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SUMMARY:Investing in Nature Through the Public Equity Markets
DESCRIPTION:Impact Entrepreneur\n\nWednesday\, August 26\, 202610:53 PM - 10:53 PM\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBusinesses directly impact biodiversity through their operations and supply chains. According to the World Economic Forum\, three socio-economic production and consumption systems — food\, infrastructure\, and energy — are responsible for the largest pressures on biodiversity. In fact\, approximately 80% of threatened and near-threatened species are currently endangered by these three systems with the impacts from food\, land\, and ocean use posing by far the greatest biodiversity threat. Accordingly\, those companies that recognize the biodiversity-related risks to their companies and our planet\, and actively work to transform their business models to support the regeneration of nature\, can provide compelling investment opportunities for capital market participants. Through investment in solution-oriented companies operating in these three socio-economic systems\, investors can help transform individual industries\, build a more robust global economy and\, ultimately\, ensure the vitality of our planet.\n— From Investing in Nature Through the Public Equity Markets\nJoin us for a Deep Dive with Vicki Benjamin\, Andrew Niebler and Robert Clapham\, authors of the IE Magazine article Investing in Nature Through the Public Equity Markets. \n\n\nAbout Our Deep Dives\nDeep Dives are hour-long Zoom Meetings: Live Q&A Sessions (as opposed to our Zoom Webinars\, where the audience is in View-Only Mode) between the author(s) or subjects of a Magazine article and our members. Be sure to read the article in question and come bearing questions! \n\n\n\n\n\n\nFeatured Guest\n\n\nVicki BenjaminVicki Benjamin is a co-founder of the Adviser and has been its Chief Executive Officer since it commenced operations as an investment adviser in 2018. Vicki maintains a 57% ownership stake in KBC. Ms. Benjamin was a partner at KPMG from September 2005 until February 2015\, when she joined Calvert Investments\, Inc. as its Chief Financial Officer. She served as the President of Calvert Investments\, Inc. from January 2017 through June 2020. She received a B.A. from the University of New Hampshire and an M.B.A. from Bentley University McCallum Graduate School of Business. \n\n\nAndrew NieblerAndrew Neibler is a co-founder of the Adviser and has been its Executive Vice President\, General Counsel\, and Chief Compliance Officer since it commenced operations as an investment adviser in 2018. Andrew maintains a 43% ownership stake in KBC. From January 2006 through June 2019\, Mr. Niebler served in progressively more senior roles within the legal department of Calvert Investments\, Inc.\, including General Counsel and Senior Vice President from January 2017 through June 2019. Prior to joining Calvert\, Mr. Niebler held positions as a securities law attorney at Cleary\, Gottlieb\, Steen & Hamilton LLP and a foreign exchange trader and international economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. He received an A.B. from Princeton University and a J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center. \n\n\nRobert ClaphamRobert Clapham is an equity Research Analyst with Karner Blue Capital LLC\, an asset manager based in Bethesda\, MD that specializes in biodiversity-focused portfolios. He holds a BBA in Finance and Statistics from George Washington University and is responsible for the Pharmaceutical & Biotechnology\, as well as Chemical industries.
URL:https://impactentrepreneur.com/event/investing-in-nature-through-the-public-equity-markets/
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SUMMARY:Fighting Climate Change Through SMEs
DESCRIPTION:Impact Entrepreneur\n\nWednesday\, August 26\, 202610:53 PM - 10:53 PM\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAt a time when the world faces an unbelievably bleak future due to the state of the earth’s climate\, SMEs are often overlooked as part of the solution to climate change\, despite having an enormous impact on their communities and local economies. Attention is primarily given to investing in climate mitigation (renewable energy) and resilient infrastructure for adaptation. What we are overlooking is that SMEs can create local solutions that drive adaptation and build resilience to climate change\, becoming agents of climate resilience themselves\, if given the right tools and investment\, which they currently do not have.\n— From "Fighting Climate Change Through SMEs"\nJoin us for a Deep Dive with Agnes Dazewicz\, author of the IE Magazine article Fighting Climate Change Through SMEs. \n\n\nAbout Our Deep Dives\nDeep Dives are hour-long Zoom Meetings: Live Q&A Sessions (as opposed to our Zoom Webinars\, where the audience is in View-Only Mode) between the author(s) or subjects of a Magazine article and our members. Be sure to read the article in question and come bearing questions! \n\n\n\n\n\n\nFeatured Guest\n\n\nAgnes DasewiczAgnes Dasewicz is the CEO of Small Enterprise Assistance Funds (SEAF)\, a leader in impact investing in emerging and frontier markets for over 30 years\, investing in local entrepreneurs with a focus on climate change\, food security\, and inclusion. Agnes has more than 25 years of experience in private equity and impact investing\, including launching a new impact investing fund and starting investment initiatives for the U.S. government and the World Bank Group.
