We’re excited to have Fiona McRaith, Senior Manager and Advisor to the President & CEO of Bezos Earth Fund, as a Headlining Speaker at the 2024 #GYEOSummit! Learn more about Youth Driving the Green Economy and secure your spot at the Summit today: https://shorturl.at/gJQX3
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Below you will find a list of 20 companies from Kentucky and Southern Indiana that we are keeping in eye on next year based on what they have done in 2023 — in spite of a less than ideal climate for raising capital — and what we think they might do in 2024. https://archive.fo/EhzG1
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🌿 Navigating Climate Investing: Five Archetypes for Family Offices Embarking on a climate-conscious investment journey? CREO, a trailblazing nonprofit, reveals insights to guide families in their climate aspirations. In their latest report, they unveil five archetypes, from "Carve-outs" to "Aligners," helping families optimize their impact. #ClimateInvesting #SustainableFinance #FamilyOffice #ImpactInvesting Read More: https://lnkd.in/ezZuhSiu
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As with so many things, REAL CHANGE begins on #mainstreet(s) and in COMMUNITIES WORKING TOGETHER AND LEVERAGING RESOURCES to increase impact! Happy to be part of this growing network... #greenfinance #greenenergy #greeneconomy
Making the National Clean Investment Fund work means having strong community partnerships. That is the bread and butter of the work #ClimateUnited does. Our CEO Beth Bafford lays out the stakes here: https://bit.ly/3Hdte9E
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"Philanthropy needs to act as an accelerant...we need to break the mold of climate philanthropy representing only 2% of total giving." I completely agree with this insight shared by John Kerry during the #WEF24 Giving to Amplify Earth Action (GAEA) panel. To fast track a nature positive economy, we need early stage, risk-taking, catalytic capital. We also need to build public-private partnerships between private capital, governments, civil society and philanthropy. In the year ahead, UBS Optimus Foundation will continue to invest catalytic capital, leverage #blendedfinance and drive partnerships and collective philanthropy to address the climate and nature crisis. Have you heard anything that's really resonated with you this week at the World Economic Forum? #shareUBS #climatefinance
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In S3E2 of #ReimaginingGovernment, we dive into a critical discussion on how traditional funding models often hoard power and prioritise results over community needs. Join us as we explore innovative approaches to empower communities and ensure funding models are truly effective. Hear from: 🗣️Ankit Gupta, Red Umbrella Fund & Global Fund for Women 🗣️Will Wade and Tom Pruunsild, Climate KIC 🎧 Discover how we can better align funding with real community needs and drive meaningful impact: https://hubs.ly/Q02QKJg-0 #SocialImpact #FundingModels #CommunityEmpowerment
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In a revealing survey, only 5% of foundations were found to truly align their investments with their missions, despite 92% being part of impact investing networks. This stark discrepancy highlights a broader issue: many foundations likely inadvertently fuel the problems they aim to solve through their non-aligned investments. It's time to demand more than just token shifts towards mission-aligned investing. We must advocate for 100% alignment and hold these organizations accountable, potentially reevaluating their tax-exempt status if they fail to meet this standard. Let's commend those like the Skoll Foundation for their genuine efforts, but remember, aligning investments with mission values should be the norm, not the exception. #Philanthropy #ImpactInvesting #MissionDrivenInvestment https://lnkd.in/gvn3kbXh
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Alright team we're almost there... Lesson 9 of 10 from my failed Upward fundraise. 📚 Lesson 9: VCs have theses / frameworks for how they invest. If you don’t fit their framework, 99% of the time they’ll just say “no” off the bat. This was tough for us because many climate funds invested in sector specific solutions (ex. food & ag, energy, water, mobility, etc.). Given that we approached the climate problem in a different way, we just didn’t fit how many climate VCs thought about investing. And the non-climate VCs often didn’t do many climate-specific investments. 🤔 The Takeaway The broader lesson here is that if you’re trying to raise VC money for your business, you need to deeply understand how VCs make investment decisions. And then make sure that your business aligns well with that process. Fundraising is HARD. Basically, every founder I’ve ever talked to agrees on that point. If you want to go the venture route, you have to understand how to position your business to make it as easy as possible.
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Financial sustainability is critical to any conversation about successful transitions and true locally led development. 💡 After transition, raising funds as a new local entity can be difficult, and decisions made before, during, and after a transition can have wide-ranging effects on a new organization’s ability to meet these challenges. We're busy updating our Practical Guidelines for Financial Sustainability. Check out the first iteration here! 🔗 https://ow.ly/etxK50STZ4S Search for Common Ground Peace Direct ConnexUs
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Shifting Power in Times of Crisis This panel was brilliant and uplifting. The topic needs a full day of discussion and action design but within the time available, the moderator and panelists delivered. My takeaways: it is possible to integrate academic feminism and thoughtful praxis when skilled and purposeful humans are engaged. We learnt of specific examples of power shifted despite the times. My delight: the panel was willing to be pushed by each other and the participants to trouble power and go way beyond definitions of types of philanthropy and investing. My ask: this group of thinkers and do-era needs to specifically address what these reflections mean for Bretton Woods institutions and private capital. Why? Because DFIs, institutional capital and several orders of magnitude larger than philanthropy. Expanding how we frame the challenge is in my view perhaps the most important way of shifting power away from current holders. The UN conference next year on financing development is in desperate need of ideas that draw from fresh insights and more imaginative futures. Thanks again to the organizers and the oustanding panelists and moderator. Axe
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Join me in London with inLeticia Peguero at the #NextFrontiers2024 Conference. The Next Frontiers conference 2024 invites people from across the finance ecosystem to explore transformative approaches to wealth management and redistribution, philanthropy, and investment. I am honored to join brilliant folks. Cassie Robinson Gauri van Gulik Vicki Saunders (She/Her)
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"Every investment leaves a mark. Many of the non-aligned investments have likely fueled the very issues these foundations aim to solve. Their vast portfolios have backed companies that view employees merely as costs, suppressing wages; tech giants that have weakened democracies, endangered our children, and divided us; businesses with supply chains involving child labor; and corporations whose environmental footprint has hastened the climate crisis. Given that these foundations typically allocate about 7% of their funds to their causes, it's not hard to imagine that the negative impacts of the other 93% could completely overshadow the good done by their grants. Without applying the same mission-driven scrutiny to their investments, it's plausible that these foundations might be doing more harm than good."
In a revealing survey, only 5% of foundations were found to truly align their investments with their missions, despite 92% being part of impact investing networks. This stark discrepancy highlights a broader issue: many foundations likely inadvertently fuel the problems they aim to solve through their non-aligned investments. It's time to demand more than just token shifts towards mission-aligned investing. We must advocate for 100% alignment and hold these organizations accountable, potentially reevaluating their tax-exempt status if they fail to meet this standard. Let's commend those like the Skoll Foundation for their genuine efforts, but remember, aligning investments with mission values should be the norm, not the exception. #Philanthropy #ImpactInvesting #MissionDrivenInvestment https://lnkd.in/gvn3kbXh
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