3BL Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Series A is the name given to a company's first significant round of financing and funding. This round included Pula Investments, environmentalist Gregory Nasmyth, Nickleby Capital (representing various ultra-high net worth family offices), Dyfan Investment and other undisclosed investors. He holds a first-class degree in Mathemati cs.

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3BL Media

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

September 2, 2022 /3BL Media/ - The Regions Foundation, an Alabama based nonprofit initiative funded primarily by Regions Bank , on Friday announced a $25,000 grant to the United Way of the Capital Area in support of the Jackson Water Crisis Relief Fund. JACKSON, Miss., Disaster Relief.

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James Militzer

JANUARY 26, 2024

Raising funds for business expansion has been especially challenging in recent years. Based on conversations with investors and our own first-hand experience at d.light , funding rounds are taking considerably longer to complete compared to the pre-pandemic era, with investors growing increasingly reluctant to part with their cash.

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Chris Hall

MAY 3, 2024

Working together Another hot topic at the Spring Meetings was the next steps in MDB cooperation. On 20 April, IDB President and Group of Heads of MDBs Chair Goldfajn hosted a retreat for nine other multilaterals to explore how they could work together. Banga has asked for US$30 billion in pledges.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

The way in which companies use fish feed and care for animals largely determines their ESG risk profile, according to Mosnier. “In As of 2022, aquaculture funds were worth an estimated US$3.15 Three types of funds typically invest in sustainable aquaculture.

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 1, 2022

A motivated team leader, Woodard is also a member of the firm’s Black Leadership Council and Amplify Voices, lending her voice and insight to ensure there is active dialogue on diversity, equity, and inclusion issues to the Management Committee and working to recruit and retain Black talent. Media Contacts: Dasha Smith T. KEYWORDS: T.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Portfolio Manager David Byrns argues exclusion of “worst performing” industries results in “disconnect” between sustainable fund flows and real world outcomes. American Century’s value team applies sustainability research and valuation work across every security in this universe. “It’s a big competitive advantage,” Byrns noted.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

UK investors have warned about teething issues for real estate fund managers looking to comply with the Financial Conduct Authority ’s (FCA) Sustainability Disclosure Requirements (SDR) labelling regime. It’s not easy to classify these strategies as either ‘impact’, ‘improver’ or ‘focus’ funds,” she told ESG Investor.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Last week , the Church of England Pensions Board (COEPB), Accounting for Sustainability and Railpen led a coalition of pension funds, insurers, and pension advisers to produce the Sustainability Principles Charter for the bulk annuity process.

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Corporate Knights

MARCH 1, 2023

The taxonomy will be used as a benchmark for banks, pension funds and other financial institutions that have their own climate targets and want to align their lending and investment with a net-zero target for 2050. Inclusion in such a taxonomy could lower the cost of borrowing for capital-intensive emission-reduction projects.

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Stanford Social Innovation

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

The work began by building the digital infrastructure. After careful vetting, the Commons co-leads selected CapShift as back-end website developer and partner to expediently build the COVID-19 Philanthropy Commons to be a platform that would work with philanthropic and financial institutions to mobilize capital to impact investments.

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Stanford Social Innovation

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

So, if using your own profits is not viable, you need to attract external capital. The International Fund for Agricultural Development estimates that basic financial services reach only 10 percent of rural communities. But how and where? Is external financing available? Affordable? Available in the appropriate form?

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Chris Hall

JULY 28, 2023

But investors face significant challenges in assessing opportunities and mitigating risks, such as lack of clarity and transparency on risk-reward profiles and asset pricing, the small size of projects, and a lack of aggregate financing vehicles and high development and transaction costs. AFAC said that only about 0.1%

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Just Capital

JUNE 2, 2022

Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) recently proposed rules on standardized climate-related disclosures and ESG fund labeling come alongside a record amount of ESG-related shareholder proposals this proxy season. Cambria has also co-chaired the Human Capital Management Coalition (HCMC) since 2013.

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James Militzer

APRIL 29, 2024

At Bopinc , we have worked with a number of private sector partners on marketing and distribution projects designed to create jobs for women entrepreneurs and reach low-income consumers. But though some of these initiatives have succeeded, many have failed. How can companies efficiently deliver essential goods to these last-mile consumers?

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3BL Media

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

A: National Telecommunication Institute operates all around Egypt; our first site is located in Nasr-city, the second in Smart-Village and the newest in New Capital. A: NTI has different capacity training programs that were established based on market needs and profiles of new jobs. View original content here.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 25, 2022

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of news about funds designed to meet sustainable investing criteria, including Federated Hermes, SLM Partners, DIF, PGGM, MEAG and Future Planet Capital. . Global asset manager Federated Hermes has launched a Biodiversity Equity fund, with insights from the UK’s Natural History Museum.

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Stanford Social Innovation

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

By Annie Neimand Organizations want to tell stories about their impact to ensure people understand what they do, why they do it, and why they should continue to be funded to do it. We don't see organizations working toward change collectively with the people they serve or as critical members of a movement ecosystem working for social change.

