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Blog Archives: February 2021

My Journey From Wealth to Purpose

February 08, 2021
Meredith Heimburger, Global Endowment Management
I found out my grandfather was a billionaire from an article in Forbes that my friend Andy found in our high school library. My grandfather’s rags to riches story had made him a bit of a celebrity—the son of Greek immigrants whose mother died when he was thirteen, grew up in and out of stable housing, worked his way through college, graduated top of his class and captain of his tennis team, and built a company from scratch to become a billionaire. In our house, we didn’t talk about money, but we were made aware of its injustice—how unfair the ...

A New Year and New Momentum for Decarbonizing Bank Lending

February 04, 2021
A week before the inauguration of the Biden-Harris administration, the Robert & Patricia Switzer Foundation invited the Climate Solutions Collaborative (C2C) of Confluence Philanthropy and the Rainforest Action Network to present a webinar on decarbonizing bank lending to the Switzer and Confluence members. With the United States now officially recommitted to the Paris Climate Agreement, our nation – under the leadership of the most climate-forward president ever – is finally ready to tackle the dangers of a changing climate. Across the ...