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A System Entrepreneur for a Refugees & Immigrants Guild
By Kevin Jones
We’re excited to be launching a refugee and immigrant focused guild that is coming together this May at Transform. We hope to evolve it into a lab and have several experiments tied to it. We want to see the concept of leverage, $1 coming out of an immigrant led savings circle, turning into $3, through community driven philanthropy using the Impact Assets donor advised fund platform.
Kevin Rowell this week stepped up to be our systems entrepreneur, serving the group’s goals and guiding subtly by opening up specific timely opportunities. I want to see whether this guild in formation might, as a result of its quest, produce a system shifting lab around some aspect of the refugee/immigrant complex system by next Transform
This is only the beginning and we want to get you involved. Read on…
Since 2017, Jean Pierre Candiotti (JP) has empowered more than 100 refuges in cooperation with different educational institutions, municipalities and businesses at the local, regional and inter-continental level. Among other works, he has designed the Refugee Entrepreneurship Sweden program and Digital Inclusive Entrepreneurship Scandinavia, a multi-sectoral and trans-national educational program partially funded by the Nordics Ministers Council in 2018.
We recently chatted with JP about why he does what he does and where he expects it to go in coming years. Read On >
Don’t Forget: TRANSFORM’s Regenerative Funds List is Now LIVE
We’re excited to announce TRANSFORM’s funds list for 2019: the most comprehensive listing of funds focused on agriculture, ranching, forestry, and related food systems. On this PDF document, we feature investment entities and funds that explicitly focus on regenerative approaches or otherwise aim to achieve net-positive returns for ecosystems, communities and investors. Download Here.
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