David Bank chats with Musa Mabesa, head of South Africa’s Government Employees Pension Fund, in the latest conversation from the “Connecting capital to communities” gathering at the Salzburg Global Seminar, sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Host Monique Aiken has the headlines.


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Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank. Up this week: 
The state of blended finance: https://impactalpha.com/blended-finance-rebounds-in-2023-with-focus-on-climate-and-bigger-deals/


How Big Tech can restore both forests – and credibility - in voluntary carbon markets: https://impactalpha.com/how-big-tech-can-restore-forests-and-credibility-in-voluntary-carbon-markets/


Why The California Wellness Foundation is putting a diversity, equity and inclusion lens on 100% of its $1 billion endowment: https://impactalpha.com/investment-manager-diversity-matters-when-investing-for-health-equity/


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The state of blended finance, restoring forests and carbon market credibility, and investing endowments for DEI

Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank. Up this week: 
Family offices have the opportunity to invest in the climate transition:

 https://impactalpha.com/the-climate-transition-and-investment-opportunities-for-family-offices/

Three leading foundations make for-profit investments in an OpenAI competitor:

 https://impactalpha.com/with-stakes-in-anthropic-impact-investors-seek-a-seat-at-the-ai-table/ 

The brouhaha over whether voluntary carbon credits should count towards a company’s climate targets:

  https://impactalpha.com/with-stakes-in-anthropic-impact-investors-seek-a-seat-at-the-ai-table/



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Family offices target climate transition, foundations invest in AI for good, and a voluntary carbon credit brouhaha

Loren Taylor and Zaru Systems want to build a billion dollars in Black wealth in the next eight years by franchising sustainable turnkey businesses. First up, modular vertical farms. Hear his conversation with David Bank on this week's Agents of Impact podcast.


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Franchising indoor farms to build a billion dollars in Black wealth

Brian Walsh and ImpactAlpha editor David Bank take up the good news on the good economy, Participant Media’s lasting legacy and the signs of change at the World Bank. Plus: an exclusive early listen to the electrifying single, “I’m Your Heat Pump.”


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Rob's column:

 https://impactalpha.com/good-economy-actually-is-good-news-as-impact-investors-adjust-to-new-realities/

Participant Media

 https://impactalpha.com/shutdown-of-participant-media-challenges-other-investors-to-drive-impact-through-film/

World Bank:

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Good economic news, the legacy of Participant Media, and a dispatch from the World Bank

On this week’s Agents of Impact Podcast, Sherrell Dorsey chats with Olivia Watkins of Black Farmer Fund. The fund aims to meet the modern needs of Black farmers and food entrepreneurs with affordable capital and technical assistance.

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