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#Philanthropy can accelerate + deepen its impact if it puts all its capital to work for mission, including by making impact investments. Giving Strong is proud to support The California Endowment in this important work. @melaudette @ImpactPHL @iimag @adamdavidson @byandreachang
#ImpactInvesting is a powerful way to build more inclusive, equitable, thriving communities. Read our journey in Building Trust and Equity: What The California Endowment Has Learned from Over a Decade of Impact Investing #impinv #AffordableHousing
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For Catalyst member org @CalEndow, their #impactinvesting journey required deep listening, recalibration & iteration, and remains an ongoing process. Their new report highlights learnings from 10+ years of #impinv and working toward more inclusive capital. calendow.org/app/uploads/202…
ALT Building Trust & Equity What The California Endowment Has Learned from Over a Decade of Impact Investing
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There’s one problem. LA County ALREADY developed this. In 2019, a 25-person workgroup collaborated for one year to develop the Care First, Jails Last report. Among the 114 recommendations, the roadmap calls for an independent pretrial support agency to connect people to services.
Read what justice-based permitting reform looks like for Indigenous communities.
@NWAFound @SenatorCollins @SenAngusKing
Today we sent @POTUS a letter urging him to reject the #DirtyDeal that would silence Indigenous voices, weaken progress made on Tribal consultation, & fast track dangerous fossil fuel projects near/on our sacred lands & waters. Read the full letter here:
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As for the design, this $200 million boondoggle places pedestrians on a promenade with an obstructed view of Boston Harbor. Pedestrians will be subjected to emissions, splashed rainwater and more. All this deck width for what? To get shuttles to a bottleneck at Atlantic Ave?
Sounds so simple to redefine portfolio performance: risk, return AND impact. Let’s just start doing it. From @AndiAtMaycomb during @ImpactPHL
Legitimacy, transparency accountability and responsibility #CSR
"The rules are now heavily influenced by powerful corporate interests, the very interests they are intended to regulate," writes @kline_maureen. trib.al/RPhO3FJ
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“Cop City” protester Manuel Teran did not have gunpowder residue on their hands, despite officials claiming Teran fired the first shot at a state trooper.
Officers responded with gunfire, killing Teran and leaving the protester with 57 gunshot wounds fox5atlanta.com/news/autopsy…
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Join a group of women committed to values-aligned investing. Circle Leader @jennykassan, Owner of The Kassan Group, is recruiting members for our next Cohort. Register now: bit.ly/IFBCircles
#investingtips #esg #sustainableliving #socialimpact #womensupportingwomen
In the summer of 1860, a ship carrying 110 African captives slipped into Mobile Bay. The Clotilda, the last known American slave ship, made its illegal voyage 52 years after the international slave trade was outlawed. #WomensHistoryMonth
I wish, for the sake of simplicity, I had one single thing I could point to and say this is the problem,” he said. “We have been saying this for a long time that this will get serious and it is now serious.
“We are in far more of a serious time now than we ever have been before.
Last year, Delta Health System in Greenville spent about $26 million on uncompensated care. That amounts to about 15% of its total operating expenses. Their leadership duo says that the hospital system’s survival will be “touch and go” after this year. mississippitoday.org/2023/03…
“without a Safe Harbor law, Maryland criminalizes child trafficking victims, making them ineligible for an existing program specifically designed for them.” @ECPAT @RachelsNetwork @JaniesFund #humantrafficking
Selling a child for sex is a crime; being the child shouldn’t be.
That’s why Maryland must pass a Safe Harbor bill to protect trafficked children from being charged as prostitutes, the executive director of TurnAround Inc. writes. marylandmatters.org/2023/03/…
In both Kansas and Indiana, where the GOP has legislative supermajorities, bankers associations and state chambers of commerce criticized the strongest versions of anti-ESG legislation currently under consideration as anti-free market. #ESG
#AntiESG proposals are not financially sound!
"They really aren’t thinking about the consequences of the kind of the real world impacts of what this means in the financial system" - @bryanmcgannon, @APjdhanna @TomDaviesIND #ESG #SustainableInvesting
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To do it with the residents, not at the behest of the residents, to do it with a team, to pay them a living wage, not hope that they volunteer, to create opportunities not only for wealth building but for job development & meeting critical needs, it’s something I never imagined.
#Black and #Hispanic households are more likely to lack access to affordable and nutritious food. Find out what companies are doing to tackle the problem in DiversityInc's latest #DollarDivide. ow.ly/1sKN50N8HsC
We're living in a changing climate, LaMountain said. "And it's just a lot of water to be taking from this aquifer." #climate #water @BlueTritonBrnds @PolandSpringWtr @USWaterAlliance @maine_dep
Short thread: We have a pair of stories out today on groundwater withdrawals in Maine. @SusanSharon1 has this great dig into a community that's seeking more accountability for the water Poland Spring pumps out of the local aquifer: mainepublic.org/environment-…
This is an educational community by women, for women. Know what you own. Then ask: does this work for me? Women have the power. Now it’s time to use it. #impinv
We’re leading a movement toward a better financial system that works for us and our values. Learn more about our Invest for Better community on our YouTube channel bit.ly/3h7VBfI
#investingtips #esg #sustainableliving #socialimpact #womensupportingwomen
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TRIVIA: Hidden set of public stairs next to the World Trade Center MBTA's public elevator leads from Congress St to WTC Ave and beyond (Summer Street and BCEC).
THE REST OF THIS STORY regards a widely-announced but quietly-evaporated 60,000 sf Waterfront Cultural Center.
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78 years ago today over 7,000 prisoners of the German Nazi camp #Auschwitz, including some 700 children, were liberated by the soldiers of the Soviet Army. 1,689 days of murder, pain, suffering, and humiliation were over. Today we all remember. We must remember. | #Auschwitz78
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