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Blog Archives: February 2022

The Time Is Now: Invest/Divest 2022 - Climate Finance Trends to Watch

February 24, 2022
Heather Coleman, Wallace Global Fund
As we approach Confluence Philanthropy’s 12th Annual Practitioners Gathering, let us take a moment to reflect on the powerful climate financial trends shaping our sector and what these trends signal for our own impact and decision-making in the year ahead. 2021 will no doubt be remembered as the year when an unprecedented number of financial institutions committed to long-term “net zero” emissions targets, generating significant debate regarding whether those commitments will meaningfully reduce emissions in the decisive years leading up to ...

The Time Is Now: The Fierce Urgency of This Moment

February 17, 2022
Stephanie Cohn Rupp, Veris Wealth Partners
As confirmed by the 2021 IPCC report, climate change is man-made and the harmful effects of global warming will only become more severe—with flooding, drought, heat waves, and other catastrophic weather events becoming more and more commonplace. António Guterres, the Secretary General of the United Nations, called the report’s findings “a code red for humanity.” However, this same report indicates that if we act quickly and decisively to reduce emissions of CO2and other greenhouse gases on a global scale, we can still stabilize ...

The Time Is Now: A Higher Type of Partnership

February 04, 2022
Dr. Carmen Rojas, Marguerite Casey Foundation
How do we support leaders to be free in their work fighting for and building a racially just world? The number of times I have asked this question—to myself, to my colleagues in philanthropy, and to MCF staff—in my year and a half as President and CEO of the Marguerite Casey Foundation is incalculable. I came to this role with the unwavering belief that foundations have a once-in-a-generation opportunity to support leaders on the frontlines to build a truly representative democracy and economy. A democracy and an economy where those ...