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12May 2021

NEXT Economy LIVE: Pet Industry Sustainability

ASBC-SVC invite you to join us May 12 at 1 PM ET to hear from the ASBC-SVC pet community (PSC) business leaders on how to drive impactful change within a $100 billion industry that affects the lives of our pets and our natural environment.

From food to litter to waste, the pet industry can have a significant impact. On this special webinar, join us to hear the ways these PSC brands have implemented regenerative and responsible business practices. Additionally, how can the pet industry as a whole work together to drive lasting change in an industry critical to pet parents and our environment?

Hear the lessons, relevant to all, that leading sustainable businesses in the pet industry have learned from teaming up and enacting initiatives in their workplaces and supply chains that better your pets, pet parents, and our ecosystems.

Archived, Circular Economy, Climate Action, Sustainable Food

19April 2021

2021 ASBC – SVC Spring Conference

This virtual conference, building on the success of the premier virtual event in 2020, exists to facilitate meaningful peer-to-peer conversations and action around shared interests for the 1,000+ members of ASBC-SVC: businesses, entrepreneurs, impact investors, policy makers, and capacity-builders working to create an economy that works for all.

AGENDA & SPEAKERS

Conference programming is under development and the sessions below are subject to change.The conference will feature a blend of main stage, small group breakout, and peer-to-peer networking sessions.

Note: All times below are indicated in Eastern Time (ET).

Day 1 â€“ Monday, April 19

10:00-10:30am Coffee with friends

10:55am-12pm Mainstage Session

10:55-11am Musical performance by TaÃna Asili

11am-12pm Climate & Racial Justice: The Nexus of the NEXT Economy with Ibrahim Al-Husseini (FullCycle), Xiuhtezcatl Martinez (Earth Guardians). Moderator: Seungah Jeong (MPOWERD).

1-2pm Small Group Breakouts

Climate Positive Business: How Businesses Hit Bold Climate Goals and Go Net Zero with David Jaber (Climate Positive Consulting), Elysa Hammond (Clif Bar), Carolina Miranda (Cultivating Capital)

How Business Leaders Can Become Film Producers for Impact! Learn How Impactful Business Leaders Have Invested in Film Storytelling That Inspires Stakeholder-Action with Greg Hemmings (Hemmings House) and Lisa Hrabluk (Wicked Ideas / Hemmings House)

High ROI: Inclusive Talent Development Strategies for the Investment Field with James Benedict (Left Tackle Capital), Deborah Frieze (Boston Impact Initiative), Lauren Grattan (Mission Driven Finance).

Compassion as a Business Practice with Carson D. Kelly (Benevolently and Compassion 2.0), Scott Shute (LinkedIn and author of â€œâ€Full Body Yesâ€), and Monica Worline (EnlivenWork, Stanford University’s Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education, CompassionLab, Co-author â€œâ€Awakening Compassion at Workâ€).

Addressing the racial wealth gap through models of employee equity ownership in businesses with Todd Leverette (Democracy at Work Institute)

2:30-3:30pm Small Group Breakouts

Making Impact Measurement Manageable with Adam Garfunkel (Junxion), Mike Rowlands (Junxion), Garth Yule (Junxion).

Towards a More Inclusive, Democratic, and Sustainable Capital Marketplace: Expanding Opportunities for Grassroots Investors to Invest for Community Impact with Ken Linge, Executive Director of the National Coalition for Community Capital (NC3)), Brian Beckon (NC3 Founding Board Member and Managing Attorney at Cutting Edge Counsel), Chris Miller (NC3 Board Chair and Economic Development Consultant), Janice Shade (NC3 Founding Board Member and Founder of The Initiative for Local Capital), Kathleen Minogue (Founder and CEO of Crowdfund Better), and Bill Huston (former NC3 Board Member and Crowdfunding Consultant).

How angels and private investment can be done alongside government for deep impact with Drew Tulchin (Upspring Associates).

4-5pm Peer Networking

Day 2 â€“ Tuesday, April 20

10:00-10:30am Coffee with friends

10:55am-12pm Mainstage Session

10:55-11am Musical performance by TaÃna Asili

11am-12 pm How Impact Business Leaders Can Meaningfully Advance Racial Justice with Rose Yee (Green Retirement), Diana Marie Lee (Sweet Livity), Nikki Pieratos (NDN Fund), and Anasa Troutman (The BIG We).

