Podcasts | May 7, 2021
Impact Briefing: Week of May 7th
David Bank joins host Monique Aiken to talk about generational inheritance, politics, history and leadership.
Podcasts | April 30, 2021
Impact Briefing: Week of April 30th
ImpactAlpha, Apr. 30 – On this week’s podcast, host Brian Walsh welcomes back Imogen Rose-Smith and David Bank to discuss truth in advertising around …
Podcasts | April 23, 2021
Impact Briefing: Week of April 23
Host Monique Aiken checks in with Nathan Cummings Foundation’s Rey Ramsey and The Case Made’s Tiffany Manuel
Rey Ramsey of The Nathan Cummings Foundation | Photo credit: The Org
Podcasts | April 19, 2021
The Reconstruction: Rey Ramsey on deploying 100% of foundation assets toward positive impact and racial equity
ImpactAlpha, April 19 — The case for breaking down philanthropy’s historical divide between the investment side of the house and a foundation’s mission …
Podcasts | April 16, 2021
Impact Briefing: Week of April 16
ImpactAlpha, Apr. 16 – In this week’s podcast, host Brian Walsh takes stock of two of the premier showcases for student talent in impact …
Institutional Shift | April 13, 2021
Institutional Shift: Charting the flow of capital through dairy waste, SPACs and the end of externalities
ImpactAlpha, Apr. 13 – Institutional investors took awhile “to get comfortable with the fact that we were going to process manure and urine and …
Tiffany Manuel of TheCaseMade | Photo: Tiffany Manuel
Podcasts | April 12, 2021
The Reconstruction: Seeing the world of our children’s children to help make the case for justice
ImpactAlpha, April 12 – Tiffany Manuel’s handbooks for social change warn about messaging “backfires.” These days, she’s wielding such tools to overcome backlash. …
Podcasts | April 9, 2021
Impact Briefing: Week of April 9th
Host Monique Aiken speaks with B Lab’s Andrew Kassoy about why impact-driven businesses and investors are stepping up their policy advocacy.
Podcasts | April 2, 2021
Impact Briefing: Week of April 2nd
Host Brian Walsh dissects former BlackRock exec Tariq Fancy’s recent takedown of ESG investing with roundtable regulars Imogen Rose-Smith and David Bank.
Daryn Dodson, Illumen Capital
Podcasts | March 29, 2021
The Reconstruction: Overcoming racial bias to optimize asset management for returns – and impact
ImpactAlpha, Mar. 29 – Money managers at the world’s sovereign wealth and pension funds and university and foundation endowments seek to optimize portfolios to …
Podcasts | March 26, 2021
Impact Briefing: Week of March 26th
Jessica Pothering joins host Monique Aiken to discuss how African entrepreneurs are stepping up with tech solutions to the continent’s challenges.
Podcasts | March 19, 2021
Impact Briefing: Week of March 19th
Host Brian Walsh talks with Amy Cortese about regulation crowdfunding’s big week, and we hear from Republic’s Ken Nguyen and Wefunder’s Jonny Price.
Podcasts | March 12, 2021
Impact Briefing: Week of March 12th
Host Monique Aiken, Erika Seth-Davies of The Racial Equity Asset Lab and ImpactAlpha’s David Bank join to talk about the American Rescue Plan and… a bottom-up reconstruction.
Rodney Foxworth of Common Future
Inclusive Economy | March 8, 2021
The Reconstruction: Rodney Foxworth on reparative investing for shared power in a common future
Rodney Foxworth, CEO of Oakland, Calif.-based Common Future, gets personal in conversation with host Monique Aiken in the latest episode in The Reconstruction, …
Podcasts | March 5, 2021
Impact Briefing: Week of March 5th
Host Brian Walsh discusses the big private equity funds looking to make a splash in impact with roundtable regulars Imogen Rose-Smith and David Bank.
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 …