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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.
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.
resilience.io
By 2030 5 billion people will need housing, infrastructure, services, food, healthcare, education, decent jobs and natural resources, with growing threats to society from climate change, water/food insecurity and ecological destruction. There is consensus among UN agencies and national governments to tackle these challenges and sufficient investment capital is available but not released due to lack of city region capacity and investment mechanisms. Computing and communications technology, geospatial data volumes and modelling skills have now improved significantly to enable integrated planning & investment decision making at the city community level to release this capital into the right projects. Our 2030 Roadmap action plan shows how $100 million core funding can create open-source software tools and facilitate release of $3.5 trillion/year of risk informed capital into city regions to enable 5 billion people by 2030 to live safe, healthy, productive, prosperous, fulfilling lives.
Community Engagement
Springfield is experiencing severe economic distress as well as the damage and vulnerability that came about as a result of five disasters that were disproportionately experienced by the Connecticut River Valley watershed. Economic distress is concentrated in neighborhoods next to the downtown area and closest to the Connecticut River, where residents are predominantly people of color and experience a 41% poverty rate.
Business and Job Opportunities
Springfield is experiencing severe economic distress as well as the damage and vulnerability that came about as a result of five disasters that were disproportionately experienced by the Connecticut River Valley watershed. Economic distress is concentrated in neighborhoods next to the downtown area and closest to the Connecticut River, where residents are predominantly people of color and experience a 41% poverty rate.
Safe & Healthy Rental Homes
Springfield is experiencing severe economic distress as well as the damage and vulnerability that came about as a result of five disasters that were disproportionately experienced by the Connecticut River Valley watershed. Economic distress is concentrated in neighborhoods next to the downtown area and closest to the Connecticut River, where residents are predominantly people of color and experience a 41% poverty rate.
Clean Redundant Energy Sources
Springfield is experiencing severe economic distress as well as the damage and vulnerability that came about as a result of five disasters that were disproportionately experienced by the Connecticut River Valley watershed. Economic distress is concentrated in neighborhoods next to the downtown area and closest to the Connecticut River, where residents are predominantly people of color and experience a 41% poverty rate.
Flood protection
Springfield is experiencing severe economic distress as well as the damage and vulnerability that came about as a result of five disasters that were disproportionately experienced by the Connecticut River Valley watershed. Economic distress is concentrated in neighborhoods next to the downtown area and closest to the Connecticut River, where residents are predominantly people of color and experience a 41% poverty rate.
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!
Unf**k Global Governance
To enable citizens to take actions towards transparent and just institutions. Global challenges need global governance. What can we, the international citizens of Geneva do locally and achieve international impact?
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Crafting the Narrative
To educate children about the SDGs.
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.
Expand legal tools to induce greater usage of M/WBEs
Minority and Women-owned Business Enterprises (M/WBEs) are some of the strongest drivers of local economic growth because they tend to hire from within New York City’s diverse communities and keep money and investments flowing back into our communities. By awarding contracts to M/WBEs, the City will not only help close the inequality gap when it comes to wealth creation, but also support sustainable and diverse communities and local economic growth. New York City is currently a leader in M/WBE inclusion, but there is still significant room for improvement. Contracts have not historically been awarded to M/WBEs at a level commensurate with their representation in the marketplace. That is changing as the City undertakes a range of efforts to boost M/WBE participation. For example, under Local Law 1, in Fiscal Year 2014 the City awarded $690 million to certified M/WBEs in all prime and subcontracts, for a 57 percent increase over Fiscal Year 2013.
Increase the rates at which agencies utilize M/WBEs
Minority and Women-owned Business Enterprises (M/WBEs) are some of the strongest drivers of local economic growth because they tend to hire from within New York City’s diverse communities and keep money and investments flowing back into our communities. By awarding contracts to M/WBEs, the City will not only help close the inequality gap when it comes to wealth creation, but also support sustainable and diverse communities and local economic growth. New York City is currently a leader in M/WBE inclusion, but there is still significant room for improvement. Contracts have not historically been awarded to M/WBEs at a level commensurate with their representation in the marketplace. That is changing as the City undertakes a range of efforts to boost M/WBE participation. For example, under Local Law 1, in Fiscal Year 2014 the City awarded $690 million to certified M/WBEs in all prime and subcontracts, for a 57 percent increase over Fiscal Year 2013.
Increase the number of certified M/WBEs
Minority and Women-owned Business Enterprises (M/WBEs) are some of the strongest drivers of local economic growth because they tend to hire from within New York City’s diverse communities and keep money and investments flowing back into our communities. By awarding contracts to M/WBEs, the City will not only help close the inequality gap when it comes to wealth creation, but also support sustainable and diverse communities and local economic growth. New York City is currently a leader in M/WBE inclusion, but there is still significant room for improvement. Contracts have not historically been awarded to M/WBEs at a level commensurate with their representation in the marketplace. That is changing as the City undertakes a range of efforts to boost M/WBE participation. For example, under Local Law 1, in Fiscal Year 2014 the City awarded $690 million to certified M/WBEs in all prime and subcontracts, for a 57 percent increase over Fiscal Year 2013.
Improve the way New York City develops a diverse workforce
A majority of the City’s current civil workforce is comprised of women and people of color. Given the diversity of our population, we must also diversify our senior leadership.
Improve the way New York City retains a diverse workforce
A majority of the City’s current civil workforce is comprised of women and people of color. Given the diversity of our population, we must also diversify our senior leadership.
Improve the way New York City recruits a diverse workforce
A majority of the City’s current civil workforce is comprised of women and people of color. Given the diversity of our population, we must also diversify our senior leadership.
Government Engagement
To address varied inequalities of disenfranchised youth across Africa, Digital Jobs Africa partners with local organizations. It’s first partner/grantee in South Africa is Impact Sourcing Academy (ISA) and its partners - which provide training and job placement opportunities for disenfranchised youth through the business processing operations sector (BPO). This is called Impact Hiring. South Africa is a pioneer in Impact Hiring through BPO, with the largest market in Africa. This project targeted the province of Gauteng, holding 25% of South Africa’s population with a 33.3% unemployment rate.