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@davidbank.bsky.social

Founder & Editor @ImpactAlpha: Investment News for a Sustainable Edge. Former Lives: Encore.org, The Wall Street Journal, San Jose Mercury News.

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Climate United was built to channel affordable capital from institutional investors to green projects โ€“ and still is The key insight behind Climate Unitedโ€™s investment strategy: The shift to domestically produced clean energy is inevitable โ€“ but who benefits from the ...

Read more from Beth Bafford about our plan to transform markets in @impactalpha.com: impactalpha.com/climate-unit...

09.06.2025 20:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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ImpactAlpha promotes Dennis Price to lead growth of leading media and data platform for impact investors Dennis Price named CEO at ImpactAlpha. Founder David Bank will continue to lead ImpactAlphaโ€™s award-winning editorial team

ImpactAlpha promotes @dennisprice.bsky.social to CEO role.

โ€œImpactAlpha is uniquely positioned to shape the future of impact investing," said @Roy Swan, the director of mission investments at @fordfoundation.org, the lead investor in ImpactAlphaโ€™s seed round.

impactalpha.com/impactalpha-...

03.06.2025 11:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Please join Sherrell for the next PluggedIn.

01.06.2025 03:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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CalPERS and CalSTRS find alpha in emerging managers that have earned โ€˜the right to winโ€™ It felt like a time capsule from another era.ย  At last weekโ€™s Catalyst event in Sacramento, officials from Californiaโ€™s two major public pension ...

โ€œThis ecosystem, in our view, has so much potential for generating outsized returns and yet continues to lack access to capital,โ€ said Pamela Pavkov of TPG Next, the emerging manager platform of the $250 billion TPG.

impactalpha.com/calpers-and-...

20.05.2025 13:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Thereโ€™s still time to #RSVP for tomorrowโ€™s PluggedIn conversation. Hope you can make it.

05.05.2025 20:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Worker solutions, community insurance and other strategies for shared prosperity (video) Lafayette Squareโ€™s goals, he said, โ€œmeet the moment in terms of creating jobs for working class people in working class places, and seeing that employees are centered and receive better benefits becau...

๐Ÿ…Winning strategies for shared prosperity.

On this week's Agents of Impact call, guests highlighted a plan to boost worker benefits, tools to manage and preserve homeownership as a vehicle for intergenerational wealth, and community-embedded insurance.

impactalpha.com/worker-solut...

02.05.2025 13:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Galvanizeโ€™s Tom Steyer on why now is a good time for climate investors with cash (Q&A) Climate champions have bemoaned the dismantling of US leadership on climate action. But at least one committed climate investor smells a buying opportunity.ย  ...

EXCLUSIVE: โ€œIf you're sitting there with cash, it's an unequivocally good thing...Prices are going to be lower, there's going to be less competition, and youโ€™re going to get better returns,โ€ Tom Steyer of Galvanize Climate Solutions told @davidbank.bsky.social.

impactalpha.com/galvanizes-t...

29.04.2025 14:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Re:Construction: Five promising pages in the playbook for shared prosperity Our road trip through North Carolina this month traveled both back in history and forward on the road to renewal.ย  We flew into ...

@missiondrivenfinance.com has created Care Access Real Estate to purchase, renovate and lease commercial and residential properties specifically designed for child care.

It's one of five promising pages in ImpactAlpha's playbook for shared prosperity.

impactalpha.com/reconstructi...

21.04.2025 18:42 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

When others zig, ImpactAlpha zags.

We're in DC today to lift up investable models for shared prosperity, along with the impact investment team at @rwjf.bsky.social and @aspeninstitute.bsky.social

Still time to RSVP: www.eventbrite.com/e/reconstruc...

08.04.2025 16:29 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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ImpactAlpha will continue to build out the playbook for shared prosperity this Tuesday, April 8, at โ€œRe:Construction DC,โ€ produced with @rwjf.bsky.social and hosted by @aspeninstitute.bsky.social.

The Purple Party will take place on the eve of the Aspen Institute's Employee Ownership Ideas Forum.

07.04.2025 21:02 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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ImpactAlpha is hitting the road for a series of screenings of our new mini-documentary.

The short recounts Napoleon Wallaceโ€™s efforts to build a path to racial equity while living with degenerative nerve disease ALS.

Although he can no longer speak, filmmakers trained AI to recapture his voice.

28.03.2025 17:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Disaster recovery experts offer a roadmap for community, health at the upcoming Neighborhood Economics conference in Asheville, NC.