URL:https://impactentrepreneur.com/event/fighting-climate-change-through-smes/
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SUMMARY:Activating Impact Investors at Scale to Achieve the SDGs
DESCRIPTION:Impact EntrepreneurWednesday\, August 26\, 202610:53 PM - 10:53 PM\n\n\nAccording to the United Nations\, “between $3.3-4.5 trillion per year needs to be mobilized if we hope to achieve the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development”. Much of that funding needs to go to efficiently capitalizing impactful\, entrepreneurial business solutions. There are growing numbers of entrepreneurship centers and accelerators devoted to impact entrepreneurship\, yet there are relatively few centers and accelerators focused on nurturing and activating new impact investors. \nHow do we create an effective infrastructure to welcome and activate the thousands of high-net-worth individuals\, hundred thousand foundations\, four thousand family offices\, and thousands of corporations that are primed to become impact investors? What are the most efficient and effective ways to engage\, educate\, and activate them? \nIn this live fireside chat and audience Q&A\, Impact Entrepreneur’s Laurie Lane-Zucker welcomes Stephanie Gripne\, founder and CEO of the Impact Finance Center\, for a discussion of how to activate impact investors at scale and best direct their capital to early-stage impact enterprises. \nFeatured Guest\nStephanie GripneStephanie Gripne founded Impact Finance Center to develop the groundwork for a model that identifies\, educates\, and activates said investors. Investor Clubs create a marketplace for these investors to discover investment opportunities that align with their values. In addition to these clubs\, the Impact Investing Institute was founded as an Ed Tech platform to bring the idea of Full Spectrum Capital to a broader audience\, no matter what their needs are. Lauded by Forbes as “the Steve Jobs of impact investing”\, Stephanie is continuously innovating Impact Finance Center’s model\, which empowers asset owners to become the philanthropists and impact investors they dare to be. Early evaluation efforts of her work indicate that 300 direct impact investments totaling over $500M have been completed. \nHost\nLaurie Lane-ZuckerLaurie Lane-Zucker is Founder and CEO of Impact Entrepreneur\, PBC\, an impact economy business that hosts the Impact Entrepreneur Network — a large\, global network of “systems-minded” entrepreneurs\, investors\, and scholars of social and environmental innovation — and editor and publisher of Impact Entrepreneur\, a digital magazine covering the emerging Impact Economy. For over 30 years\, Laurie has been a “pioneer” (Forbes) and recognized leader in sustainability\, social enterprise\, and impact investing. Laurie was the founding Executive Director of the international environmental organization\, Orion Society\, which publishes the celebrated Orion Magazine\, as well as the founder of a global sustainability think-tank\, the Triad Institute\, and Hotfrog\, a Founding B Corporation\, GIIRS Pioneer Company\, and the first company ever to complete an equity transaction on an impact investment exchange. Laurie is the bestselling and multiple award-winning publisher and editor of books and magazines on sustainability and social impact — having worked with such acclaimed authors as Wendell Berry\, Barry Lopez\, Terry Tempest Williams\, and David James Duncan — and the author of numerous articles on entrepreneurship and impact investing. Laurie is contributing author to the academic textbook from World Scientific\, Sustainability: Business and Investment Implications. His new book\, The Impact Entrepreneur Breakthrough: A Field Manual for the Regenerative Economy\, will be pubished by Berrett-Koehler in 2026\, with global distribution by Penguin Random House.
