The municipal bond market has been called the original impact investment asset class, a source of capital for water, housing, parks, libraries, transit and other essential infrastructure. But laced through with historical biases, the U.S. municipal bond market has often been a source of racial harms as well. The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has embarked on a broad effort to reshape the nearly $4 trillion muni market around health equity and racial justice. 

Kimberlee Cornett, Senior Director for Impact Investments, and Zoila Jennings, Impact Investment Lead, for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation join David Bank to dive into the burgeoning muni impact space.

 https://impactalpha.com/browse/beats/locavesting/community-finance/muni-impact/

Brian Walsh has the headlines and Amy Cortese chats with Oxford’s Bob Eccles about why the distinction between ESG and impact in investing matters more than ever.

https://impactalpha.com/cant-tell-the-players-without-a-scorecard-sorting-out-esg-impact-and-sustainability/

Host Monique Aiken is live and in person with Rodney Foxworth, CEO of Common Future, and ImpactAlpha’s David Bank at SOCAP22 in San Francisco. Plus, the headlines.

Host Brian Walsh is joined by Daniel Waldron, head of insights at Acumen, to discuss lessons learned from the non-profit investor’s two decades of deploying “patient capital” in companies serving some of the world’s poorest customers. Plus, the headlines.

ImpactAlpha’s David Bank catches up with Zach Stein, CEO of Carbon Collective, to talk about how average investors with 401(k) retirement accounts can start to shift trillions of dollars away from fossil fuels and toward climate solutions (3:00).

This month's Liist: https://impactalpha.com/the-liist-seven-impact-funds-that-are-raising-capital-now-october-2022/

Dennis Price joins host Brian Walsh to talk about the new and growing opportunity in ‘refugee lens investing,’ (2:45). And, Brian shares some highlights from this week’s Agents of Impact Call (11:00)

Watch the Call replay on Youtube: https://youtu.be/I0kz0W0dCBI or at impactalpha.com

Host Monique Aiken is joined by David Bank, who has been on the ground with ImpactAlpha’s New York “bureau” (Amy Cortese, Roodgally Senatus and Dan Keller), taking the pulse of investors and other stakeholders at Climate Week. Plus, the headlines.

ImpactAlpha correspondent Shefali Anand joins host Brian Walsh from the  Impact Investors Council in New Delhi to take stock of the surge in climate and impact investing in India. Plus, the headlines.

Agents of Impact Call replay: https://youtu.be/XlSfGZ7c9xE

ImpactAlpha’s David Bank joins host Monique Aiken to preview next week’s Agents of Impact Call. Luni Libes of Realize Impact stops by to discuss impact funds featured on this month’s edition of The LIIST. Plus, the headlines.

Next week's Call RSVP: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/411553496587

This month's LIIST: https://impactalpha.com/the-liist-seven-impact-funds-that-are-raising-capital-now-september-2022/

Host Brian Walsh is joined by Roody Senatus to hear about some of the concrete steps being taken to address a particularly hard challenge: reducing carbon emissions from concrete. Plus, the headlines.

More on Pakistan aid opportunities: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/kalsoomlakhani_the-floods-impacting-pakistan-right-now-are-activity-6969838421166989312-7s_X/