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Impact investment for all of us
Everyday people acting in collaboration and solidarity to lend their support to courageous impact enterprises worldwide, helping to unlock their positive potential and benefit communities.
Free Money Day: A more generous world is possible!
When it comes to wealth, we're going right to the heart and hacking the very signal around monetary accumulation. How? Through Free Money Day: a global event running since 2011, in which people hand out money to complete strangers, asking them to pass half on.
MyPensionsPal - Making pensions make sense
MyPensionsPal: The first independent, holistic, and inclusive pension coaching service, designed to take you from anxious to empowered with pensions in just a few easy steps.
Community of practice for funds creating just finance
We work with innovative funds creating new models for participatory governance, community wealth and power building. A community of practice will support them to identify, troubleshoot, and create an exponential number of wealth hacks that these funds are navigating in real time.
AI-enabled fintech (trade tech) for repo trading.
My hack harnesses AI technology to advance artificial liquidity and intelligent agreement through executing repo (repurchase agreement) trade between wealthy funders as strategic sponsors and social/sustsinable/transformational entrepreneurs as stewards.
Actionable Impact Management Guidebooks
Assessing the risk and impact of you investments, grants and social business is complex and time consuming. Often feedback from capital deployment to outcome created, and learnings are not properly aligned. Having an outcome lifecycle platform from defining the impact strategy, metrics selection, result data collection, analysis, insight, and reporting can bring necessary accountability that impact space demands.
Solutions to how can Sheila know if drugs are available in the local hospital today
To Re-Image Procurement and Supply Chain Management Taking Inspiration from Nature
Solar Ambassador Toolkits
RE-volv, founded in 2011 is a nonprofit that empowers people to support clean energy and combat climate change via crowdfunding campaigns that enable community-serving nonprofit organizations to go solar, reduce their carbon footprints, and save on their electricity bills. There are roughly 1.5 million nonprofits and 30,000 cooperatives in the United States that face major barriers to getting their solar projects financed. These organizations have a difficult time finding financing because of their inability to take advantage of solar tax credits, the difficulty establishing their credit worthiness, and their small solar energy system size (10kW-30kW. For reference, 5kW powers a medium-sized home). RE-volv seeks to serve this niche yet incredibly influential market. RE-volv offers a zero down, 20 year solar lease option that offers up to 15% or more in electric cost savings. At the same time, RE-volv earns between 6-12% Internal Rate of Return on each project.
Crowdfunding platform for Non-Profits going Solar
RE-volv, founded in 2011 is a nonprofit that empowers people to support clean energy and combat climate change via crowdfunding campaigns that enable community-serving nonprofit organizations to go solar, reduce their carbon footprints, and save on their electricity bills. There are roughly 1.5 million nonprofits and 30,000 cooperatives in the United States that face major barriers to getting their solar projects financed. These organizations have a difficult time finding financing because of their inability to take advantage of solar tax credits, the difficulty establishing their credit worthiness, and their small solar energy system size (10kW-30kW. For reference, 5kW powers a medium-sized home). RE-volv seeks to serve this niche yet incredibly influential market. RE-volv offers a zero down, 20 year solar lease option that offers up to 15% or more in electric cost savings. At the same time, RE-volv earns between 6-12% Internal Rate of Return on each project.
Permaculture expansion crash test
This solution emerged from discussions between an expert in business models and a couple of permaculturists. Permaculture is a system of agricultural and social design principles centered on simulating or directly utilizing the patterns and features observed in natural ecosystems. It has many branches that include but are not limited to ecological design, ecological engineering, environmental design, construction and integrated water resources management that develops sustainable architecture, and regenerative and self-maintained habitat and agricultural systems modeled from natural ecosystems. It holds an enormous potential for solving many of our and our environment problems (pluri-SDG!). However, it is surprisingly slow in getting known more widely. A co-creator of the Business Model Crash Test and a couple of permaculturists are willing to invite G3iD participants to brainstorm on ways to make the permaculture approach spread faster than ever!
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Crafting the Narrative
To educate children about the SDGs.
Fostering bike share adoption in other cities
In just a few years Paris has built the largest bike-sharing system in the west. Parisians love their Vélib', with its more than 20,000 rental bikes distributed between 1,800 stations, some 300 meters apart. It is a cornerstone of a plan that has already reduced car traffic in the city by 20%. The system has also spread across the world like wildfire to hundreds of cities, indicating an international breakthrough for urban bike sharing.
Impact on car traffic reduction
In just a few years Paris has built the largest bike-sharing system in the west. Parisians love their Vélib', with its more than 20,000 rental bikes distributed between 1,800 stations, some 300 meters apart. It is a cornerstone of a plan that has already reduced car traffic in the city by 20%. The system has also spread across the world like wildfire to hundreds of cities, indicating an international breakthrough for urban bike sharing.
Financing through advertising
In just a few years Paris has built the largest bike-sharing system in the west. Parisians love their Vélib', with its more than 20,000 rental bikes distributed between 1,800 stations, some 300 meters apart. It is a cornerstone of a plan that has already reduced car traffic in the city by 20%. The system has also spread across the world like wildfire to hundreds of cities, indicating an international breakthrough for urban bike sharing.
