At my daughter’s kindergarten open house this week, her teacher unveiled the theme for the year: Growth Over Time. “The important thing isn’t where you start or where you end up,” she told us. “What’s important is that you grow every day." In this same spirit of growth, I’m excited to share two milestones today:
1. We are renaming to Elemental Impact to mark our 15 year anniversary and our expansion to a broader investing platform, and
2. We are launching a $100M funding program and opening applications for entrepreneurs to access capital from the US EPA’s Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund.
Read about why we're renaming, and our plans for this next chapter as we continue to support projects with deep community impact https://lnkd.in/g4KgYtCj
I am so grateful to our team (check them out below... they were kindergarteners once too!), partners, and teachers -- and each and every one of YOU who has contributed to this journey 💚
One of my greatest teachers, the late Pono Shim, wrote me a note a few years ago about learning and the practice of aloha. He said: aloha and leadership aren’t something to know but rather something to struggle with. It is like a martial art: we learn a move and practice, learn a new move and practice, and practice and practice and practice until one day there are no more moves, only movement.
This is our definition of Growth Over Time.
Avra van der Zee, Melissa Uhl, Lauren Tonokawa, Mike Jackson, Ramsay Siegal, Austin Blackmon, Matt Logan, Brianna Rodrigues, Christina Angelides, Sara B. Chandler, Mark Chambers, Aparna Reddy, Danielle J. Harris, Danya Hakeem, Mike Curtis, Krystle Jackson, +++