1-2pm Small Group Breakouts

Sustained Change for a New Economy: The Work of Building Diverse, Equitable & Inclusive Communities Continues with Diane J. Johnson (Mmapeu Consulting).

How are investors, businesses and young people advancing clean energy policies â€“ and how can you be part of the movement? with Johanna Neumann (Environment America Campaign for 100% Renewable Energy), Dan Xie (CALPIRG), Andrea Ranger (Green Century Capital Management).

Transforming Ownership for Social Equity

Every Dollar a Vote: How to Make the Most of Where You Spend, Invest, and Bank

2:30-3:30pm Small Group Breakouts

Restorative Investing for Racial Justice: Learning more about the Tanka Bar Investment with Aner Ben-Ami (Candide Group), Dawn Sherman (Tanka Bar), Laina Greene (Angels of Impact).

Low-Hanging Fruit To Have More Impact â€“ And Help Your Team Do the Same with Nell Derick Debevoise (Inspiring Capital).

Managing Your Harshest Critic: That Person You See in the Mirror with Flip Brown (Business Culture Consultants and the Wholistic Work network) and Amy Hall (EILEEN FISHER and Impactorum, LLC).

How Can Business, Philanthropy & Investors Promote Climate Justice? with Mike Lapham (Responsible Wealth/United for a Fair Economy), Karen Brown Stovell (Forward Ever), and others TBA.

4-5pm Peer Networking

Day 3 â€“ Wednesday, April 21

10:00-10:30am Coffee with friends

10:55am-12pm Mainstage Session

10:55-11am Musical performance by TaÃna Asili

11am-12pm Building Back Better: What Comes Next

1-2pm Small Group Breakouts

Reconnection, Regeneration, and Healthy Ecosystems are DOA without action.. Get in on the act with the New Living Planet Working Group! with Sierra Flanigan (Living Lab), Annarie Lyles (Bio-Gist Ventures), Janet M Morgan (Sequent Management Group)

Crowdfunding for Investors & Entrepreneurs with Jenny Kassan (Opportunity Main Street and CrowdFund Main Street),Samson Williams (Crowdfunding Professional Association),Arno Hesse (Investibule and Slow Money Northern California), Sharmi Albrechtsen (SmartGurlz, Inc â€“ check out the Wefunder campaign), Adie Akuffo-Afful (Wefunder).

The Impact Spectrum: From Steward Ownership to IPO with Jason Jones (co-founder, Vital Farms), Matt Mroczek (VP Finance, OGC), Nancy Rosenzweig (Principal, Values Aligned Capital), Peter Koehler (Capital Strategy Advisor, AOA).

2:15-5:30pm ASBC Working Group Discussions

4-5pm Closing Session

Day 4 â€“ Wednesday, April 22 (Open to the public)

11am-12pm Centering Climate Justice in Climate Action with Dr. Ellonda Williams (B Lab), Kevin Lee (Dr. Bronner’s), Valerie Red-Horse Mohl (East Bay Community Foundation & ASBC’s Race & Equity Leadership Team) and moderator: Diandra Marizet (Intersectional Environmentalist).

Climate Action, Impact Investing, Renewable Energy

13April 2021

Turning Up The Heat: An Economic and Business Discussion calling for Urgent Climate Action by U.S. Financial Regulators

ASBC and SVC invite you to join us Tuesday, April 13 at 2pm ET Turning up the Heat on Corporate Impact Reporting with Steven Rothstein (Ceres), Veena Ramani (Ceres), and Carolyn Pincus (American Sustainable Business Council).

A conversation about a new report Ceres is publishing April 13th on the continued imperative to drive for mandatory standardized ESG disclosure, specifically targeting the SEC to take action. Though this push is focused on mandates for large and mid-size companies, Ceres, ASBC and SVC want to dedicate part of the conversation to how this mandatory standardized disclosure and standardized reporting methods will filter through to investor communities, consumers and small to mid-size businesses. And additionally, how this push for ESG standardization supports and/or runs adjacent to the push for true-cost accounting methods and broader advocacy for total impact transparency.