URL:https://impactentrepreneur.com/event/activating-impact-investors-at-scale-to-achieve-the-sdgs/
CATEGORIES:Luminarias,Webinars
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211209T120000
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SUMMARY:Reimagining Identity and Power in the Impact Economy
DESCRIPTION:Impact EntrepreneurWednesday\, August 26\, 202610:53 PM - 10:53 PM\n\n\nIn a recent Impact Entrepreneur Magazine article\, Toni Johnson asserts that “Democracies and their supporting institutions are bleeding faith in themselves. But they can be revitalized. We can finish out the first half of this century by working to renew faith in each other.” \nWhat does it mean to seek a common story and define the common good to build a sustainable and equitable future when the partisan media and social media abound with divisiveness\, and antagonism and mistrust sit between relatives at the Thanksgiving table? \nHow do we collectively stand against injustices and build an impact economy that works for every woman and man and for the more-than-human world when individuals and institutions with wealth and power focus immense resources at keeping us separate and weak? These are not easy questions\, and the answers are often even more challenging. \nIn this Deep Dive conversation with members\, Impact Entrepreneur welcomes journalist Toni Johnson to discuss how we can reimagine how we show up and share power more equitably as we work together to construct an impact economy. \nAbout Our Deep Dives\nDeep Dives are hour-long Zoom Meetings: Live Q&A Sessions (as opposed to our Zoom Webinars\, where the audience is in View-Only Mode) between the author(s) or subjects of a Magazine article and our members. Be sure to read the article in question and come bearing questions! \nFeatured Guest\nToni JohnsonToni Johnson is CEO and founder of Mission OutLoud\, which uses creative communications strategy and content to unleash clients’ voices and cut through the noise. She is on the finance committee for the Christopher Reynolds Foundation and is the former vice president of knowledge and influence for the Heron Foundation.
URL:https://impactentrepreneur.com/event/reimagining-identity-and-power-in-the-impact-economy/
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LOCATION:https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82270052761
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211201T133000
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SUMMARY:Impact Investing at the Crossroads
DESCRIPTION:Impact EntrepreneurWednesday\, August 26\, 202610:53 PM - 10:53 PM\n\n\nIn his recent Impact Entrepreneur Magazine article\, Impact Investing Needs Better Returns to be Sustainable\, growth equity investor Clemens Feil argues that\, “the key issue is that lower returns decrease the attractiveness of the impact investing industry. Over time\, commercial interest in it will wane\, reducing the available capital\, and thus creating a vicious cycle that makes it harder for local entrepreneurs to build businesses and create prosperity. Therefore\, the highest priority for emerging markets impact investors must be to improve returns.” \nIn contrast\, impact investor and author (Adventure Finance) Aunnie Patton Power\, in an Impact Entrepreneur webinar\, asserts that “private equity is not correct for 99% of impact enterprises”\, in part due to the gulf separating the expectations between equity investors and impact enterprises. She proposes a range of more attractive\, patient\, and\, at times\, “concessionary” options\, including\, in a recent IE Magazine article\, Revenue-based Financing. \nHow should one balance these two visions? Or are they incompatible with each other? If so\, what does it mean for the future of impact investing and the funding of impact enterprises? In this Impact Entrepreneur live fireside chat and audience Q&A\, Impact Entrepreneur’s Laurie Lane-Zucker welcomes IE Magazine authors Clemens Feil and Aunnie Patton Power to discuss their contrasting perspectives on impact investing and financing impact enterprises. \nFeatured Guests\nClemens FeilClemens Feil is a growth equity investment professional at the largest global development finance institution focused on the private sector in developing countries. Clemens has a decade of private equity investing experience\, including at Bain Capital\, Clayton\, Dubilier & Rice (CD&R)\, and Neuberger Berman. Clemens has a BSc from the London School of Economics (LSE)\, an MA from Columbia University\, and an MBA from Harvard Business School. \nAunnie Patton PowerAunnie Patton Power is a university lecturer on Innovative Finance\, Impact Investing and