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David Bank

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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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David Bank @davidbank.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Happy for the ethical #AI partnership Siegel Family Endowment.
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ImpactAlpha @impactalpha.com · 08/04/2026
🆕 ImpactAlpha is proud to announce ImpactAlpha Edge, an actionable intelligence platform with thousands of LP and GP profiles and many more thousands of allocations. ImpactAlpha CEO @dennisprice.bsky.social outlined the benefits in this letter to subscribers. impactalpha.com/the-impactal...
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ImpactAlpha @impactalpha.com · 15/01/2026
☎️ RSVP for our Agents of Impact call. Impact-first fund managers will explore the true costs – and returns – of impact-first investing, Wednesday, Jan. 21, with insights from @echoinggreen.bsky.social, @openroadimpact.bsky.social and others focused on impact first. us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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David Bank @davidbank.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
Looking forward to this conversation. Hope you join Brian Boland, Lourdes Germán, Damon Burns, Eric Glass, Michael Gaughan and me on Thursday for this Agents of Impact call, in partnership with @rwjf.org
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ImpactAlpha @impactalpha.com · 17/11/2025
David Erickson and @otho.bsky.social are bringing together community foundations, CDFIs, green banks and local government agencies at the Federal Reserve Bank of NY. Join ImpactAlpha’s @davidbank.bsky.social for the Making Missing Markets livestream this Wednesday. web.cvent.com/event/59ed3e...
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ImpactAlpha @impactalpha.com · 13/11/2025
🔌 What does it take to transition breakthrough climate technologies from universities and national labs into venture-ready startups? Troy Daley of @labstart.bsky.social joins Sherrell Dorsey on the next PluggedIn to discuss on Tuesday, November 18. us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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Climate United @climateunited.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Read more from Beth Bafford about our plan to transform markets in @impactalpha.com: impactalpha.com/climate-unit...
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Climate United was built to channel affordable capital from institutional investors to green projects – and still is
The key insight behind Climate United’s investment strategy: The shift to domestically produced clean energy is inevitable – but who benefits from the ...
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ImpactAlpha @impactalpha.com · 03/06/2025
ImpactAlpha promotes @dennisprice.bsky.social to CEO role. “ImpactAlpha 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 ImpactAlpha’s seed round. impactalpha.com/impactalpha-...
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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 ImpactAlpha’s award-winning editorial team
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David Bank @davidbank.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
Please join Sherrell for the next PluggedIn.
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ImpactAlpha @impactalpha.com · 20/05/2025
“This ecosystem, in our view, has so much potential for generating outsized returns and yet continues to lack access to capital,” said Pamela Pavkov of TPG Next, the emerging manager platform of the $250 billion TPG. impactalpha.com/calpers-and-...
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CalPERS and CalSTRS find alpha in emerging managers that have earned ‘the right to win’
It felt like a time capsule from another era.  At last week’s Catalyst event in Sacramento, officials from California’s two major public pension ...
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David Bank @davidbank.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
There’s still time to #RSVP for tomorrow’s PluggedIn conversation. Hope you can make it.
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ImpactAlpha @impactalpha.com · 02/05/2025
🏅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...
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Worker solutions, community insurance and other strategies for shared prosperity (video)
Lafayette Square’s goals, he said, “meet 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...
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ImpactAlpha @impactalpha.com · 29/04/2025
EXCLUSIVE: “If 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 you’re going to get better returns,” Tom Steyer of Galvanize Climate Solutions told @davidbank.bsky.social. impactalpha.com/galvanizes-t...
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Galvanize’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.  ...
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ImpactAlpha @impactalpha.com · 21/04/2025
@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...
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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.  We flew into ...
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Dennis Price @dennisprice.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
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...
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RE:Construction-- A Playbook for Shared Prosperity, D.C.
Documentary screening and networking evening event.
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ImpactAlpha @impactalpha.com · 07/04/2025
ImpactAlpha will continue to build out the playbook for shared prosperity this Tuesday, April 8, at “Re:Construction DC,” 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.
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ImpactAlpha @impactalpha.com · 28/03/2025
ImpactAlpha is hitting the road for a series of screenings of our new mini-documentary. The short recounts Napoleon Wallace’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.
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ImpactAlpha @impactalpha.com · 27/03/2025
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/
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ImpactAlpha @impactalpha.com · 25/03/2025
☎️ 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...
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David Bank @davidbank.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Our latest project is taking us on the road. Read all about it @impactalpha.com.
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David Bank @davidbank.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Read @roodgally.bsky.social’s latest on employee ownership up now at @impactalpha.com.
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David Bank @davidbank.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
I’m looking forward to @impactalpha.com’s employee ownership conversation with guests from: 💡Ownership Capital Lab 💡Lafayette Square Institute 💡Social Capital Partners 💡Essential Owners Fund Hope you can join other Agents of Impact on Wednesday, March 26. RSVP below.
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ImpactAlpha @impactalpha.com · 14/03/2025
🗣️ 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-...
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Neil Gregory @neilgregory.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
DFIs can play a key role in originating, de-risking and sharing EMDE assets with private investors. impactalpha.com/climate-and-...
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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 ...
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ImpactAlpha @impactalpha.com · 12/03/2025
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...
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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.
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ImpactAlpha @impactalpha.com · 11/03/2025
In this week’s LP/GP newsletter: 🎯 African capital for African private equity. 🎯 Sustainable investing with Indonesia’s sovereign wealth fund. 🎯 Billion-dollar impact funds. impactalpha.com/lp-gp-africa...
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LP / GP: African capital for African private equity
Greetings, Agents of Impact!  Welcome to this week’s ImpactAlpha LP/GP, where we take you inside the real business of impact investing, with a ...
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David Bank @davidbank.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Read more from today’s @impactalpha.com Brief.
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ImpactAlpha @impactalpha.com · 04/03/2025
ImpactAlpha's @amy-cortese.bsky.social spoke with two Capricorn investment team members about the firm’s GP stakes strategy, the need for fund managers to specialize, and what’s next in impact. impactalpha.com/capricorn-st...
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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
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ImpactAlpha @impactalpha.com · 20/02/2025
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/
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ImpactAlpha @impactalpha.com · 20/02/2025
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...
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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.
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Dennis Price @dennisprice.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
NEWS: "Trump’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...
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Trump’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 ...
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