Opportunity Finance Network (OFN) invites you and your staff to join us for an upcoming technical assistance webinar

Jay OwenCommunity Development Solutions

  Opportunity Finance Network (OFN) invites you and your staff to join us for an upcoming technical assistance webinar. This webinar is part of The CDFI Fund’s Strengthening Small and Emerging CDFIs Capacity Building Initiative to expand the capacity of CDFIs with a strong ambition to increase their impact and improve …

Placemaking News: Fred Kent on the Right to Contribute

Jay OwenSustainability News

Forward Follow us Like us The Right to Contribute: A Report from the Placemaking Leadership Council On April 11-13, more than three hundred Placemakers from all walks of life gathered in Detroit, Michigan, for the inaugural meeting of the Placemaking Leadership Council. Today, on the eve of Earth Day, PPS …

Five Questions about SRI – Weekly Expert Interview with Sylvia Wisniwski, Managing Director, Finance in Motion, Frankfurt am Main, Germany – April 5, 2013

Jay OwenSRI/ESG News, The Power of Yin

Each week Emerging Markets ESG publishes an interview entitled, “Five Questions about SRI.”  The interview features a practitioner’s insights about SRI in emerging markets and through Emerging Markets ESG shares this expertise with a wide global audience.  The goals of Five Questions about SRI are fourfold: To collect a catalogue of examples of …

Uncsd Update :UNDP, BSEC launch Black Sea Climate and Business Initiative

Jay OwenSustainability News

    A compilation of items recently posted to the Sustainable Development Policy & Practice knowledgebase Latest News – 4 March 2013 UNDP, BSEC Launch Black Sea Climate and Business Initiative 1_March_2013: The UN Development Programme (UNDP) and the Black Sea Economic Cooperation Organization (BSEC) launched the UNDP Black Sea Climate and Business Initiative (CLIMBIZ), a regional partnership for action on sustainable development in …

New Analysis Tool Allows Users to Determine the Energy Efficiency Options Appropriate to their Communities

kristyResource Efficiency

Today ACEEE releases a new user-oriented tool to assist local policymakers and stakeholders in advancing appropriate energy efficiency policies within their community. The Local Energy Efficiency Policy Calculator (LEEP-C) allows users to enter characteristics about their community, learn about and customize policy options, draw on a database of energy and …

FIELD Seeks Microenterprise Organizations to Test Secured Card Product

kristySRI/ESG News

FIELD is pleased to release the request for proposals for its Asset Building through Credit Pilot Program. The pilot will test the effectiveness of a secured credit card as a tool for helping microentrepreneurs, and would-be microentrepreneurs, build their credit and financial skills. It will also test whether secured cards …