Brian and David explore the federal funds that are catalyzing capital to reconnect communities from the legacy of racial segregation, the huge impact investing opportunity in Puerto Rico, and the mechanisms that investors and business owners are using to exit to employees.


Links to this week's stories:

 Reconnecting communities - https://impactalpha.com/with-bridges-buses-and-bike-lanes-reconnecting-communities-rebuilds-civic-muscles-along-with-neighborhoods/


 Impact in PR - https://impactalpha.com/the-impact-investing-opportunity-in-puerto-ricos-economic-comeback/
 Employee ownership exits - https://impactalpha.com/with-elbos-and-eots-more-business-owners-are-exiting-to-employee-ownership/



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VertueLab’s Aina Abiodun chats with Sherrell Dorsey about financing climate innovation with a justice lens, place-based investing, and worforce development. 


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The opportunity in local climate innovation with VertueLab’s Aina Abiodun

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:

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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:

  https://impactalpha.com/spring-meetings-yield-green-shoots-of-development-finance-reform-at-the-world-bank/



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