Frontline Solutions’ Marion Johnson and Jessica Barron
Podcasts | March 1, 2021
The Reconstruction: The mobilization of Black women and other voters of color is uplifting us all
ImpactAlpha, Mar. 1 – There was an important history lesson embedded in the confirmation hearings of Attorney General-designate Merrick Garland, who is expected to …
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 …
Surdna Foundation's Don Chen | Photo credit: Surdna Foundation
Catalytic Capital | February 25, 2021
Surdna Foundation’s Don Chen on mobilizing resources and redefining risk
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 …
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.
Podcasts | February 12, 2021
Impact Briefing: Week of February 12
Host Monique Aiken checks in with Suzanne Biegel in London to debrief this week’s GenderSmart Investing Summit.
(left to right) Erika Seth Davies, Tracy Gray, Rachel Robasciotti, Brent Kessel
Podcasts | February 10, 2021
The Reconstruction: How unlikely partners came together to fight racial bias in asset allocation
ImpactAlpha, Feb. 10 – The broad problem of systemic bias in the asset management industry became very specific when fund manager Rachel Robasciotti pitched …
Podcasts | February 5, 2021
Impact Briefing: Week of February 5
On this week’s show, host Brian Walsh engages NYU Stern School’s Tensie Whelan about corporate board leadership – or the lack of it …
Podcasts | February 3, 2021
The Reconstruction: Carmen Rojas on practicing truth in the service of freedom
ImpactAlpha, Feb. 3 – As founder of The Workers Lab, Dr. Carmen Rojas led a nonprofit incubator and investor with the tagline “building power …
Artwork from “The Moment Was Now,” a play by Gene Bruskin
Podcasts | February 2, 2021
The Reconstruction: That moment when everything was possible… is now
ImpactAlpha, Feb. 2 – A contested election. A political deal. An historic sellout. Screech… halt… stop. The presidential election just finished had a decidedly …
1863 Ventures' Melissa Bradley | Photo: Washington Business Journal
Podcasts | February 1, 2021
The Reconstruction: Learning from history to create opportunities for equitable wealth-building now
ImpactAlpha, Feb. 1 – Talk about a signal. The Emancipation Proclamation in 1863 kicked off the period of systemic reform, multi-racial progress and shared …
Podcasts | February 1, 2021
Welcome to The Reconstruction
ImpactAlpha, Feb 1 – The Reconstruction series will engage investors, entrepreneurs, activists and academics in the U.S. and around the world, as Aiken puts …
Podcasts | January 29, 2021
Impact Briefing: Week of January 29
Host Monique Aiken and David Bank introduce The Reconstruction, the series of racial justice podcasts and posts launching next week on ImpactAlpha.
Podcasts | January 22, 2021
Impact Briefing: Week of January 22
On this week’s podcast, host Brian Walsh breaks down creative-economy opportunities with Upstart Co-Lab’s Laura Callanan. We also listen, again, to some of …
Podcasts | January 15, 2021
Impact Briefing: Week of January 15
On this week’s podcast, host Monique Aiken engaged Frontline Solutions’ Jessica Barron and Marion Johnson on the political power of women of color. …
Climate Finance | January 13, 2021
Generate’s Jigar Shah: What’s next for sustainable infrastructure? Deployment, deployment deployment
ImpactAlpha, Jan 13 – First came solar and wind energy. Then batteries and storage. Now, a raft of better, cheaper and more sustainable …
Podcasts | January 8, 2021
Impact Briefing: Week of Jan. 8th
On this week’s podcast, David Bank joins host Brian Walsh to chart the year ahead in impact investing. We also get a sneak …
Clean Energy | December 18, 2020
Institutional Shift: The Great Burp Forward and other trends to watch in 2021
ImpactAlpha, December 18, 2020 – As it’s fit and proper to take stock of last year’s predictions before venturing new ones, we looked back …
Podcasts | December 18, 2020
Impact Briefing: Week of December 18th
Host Brian Walsh talks with David Bank about the year’s themes.
Conservation | December 17, 2020
Wildfires bring to the fore financing for forest resilience
Wildfires are natural. Catastrophic firestorms are not. More than 4 million acres of California burned this year, a record that included the first …
Podcasts | December 11, 2020
Impact Briefing: Week of December 11th
Host Monique Aiken chats with David Bank about science, and scientists – this week’s Agents of Impact.
Podcasts | December 4, 2020
Impact Briefing: Week of December 4th
Host Brian Walsh speaks with Dennis Price about ‘refugee lens’ investing – and other impact investment prototypes.
Podcasts | November 20, 2020
Impact Briefing: Week of November 20th
Host Monique Aiken recaps this week’s Agents of Impact Call on gender-smart investing and we go to South Africa to follow up with Secha Capital’s Kuhle Mnisi and Wukina’s Maureen Sibanda, this week’s Agents of Impact.
Podcasts | November 13, 2020
Impact Briefing: Week of November 13th
Host Brian Walsh and roundtable regulars Imogen Rose-Smith and David Bank explore what the presidential transition in the U.S. means for impact investing.
Podcasts | October 21, 2020
High-tech greenhouses attract institutional investors to food security and climate adaptation
Concerns about the resiliency of the food supply chain went from conceptual to concrete when the COVID crisis shut down railroads and stranded …
Podcasts | September 21, 2020
Shutdown accelerates shift to digitized, decentralized, decarbonized electricity
ImpactAlpha, Sept. 21 – When the coronavirus pandemic shut down much of the world economy this spring, Emmanuel Lagarrigue worried the momentum toward a …
Gardner-Denver's employees in 2017 when the company went public on the New York Stock Exchange.
Podcasts | August 12, 2020
This private-equity giant has distributed more than $500 million – to hourly employees
Sharing wealth with hourly employees has not been a major part of the private-equity playbook, which has more often called for layoffs, plant …
Agents of Impact | July 16, 2020
Catalytic Capital: Diane Isenberg lays down a “1/10th Challenge” for wealthy families
ImpactAlpha, July 16,2020 –– If you’re rich, and you get your capital back with perhaps a little extra for inflation and expenses, you’ll …
Catalytic Capital | July 13, 2020
CDC’s Nick O’Donohoe on risk, liquidity and catalytic capital in emerging markets
When the coronavirus busted out as a global crisis in March, private equity funds, banks and other commercial investors largely pulled out of …
Podcasts | June 15, 2020
Leapfrog’s Andy Kuper on impact, exits and scaling growth in emerging markets through the COVID crisis
LeapFrog Investments goes into this recession with capital on hand, the fortuitous result of having raised more than $700 million for its third …
Gender Smart | June 10, 2020
How gender power imbalances put the COVID recovery at risk
Power is the thread that connects the surge in gender-based violence during the COVID crisis with violence against people of color, including by …