Toni Johnson, VP of Knowledge & Influence at Heron, chats with Robynn Shrader, CEO of National Cooperative Grocers on how a co-op grocer works, the value of data sharing and future plans for NCG. 

Soundbites: Robyn Shrader, CEO of National Cooperative Grocers

Joel Solomon of Renewal Funds discusses his organization's mission, focus on organic food, green technologies and future plans.

Soundbites: Joel Solomon, Chairman & Co-Founder, Renewal Funds

Ross Baird offers insights into capital inequality and how Village Capital seeks investment opportunities beyond the usual suspects.

Soundbites: Ross Baird, Executive Director of Village Capital

Heron's Rodney Christopher discusses the importance of unrestricted revenue and offers thought son the overhead question. 

Soundbites: Rodney Christopher, Director of Capital Markets at Heron Foundation

Matthew Weatherley-White discusses the growth of impact investing and transcending the embedded tribalism of public companies and capital markets by initiating impactful conversations.

Soundbites: Matthew Weatherley-White, Managing Director at The CAPROCK Group

Shamez Alibhai of Cheyne Capital discusses his work in investing in socially responsible real estate and overcoming the common prejudice that the finance sector is not in the business of creating impactful social change.

Soundbites: Shamez Alibhai, at Cheyne Capital

Sonia Kowal of Zevin Asset Management talks about the future of the impact space and punishment profiteering among public companies.


Soundbites: Sonia Kowal, President of Zevin Asset Management

Angela Glover Blackwell, Founder and President of PolicyLink

Teresa Erikson of the Northern Plains Resource Council frames the impact of a declining coal industry on the communities dependent on their success.

Teresa Erikson, Staff Director of the Northern Plains Resource Council

Toni Johnson joins Kristin Hull, Director of Nia Global Solutions to discuss their approach to investing for greater social and financial outcomes.

Kristin Hull, Director of the Nia Community Fund

Francis Byrd, CEO of Byrd Governance Advisory

Tom Mitchell, Managing Director at Cambridge Associates

Toni Johnson talks with Laura Callanan, founding partner of Upstart Co-Lab, on the topic of social entrepreneurship and its unexpected heroes. 

Laura Callanan, Founding Partner at Upstart Co-Lab

T100: Patricia Farrar-Rivas, Veris Wealth Partners

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T00: Thomas Van Dyck, RBC Wealth Management

T00: Tom Mitchell, Cambridge Associates

T100: Brent Kessel, Abacus Wealth Partners

T100: Raúl Pomares, Sonen Capital

Toni Johnson sat down with the Housing Partnership Network's Tom Bledsoe to discuss HPN's work in places like New Orleans and the use of enterprise capital.

Soundbites: Adventures in Affordable Housing Finance

Toni Johnson spoke with Tamara Draut of Demos about her new book, the shifting demographics and conditions of the working class and upcoming work from Demos.

Soundbites: Tamara Draut, Vice President of Policy and Research at Demos

Jennifer Tescher of CFSI sits down with Toni Johnson to discuss how the financial industry is learning to evaluate its own success by measuring its impacts on consumers’ financial health.  

Soundbites: A New Way to Measure Success

Toni Johnson in discussion with Jennifer Pryce of the Calvert Foundation, on building communities and growing small business.


Soundbites: Investing in Your Own Backyard

Maggie McCullough of PolicyMap discusses how organizations and individuals can use data to understand their impact on a community level.

Soundbites: Mapping Data to Outcomes

Jesus Gerena of the Family Independence Initiative talks about their approach to community development, supporting the efforts of families in poverty with data.

Soundbites: Empowering Families Through Tech

Toni Johnson sits down with Matt Enstice, head of the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus Organization, a Heron grantee, to talk about BNMC's impact in the local community.

Soundbites: Investing in Change in Buffalo

Gabi Zolla from CAEL discusses the ways that they are changing the practices of workplaces and schools to better accommodate adult learners.

Soundbites: Making Sense of Adult Learning

Toni Johnson of Mission Out Loud, sits down with Heron's Clara Miller to discuss her latest letter to the field.

Soundbites: President's Letter 2017

Toni Johnson of Mission OutLoud sits down with Heron's Dana Bezerra to discuss Net Contribution and what that actually means.

Soundbites: Moving Toward A Net Contribution Lens

David Levine, President and CEO of the American Sustainable Business Council, on bringing sustainable businesses together to drive policy change.

Soundbites: Lobbying for a Values-Based Economy

Heron is excited to launch our 2019 Presidential Podcast! In 2018, we welcomed Dana Bezerra as the new president of the Heron Foundation, and we shifted our focus to working at the intersection of communities and capital markets. Now, following her one-year anniversary, we've asked Dana to reflect on what she's learned throughout her time at Heron, and give us a glimpse of where the foundation is going next. Reflecting on the role of power in the traditional investment universe, we’re thinking about a new investment process that places communities front and center.

Heron 2019 Presidential Podcast

We’re back with Episode Two of the Presidential Podcast where we talk to Dana Bezerra about placing community agency front and center in our work.

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