Technology for Impact and an advisor on these topics globally. At the University of Oxford's Saïd Business School\, she holds the title Associate Fellow as well as Entrepreneur in Residence at the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship. She is also Adjunct Faculty at the University of Cape Town’s Graduate School of Business and a Visiting Fellow at the London School of Economics’ Marshall Institute for Philanthropy and Social Entrepreneurship. She also is a founding member of the Dazzle Angels\, a female angel investing group. A reformed M&A investment banker\, Aunnie began her impact investing career in 2010 with Unitus Capital in Bangalore and has since worked with start-ups\, intermediaries\, funds\, family offices\, foundations\, corporates\, and governments across Africa\, Asia\, Europe\, and North America. Aunnie's work has been published throughout the world\, including by the Oxford University Press\, the Stanford Social Innovation Review\, the World Economic Forum\, and as Massive Open Online Courses on Coursera and GetSmarter. \nHost\nLaurie Lane-ZuckerLaurie Lane-Zucker is Founder and CEO of Impact Entrepreneur\, PBC\, an impact economy business that hosts the Impact Entrepreneur Network — a large\, global network of “systems-minded” entrepreneurs\, investors\, and scholars of social and environmental innovation — and editor and publisher of Impact Entrepreneur\, a digital magazine covering the emerging Impact Economy. For over 30 years\, Laurie has been a “pioneer” (Forbes) and recognized leader in sustainability\, social enterprise\, and impact investing. Laurie was the founding Executive Director of the international environmental organization\, Orion Society\, which publishes the celebrated Orion Magazine\, as well as the founder of a global sustainability think-tank\, the Triad Institute\, and Hotfrog\, a Founding B Corporation\, GIIRS Pioneer Company\, and the first company ever to complete an equity transaction on an impact investment exchange. Laurie is the bestselling and multiple award-winning publisher and editor of books and magazines on sustainability and social impact — having worked with such acclaimed authors as Wendell Berry\, Barry Lopez\, Terry Tempest Williams\, and David James Duncan — and the author of numerous articles on entrepreneurship and impact investing. Laurie is contributing author to the academic textbook from World Scientific\, Sustainability: Business and Investment Implications. His new book\, The Impact Entrepreneur Breakthrough: A Field Manual for the Regenerative Economy\, will be pubished by Berrett-Koehler in 2026\, with global distribution by Penguin Random House.
URL:https://impactentrepreneur.com/event/impact-investing-at-the-crossroads/
CATEGORIES:Luminarias,Webinars
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LOCATION:https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88072637599
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SUMMARY:ESG: The Fancy-ful Narrative
DESCRIPTION:Impact EntrepreneurWednesday\, August 26\, 202610:53 PM - 10:53 PM\n\n\nTo me\, ESG/impact investing/social investing — and just plain old investing\, for heavens’ sakes — is one piece and only one piece of a larger effort to alter incentives up and down the economy. \n— Clara Miller\, ESG: The Fancy-ful Narrative \nJoin us for a Deep Dive with Clara Miller\, author of the IE Magazine article\, ESG: The Fancy-ful Narrative. \nAbout Our Deep Dives\nDeep Dives are hour-long Zoom Meetings: Live Q&A Sessions (as opposed to our Zoom Webinars\, where the audience is in View-Only Mode) between the author(s) or subjects of a Magazine article and our members. Be sure to read the article in question and come bearing questions! \nFeatured Guest\nClemens FeilClemens Feil is a growth equity investment professional at the International Finance Corporation (IFC)\, the largest global development finance institution focused on the private sector in developing countries. \nHe has spent the majority of his 14-year private equity career investing in emerging markets and has led investments in India\, Vietnam\, Pakistan\, Colombia\, and more. Prior to joining IFC in 2020\, he worked at Bain Capital\, Clayton\, Dubilier & Rice (CD&R)\, and Neuberger Berman. \nBeyond his professional endeavors\, Clemens consistently advocates for leveraging private equity to create positive social and environmental change in emerging markets. His perspectives on the topic have been featured in outlets such as Impact Entrepreneur\, Impact Alpha\, Harvard Business School cases\, and the Clayton Christensen Institute. \nClemens has a BSc from the London School of Economics (LSE)\, an MA from Columbia University\, and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
