Operationalizing Workplace Equity: Strategies for an inclusive workforce.
This highly interactive lunch & learn event will feature businesses with innovative products and services that help companies and consumers improve their environmental impact. Attendees will leave the event inspired and aware of concrete actions they can take to combat climate change.
This series builds on the presentation given by the Unitarian Universalist Community last August in which over 150 registered. The event was the first step to educating and activating faith-based organizations, foundations, and individuals about Community Investing, CDFIs, Community Land Trusts, and other Main Street Lending options to fight racism and oppression.
The first convening of the series, “Introduction to Faith-Based Community Investing,†will feature dynamic speakers, clergy and congregations to introduce the Faith-Based Community Investing movement, including case studies from different faith communities. In addition, we will provide an overview of the opportunities and how best to take advantage of them based on the unique perspectives and values of the attendees.
We are organizing this series under the theme of Beloved Community. Beloved Community happens when people of diverse racial, ethnic, educational, class, gender, abilities, sexual orientation backgrounds/identities come together in an interdependent relationship of love, mutual respect, and care that seeks to realize justice within the community and in the broader world. We believe developing relationships with and investing in local economies that serve under resourced communities is an action that can help to dismantle racism accountably and other oppressions in ourselves, institutions and the economy.
The Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. called for the creation of a “Beloved Community†in his last book, Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? Written shortly before his assassination in 1968. He wrote: “The goal toward which we must strive is the creation of the beloved community.†This will require a qualitative change in our souls and a quantitative change in our lives. The first stage of the process will be marked by a profound and honest concern for others and opening ourselves to receive them. This requires us to develop a new kind of empathy based on shared commitment which enables us to see the world from the standpoint of the other.
Join us for these critical conversations and interfaith collaboration! It is time to align our money with our faith, values and principles to achieve Beloved Community.
Speaker Bios
John E. Harris Jr, CFP
My wife Alice and I moved to Virginia Beach in 2004. She from Grand Rapids, The Diocese of Western Michigan and I from Cincinnati the Diocese of Southern Ohio.
For me it was to retire on the beach and for Alice to avoid those cold Michigan winters and to advance her Nursing career. For both of us, to continue our work in the Epicopal Church as members and leadership roles in the Union of Black Episcopalians, General Convention, and other Interim Bodies of the Executive Council.
My favorite activity at All Saints is the Early Sunday participation in the Adult Study Forum.
I consider myself an active Lay Professional in the Church having served as past Treasurer of the Diocese of Southern Ohio and the CREDO Faculty of the Church Pension Group. I currently serve as an Advisor to the Finance and Investment committees and a member of the Oversite Committee of the Episcopal Church Foundation in New York as well as a member of the Finance Committee of the Diocese of Southern Ohio.
John is the Managing Partner of LifePlan Partners an Interdisciplinary Network of Professional Advisors an Aggregators of Resources dedicated to helping people experience a Life of Significance and Wellbeing.
Andrew Schneiderman
Director, Impact Investing at the San FranciscoJewish Community Federation and Endowment Fund
Vanessa Lowe
Vanessa Lowe has been an economic justice advocate and activist for more than 30
years. Ms. Lowe spent 21 years in federal service supporting access to capital for underserved
communities.Ms. Lowe hosts Vanessa’s Money Hour, a weekly talk show on Philadelphia’s G-town
Radio. She has a B.S. in Education from Temple University and an MBA from the
Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. She’s a recognized resource and
national speaker on faith-based impact investing, with a focus on reparations and racial
justice. She’s currently pursuing the Chartered Financial Consultant (ChFC©)
certification.
Sarah Smith
Sarah B. Smith is the Director of Mercy Partnership Fund, the global community investing
program of Mercy Investment Services, the socially responsible asset management program for
the Sisters of Mercy and its ministries. Smith oversees a portfolio that includes below-market
rate investments to more than 60 mission-driven organizations working around the globe on
projects that provide high social and environmental impact.
Sarah has spent more than 30 years working in the community development field as a
community organizer, affordable housing developer, program administrator, strategic planner,
and impact fund manager. She holds a bachelor’;s degree in political science from Boston
College, a master’s degree in urban and regional planning from George Washington University,
and a master’s degree in business administration from the University of Missouri – St. Louis.
