The Annual Summit brings together over 100 cross-sector speakers and includes a film festival, concert and environmental expo.
Co-founder & President David Levine is a keynote speaker.
Opportunity Zones for Social Impact and Community Benefit
Building Local Economies and Empowering People
The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 provides a new incentive—centered around deferral, reduction, and elimination of capital gains taxes—to spur private investments in low-income areas designated by states as opportunity zones. Significant interest among investors suggests this new tax incentive could attract hundreds of billions of dollars in private capital. But the broad objective of this new tax incentive—expanding economic opportunities for places and people left behind—cannot be achieved by the market and outside investors alone. Local city governments, together with universities, philanthropies, employers, local financial institutions and community development organizations, must act with deliberation and purpose to make sure opportunity zones spur growth that is inclusive, sustainable and truly transformative for each city’s economy.
In this webinar we will cover basic principles to address diversity equity and inclusion, developing community wealth, strategies to build collaboration, and building local businesses and economies.
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Speakers include:
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Ali-Reza “A.R.†Vahabzadeh, Vice President of Memberships & Chief of Staff to CEO, ASBC |
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Val Red-Horse Mohl, Executive Director, Social Venture Circle |
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John O’Neill, Senior Tax Policy Analyst, ASBC John has 12 years of tax-related experience, including five years as a tax and budget aide to Sen. Ron Wyden of Oregon, the ranking Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee. For seven years, he worked at the accounting firm Deloitte, educating its partners and clients on federal tax policy changes. Prior to that, he worked as a journalist for ten years, writing on topics from financial markets to real estate and development. |
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Juan Saldana III, Managing Principal, P3 Markets Juan is an international and bilingual business executive focused on building community wealth through public-private ventures. Mr. Saldana’s multidisciplinary career spans over 20 years working with, and leading management teams for financial, corporate, real estate, government, NGO, food industry, and educational institutions. P3 Markets focuses on building community wealth through a public-private partnership model for impact real estate developments. |
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Jeff Kaplan, Principal, NextSeed A lifelong Houstonian and serial entrepreneur, was on the founding team of a variety of hospitality and retail ventures including New Living, Axelrad, Beaver’s Ice House and HTX Made. Has worked with multiple city governments, corporations and non-profits to develop and enhance the small business ecosystem in Houston. Graduate of Southwestern University. |
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Rachel Reilly, Director of Impact Strategy, Economic Innovation Group (EIG) Rachel leads the organizations work to support communities, policymakers and investors in their efforts to catalyze sustainable economic growth across the country through Opportunity Zones and other forward-thinking initiatives. |
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Adam Northrup, Financial Strategist, LOCUS Adam leads product innovation & development, strategy formulation, and capability advancement efforts at LOCUS Impact Investing and the parent Virginia Community Capital, CDFI. At LOCUS, he provides advisory and investment management services to philanthropic institutions wanting to unlock and deploy financial assets locally. |
Carbon Pricing Lawmaker Education Day
With a cascade of new scientific findings and economic research showing the increasing impacts of climate change, an energized House of Representatives, and an increasing number of bipartisan carbon pricing bills, now is the time for the business community (companies large and small) to collectively make its support for meaningful climate solutions unequivocal.
Companies from all over the country will gather in Washington, D.C. on May 21st and 22nd to make the business case for a strong and effective price on carbon. Organized by an unprecedented collaboration of NGOs, think tanks, trade associations, and other groups, this event will help to elevate and emphasize the private sector’s vision of building towards lasting, predictable, and effective climate solutions.
Webinar Reminder: Capturing Methane Emissions
As we work hard to advance a renewable energy economy, there is a opportunity to address the existing infrastructure. There is a hole in the hydrocarbon emissions control bucket that has significant environmental and economic impacts that need attention.
The oil and gas industry routinely flares and engineers releases of unexpectedly large amounts of methane gas, a major greenhouse gas culprit, despite emergent regulations. Yet the business opportunities from capturing those emissions and turning them into value could be worth tens of billions of dollars a year. Such business-led, market-driven methane abatement would also create large and rapid environmental benefits. Join industry and regulatory experts in a 90 minute webinar addressing the basis for this issue and paths forward to address it.
