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🌱 We’re excited to announce our most recent partnership with Darya Shkarupina and Artem Tsymbalov founders of HempHuis. The system change they envision is regeneration of our soil, water and air through hemp on an industrial scale by design. The wonderful capacity of this plant is used in a circular model, with environmental restoration and circularity at the heart of the project. We’re looking forward to supporting your endeavors and seeing Hemphuis unfold 💫 #systemchange #regenerationbydesign #timeisnow 

We are excited to announce the next pioneers we support with Kaira: Pomona vzw 🌱launches a new model for new farmers and citizens to start cooperative farms together 🌱empowers farmers, citizens, land owners and policy makers on regenerative agriculture through events, workshops and learning networks 🌱brings agriculture closer to citizens and vice versa - ‘if you ate today thank a farmer’ in the Pomona model, you will know the farmer who cared for the food you eat 🌱is a leverage for the short food chain We are happy to collaborate, empower and support you in your work Laura van Selm and team. Thank you for your daily commitment, hands in the earth for systemic ecological justice May the seeds you spread create waves of change 🌊 #societalimpact #systemchange #timeisnow #transformagriculture #agroecology

We were delighted to share our experiences and ideas as a philanthropic transition fund on the second Impact Finance Belgium event this week in the panel with Benoît Derenne of the Foundation for Future Generations and Francois de Borchgrave of KOIS moderated by Pascale Van Durme of Belgian Federation of Philanthropic Foundations and supported by Sybren Devoghel of King Baudouin Foundation on the role of foundations in impact investing. Our main take aways are: 🌱For philanthropy to be a genuine driving force for system change endowment funds need to be invested in alignment with their values and philanthropic activities, otherwise it is just ‘mopping with the tap wide open’. 🌱Philanthropy and impact investing are complementary: we need philanthropic money for system changing ideas to be nourished and unfold - impact investing needs strong system changing businesses to invest in 🌱Some projects that generate ecological and social value cannot generate financial value. We just need to acknowledge and accept that and that those projects need donation money to realise the system change. Thanks for having us and for the interesting exchanges! #financeforgood #timeisnow #philanthropy #impactinvesting 

💫What a crowd, what a circle, what vibe! Very grateful for our first Kaira Rise & Raise for system change last week. 🌈It gave a real energy boost seeing our community be together live, new connections being made, so many different perspectives and all eager to contribute to just system change. To feel such an enthusiasm on the pioneering projects we support means a great deal to us. Thank you all for your inspiring work and your sharing about it. Olivia Lopez Calderon, Lisa Eeraerts, Anneleen De Bonte, @Ines Eshun Soe Nsuki, Yasmina El Kaddouri, Laura van Selm, Auguste Colle, Louis De Jaeger 🌱The space on pioneering in system change was tangible and vibrant which makes us hopeful. Shout out to the team 👏🏼🙏🏼 Gloria Ghéquière Luka De Bruyckere Carmen Dupont Yonca Braeckman Philippe P. Mark Duyck Kurt Peleman Hadiel Holail Mohamed Special thanks to Myleen Verstraete for hosting and supporting us so generously. Thank you all for being with us 🙏🏼 👉🏼For those who missed it but would like to support our work. Please let us know at hello@kairafund.org

⚡️We are so delighted to gather with our community during the very first edition of Kaira Rise & Raise for system change this Thursday the 21st of September! 🤗 Looking forward to see all the pioneers we support, our board members and the philanthropists that support us, together. Thank you Trends Tendances Magazine and Myrte De Decker to bring this piece on how we intend to catalyse systems change. Thank you Myleen Verstraete for your hospitality and generosity 🙏🏼 Let’s spread system change together 🌱 #systemchange #Kairacommunity #timeisnow #riseandraiseforsystemchange