W7: Partnerships
🛎 Weekly Summary
hey everyone! I trust you are well, and maybe some spring weather is reaching you. I am really looking forward to catching up with you this week as we move deeper into the area of how we can make impact investing work around the world. This week, we'll explore public-private partnerships and how impact investors work together to make deals possible. I hope you will join us this Wednesday for a really great session with Ebony Perkins from NeighborWorks Capital. Join us Wednesday here: https://calendar.app.google/XeTCGujwfyMvkGKdA
Additionally, we have a skill session with Tiffany Flaherty. Tiffany is a consultant at RiskSphere and works with companies on their ESG reporting, and brings years of experience from her time at Sustainalytics. She'll share how ESG data won't save the world but serves a purpose. Join to see how this relates to impact investing. Join us tomorrow if you can: https://calendar.app.google/BUb5SmAyvPNuqosS8
We do not have a lot of updates on the Playbook at this time because it is really important for you to go and check out the instructions for Peer Action April. We'll look at this together next week and start preparing to work together. Take a look on the playbook and let me know if you have any questions.
Week 7: Public-Private Partnerships
What You Need to Do:
Community Call - Public-Private Partnerships
Public-Private Partnerships and Funding Mechanisms with Ebony Perkins, Impact Investor with Ebony Perkins
Public-Private Partnerships and Funding Mechanisms with Ebony Perkins, Impact Investor with Ebony Perkins
Join as Ebony speaks from her years of experience working in impact investing, ESG, and philanthropy. This session will explore the impact Public-Private Partnerships can create, and the Funding Mechanisms used in these projects. We'll spend some time discussing together and reviewing a case study related to the area that demonstrates how real impact is possible through PPPs.
More about our speaker: Ebony Perkins
Ebony Perkins is a dedicated, solution-oriented social entrepreneur whose heartbeat is community. She has a demonstrated ability of working with investors and philanthropists to help them make smart and strategic decisions. As Managing Director at NeighborWorks Capital, Ebony manages their overall capital strategy and works with investors to help them support local communities across the United States. Prior to this role, she served as Director of Impact Investments at United Healthcare and advanced their national social impact and investment strategy and enhanced their philanthropic efforts. She has also served as the Vice-President of Investor Relations at Self-Help, one of the largest community development financial institutions in the nation. While there, Ebony lead and grew a national team that helps groups and individuals invest funds in a socially responsible financial institution that supports communities of all kinds, especially those underserved by conventional lenders.
Ebony co-hosts the Renegade Capital Podcast activist’s podcast for finance and investments. She interviews thought leaders who go into the ring every day to fight against the racist, sexist, and exclusive norms established by traditional financial and capital systems. Ebony is also a Senior Advisor with Impact Finance Center and is supporting the creation of a membership organization that provides shared due diligence for a diverse asset manager database.
Skill Sessions - ESG Data Won't Save the World
How ESG Data Won't Save the World with Tiffany Flaherty
Join us as Tiffany speaks about her experience working in ESG research and analytics. She'll explore what ratings, indexes, and rankings all have to do with ESG and how the ESG data alone will not save the world. She’ll also raise questions about what ESG ratings are supposed to communicate and the expectations market participants have. This will be a great session to explore an important topic of sustainable finance and impact investing analysis. We'll go through a case study together so you can explore the topic yourself.
More about Tiffany Flaherty
Tiffany Flaherty - Managing Consultant/ RiskSphere
Tiffany’s interest lies in bridging the gap between the current financial system and the need for companies, governments, and consumers to think differently about their role in shaping a sustainable future. Her educational background is in finance with early career experience in banking, financial reporting, and banking regulation. This experience proved beneficial when moving into the sustainability field through researching ESG metrics and the ESG performance of financial institutions. In her current role as a sustainability risk consultant, she works with companies from various sectors to better integrate ESG into their strategy and operations by taking a systems thinking approach. Tiffany previously worked for Sustainalytics.
🧠 Impact Investing Knowledge
Hope you are ready to dive in.
Week 7 Resources🧰 Additional Learning Resources
Our friend at US SIF, Jenny Coombs, has made a special offer for NEIII Fellows. You can register for a Virtual Course: Fundamentals in Sustainable & Impact Investing. This will have a certificate and continuing education credits and is made available for $100. This is a 4 hour course and is on March 26th from 1:00pm - 5:00pm ET.