Trial in smaller city (Lyon) and replication in Paris to develop ideal model
In just a few years Paris has built the largest bike-sharing system in the west. Parisians love their Vélib', with its more than 20,000 rental bikes distributed between 1,800 stations, some 300 meters apart. It is a cornerstone of a plan that has already reduced car traffic in the city by 20%. The system has also spread across the world like wildfire to hundreds of cities, indicating an international breakthrough for urban bike sharing.
Smart and Sustainable Paris
Anne Hidalgo, the first female mayor of Paris, has continued previous mayor Delanoë´s green transport policies with a host of actions, including 30 km/h speed limit zones, incentives for reducing car use, and plans to double cycle lanes and phase out diesel vehicles entirely by 2020. Furthermore, Paris, France’s National Earth Hour Capital of 2015, has launched a new Smart and Sustainable City project focused on smart city technology and participatory governance.
Incentives for reducing car use
Anne Hidalgo, the first female mayor of Paris, has continued previous mayor Delanoë´s green transport policies with a host of actions, including 30 km/h speed limit zones, incentives for reducing car use, and plans to double cycle lanes and phase out diesel vehicles entirely by 2020. Furthermore, Paris, France’s National Earth Hour Capital of 2015, has launched a new Smart and Sustainable City project focused on smart city technology and participatory governance.
Climate and Energy Action Plan
Anne Hidalgo, the first female mayor of Paris, has continued previous mayor Delanoë´s green transport policies with a host of actions, including 30 km/h speed limit zones, incentives for reducing car use, and plans to double cycle lanes and phase out diesel vehicles entirely by 2020. Furthermore, Paris, France’s National Earth Hour Capital of 2015, has launched a new Smart and Sustainable City project focused on smart city technology and participatory governance.
Humanitarian visas
The Syrian refugee crisis has brought out the best and worst in political leaders. Some have opened borders to those fleeing war, persecution, and crisis. Others have shut them down. But one thing is clear: something in the system is broken. In theory, refugees have the right to seek asylum and either integrate into a host country or return to their home country in time. In practice, millions have been stuck in interminable limbo. And according to international law (but again, also in theory), they are a global responsibility. In reality, nearby nations such as Turkey and Jordan have absorbed most of the costs. However, it doesn’t have to be so black and white, says Alexander Betts, director of the Refugee Studies Center at the University of Oxford.
Matching markets to skills of refugees
The Syrian refugee crisis has brought out the best and worst in political leaders. Some have opened borders to those fleeing war, persecution, and crisis. Others have shut them down. But one thing is clear: something in the system is broken. In theory, refugees have the right to seek asylum and either integrate into a host country or return to their home country in time. In practice, millions have been stuck in interminable limbo. And according to international law (but again, also in theory), they are a global responsibility. In reality, nearby nations such as Turkey and Jordan have absorbed most of the costs. However, it doesn’t have to be so black and white, says Alexander Betts, director of the Refugee Studies Center at the University of Oxford.
Economic zones
The Syrian refugee crisis has brought out the best and worst in political leaders. Some have opened borders to those fleeing war, persecution, and crisis. Others have shut them down. But one thing is clear: something in the system is broken. In theory, refugees have the right to seek asylum and either integrate into a host country or return to their home country in time. In practice, millions have been stuck in interminable limbo. And according to international law (but again, also in theory), they are a global responsibility. In reality, nearby nations such as Turkey and Jordan have absorbed most of the costs. However, it doesn’t have to be so black and white, says Alexander Betts, director of the Refugee Studies Center at the University of Oxford.
Enable the lives of refugees
The Syrian refugee crisis has brought out the best and worst in political leaders. Some have opened borders to those fleeing war, persecution, and crisis. Others have shut them down. But one thing is clear: something in the system is broken. In theory, refugees have the right to seek asylum and either integrate into a host country or return to their home country in time. In practice, millions have been stuck in interminable limbo. And according to international law (but again, also in theory), they are a global responsibility. In reality, nearby nations such as Turkey and Jordan have absorbed most of the costs. However, it doesn’t have to be so black and white, says Alexander Betts, director of the Refugee Studies Center at the University of Oxford.
Kick ICE out of your city
Martin Luther King Jr. said it best in 1966: "[The] law cannot make a man love me, but it can restrain him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important also." Two years later, he was shot and killed in Memphis. But his dream that the United States legal system might eventually overcome its racial biases and serve its non-white citizens equally lives on. For months now, politicians have invoked King's legacy to implore black citizens to stay peaceful in the face of routine violence. The irony of this plea seems lost on its askers, but it does fall in line with a question that's haunted Black Lives Matter protesters for the past 10 months, namely, "What's going to happen next?" In other words: How, besides protesting, can we actually make sure no more black people are killed, beaten or tortured by the police? And how can we promote justice and equity in law enforcement more generally?
Stop using poor people to fatten city budgets
Martin Luther King Jr. said it best in 1966: "[The] law cannot make a man love me, but it can restrain him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important also." Two years later, he was shot and killed in Memphis. But his dream that the United States legal system might eventually overcome its racial biases and serve its non-white citizens equally lives on. For months now, politicians have invoked King's legacy to implore black citizens to stay peaceful in the face of routine violence. The irony of this plea seems lost on its askers, but it does fall in line with a question that's haunted Black Lives Matter protesters for the past 10 months, namely, "What's going to happen next?" In other words: How, besides protesting, can we actually make sure no more black people are killed, beaten or tortured by the police? And how can we promote justice and equity in law enforcement more generally?