Climate Action

24February 2021

Pesticides, Cancer Prevention & Business Solutions

In recognition of National Cancer Prevention Month, join ASBC and the Childhood Cancer Prevention Initiative for a special webinar on the importance of protecting our environment and communities from toxic pesticides and lifting up the solutions already within our reach.

Toxic chemicals in the environment and the places where children live, learn and play are also important risk factors for cancer. Toxic pesticides have a significant impact and have been clearly linked as a carcinogen. Communities of color and low-income communities are at high risk of being exposed to toxic chemicals. Moving away from toxic substances toward safer chemicals and products will drive innovation and job creation while also making workplaces and communities safer.

It is time to take action to protect our vulnerable communities from exposure to toxic chemicals and pesticides and move forward with solutions from regenerative agriculture to utilization of non-toxic plant-based products.

Join a distinguished panel for this important conversation, Wednesday, February 24 at 3 PM ET, on how business and policymakers can take action on shifting towards safer chemicals and reducing exposure to toxic chemicals.

Speakers:

Kari Warberg Block, Found & CEO, EarthKind

Kristin Schafer, Executive Director, Pesticide Action Network

Jeannie Economos, Farmworkers Association of Florida

Co-sponsors:

Archived, Climate Action, Sustainable Food

28January 2021

Climate Change & Biden’s First 100 Days with Gina McCarthy

We are pleased to invite you to join ASBC for a conversation with Gina McCarthy, the newly appointed leader of the incoming Office of Domestic Climate Policy

President Joe Biden has committed his administration to necessary, aggressive action on climate change, with a bold climate strategy highlighted by the appointment of Ms. McCarthy as the first-ever head of the Domestic Climate Policy Office. Ms. McCarthy will highlight what we can expect from the administration in the first 100 days as well as President Biden’s longer-term plans for domestic climate policy as it relates to our economy.

The former Administrator of the EPA under President Obama from 2013-17, McCarthy will work with former Secretary of State John Kerry, who will handle climate policy from an international perspective.

Ms. McCarthy will be joined on January 28th by ASBC business leaders to offer thoughts on the roles and responsibilities of businesses in addressing climate change and the opportunity for public-private partnerships.

Business Leader Panelists:

MaryAnne Howland, Pres., Ibis Communications

Mari McClure, President & CEO, Green Mountain Power

Co-sponsors:

Climate Action

01December 2020

Remaking & Revitalizing the Economy

ASBC and SVC have formed a new alliance to establish one of the leading socially responsible business and impact investment groups, uniting top entrepreneurs and impact investors, and the leaders of mission-driven companies in common cause while amplifying and extending the collective voice of the sustainable business community in previously impossible ways. This collaboration is a powerful new force for environmental change and economic justice at the federal, state and local levels, one that rejects short-term thinking narrowly focused on short-term shareholder value in favor of a stakeholder economy based on creating long-term worth and universal accountability.

This virtual conference, previously hosted annually by SVC, exists to facilitate meaningful peer-to-peer conversations and action around shared interests for the 1,000+ members of ASBC-SVC: businesses, entrepreneurs, impact investors, policy makers, and capacity-builders working to create an economy that works for all.

AGENDA

All times Eastern

Day 1 â€“ Tuesday, December 1 (Public)

11am-12pm: Plenary Panel (Open to the Public)

2pm-4:30pm: Beyond the Pitch (Open to Investors-Only)

Day 2 â€“ Wednesday, December 2 (Registered Attendees Only)

11am-12pm: Plenary Panel

1-2:15pm: Small Group Breakouts

Employee Ownership
Capital Access for Entrepreneurs of Color
Impact Management & Measurement
Alternative Term Sheets

2:45-4pm: Small Group Breakouts

Restorative Finance
Social Procurement â€“ Doing Business Together
Data Analysis: Who is Being Represented & How to Increase Representation
How Are We Coping, Responding, Co-Creating The New Equitable, Resilient Economy
How to Raise Capital at Any Stage

Day 3 â€“ Thursday, December 3 (Registered Attendees Only)