URL:https://impactentrepreneur.com/event/esg-the-fancy-ful-narrative/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211111T120000
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SUMMARY:Law and the Impact Economy
DESCRIPTION:Impact Entrepreneur\n\nWednesday\, August 26\, 202610:53 PM - 10:53 PM\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Impact Economy requires a fundamental reassessment of the goals and practices of business and finance. Policies and laws can be either a help or hindrance in moving the economy toward authentic sustainability and supporting businesses that have measurable social and/or environmental aims built into their DNA. \nLawyers play a critical role in determining how the necessary paradigm shift is done\, financed\, and regulated\, and how the ecosystem functions. For example\, the foundational notions of stakeholder capitalism and circular economy need not only clarifying principles and effective measures but also a bulletproof set of mechanisms for them to not only be usefully implemented but truly transformational. \nIn practice\, when the triple bottom line enters seriously into the conversation\, many conventional assumptions and methodologies break\, and new models and instruments need to be crafted. Lawyers are needed to navigate this increasingly complex geography — testing their values\, legal acumen\, and creativity. \nIn this live fireside chat and audience Q&A\, Impact Entrepreneur’s Laurie Lane-Zucker welcomes distinguished attorney Chintan Panchal\, who has co-created and facilitated the launch of numerous scalable and investible solutions that address social and environmental targets for clients around the world. The conversation will center on the role of the law and of lawyers in a rapidly changing landscape driven by impact enterprise and finance. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nFeatured Guest\n\n\nChintan PanchalA transformative figure and influencer since the early days of impact investing\, Chintan Panchal is recognized for his ability to use the levers of finance and law to create novel transaction frameworks that address some of the most pressing global challenges around the world. Chintan is a Founding Partner and head of the U.S. region at RPCK\, Rastegar Panchal\, a global boutique law firm that specializes in co-creating and facilitating the launch of scalable and investible solutions that address social and environmental targets. \nRPCK works closely with leading family offices and foundations\, high growth companies\, and investment funds around the globe and across a broad spectrum of industries on a range of capital investments that generate social and environmental impact alongside market rate\, risk-adjusted financial returns. \nChintan has helped architect a number of groundbreaking transactions for clients around the world that have become templates for the rest of the industry\, and is a recognized speaker at industry conferences around the country. \n\n\nHost\n\n\nLaurie Lane-ZuckerLaurie Lane-Zucker is Founder and CEO of Impact Entrepreneur\, PBC\, an impact economy business that hosts the Impact Entrepreneur Network — a large\, global network of “systems-minded” entrepreneurs\, investors\, and scholars of social and environmental innovation — and editor and publisher of Impact Entrepreneur\, a digital magazine covering the emerging Impact Economy. For over 30 years\, Laurie has been a “pioneer” (Forbes) and recognized leader in sustainability\, social enterprise\, and impact investing. Laurie was the founding Executive Director of the international environmental organization\, Orion Society\, which publishes the celebrated Orion Magazine\, as well as the founder of a global sustainability think-tank\, the Triad Institute\, and Hotfrog\, a Founding B Corporation\, GIIRS Pioneer Company\, and the first company ever to complete an equity transaction on an impact investment exchange. Laurie is the bestselling and multiple award-winning publisher and editor of books and magazines on sustainability and social impact — having worked with such acclaimed authors as Wendell Berry\, Barry Lopez\, Terry Tempest Williams\, and David James Duncan — and the author of numerous articles on entrepreneurship and impact investing. Laurie is contributing author to the academic textbook from World Scientific\, Sustainability: Business and Investment Implications. His new book\, The Impact Entrepreneur Breakthrough: A Field Manual for the Regenerative Economy\, will be pubished by Berrett-Koehler in 2026\, with global distribution by Penguin Random House.
