This Week in Impact
This Week in Impact
Impact Alpha
How Africa’s mining industry is leveraging demand for critical minerals + Next steps for place based investing
28 minutes Posted Feb 13, 2026 at 11:00 am.
Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with Jessica Pothering, Dennis Price and Roodgally Senatus. Up this week: Jessica reports from Cape Town on how Africa’s mining industry is leveraging global demand for critical minerals; Dennis shares takeaways from his panel at the Urban Institute on what’s next for place-based investing
; and, Roody reports from Philadelphia on Kensington residents are fostering neighborhood revival without gentrification and displacement
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Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with Jessica Pothering, Dennis Price and Roodgally Senatus. Up this week: Jessica reports from Cape Town on how Africa’s mining industry is leveraging global demand for critical minerals; Dennis shares takeaways from his panel at the Urban Institute on what’s next for place-based investing (12:15); and, Roody reports from Philadelphia on Kensington residents are fostering neighborhood revival without gentrification and displacement (20:15).Story links:"⁠Demand for critical minerals creates new opportunities to put Africa first⁠," by Jessica Pothering⁠Dennis' Urban Institute panel⁠."⁠In Philadelphia, Kensington Corridor Trust demonstrates a neighborhood-led model of revival without displacement⁠,” by Roodgally Senatus