11am-11:40am: The Elections and Beyond

11:45am-12:45pm: Plenary Panel â€“ Creating an Economic System That Works for All

1:30-2:30pm: Small Group Breakouts: ASBC Policy Working Groups

Climate & Energy
Circular Economy
Race & Equity
Safer Chemicals
Regenerative Agriculture

2:45-4pm: TBA

Day 4 â€“ Friday, December 4 (Registered Attendees Only)

11am-12pm: Plenary Panel

1-2:15pm: Small Group Breakouts

Nature SVC Working Group
Community Capital SVC Working Group
Business Resiliency & Adaptation

2:45-4pm: Small Group Breakouts

How Do Investors Measure Non-Financial Goals?
Impact Field Building: Stewardship Circle
Success Models
Pathways to Equitable Investment
Spirituality & Business

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Climate Action, Social Justice, Sustainable Food

20November 2020

Deep Dive: Green Infrastructure

Green infrastructure is an interconnected network of natural areas and other open spaces that conserve natural ecosystem values and functions, sustain clean air and water and provide a wide array of benefits to people and wildlife. It is the ecological framework for environmental, social, and economic health â€“ in short, our natural life-support system (Benedict and McMahon 2006). In this webinar we will explore the benefits, scalability, implementation, politics, and potential funding of green infrastructure projects. We will dive deep into green infrastructure as another equitable and effective tool to address the climatecrisis.

This Deep Dive webinar discussion will be led by three experts who are nationally-known for their advocacy and successful implementation of green infrastructure projects.Christine Connis the Landscape Conservation Planner for the Maryland Department of Natural Resources. She is especially recognized for successfully engaging diverse stakeholders in innovative green infrastructure projects in theChesapeake Bay watershed.Sacoby Wilsondirects theCommunity Engagement, Environmental Justice and Health Laboratory. His views on exposure science, environmental justice and environmental health disparities â€” based on crowd science and community-based participatory research â€” are especially pertinent to successful green infrastructure projects in frontline communities. Finally,Will Allen, who oversees theConservation Leadership Network, is an expert on green infrastructure and conservation GIS.

This conversation will be moderated byJane Fountain, Professor at the UMassSchool of Public Policy, which is sponsoring this webinar.The program is part of a series of forums on national climate policy co-hosted by Climate XChange and the Pricing Carbon Initiative

Speakers:

Jane Fountain, Professor at the UMassSchool of Public Policy
Christine Conn, Landscape Conservation Planner for the Maryland Department of Natural Resources
Sacoby Wilson, Director of theCommunity Engagement, Environmental Justice and Health Laborator
Will Allen, Senior Vice President of the Conservation Fund of theConservation Leadership Network

Archived, Clean Water, Climate Action, Social Justice

19November 2020

Business Case for H2O Infrastructure Webinar w/special guest Senator Reed (D- RI)

What’s the business case for investing in our deteriorated water infrastructure now? Past generations’ investment in U.S. municipal water systems have given us reliable, plentiful clean drinking water and sanitary waste disposal. But across the country, much of our infrastructure for managing wastewater and providing drinking water is inadequate, obsolete or seriously deteriorated. Despite our growing need, federal per capita spending on water infrastructure has dropped from $76 per person in 1977 to just $11 per person in 2014! Continued failure to address this major, essential infrastructure problem is increasingly detrimental to our economy and businesses nationwide.

The US is currently projected to lose $732 billion in business sales by 2029 and over $4.5 trillion by 2039; with 636,000 jobs lost each year by 2039, just from service disruptions and increasing services rates! These losses don’t even include the damage failing water infrastructure poses to the US economy through hazardous pollution and destructive flooding.

The business case for investing in our water infrastructure now â€“ not someday â€“ is clear. The return will be significant job creation, a better competitive position for U.S. businesses, and resilient economic growth.

Learn more: Join ASBC, Environment America, Susan Harris of Cerulean, LLC and Senator Jack Reed (D â€“ Rhode Island) on November 19 for a special webinar on how failing water infrastructure endangers our businesses and the economy and how we can fix this problem before the cost is insurmountable. Government listens to business, so learn the facts!

Archived, Clean Water, Climate Action, Impact Investing

NEXT Economy LIVE: Pet Industry Sustainability