Greetings, Agents of Impact! If you missed any of our look-aheads to 2026, you can find them all here.
The ImpactAlpha Podcast Network is continuing to grow with the range of conversations shaping the future of impact investing.
Our growing slate of partner productions – from Impact(ed), Community Capital Live, Activest and Criterion Institute with more to come – complemented nearly 50 episodes of This Week in Impact—ImpactAlpha’s own weekly news roundup and our in-depth interviews on Agents of Impact. The ImpactAlpha Podcast Network is a go-to destination for smart conversations for impact investing professionals.
From across the network, we’ve curated a roundup of some of our favorite episodes of the year. These conversations dig into leadership and capital allocation, clean energy transition strategies, community-based finance, and innovative approaches to building a more inclusive economy.
Whether you’re catching up over the holidays or looking ahead to the year to come, we invite you to listen in.
This Week in Impact
Why LP stands for leadership potential + building the playbook for shared prosperity. ImpactAlpha’s weekly podcast features the top stories of the week, so what better place to start is there than with the most recent episode. Host Brian Walsh and David Bank discuss: 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.
Agents of Impact
How New Mexico’s $67 billion fund is using oil and gas revenues to build a clean energy economy. New Mexico’s solar resources, geothermal features and nuclear know-how attract many climate tech startups, and the venture capitalists who back them. There’s also the state’s $67 billion State Investment Council, or SIC, which in recent years has grown into the second-largest sovereign wealth fund among US states. Bruce Brown, head of the SIC’s new office of strategic climate initiatives, joins the podcast to share how the sovereign wealth fund is wielding its climate clout.
Impact(ed)
Empowering communities through CDFIs. Community development financial institutions play a critical role in promoting economic equity and supporting underserved communities. Kim Lyle of Dorchester Bay Economic Development Corp. joins Eric Horvath and Lucas Turner-Owens to talk about the importance of micro-lending, innovative approaches to green financing, and lessons from her non-linear career path. She shares her love for building things that don’t yet exist, passion to get money to people out there who hustle, and why green lending ticks all of the organizations’ impact areas.
Community Capital Live
Financing a fairer food system with Justin Abbiss. From regenerative farmers to local grocers and brewers, the Fair Finance Fund is closing capital gaps for small-scale food and farm businesses in Ontario. “Our favorite part of the work is understanding the real problems our clients face – cash flow, operations – and making sure they can thrive,” says Justin Abbiss on the latest Community Capital Live.
The Activest Podcast
The impact of credit downgrades on communities. In this episode of the Activest Podcast, Homero Radway, Ellen Ward Owen and John Killeen discuss the recent downgrades of credit ratings for Washington D.C., Maryland, and the United States by Moody’s, as well as the implications of these downgrades on local economies, the role of credit rating agencies, and the structural issues surrounding debt and social equity.
The Criterion Institute Podcast
Financing solutions to gender based violence. Criterion leverages finance as a tool to reduce gender-based violence. On this episode, Joy Anderson discusses the progress made in building evidence, creating tools, and training thousands of investors and social change leaders worldwide, and outlines the next phase of Criterion’s work: scaling action by amplifying success stories, providing more advanced education for investors and practitioners, and creating spaces for collaboration, such as a February 2026 conference that will focus on gender violence.