ImpactAlpha's @davidbank.bsky.social will moderate "Building post-disaster resilience into your community," on Tuesday, April 1.

neighborhoodeconomics.org/asheville/

27.03.2025 16:52 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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โ˜Ž๏ธ Join Social Capital Partners' @jonshell.bsky.social, Ownership Capital Lab's Alison Lingane, Apis & Heritage's Michael Brownrigg, Lafayette Square Institute's Jack Moriarty, on ImpactAlpha's "Sharing the wealth through employee ownership" call tomorrow.

#RSVP now.

us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

25.03.2025 19:33 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Our latest project is taking us on the road. Read all about it @impactalpha.com.

24.03.2025 22:51 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Read @roodgally.bsky.socialโ€™s latest on employee ownership up now at @impactalpha.com.

20.03.2025 20:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Iโ€™m looking forward to @impactalpha.comโ€™s employee ownership conversation with guests from:
๐Ÿ’กOwnership Capital Lab
๐Ÿ’กLafayette Square Institute
๐Ÿ’กSocial Capital Partners
๐Ÿ’กEssential Owners Fund

Hope you can join other Agents of Impact on Wednesday, March 26. RSVP below.

19.03.2025 19:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ Choose your words carefully. ImpactAlpha enlisted ChatGPT for this week's #impinv recap using language that apparently triggers the Trump administration.

How many weaponized phrases can you spot?

impactalpha.com/the-week-in-...

14.03.2025 11:50 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Climate and development challenges spur development finance institutions to unlock private capital Another month, another climate record smashed. This time, it is the warmest January ever recorded. Even climate scientists are mystified about the extent ...

DFIs can play a key role in originating, de-risking and sharing EMDE assets with private investors.

impactalpha.com/climate-and-...

15.03.2025 15:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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EPA raises the stakes in battle over $20 billion in green bank grants Capping a day of legal maneuvering, Environmental Protection Agency chief Lee Zeldin officially terminated $20 billion in green lending financing under the Inflation Reduction Act.

A federal judge is set to hold a hearing today on Climate United's request for a temporary restraining order after the US Environmental Protection Agency's Lee Zeldin officially terminated $20 billion in green lending financing under the Inflation Reduction Act.

impactalpha.com/epa-raises-t...

12.03.2025 11:59 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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LP / GP: African capital for African private equity Greetings, Agents of Impact!ย  Welcome to this weekโ€™s ImpactAlpha LP/GP, where we take you inside the real business of impact investing, with a ...

In this weekโ€™s LP/GP newsletter:
๐ŸŽฏ African capital for African private equity.
๐ŸŽฏ Sustainable investing with Indonesiaโ€™s sovereign wealth fund.
๐ŸŽฏ Billion-dollar impact funds.

impactalpha.com/lp-gp-africa...

11.03.2025 15:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Read more from todayโ€™s @impactalpha.com Brief.

10.03.2025 21:22 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Capricorn stakes out the next wave of large-scale impact fund managers (Q&A) Capricorn has taken minority stakes in about a dozen impact fund managers it thinks can help drive the transition to a sustainable economy

ImpactAlpha's @amy-cortese.bsky.social spoke with two Capricorn investment team members about the firmโ€™s GP stakes strategy, the need for fund managers to specialize, and whatโ€™s next in impact.

impactalpha.com/capricorn-st...

04.03.2025 21:09 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Across venture capital, and private equity and debt, limited partners and general partners are seeking alpha in impact. But the ecosystem of owners and managers deploying capital for positive impact remains fragmented.

Sign up for a free 30-day trial of ImpactAlpha LP/GP.

impactalpha.com/lp-gp/

20.02.2025 00:54 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Cherryrock Capital raises $172 million for growth-stage startups led by underinvested founders Discover how Cherryrock Capital is addressing funding deficits for underinvested growth-stage startups led by diverse teams.

Cherryrock Capital raises $172 million with an eye on underinvested founders.

Investors include @goldmansachsgroup.bsky.social, J. P. Morgan Asset Management, @pivotalventures.bsky.social and Spring Point Partners.

impactalpha.com/cherryrock-c...

20.02.2025 19:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Wow @raphaeldelio.dev, thatโ€™s a blast from the past. Hereโ€™s the first (ever?) story on Java that I did for the Mercury News in 1994.

web.archive.org/web/20060819...

21.02.2025 14:55 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Trumpโ€™s EPA takes aim at Climate United and the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund The EPA is seeking to claw back some $20 billion in funding that was awarded last year to nonprofit lenders and green banks that are making loans for community infrastructure projects. The GGRF funds ...

NEWS: "Trumpโ€™s EPA takes aim at Climate United and the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund" via @davidbank.bsky.social and Amy Cortese on @impactalpha.com

The EPA seeks to claw back some $20B that was awarded last year to nonprofit lenders and green banks.

impactalpha.com/trumps-epa-t...

13.02.2025 15:11 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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