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  1. Economic and climate resilience in North Carolina + New mandates to deploy capital for ‘impact first’ 24:57
  2. Impact investing's changing of the guard + How long-term is Anthropic’s Long-Term Benefit Trust? 21:36
  3. Coal loopholes in Singaporean banking + AI risks and opportunity at Norrsken Impact Week 21:34
  4. Mapping investments in ‘trustworthy AI’ + New priorities at the US DFC 22:50
  5. Break-even results for Ceniarth’s impact-first portfolio 18:07
  6. The power of place in Galveston + Blue Earth unsticks impact capital 22:30
  7. Optimism and action at Climate Week NYC + An employee-owned holdco 23:47
  8. Investors roll up their sleeves for Climate Week NYC + ‘Batteries as a service’ as an alternative to diesel 22:54
  9. Restructuring and layoffs at Pro Mujer + Common Good fund of funds from Ascension and Anthos 19:32
  10. Three takes on revenue-based financing + A deep-tech bet on cleaner and cheaper cement 20:08
  11. Patient capital to support youth mental health + AIM Horizon goes all in on impact for maritime decarbonization 17:17
  12. Move over bonds. Are impact investments the new hedge? + Investors tap into South Africa's green transition 22:59
  13. Private equity energy power players + Choice and control across the AI stack 21:26
  14. Where Temasek is looking for growth opportunities + Three impact summer reads 24:38
  15. India as a hotbed of cool tech + Secondaries, impact-style 22:26
  16. Generation Investment Management on AI’s inconvenient truths + Closing the LatAm gender gap 21:44
  17. Founding principles for impact investors on the USA’s 250th birthday 16:12
  18. Zambia looks to small businesses as pathway to inclusive growth + IPOs set to unlock billions in liquidity for impact LPs 20:17
  19. The private equity buzz at SuperReturn in Berlin + Sharing AI power along with wealth 23:06
  20. Battery storage makes Europe’s cheap renewable power more valuable + The growth opportunity behind S2G’s $1 billion raise 18:04
  21. Taking stock of Alterra’s impact on emerging market climate finance + Going down-market to uplift women 21:56
  22. Two impact approaches to addressing the AI data center buildout + Private equity firms eye retirement account trillions 22:32
  23. Building African ecosystems for impact investing + LPs bridging the "second-wave" capital gap 24:37
  24. Los Angeles lowers the cost and complexity of capital for affordable housing + Big DAF platforms on notice 17:52
  25. Fear and frenzy at Milken’s global conference + Strange bedfellows for a climate investment 19:38
  26. The latest in Africa's carbon markets + The vibe at Mission Investors Exchange 25:46
  27. Local capital for local fund managers and enterprises in Africa + Will the real ownership economy please stand up? 21:25
  28. Shareholders fight for the right to proxy vote + Responsible look to assert human agency over the future of AI 25:05
  29. The unfortunate growth market of investing in refugees + building portfolios that value aging 14:24
  30. Anthropic’s showdown with the Pentagon + How much value should private equity buyout funds share with workers 23:00
  31. States of the union take the lead + Mast Reforestation's new biomass burial carbon credit strategy 21:47
  32. Shaping the AI algorithm + innovative finance for local infrastructure projects 22:10
  33. How Africa’s mining industry is leveraging demand for critical minerals + Next steps for place based investing 28:14
  34. Patient capital drives India's affordable home lending market + Nippon's foray into system-level investing 20:30
  35. Going 'beyond the check' to help GPs survive the fundraising drought + US retail investors are backing emerging markets solar 19:52
  36. The real returns of impact first managers + permanent capital for affordable housing 22:50
  37. Novel strategies in an impact fundraising drought, staking workers to a share in the AI economy 23:00
  38. Latin American impact investors start to map a way forward + Working capital for emerging managers 19:37
  39. Why LP stands for leadership potential + building the playbook for shared prosperity 24:20
  40. Sierra Club Foundation's system-level strategy + 1803 Fund backs ownership opportunities in Portland 24:06
  41. Transforming oil revenues into renewable energy investments in New Mexico + cities and solar providers respond to a rollback of federal support 19:14
  42. Unlocking Indian solar power with catalytic capital + pensions eye responsible defense investments 16:57
  43. Alternatives to Trump's 50 year mortgage + $54 billion in DFI climate financing goes missing 24:14
  44. The state of climate blended finance + Private credit jitters put impact investors on edge 23:37
  45. Allocators, investors and entrepreneurs gather at SOCAP + A dual lens for AI diligence and impact 24:22
  46. A resurgence of impact-first investing + How impact lawyers are working to simplify transactions 15:30
  47. Trimtab goes all in on impact first + An affordable 'community of opportunity' in East Harlem 23:12
  48. Big plans for the US International Development Finance Corp. + Debt and equity “growth funds” in Africa 24:28
  49. Building shared prosperity with entrepreneurship through acquisition + GreenieRE's surety bonds for climate tech 22:23
  50. A vibe check at NY Climate Week, and how impact is driving alpha -- with or without the label 24:20