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Stanford Social Innovation

JANUARY 30, 2024

And it worked. It is also one of several DC-area foundations profiled in a new report from the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy (NCRP) on “ Philanthropy’s Role in Reparations for Black People.” Still, the uncomfortable work of researching, reflecting, and reckoning with the past remains necessary—and is possible.

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ESG Today

JUNE 5, 2023

Alongside the issuance of the reports, the ESAs established a working definition of greenwashing, describing it as: “A practice where sustainability-related statements, declarations, actions, or communications do not clearly and fairly reflect the underlying sustainability profile of an entity, a financial product, or financial services.

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Corporate Knights

OCTOBER 11, 2022

That also means that these companies have significant work left to do, as they still collectively emitted 489 m illion tonnes of GHGs in 2021, and they remain among the largest polluters on the planet. Top Company Profile. dollars) through 2030. Interestingly, oil and gas company TotalEnergies has set aside $58 billion ($2.9

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3BL Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

We, therefore, believe that in doing our work, we have the opportunity and actually the responsibility to create a safer and more equitable world. By nature of what we do, we have always been a part of portfolios that have been geared towards sustainability and impact funds. What results did you get from your work with Nasdaq?

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James Militzer

MARCH 21, 2022

trillion per year in funding, but they face an estimated annual shortfall of US $2.5 trillion to the existing funding shortfall in 2020 alone. Blended finance is one critical tool to mobilize additional sources of capital for the SDGs. But this company isn’t yet profitable, so that check would just evaporate.

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Stanford Social Innovation

JANUARY 24, 2024

California’s Local Control Funding Formula legislation gave each school district the opportunity to develop their own implementation plan. In both communities, the UCPs were settled successfully, requiring more transparency and parent engagement in decisions about school funding, as well as more resources overall for high-need students.

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Renewable Energy World

JUNE 29, 2021

The global green bond market is a crucial source of financing for positive environmental projects and enables investors to direct funding towards environmentally-friendly activities with a comparable risk-return profile to traditional bonds, in both developed and emerging nations. Indeed, what green means varies depending on context.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of news on technology and tools in the sustainable investing sector, including Northern Trust, EDS, Nature4Climate, Capital for Climate, Qontigo, Verra, Pachama, Mubadala Investment Company, ACX and ACA Group. .

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Cisco CSR

AUGUST 17, 2022

A: National Telecommunication Institute operates all around Egypt; our first site is located in Nasr-city, the second in Smart-Village and the newest in New Capital. A: NTI has different capacity training programs that were established based on market needs and profiles of new jobs.

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 27, 2022

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of news about funds designed to meet sustainable investing criteria, including LGIM, M&G, Stewart Investors, Aviva Investors, Ossiam, Janus Henderson and Quintet. . Following increased demand from investors, Legal & General Investment Management (LGIM) has established a new range of ESG index funds.

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3BL Media

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

We do this through sourcing programs that allow us to work with wheat farmers to help implement advanced agronomy practices that help conserve water, care for the soil, protect and promote biodiversity, and reduce GHG emissions. So we are working with farmers on both fronts – to decrease emissions and improve animal welfare.

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Not the least of these developments is the shifting profile of the market, from one dominated by charitable institutions and public sector bodies to one that accommodates harder-headed investors looking for top-class returns alongside positive outcomes.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

Often working from home themselves, they empathized with employees and other stakeholders, some refusing to issue layoffs. LinkedIn | Company profile. Raised in Detroit, as a teen Mary Barra worked as a co-op student at Pontiac Motor, where her father was a die maker. LinkedIn | Company profile. Company profile.

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Chris Hall

DECEMBER 9, 2022

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of news about funds designed to meet sustainable investing criteria, including Franklin Templeton, RLAM, LifePath UK, DWS, Jenson and BNPP AM. . The fund assesses the ESG profile of bonds whose expected duration is around 2.5 BlackRock ’s £9.2

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Stanford Social Innovation

APRIL 25, 2022

Following a decade of underfunding and maintenance backlogs , last year’s historic bipartisan commitment of more than $1 trillion in federal funds toward infrastructure improvements provides an extraordinary moment to modernize the systems that connect and sustain us all. To date, it has invested $11.6

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Stanford Social Innovation

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

If you give with your family or a family, whether through a donor-advised fund, a foundation, a giving circle, or anything in between, you are connected to family philanthropy. Many donors are also dedicating more types of capital to purpose-driven pursuits, and using a wider array of vehicles and investments.

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Corporate Knights

APRIL 17, 2024

So far, NotCo has raised US$430 million and has some 500 employees spread across North and South America, almost half working in science development. Once they had the secret sauce, they started rolling out their own line of products in 2017 to prove to the market that what they were proposing could work.

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Stanford Social Innovation

MARCH 6, 2024

By Anne Miltenburg Women worldwide, especially in low-income countries, face many barriers to entrepreneurship, including limited access to capital, harassment, and violence. Toward a More Balanced User Base Our work at Mesh , a professional social network for young people aged 18-35 in the Kenyan informal economy, offers an example.

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Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 11, 2021

But the key is the microgrid controller which makes all of the pieces work together. Unfortunately for Stacy Ellis, Capital Projects Manager at Domaine Carneros, Covid-19 struck at just the wrong time with their project beginning as stay-at-home orders were implemented, impacting restaurants and wineries first.

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