Register Here: https://www.ussif.org/education/fundamentals-in-sustainable-and-impact-investing-webinar
US SIF CourseMore resources from partners:
Corporate Nights - Top 200 companies
Carbon Clean Companies Financially Outperform Fossil Fuel and Benchmarks Andy Behar and Toby Heabs, As You Sow and Corporate Knights
As You Sow and Corporate Knights have released the latest Carbon Clean 200, a global list of publicly traded companies leading the global sustainable clean energy economy. Together, these 200 industry-leading companies generated trillions in revenue from services and products that reduce demand for fossil fuels and water, while offering investors solid returns. READ MORE
15 Years Since the Launch of GIIN
15 Years After its Launch, GINN Examines the Future of a $1.5 Trillion Market
In 2009, at the Clinton Global Initiative Meeting, President Bill Clinton stood next to Amit Bouri and his founding partners as they launched the Global Impact Investing Network. The GIIN started as a 22-member community of impact investors committed to using their investing power not only to produce financial gains, but also to produce social and environmental benefits. READ MORE
📅 Related sessions & offerings
Future of Finance Podcast
Have you been tuning in to the Future of Finance podcast? Georges Dyer sits down with a new guest every week to delve into the role of finance in the 21st century and how it can contribute to a sustainable and equitable future.
Through engaging conversations, we explore big ideas like impact-driven strategies, reimagining capitalism, tackling climate change, reducing inequality, and reshaping economic systems to better serve people and the planet.
Georges' conversations with industry leaders have spanned both a number of major sustainability issues and solutions, including:
Upcoming Episode: Investing in Water
This week's episode will feature perspectives from Tom Ferguson, Founder and Managing Partner at Burnt Island Ventures. Subscribe on your favourite podcast platform to be notified when the episode drops!
ESG Business Institute - Africa is Driving Forward!
Africa is Driving Forward! Join The Conversation
Africa’s financial landscape is evolving, with sustainable finance at its forefront. From Green Loans to Sustainability-Linked Investments, businesses must seize new opportunities while tackling ESG challenges.
Join us for an exclusive webinar with industry experts, including Haile Mekonnen, ESG Division Manager at Wegagen Bank S.C., as we dive into the key forces driving ESG transformation, the role of banks in shaping change, and the regulatory landscape defining sustainability in Ethiopia and beyond.
Quick Links:
📹 Week 7 Recordings & Resources
Community Call 7: Public Priviate Partnerships with Ebony Perkins
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ebonyperkins/Click here for more info: Resources
📹 Watch Here
🙆♂️ Speaker's Bio - Ebony Perkins
NeighborWorks Capital Ebony Perkins has joined our team as Managing Director of Investor Relations and Capital Aggregation. In this new role, Ebony will lead our efforts in developing and executing innovative capital aggregation strategies, the NeighborWorks Capital Equity Fund, and other investor engagement initiatives. Read the full announcement: https://lnkd.in/ghMYC-EW
Skill Session: How ESG Data Won't Save the World with Tiffany Flaherty
Click here for more info: Resources
Join us as Tiffany speaks about her experience working in ESG research and analytics. She'll explore what ratings, indexes, and rankings all have to do with ESG and how the ESG data alone will not save the world. She’ll also raise questions about what ESG ratings are supposed to communicate and the expectations market participants have. This will be a great session to explore an important topic of sustainable finance and impact investing analysis. We'll go through a case study together so you can explore the topic yourself.
Tiffany is a consultant at RiskSphere and works with companies on their ESG reporting, and brings years of experience from her time at Sustainalytics. She'll share how ESG data won't save the world but serves a purpose. Join to see how this relates to impact investing.
🙆♂️ Tiffany's Bio
Tiffany Flaherty - Managing Consultant/ RiskSphere
Tiffany’s interest lies in bridging the gap between the current financial system and the need for companies, governments, and consumers to think differently about their role in shaping a sustainable future. Her educational background is in finance with early career experience in banking, financial reporting, and banking regulation. This experience proved beneficial when moving into the sustainability field through researching ESG metrics and the ESG performance of financial institutions. In her current role as a sustainability risk consultant, she works with companies from various sectors to better integrate ESG into their strategy and operations by taking a systems thinking approach. Tiffany previously worked for Sustainalytics.
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