… Watch the recording: Join Black Farmer Fund's Program Director Melanie Allen in a conversation with CBEY Resident Fellow Tagan Engel to learn more about this new initiative. Melanie will discuss the ways the Fund is building and redefining wealth and manifesting their values in their ways of working … with Black farmers, entrepreneurs, and the natural environment. The Black Farmer Fund aims to serve as a bridge for black communities to participate in creating a food …
… Meets Capital More and more, the conservation community is recognizing that traditional funding models can’t keep pace with the need for conservation capital. At a time of modest public funding and limited philanthropic dollars, innovative funding and financing strategies hold great promise in narrowing the gap between the …
… Watch the full recording on YouTube here! Conservation Trust Funds (CTFs) are private, legally independent institutions that provide sustainable grant funding for conservation, usually in countries with developing economies where national budgets are not adequate to meet the funding needs of protected areas and biodiversity conservation. Katy Mathias (SOM ‘98) from …
… Agriculture Lab from this fall. Presentations will include teams from the Black Farmer Fund, Grupo Trimex, and Yolélé Co. with both students and organizational partners speaking about their work. Black Farmer Fund : Due diligence work through a reparative investing fund Grupo Trimex : Developing a farmer-centered regenerative agriculture framework for the …
… Join Black Farmer Fund Co-Founder and President Olivia Watkins as she shares about this emerging community investment fund striving to create a more equitable food system for black farmers and food business owners. Olivia will join CBEY Resident Fellow Tagan Engel to discuss the Fund’s first year of community-designed investments, supports for regenerative practices, …
… Watch the full recording here! To enable funds to flow into landscape scale restoration projects, the impact must be proven and the … by ecosystem restoration, and reports on those outcomes in monetary terms to partners and funders. This model has unlocked the business case for restoration, allowing corporations to amplify funding for large scale restoration projects - enhancing the impact and scale of …
… the Inflation Reduction Act into law, capping a run of new, climate and energy related funding totalling almost $2 trillion; and 40% of the benefits of that funding (presumably far greater than $2 trillion) are supposed to flow to “disadvantaged … of Indigenous Land Dispossession– Justin Farrell, Yale University March 4 - Linking Funding to Justice: Community Benefits Agreements - Elizabeth Perera, Sr. Advisor DOE Loan …
… Watch the full recording on YouTube here! In this webinar, we will hear about two water fund models that differ in both the types of watersheds that they seek to protect and the … settings. Ashley Allen Jones (i2 Capital) will present her work with the Revolving Water Fund, an innovative conservation finance model that aligns the interests of farmers, … companies as a mechanism for water quality compliance. In so doing, the Revolving Water Fund creates a sustained pool of capital to fund priority agriculture-based pollution …
… Please join us for A Conversation with Paul Polman , CEO of Unilever. Mr. Polman will be joined in conversation by Indy Burke , … Solutions Equity and Justice Sustainable Finance and ESG Circularity A Conversation with Paul Polman … On Campus A Conversation with Paul Polman Tuesday, April 11th, 2017, 7:45 AM EDT — 8:45 AM EDT Please join us for A …