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Racial Impact Notes askif pending legislation will eliminate existing racial and inequities or make the situation worse. It is a means of putting questions of structural racism and inequities on the table for examination. Such a mechanism exists in the state of Illinois whereDr. Tasha Green Cruzatof Children’s Advocates for Change led the advocacy efforts to enact a Racial Impact Note Act. In this webinar, Dr. Green Cruzat, andState Representative Camille Lilly, who sponsored and fought for the legislation, will describe the multi-year journey to passage of the Act, resistance encountered, and the implications of its enactment. This highly interactive lunch & learn event will feature businesses with innovative products and services that help companies and consumers improve their environmental impact. Attendees will leave the event inspired and aware of concrete actions they can take to combat climate change.
Recruiting and Retaining Talent from Under-Recognized Populations.
This highly interactive lunch & learn event will feature businesses with innovative products and services that help companies and consumers improve their environmental impact. Attendees will leave the event inspired and aware of concrete actions they can take to combat climate change.
ASBN is committed to continue educating and engaging business leaders to advocate on behalf of market shifts and public policy change to advance renewable energy, support a carbon tax, the Green New Deal, sustainable infrastructure, the climate strikes and other efforts. Carbon Business Council (Ben Rubin) is joining this working group call, and we will discuss Solutions for Pollution Campaign Sign On, COP 27 Sign Up, and the Cost of Inaction comms.
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The Circular Economy Working Group brings together a wide variety of key stakeholders as ASBC works to tackle the waste crisis, especially plastic waste, in the United States. Environmentally-focused organizations and business leaders from across the nation collaborate to help guide our Packaging Waste Reduction campaign, with a focus on both federal and state level policies.
Contact [] Stephanie Erwinto participate
Green Project and Unqork are delighted to host a candid conversation on how financial institutions and enterprises can build comprehensive, efficient, and compliant sustainability disclosure and change management practices. Attendees will listen to a panel from KPMG, leading financial service firms, and other corporate climate leaders on effective portfolio engagement, financed emissions measurement, and audit readiness.
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Following the panel discussion, there will be an open happy hour.
This session will include panelists from businesses who are actively measuring and evaluating their impact on their employees, community and environment and have executed tactics to support those goals. Attendees should leave feeling inspired and with ideas for concrete next steps they can take to evaluate the impact of their businesses.
Join ASBN September 14 at 1pm ET for this timely webinar on the business case for regenerative and just agriculture in the 2023 Farm Bill.
Passed every five years, the farm bill is one of the main opportunities for stakeholders to engage in the federal policies that shape our food and agricultural system. This system, and the policies that have supported it, have contributed to the climate crisis, weakened supply chains, diminished biodiversity, concentrated farm ownership into increasingly fewer hands, hollowed-out local and rural economies, allowed discrimination to be left unaddressed, and left millions of Americans without access to healthy food. Making progress towards regenerative, inclusive, and just agriculture in the 2023 Farm Bill will be vital for reversing these crises and building a better economic system that works for all.
In this webinar, we’ll discuss:
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The American Sustainable Business Network (ASBN) and Businesses for Conservation and Climate Action (BCCA) invite you to join us for a dialogue with the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs Wizipan Garriott, other administration leadership and Indigenous business leaders on the opportunity to advance land and ocean conservation and a sustainable economy.
The Department of the Interior has a solemn obligation to protect America’s lands, waters and ecosystems for future generations, and is taking bold initiatives including the America the Beautiful Initiative to meet that goal.
Co-stewardship represents the best of land conservation and enables local communities to conserve areas of tremendous cultural and economic importance. Conservation can drive economic output through the long-term protection of resources.
Carrying out this work in collaboration with Tribes will help fulfill this obligation. Since time immemorial, tribes have developed land and water stewardship practices across many diverse ecosystems on this continent. These practices are based on traditional ecological knowledge that has been accumulated over countless generations through observation and analysis. These practices were also focused on ensuring that ecosystems remained healthy and resilient for generations into the future.
Now is the time for a public-private partnership for ambitious action to protect our land and oceans to build a strong and sustainable economy.
Businesses for Conservation & Climate Action’s mission is to establish national, regional, and state policies that recognize sustainable, BIPOC and community- based businesses as compatible with healthy lands and oceans, and to enhance rather than exclude these sustainable businesses from conversations about resource access at every step of the decision-making process. Our work is guided by a firm commitment to social equity, local and traditional wisdom, and triple bottom line solutions that restore social, ecological and economic health.
