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America is capable of innovating our system to end rural child poverty over time, and ensure opportunity for all. The RIDER initiative, a collaboration led by Rural Opportunity Institute, SVT Group and the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, has explored what this system is made of, and what it will take to realize. If you share the vision of an America where all rural children are born into opportunity, we invite you to get involved. Learn more about this piece, and connect with us here: https://lnkd.in/gcTJyXpa. #economythatworksforall #federalreserve #ruralopportunity #ruralpoverty #Americaninnovation #leadership #sustainableag #climate #security #traumainformed #ruralinnovation #impactmanagement #impactaccounting #systemsthinking #systemicphilanthropy

[Last chance! 🚨] This Friday (6/28) Sara Olsen and our dear friends Graham Palmer and Vichi Jagannathan will host a hybrid event at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York in Manhattan. We're bringing together impact analysts, local leaders, social innovators, technologists, government partners, investors, and philanthropists working to shift the systems that cause persistent poverty and unlock the economic potential of rural America, and we want *you* to join this coalition. If you're in, RSVP to attend in person or tune in remotely using the link below: https://lnkd.in/dHuZFRZJ

Venture capitalists have profited handsomely from innovative ventures, but value hasn’t always been shared with other stakeholders. What if we developed a new model for measuring the impact of investments? One that measured happiness and well-being? James Dudfield, Sara Olsen, and Aaron Mallett of SVT Group, Jed Emerson of AlTi Tiedemann Global, and Eric Ng of Happiness Capital | Certified B Corp explain the Happiness Return Framework and how venture capital firms can use this model to incorporate the happiness and well-being of all stakeholders into investment decisions: “Unless there is a coherent purpose to the measurement approach, related to both improving the well-being of all the affected parties and to company financial health, ESG measures do not necessarily address the systemic risks that business and investment pose to human well-being.”

SVT's CEO and Founder Sara Olsen will be hosting a conversation each month to explore the dynamics of the system where it pays to do good. Our first DoGOO: Do Good, Make Money call is tomorrow from 11:00 AM-12:00PM Pacific Time. The dominant economic system rewards players who extract value and use others to pay for the consequences. But a new system is emerging where values, governance, and market forces are harnessed to ensure well-being for all. We're all a part of this, and we can speed the transition by working together. We all know that today, incentives are completely upside down: people get paid more when they foist harms onto society and extract from the common good. You may know a lot of bright spots illustrating how it can actually happen. They include very concrete cases, like KOKO Networks and ReSeed.farm, which harness carbon emission reductions from fuel switching and soil carbon sequestration to drive value to small farmers and especially the most marginalized households. And they include less tangible cases that have to do with the systems capitalism itself runs on, and how we gauge and build trust in value itself, like the IPCC Livelihood Vulnerability Index (LVI) baked into a carbon credit. Markets are different than they were 300 years ago when the accounting we use today was codified. That's why innovators in the less-tangible, but critically important accounting and quality assurance worlds are also important. The path is not going to be smooth as we all figure out how to get this new system online. Trust is key, so is innovation, and the capacity to take risks. The question is...how can YOU get paid to do good? Maybe you're getting paid already, but you're not sure what your impact really is, or if this is the right place to be spending your time. But you know there is potential! If you learn from examples of people who have figured out how to get the incentives right, you can feel great about furthering your impact. In the DoGOO series, Sara will lay out how these systems work, how they fit together to help bring the new system online that can achieve great things, like the end of poverty, and planetary-scale climate solutions... and how this translates into healthy revenues for those who take up the challenge. Today's incentives are upside down. But the system is shifting, and that's an opportunity. DOGOO: Do Good, Make Money...let's figure it out together! Register in advance on the link below.

SVT Group, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, and Rural Opportunity Institute (ROI) invite you to help develop the prototype concepts that have emerged from our systems thinking initiative, RIDER, aiming to shift the systemic forces that, over time, will bring an end to rural American poverty. RIDER, which stands for Rural Innovation Done Right, assesses the forces that are keeping innovations with proven impact from realizing their full potential. Seeking insights from impact arenas all across the economy, as our colleague ROI's Seth Saeugling puts it, we're smashing worlds: combining deep community know-how and leadership, standardized trust and accountability mechanisms, and innovation methods from MIT, NASA and beyond. In New York, we'll be sharing the exciting findings from the six design sessions and dozens of conversations from Phase 2 of the RIDER design process. Participants will have the chance to weigh in on a set of proposed prototypes of solutions developed through this inclusive process. We'll ask how participants want to see the RIDER pilot happen, what you would like to help do, and who should collaborate in Phase 3, the Pilot.   If you've been in impact for a while and have a growing feeling in your gut that says something needs to change to create more meaningful results, let's come together to address this. Email info@svtgroup.net today to attend our June 28 design session at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York! Stay tuned to learn more about the conversations that took place during these design sessions and the system thinking process used throughout. Below is a quick look at participants' insights clustering around themes from the design sessions!

On Friday, June 28, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, in partnership with the Rural Opportunity Institute and SVT Group, will host a hybrid event focused on case studies and strategies for tapping the economic potential of rural America. The event will feature rural innovators working to eradicate poverty in their communities. The public event will follow an invitation-only roundtable discussion on rural innovation, impact management, and impact investing. This one-of-a-kind event showcases the RIDER challenge: SVT and ROI’s initiative to “smash worlds” together to advance our collective work toward a day when our way of working naturally results in the end of poverty. We invite systems innovators and impact management professionals, the media, corporations, investors, grassroots organizations, policymakers, rural stakeholders and more to engage. In-person registration closes at the end of day June 25, 2024. Reach out to learn more! https://lnkd.in/dHuZFRZJ

What forces explain the current level of resources to solve generational challenges like rural American poverty? How might the combination of systems thinking and impact management enable scale-up of solutions proven to work? Read our latest newsletter to engage with us in addressing these challenges. https://lnkd.in/gSn8uMJB

Happening tonight: Ever wonder what your social return on investment is? Whether you're getting started with figuring out how to approach measuring your social impact, or experiencing frustration with the disconnect between what funders are looking for and what is happening on the ground, this discussion will help shed light on how to move to a more discerning and constructive approach. Join Sara Olsen, Stefano Rumi and Emily Kane Miller today at 5PM Pacific! https://lnkd.in/gv6SHAFj #socialimpact #SROI #impactinvesting #realimpact

Keep your finger on the pulse of the fast-changing world of social impact measurement! Join Sara next Monday as she and practitioner-scholar Stefano Rumi explore the basics and latest trends. #socialimpact #impactmanagement #impactinvesting #socialvalue

Join SVT's Sara Olsen and Amit Bouri of The Global Impact Investing Network this week at the Impact Investment Summit Asia Pacific as they discuss "Harmony in Impact: The Vital Role of Investors in Advancing Peace SDGs Worldwide." They will explore the intersection of impact investing, peace and Sustainable Development Goals, and delve into the pivotal role investors [*can* but do not necessarily] play in fostering global harmony and sustainable progress. As a 25-year impact management practitioner, Sara will be sharing SVT Group's work with Happiness Capital | Certified B Corp and the Happiness Returns approach; the role investors play in the ecosystem that includes individual leadership, asset owner mandates, regulatory frameworks, specialized accounting and audit functions; and the will to drive beyond superficiality to meaningful impact. #SDG #impactinvesting #peaceandsecurity #impactmanagement #happiness https://lnkd.in/gZdwGnx