David founded ImpactAlpha to cover impact investing as a serious beat in the expectation it would become one – and it has. A veteran journalist, he has spotted big trends at The Wall Street Journal, the San Jose Mercury News and other newspapers, breaking stories on technology, social innovation and finance. Harvard Business Review and Amazon.com named "Breaking Windows," his book on Microsoft, one of the 'best business books of the year.' As a foreign correspondent, David reported from Asia and Latin America. His articles have appeared in Wired, Mother Jones, Newsweek, The Atlantic, Out, Stanford Social Innovation Review and other publications. As vice president of Encore.org, he helped establish encore careers as a new stage of work centered on social purpose. A 1996 Nieman Fellow at Harvard University, David has an M.S. in Journalism from Columbia University and a B.A. in politics from the University of California at Santa Cruz. He lives in Berkeley, Calif., with his husband and their son.
Recent stories by David Bank
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The unfortunate growth market of investing in refugees + building portfolios that value aging
Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank. Up this week: Conflict in the Middle East creates (even more) ...
Tsao Family Office builds a theory to go with its practice of impact investing (podcast)
Who would be funding this, if not us? That’s the question Bryan Goh, the CEO and chief investment officer of the Tsao Family ...
Building foundation – and personal – portfolios that value and support aging
By the end of this fall’s Denver gathering of the philanthropy network Grantmakers in Aging, it’s possible a few more foundations will choose ...
Redemption Bank builds an engine for Black wealth – in Utah (podcast)
The newest Black-owned bank in the US is in an affluent, mostly white suburb, nestled at the base of the Wasatch mountains just ...
Anthropic’s showdown with the Pentagon + How much value should private equity buyout funds share with workers
Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank. Up this week: Anthropic’s standoff with the Pentagon puts impact investors’ ...
In a dangerous world, impact investors look for the alpha in responsible AI
Anthropic’s standoff with the Pentagon highlights the confoundingly complex challenges of crafting effective guardrails around a transformative technology that is charting the fastest ...
States of the union take a policy lead in the US + Mast Reforestation’s new biomass burial carbon credit strategy
Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank and producer Isaac Silk. Up this week: As the Trump administration ...
This family foundation is ‘meeting the moment’ with all of its $100 million in assets (podcast)
The Russell Family Foundation is a regional small fry among the giant pension, insurance and sovereign wealth funds in the Net-Zero Asset Owner ...
NY Fed’s David Erickson on making missing markets to build healthy communities (podcast)
“The status quo is stupid, expensive and unfair.” That’s the first line of David Erickson’s book, “The Fifth Freedom,” which makes the case ...