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Blog Archives: April 2023

The Confluence of Three Megatrends: An Opportunity of a Generation

April 21, 2023
Pawan Mehra, cKers Finance
In the coming years, electric vehicles, rooftop solar, and other digitally enabled climate assets are set to experience a rapid uptake among small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) as these businesses ride the confluence of three megatrends: sustainability, digitization and the formalization of credit. This provides an opportunity to develop innovative financing products that provide access to credit for SMEs tackling global, especially within developing countries. The most recent emerging megatrend has been the drive towards ...

Confluence Contemplates the Concepts of Emergence at the 2023 Practitioners Gathering

April 04, 2023
Dana Lanza, Confluence Philanthropy
In 2016, Confluence held our 6th Annual Practitioners Gathering in Boston, Massachusetts under the theme entitled, “Finance and Democracy”. So much has happened in the past seven years that 2016 feels like a past life. I remember walking the halls of The Charles Hotel in Cambridge feeling proud to have then President Obama’s Climate Policy team joining us as we looked optimistically ahead to the creation of a new Clean Energy Finance Center at the Department of Energy, and, at the strong potential for our first woman President and one whom ...

Advancing Net Zero with Philanthropic Capital

April 04, 2023
Kunle Apampa, Capricorn Investment Group
There is a consensus that private investment capital is critical to meeting the 2050 goal of Net Zero emissions, limiting global warming to 1.5°C. The relative scale of investment capital, compared to philanthropic capital or possible government expenditures, is also well understood. It is critical tha,t these different types of capital work together, but there is no question that in order to fundamentally shift the global economy and meet our climate goals, investment capital will be the primary driver. While most understand this, the ...

Artificial Intelligence: How Worried Should We Be?

April 04, 2023
David F. Sand, Community Capital Management
It has been said that a lot of science fiction is really a documentary from the future. If that is the case, we all know where the latest boom in Artificial Intelligence (AI) is taking us: sentient machines and software will gain the upper hand in our daily lives, telling us what we can and cannot do and —insidiously — what we can and cannot think or believe. George Orwell thought it might happen in 1984, Stanley Kubrick picked 2001; both crafted their tales of machine dominance by choosing dates far in the future. Those years have come and ...

Cultivating the next generation of impact investing leaders

April 04, 2023
Javier Hernandez, Avivar Capital
Impact investing offers the potential to create more equitable communities as well as a more inclusive financial ecosystem. However, change is not happening fast enough. Black and Brown communities remain disproportionately underinvested, fund managers of color remain vastly underrepresented, and entrepreneurs of color continue to face an uphill battle when raising capital to seed their visions. To increase the flow of capital to marginalized communities, increase representation of fund managers of color, and level the playing field for ...

Going Beyond Carbon? Start with Equity.

April 04, 2023
Amol Mehra, Laudes Foundation
The dialogue at the ‘Beyond Carbon Tunnel Vision’ session at Confluence Philanthropy’s 13th Annual Practitioners Gathering made one thing very clear – to properly address the full scope of climate change impacts, we also need to understand it as a social and economic issue, with profound implications for human well-being and social justice. It is well documented that climate change will hit the poorest and most vulnerable communities the hardest, exacerbating existing inequalities and injustices. One such vulnerable region is that of ...

An Experiment in Deep Listening and Co-Creation: Reflecting on a Confluence Session

April 04, 2023
June Wilson, Compton Foundation
As participants arrived at our session, “Co-imagining a Reparative Economy,” Stevie Wonder’s song “As” played in the background. My co-facilitator, Donna Daniels of Heron Foundation, and I invited them to sit in a large circle. The session’s title frequently prompted the inquiry, “What is a reparative economy?” from folks as they trickled in. Our reply, “Yes, what is it?” set the tone for the type of conversations we envisioned. We began by immediately getting the 23 participants on their feet. We asked them to “map” themselves within the ...

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