets 50 showcases a diversity of …
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The Brief | February 23, 2021
The Brief: Neighborhood trusts, block power, SheEO’s network effects, borrowing well, small businesses in India and Indonesia
Greetings, Agents of Impact! Hop on The Call. On today’s Agents of Impact Call, entrepreneurs like Grasslands Cameroon’s Manka Angwafo and Kuli Kuli’s …
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Africa | February 22, 2021
Seed-stage is a bright spot as emerging market investors bet on the digital disruption
ImpactAlpha, February 22 – Startup funding shriveled in most emerging markets last year as investors were reluctant to write big checks in the face …
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The Brief | February 22, 2021
The Brief: Gender + climate call, venture capital in India and Nigeria, state of Opportunity Zones, essential bills, dairy waste, wooden windmills
Featured: Seed-stage is a bright spot as emerging market investors bet on the digital disruption
Community Finance | February 22, 2021
Opportunity Zones await makeover – and impact
ImpactAlpha, Feb. 22 – Tens of billions of dollars have been raised by opportunity funds. But most of the nearly 8,000 low-income opportunity …
The Brief | February 19, 2021
The Week in Impact Investing: Distributed
TGIF, Agents of Impact! Distributed systems. Back in the 20th century, the Internet won out over legacy approaches because attributes like resource sharing, …
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Agents of Impact | February 19, 2021
Charles King, Macro
ImpactAlpha, Feb. 19 – The former Hollywood super agent spotted a disconnect. Those green-lighting movies and TV didn’t represent the diverse audiences consuming them. …
Podcasts | February 19, 2021
Impact Brief: Week of February 19
Host Brian Walsh is joined by Amy Cortese to talk about the growing corporate demand for soil carbon.