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Blog Archives: March 2019

• Confluence Philanthropy’s 9th Practitioners Gathering

March 29, 2019
Jeff Rosen, Solidago Foundation
This piece was originallty published here on the Solidago Foundation website, written by Confluence Board Member Jeff Rosen. It has been republished here in its entirety. Go ahead, name one.  Certainly not retailers.  Just ask Sears.  Automakers?  Weapons manufacturers?  Government?  Universities?  Maybe.  But, when one asks the question of philanthropy, we find a sector of our economy that relies on the business model of perpetuity.  Not only do foundations establish a business model that is designed to live forever, but they also ...

• Is It Time to Stop Talking About “Impact Investing”?

March 25, 2019
James Bunch, Managing Director, AIMS Imprint, Investment Management Division, Goldman Sachs moderated a lively discussion about the usefulness of the term “impact investing.” The panelists included Josh Mailman, President of the Joshua Mailman Foundation, Preeti Bhattacharji, Vice President of Integrated Capitals of the Heron Foundation, and Robynn Steffen, Director of Impact Investing of Omidyar Network. Audience instant polling was used to structure their discussion. Bunch posed three questions to an audience of approximately 240 ...

• Democratizing Finance

March 25, 2019
Nick Tillson, President and CEO, NDN Collective, and an Oglala Lakota tribal member, began the discussion by offering a Native welcome, acknowledging the ancestors and spirits of the Lenape people who first inhabited the local area. This set the tone for critical discussion about how investors can make tangible change for communities left behind by the prevailing economic and political system. Each discussant offered a cross-cutting orientation to the issues. Tim Lampkin, CEO of Mississippi-based Higher Purpose, highlights that the ...

• Practitioners Institute: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

March 22, 2019
Each year, Confluence opens the Annual Practitioners Gathering with a three-hour strategic focus on an emerging topic in the investment industry. Previous discussions helped to launch the now $8 trillion fossil fuel divestment movement and, separately, efforts to create place-based impact investing strategies. This year we focus on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI).   “What If We Had Racial Equity?” Keynote remarks by Angela Glover Blackwell, Attorney; Founder in Residence, PolicyLink; and author of Uncommon Ground: Race and ...

• The Power of Interrupting Bias

March 22, 2019
The second day’s session dove into two major issues: gender in the workplace and democratizing finance. Stacey Faella of the Woodcock Foundation (and Confluence board member) introduced Joan Williams, Hastings Law professor, the keynote speaker. Williams is the author of over 11 books and her article “What So Many People Don’t Get About the U.S. Working Class” has been read over 3.7 million times. She is recognized as one of world’s leading scholars on gender in the workplace and has reshaped the conversation on work, gender, and class.  ...

• A Discussion with Anand Giridharadas and Edgar Villanueva

March 21, 2019
Anand Giridharadas is the author of The New York Times bestseller Winners Take All and was a foreign correspondent and columnist for The New York Times from 2005 to 2016. Edgar Villanueva is a nationally recognized expert on social justice philanthropy and author of Decolonizing Wealth. In Winners Take All, Anand Giridharadas poses a troubling question: Are elites hijacking social change? Could philanthropy and social entrepreneurship actually be amplifying the inequality they seek to solve? Because these questions strike at the heart of ...

•The Money Story Behind Family Detention

March 20, 2019
Morgan Simon, Founding Partner, Candide Group
When we read the news these days, it’s easy to not only get mad, but want to get even. The many stories of family separation and dehumanizing violence on the border motivated Candide Group to do exactly that, using the three things we know best: the power of money, the power of celebrity, and the power of social movements. Here's how we’ve been taking action on family detention, and how you can get involved: The power of money. The unfortunate truth is that the majority of immigrants detained are held in privately-owned facilities, ...

• Fighting Fire with Finance: Innovative Investments for Climate Resilience

March 01, 2019
We’ve all noticed the sharp uptick of catastrophic wildfires in recent years; California’s 2018 wildfire season involved the biggest loss of lives and homes ever, and is estimated to cost the state billions. In a warming climate, fire conditions are only expected to get worse. That’s why we teamed with the Biodiversity Funders Group to explore how to use investment to catalyze forest health. Dan Winterson of the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation moderated a conversation between a diverse group of experts working on financial instruments to ...

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