URL:https://impactentrepreneur.com/event/law-and-the-impact-economy-with-chintan-panchal/
CATEGORIES:Luminarias,Webinars
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LOCATION:https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83515532463
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211102T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211102T130000
DTSTAMP:20260327T122852Z
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SUMMARY:Impact Investment Caught Out
DESCRIPTION:Impact EntrepreneurWednesday\, August 26\, 202610:53 PM - 10:53 PM\n\n\nWhile there are clearly many players active in the space\, and while interest is growing and the understanding of impact strategies is deepening\, there is still a marked concentration of activity in the major Western capitals\, such as New York and London\, as well as\, to a certain extent\, Paris\, Zurich\, and Geneva\, where impact and wealth management are closely tied together. This is not to say that there hasn’t been some progress in applying impact investment principles to global development. It simply is that the rest of the world is still not where the center of gravity of impact investing is located.\n— From Impact Investment Caught Out by Dr. Gillian Marcelle\nJoin us for a Deep Dive with Dr. Gillian Marcelle\, author of the IE Magazine article Impact Investment Caught Out. \nAbout Our Deep Dives\nDeep Dives are hour-long Zoom Meetings: Live Q&A Sessions (as opposed to our Zoom Webinars\, where the audience is in View-Only Mode) between the author(s) or subjects of a Magazine article and our members. Be sure to read the article in question and come bearing questions! \nFeatured Guest\nDr. Gillian MarcelleGillian Marcelle\, PhD leads Resilience Capital Ventures LLC\, a boutique capital advisory practice specializing in blended finance.  She has a proven track record in attracting investment and focuses on telecoms\, fintech\, renewable energy and regenerative agriculture. Her speciality is the design and implementation of blended finance strategies that often involve partnerships\, ecosystem strengthening and architectures for transformational change. \nHost\nLaurie Lane-ZuckerLaurie Lane-Zucker is Founder and CEO of Impact Entrepreneur\, PBC\, an impact economy business that hosts the Impact Entrepreneur Network — a large\, global network of “systems-minded” entrepreneurs\, investors\, and scholars of social and environmental innovation — and editor and publisher of Impact Entrepreneur\, a digital magazine covering the emerging Impact Economy. For over 30 years\, Laurie has been a “pioneer” (Forbes) and recognized leader in sustainability\, social enterprise\, and impact investing. Laurie was the founding Executive Director of the international environmental organization\, Orion Society\, which publishes the celebrated Orion Magazine\, as well as the founder of a global sustainability think-tank\, the Triad Institute\, and Hotfrog\, a Founding B Corporation\, GIIRS Pioneer Company\, and the first company ever to complete an equity transaction on an impact investment exchange. Laurie is the bestselling and multiple award-winning publisher and editor of books and magazines on sustainability and social impact — having worked with such acclaimed authors as Wendell Berry\, Barry Lopez\, Terry Tempest Williams\, and David James Duncan — and the author of numerous articles on entrepreneurship and impact investing. Laurie is contributing author to the academic textbook from World Scientific\, Sustainability: Business and Investment Implications. His new book\, The Impact Entrepreneur Breakthrough: A Field Manual for the Regenerative Economy\, will be pubished by Berrett-Koehler in 2026\, with global distribution by Penguin Random House.
URL:https://impactentrepreneur.com/event/deep-dive-with-dr-gillian-marcelle/
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LOCATION:https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81375946044
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211021T120000
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SUMMARY:The Impact of the Creative Economy
DESCRIPTION:Impact Entrepreneur\n\nWednesday\, August 26\, 202610:53 PM - 10:53 PM\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn her article\, Impact Investing in the Creative Economy Today\, Upstart Co-Lab Founding Partner Laura Callanan writes\, “The creative economy is not only one of the most rapidly growing sectors of the world economy\, it is also highly transformative in terms of income generation\, job creation\, and export earnings. But opportunities are often unevenly distributed and\, unless efforts are made\, the environmental toll of this growth can be severe. There is the chance now – before the sector grows even larger – to shape the creative economy to be more inclusive and sustainable.” \nIn this live\, virtual fireside chat and audience Q&A\, Impact Entrepreneur’s Laurie Lane-Zucker welcomes Laura Callanan to discuss the important role that the Creative Economy has in inspiring transformational change and creating impactful benefits across a wide geography of economic sectors\, such as Ethical Fashion\, Sustainable Food\, Social Impact Media\, and other creative businesses. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nFeatured Guest\n\n\nLaura Callanan\n\n\nLaura Callanan\, founding partner of Upstart Co-Lab\, is disrupting how creativity is funded by connecting impact investing to the creative economy. Laura was senior deputy chair of the National Endowment for the Arts leading grant-making\, operations and research before launching Upstart Co-Lab. Laura was a consultant with McKinsey & Company’s Social Sector Office and associate director of the Rockefeller Foundation where\, in addition to responsibilities managing the endowment\, she co-led impact investing including investments in the creative economy with Smithsonian Folkways Records and netomat. Laura has been visiting fellow at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco\, scholar in residence at UC-Berkeley/Haas School of Business\, visiting scholar at the American Academy in Rome\, and recipient of a Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Fellowship. She is a board member and immediate past chair of the GlobalGiving Foundation\, is an advisor to Shift Capital\, and a member of the British Council Policy and Evidence Centre for the Creative Industries – International Council. \n\n\n\n\n\nHost\n\n\nLaurie Lane-ZuckerLaurie Lane-Zucker is Founder and CEO of Impact Entrepreneur\, PBC\, an impact economy business that hosts the Impact Entrepreneur Network — a large\, global network of “systems-minded” entrepreneurs\, investors\, and scholars of social and environmental innovation — and editor and publisher of Impact Entrepreneur\, a digital magazine covering the emerging Impact Economy. For over 30 years\, Laurie has been a “pioneer” (Forbes) and recognized leader in sustainability\, social enterprise\, and impact investing. Laurie was the founding Executive Director of the international environmental organization\, Orion Society\, which publishes the celebrated Orion Magazine\, as well as the founder of a global sustainability think-tank\, the Triad Institute\, and Hotfrog\, a Founding B Corporation\, GIIRS Pioneer Company\, and the first company ever to complete an equity transaction on an impact investment exchange. Laurie is the bestselling and multiple award-winning publisher and editor of books and magazines on sustainability and social impact — having worked with such acclaimed authors as Wendell Berry\, Barry Lopez\, Terry Tempest Williams\, and David James Duncan — and the author of numerous articles on entrepreneurship and impact investing. Laurie is contributing author to the academic textbook from World Scientific\, Sustainability: Business and Investment Implications. His new book\, The Impact Entrepreneur Breakthrough: A Field Manual for the Regenerative Economy\, will be pubished by Berrett-Koehler in 2026\, with global distribution by Penguin Random House.
URL:https://impactentrepreneur.com/event/the-impact-of-the-creative-economy/
CATEGORIES:Luminarias,Webinars
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LOCATION:https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89066551329
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SUMMARY:Actions Speak Louder Than Words
DESCRIPTION:Impact Entrepreneur\n\nWednesday\, August 26\, 202610:53 PM - 10:53 PM\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDescription: \nSadly\, the private sector is mostly talk and little action these days when it comes to digging in its heels to bring about necessary and meaningful change for society and our environment. It seems as though every day another round of corporate statements\, pronouncements\, and commitments trickle out with little meaningful analysis\, transparency\, or ensuing change reported. While this “double-speak” is not the case among all corporate citizens\, it is pronounced enough to concern me deeply as a business leader who now also serves as CEO of a business activist organization.\n— From Actions Speak Louder Than Words by Jeffrey Hollender\nJoin us for a Deep Dive with Jeffrey Hollender\, co-Founder and former CEO of Seventh Generation and co-Founder of our Content Partner American Sustainable Business Council (ASBC) to discuss his IE Magazine article\, Actions Speak Louder Than Words. \n\n\nAbout Our Deep Dives\nDeep Dives are hour-long Zoom Meetings: Live Q&A Sessions (as opposed to our Zoom Webinars\, where the audience is in View-Only Mode) between the author(s) or subjects of a Magazine article and our members. Be sure to read the article in question and come bearing questions! \n\n\n\n\n\n\nGuest\n\n\nJeffrey HollenderJeffrey Hollender is the CEO and co-founder of the American Sustainable Business Council. He also co-founded and served as CEO of Seventh Generation\, is the author of seven books\, and adjunct professor of sustainability and social entrepreneurship at the Stern Business School\, New York University. \n\n\nHost\n\n\nLaurie Lane-ZuckerLaurie Lane-Zucker is Founder and CEO of Impact Entrepreneur\, PBC\, an impact economy business that hosts the Impact Entrepreneur Network — a large\, global network of “systems-minded” entrepreneurs\, investors\, and scholars of social and environmental innovation — and editor and publisher of Impact Entrepreneur\, a digital magazine covering the emerging Impact Economy. For over 30 years\, Laurie has been a “pioneer” (Forbes) and recognized leader in sustainability\, social enterprise\, and impact investing. Laurie was the founding Executive Director of the international environmental organization\, Orion Society\, which publishes the celebrated Orion Magazine\, as well as the founder of a global sustainability think-tank\, the Triad Institute\, and Hotfrog\, a Founding B Corporation\, GIIRS Pioneer Company\, and the first company ever to complete an equity transaction on an impact investment exchange. Laurie is the bestselling and multiple award-winning publisher and editor of books and magazines on sustainability and social impact — having worked with such acclaimed authors as Wendell Berry\, Barry Lopez\, Terry Tempest Williams\, and David James Duncan — and the author of numerous articles on entrepreneurship and impact investing. Laurie is contributing author to the academic textbook from World Scientific\, Sustainability: Business and Investment Implications. His new book\, The Impact Entrepreneur Breakthrough: A Field Manual for the Regenerative Economy\, will be pubished by Berrett-Koehler in 2026\, with global distribution by Penguin Random House.
URL:https://impactentrepreneur.com/event/actions-speak-louder-than-words/
CATEGORIES:SDG 9 – Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure
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LOCATION:https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83739387320
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SUMMARY:21st Century Investing: Driving Systems Change
DESCRIPTION:Impact Entrepreneur\n\nWednesday\, August 26\, 202610:53 PM - 10:53 PM\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn their new book\, 21st Century Investing: Redirecting Financial Strategies to Drive Systems Change\, authors William Burckart and Steve Lydenberg assert that\, “investment today has evolved historically from a basic\, conventional approach (concern about the risks of security selection and portfolio risk management) to embrace as well sustainable investment (intentionally achieving social and environmental benefits along with financial returns). Building on this integration of sustainability factors\, it can now transition to a third stage that recognizes both the power of investments to impact social\, financial\, and environmental systems and the complexity of the times we live in. We call this system-level investing”. \nSystem-level investors believe that “it is time to support and enhance the health and stability of the social\, financial\, and environmental systems on which they depend for long-term returns. They preserve and strengthen these fundamental systems while still generating competitive or otherwise acceptable performance.” In this live virtual fireside chat and audience Q&A\, Impact Entrepreneur’s Laurie Lane-Zucker welcomes William Burckart to discuss the context\, philosophy\, and practical implementations of systems-level investing. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGuest\n\n\nWilliam BurckartWilliam Burckart is the President of The Investment Integration Project (TIIP)\, a consulting services and applied research firm that provides advice\, thought leadership and a turnkey solution to help investors manage systemic risks and opportunities. He has also contributed to the field through groundbreaking research\, including the development of market insights and practical guidance for investors and financial advisors in collaboration with the Money Management Institute (MMI); co-editing the New Frontiers of Philanthropy: A Guide to the New Tools and Actors that Are Reshaping Global Philanthropy and Social Investing (Oxford University Press); and helping to write the “Status of the Social impact investing Market: A Primer” (UK Cabinet Office) that was distributed to policymakers at the inaugural G8-level forum on impact investing. Mr. Burckart is a fellow of the High Meadows Institute and co-author of the book 21st Century Investing: Redirecting Financial Strategies to Drive Systems Change (Berrett-Koehler\, 2021). \n\n\nHost\n\n\nLaurie Lane-ZuckerLaurie Lane-Zucker is Founder and CEO of Impact Entrepreneur\, PBC\, an impact economy business that hosts the Impact Entrepreneur Network — a large\, global network of “systems-minded” entrepreneurs\, investors\, and scholars of social and environmental innovation — and editor and publisher of Impact Entrepreneur\, a digital magazine covering the emerging Impact Economy. For over 30 years\, Laurie has been a “pioneer” (Forbes) and recognized leader in sustainability\, social enterprise\, and impact investing. Laurie was the founding Executive Director of the international environmental organization\, Orion Society\, which publishes the celebrated Orion Magazine\, as well as the founder of a global sustainability think-tank\, the Triad Institute\, and Hotfrog\, a Founding B Corporation\, GIIRS Pioneer Company\, and the first company ever to complete an equity transaction on an impact investment exchange. Laurie is the bestselling and multiple award-winning publisher and editor of books and magazines on sustainability and social impact — having worked with such acclaimed authors as Wendell Berry\, Barry Lopez\, Terry Tempest Williams\, and David James Duncan — and the author of numerous articles on entrepreneurship and impact investing. Laurie is contributing author to the academic textbook from World Scientific\, Sustainability: Business and Investment Implications. His new book\, The Impact Entrepreneur Breakthrough: A Field Manual for the Regenerative Economy\, will be pubished by Berrett-Koehler in 2026\, with global distribution by Penguin Random House.
URL:https://impactentrepreneur.com/event/21st-century-investing-driving-systems-change/
CATEGORIES:Luminarias
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LOCATION:https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81400172560
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